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NCIS rant
Don't get me wrong, I love NCIS.
But when, at the end of the episode, the new Director broke the Team up, I thought, it's about bloody time!
Beyond the fact that the show has been renewed for another season, I don't know anything about what's coming up, not even casting, but I do hope that they will get the team back together. They have great chemistry, and it would be beyond 'huh?' for the producers to actually get rid of Tony, Ziva and Tim when the show is so hugely successful.
But! I've been disturbed over the last couple of seasons at the deteriorating behavior of our guys - letting people get away with murder because they like them, arranging for and committing murders (using Frank as proxy), lying and hiding things from their superiors. Such sadness for me to see this! I LIKE my heroes to behave ethically and do the right thing because it's the law and because they have taken some kind of oath of office. Otherwise, how are they different from any other vigilante? There should be consequences for their actions. The stuff the Team has been up to, in anything approaching 'reality' they would have been disbanded long ago, and correctly so.
I can't help but think that if Kate were still there she would have had big problems with it, or straightened them out. As it is, I don't think any of them have noticed how over the line they've been behaving. (They're probably all PTSD addled.)
And Shepard! I'm so glad she died. When she first appeared, I thought how great it was that a woman was made Director of NCIS, but before the first episode was over I was changing my mind. Sad to say, women still need to prove themselves capable in parts of the 'man's world', which the military certainly is. Her behavior was very disappointing; sexual innuendo with Gibbs, letting him back-talk and ignore her. Such poor leadership. And that was before she started doing her own shit on the side.
Then she, the Director of this Federal Department, started having her side projects, using the NCIS personnel when it suited her and keeping it secret. That whole thing with Tony's under cover assignment, which broke his heart and almost got him killed while forcing him to hide his activities from his direct supervisor and do his regular job at the same time, was all about Jenny's personal vendetta. If the leader sets the tone for the organization, it's no wonder the Team started behaving badly.
And the thing in this last episode? Tell me in what universe it makes sense for her to go after the Russian assassins on her own, with a rogue ex-agent. She, Gibbs and the other guy, however it turned out, were on an NCIS mission. If 9 years later (honestly, I never got quite what this was about) they for some reason are coming after them now, WHY would she not get the resources of the Federal Government involved to catch them? It's criminal that she would put people in danger by keeping it secret. It's directly her fault the poor blond girl got killed. What was she thinking? Was this degenerative fatal illness eating her brain and making her stupid? (If so, then Ducky should have done something about it.)
So good riddance, really. Except the new Director is clearly also ethically challenged. (I will refrain from making a comment about how under the current administration this is probably all too realistic. See how I refrained?)
I want the characters that I loved back, in a Team that follows the highest principles. I don't want my heroic characters to have situational ethics, which stretch and break professional standards, even though you can kind of understand why they do it. I want them to be people I can believe in and respect!
Beyond the fact that the show has been renewed for another season, I don't know anything about what's coming up, not even casting, but I do hope that they will get the team back together. They have great chemistry, and it would be beyond 'huh?' for the producers to actually get rid of Tony, Ziva and Tim when the show is so hugely successful.
But! I've been disturbed over the last couple of seasons at the deteriorating behavior of our guys - letting people get away with murder because they like them, arranging for and committing murders (using Frank as proxy), lying and hiding things from their superiors. Such sadness for me to see this! I LIKE my heroes to behave ethically and do the right thing because it's the law and because they have taken some kind of oath of office. Otherwise, how are they different from any other vigilante? There should be consequences for their actions. The stuff the Team has been up to, in anything approaching 'reality' they would have been disbanded long ago, and correctly so.
I can't help but think that if Kate were still there she would have had big problems with it, or straightened them out. As it is, I don't think any of them have noticed how over the line they've been behaving. (They're probably all PTSD addled.)
And Shepard! I'm so glad she died. When she first appeared, I thought how great it was that a woman was made Director of NCIS, but before the first episode was over I was changing my mind. Sad to say, women still need to prove themselves capable in parts of the 'man's world', which the military certainly is. Her behavior was very disappointing; sexual innuendo with Gibbs, letting him back-talk and ignore her. Such poor leadership. And that was before she started doing her own shit on the side.
Then she, the Director of this Federal Department, started having her side projects, using the NCIS personnel when it suited her and keeping it secret. That whole thing with Tony's under cover assignment, which broke his heart and almost got him killed while forcing him to hide his activities from his direct supervisor and do his regular job at the same time, was all about Jenny's personal vendetta. If the leader sets the tone for the organization, it's no wonder the Team started behaving badly.
And the thing in this last episode? Tell me in what universe it makes sense for her to go after the Russian assassins on her own, with a rogue ex-agent. She, Gibbs and the other guy, however it turned out, were on an NCIS mission. If 9 years later (honestly, I never got quite what this was about) they for some reason are coming after them now, WHY would she not get the resources of the Federal Government involved to catch them? It's criminal that she would put people in danger by keeping it secret. It's directly her fault the poor blond girl got killed. What was she thinking? Was this degenerative fatal illness eating her brain and making her stupid? (If so, then Ducky should have done something about it.)
So good riddance, really. Except the new Director is clearly also ethically challenged. (I will refrain from making a comment about how under the current administration this is probably all too realistic. See how I refrained?)
I want the characters that I loved back, in a Team that follows the highest principles. I don't want my heroic characters to have situational ethics, which stretch and break professional standards, even though you can kind of understand why they do it. I want them to be people I can believe in and respect!
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(Anonymous) 2008-06-17 12:35 am (UTC)(link)