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SFF: The NCIS Edition
PKJ: .... guys, stop with the clip shows. Although, sadly, you really need an editor.
NCIS, season four: So much teamy goodness and badasserie all around.
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nique and I adore NCIS, especially Ziva (she's kinda Domino, with a day job, really). Unfortunately, for the entirety of season four, she worked Tuesdays, and I taped (mostly faithfully), but didn't watch (except sometimes. Like Friends and Lovers). It is now nearly time for season five, and thus, I've dusted off the tapes.
We got quite a bit marathonned on.... er... Sometime earlier this week.
I don't think I have specific spoilers, but I suppose I should be kind and cut anyway.
But first, let me once again note that NCIS, often considered misogynistic, has three major female characters, and at least two lesser female characters who are all incredibly well-drawn and fairly damned awesome. And you don't mess with ANY of them. (If Ziva, Abby, Jen, Michelle, or Hollis hit a man, he stays DOWN. Contrast that with Flash Gordon tonight, where the chick beat some guy up, and Flash had to hit him again to make him stay down. Ugh.)
Teamy goodness. On occasion, I forget just how incredibly awesome this cast is in being an ensemble that plays off each other in a way that fills me with utter GLEE. There's in-jokes and head-slaps and hugs and cheerful mockery, and it's one of the reasons I keep watching this show.
Seriously, there are very few shows who can pull this off this well. Atlantis has almost reached it, PKJ is trying to be it, STTNG was it (back in the day), and SG-1 was... sort of it. But NCIS just has a team dynamic that delivers again and again on so many levels, I sometimes feel like I'm watching a very close family.
And yet they're not.
Tony has his secret girlfriend. Ziva still has her past. Blah, etc.
Hollis and Gibbs flirting made me laugh hysterically, and Jen's reaction, did, too. Not to mention, Gibbs! You're cheating on Jen with the chinese food dinners!
It's all a blur, of course. Of Gibbs and snark and Tony and his scary monogamy (ALSO. OMG. Tony is Archie Goodwin reincarnated), and Ziva and her awesome, and Michelle Lee holding a gun on stupid slavers. And Jen owning everyone. A lot. Even McGee got to be snarky.
Also, omg. Ruby! Ruby needs to come back. They could hire her to be Abby's co-worker, who works in another lab, or something. And then there would be cuteness and sweet snark.
Ducky still owns everyone, too, btw.
But, yes. The women. If I totally want a show that gives me female characters who talk to each other and actually have lives? I'll take NCIS over BSG any day. Because BSG might have more women, but none of them speak to each other, and most of them would fail if ever forced to take down Ziva.
Maybe Sharon could.
NCIS, season four: So much teamy goodness and badasserie all around.
As some of you may know,
nique and I adore NCIS, especially Ziva (she's kinda Domino, with a day job, really). Unfortunately, for the entirety of season four, she worked Tuesdays, and I taped (mostly faithfully), but didn't watch (except sometimes. Like Friends and Lovers). It is now nearly time for season five, and thus, I've dusted off the tapes.We got quite a bit marathonned on.... er... Sometime earlier this week.
I don't think I have specific spoilers, but I suppose I should be kind and cut anyway.
But first, let me once again note that NCIS, often considered misogynistic, has three major female characters, and at least two lesser female characters who are all incredibly well-drawn and fairly damned awesome. And you don't mess with ANY of them. (If Ziva, Abby, Jen, Michelle, or Hollis hit a man, he stays DOWN. Contrast that with Flash Gordon tonight, where the chick beat some guy up, and Flash had to hit him again to make him stay down. Ugh.)
Teamy goodness. On occasion, I forget just how incredibly awesome this cast is in being an ensemble that plays off each other in a way that fills me with utter GLEE. There's in-jokes and head-slaps and hugs and cheerful mockery, and it's one of the reasons I keep watching this show.
Seriously, there are very few shows who can pull this off this well. Atlantis has almost reached it, PKJ is trying to be it, STTNG was it (back in the day), and SG-1 was... sort of it. But NCIS just has a team dynamic that delivers again and again on so many levels, I sometimes feel like I'm watching a very close family.
And yet they're not.
Tony has his secret girlfriend. Ziva still has her past. Blah, etc.
Hollis and Gibbs flirting made me laugh hysterically, and Jen's reaction, did, too. Not to mention, Gibbs! You're cheating on Jen with the chinese food dinners!
It's all a blur, of course. Of Gibbs and snark and Tony and his scary monogamy (ALSO. OMG. Tony is Archie Goodwin reincarnated), and Ziva and her awesome, and Michelle Lee holding a gun on stupid slavers. And Jen owning everyone. A lot. Even McGee got to be snarky.
Also, omg. Ruby! Ruby needs to come back. They could hire her to be Abby's co-worker, who works in another lab, or something. And then there would be cuteness and sweet snark.
Ducky still owns everyone, too, btw.
But, yes. The women. If I totally want a show that gives me female characters who talk to each other and actually have lives? I'll take NCIS over BSG any day. Because BSG might have more women, but none of them speak to each other, and most of them would fail if ever forced to take down Ziva.
Maybe Sharon could.
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