About NCIS 10x22 - "Revenge"
It's... hard doing this review after watching "Double Blind". It was tough before, because "Revenge" sort of ripped my heart out on a whole new level, but now... now there's suddenly so much Tony!pain in my head and overshadowing the rest, and it's really hard to get my thoughts together while all I want to do is curl up in a corner and whimper
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This episode was frustrating and beautiful all at once. Frustrating because I didn't want what they (ALL of them) did or said to really be true to their characters. And some of it really pissed me off, which I attributed to not liking the writers a whole lot. But it was beautiful because it caused me to realize that the characters are who they are whether you like it or not.
It's perfectly okay if you don't like everything about someone, because you shouldn't. How Ziva's self-flagellation is fueled by misdirected anger, how Tony copes by retreating into comedic deflection, how Gibbs handles Tony's emotions by slapping him and telling him to man up and get over it.
Small irritations in the grand scheme of things, and these perceived flaws are what make them real people to us. Anything else would be an unfinished caricature of what could have been a person. One without conflict to overcome (or better yet, fail to overcome) and ultimately unworthy of either adoration or scorn. We would just "nothing" them. Which is way worse than hating someone, really.
So while it's frustrating seeing them regress at all given the INSANELY HUGE LEAPS AND BOUNDS of progress we saw in Berlin, it's what we needed.
Without sadness, there can be no happiness.
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