Jul 25, 2010 15:38
Been re-watching some NCIS S4-5 which I mostly have to avoid as I hate the character of Jen even more than I hate Cuddy from House(and I'd actually stand and watch laughing if she caught fire, so thats hate) and have to skip lots of episodes, and I noticed that thats (for me)when Dinozzo stopped being written as a more complex then seen on the surface character and started being the team scapegoat. THe way the team treat him would have me quitting/suing them within months.
It started in Boxed-In, and Ive yet to hear a decent reason for the whole team being invited without Dinozzo/why the rest of the team were happy to be so(I can't believe Abby or Ducky at least would wonder about his absence) and then after Jeanne the way McGee and Ziva treat Tony is appalling, and when he finally snaps, Ziva gets on her high horse and demands an apology.
Which leads me to the finale of S6. ITs only recently shown here on terestial, and where the hell does Ziva get off??? SHe refused to believe that her lover was out of control, let lust and perhpas some love cloud her judgement, expects Gibbs to choose her over Tony, and acted as if Tony would actually have shot her lover out of jealousy over her. Ummm???Really? Total double standard. She fell for the dead man walking, yet is perfectly happy to rib Tony over Jeanne. He does it back, she goes ape. TOny fell for his mark, she fell for her partner-neither situation is really kosher yet in her case its 'love' and in his its foolishness.
I've heard not great things over S7, with Tiva being more and more in evidence, pushed harder. Say it isn't so??