Random NCIS Observations are Random (and probably been discussed already, elsewhere)

[mad_jaks]

Because I tend to only really notice if numbers are involved - and then only *really* pay attention to the numbers - and because Legend aired only a few weeks ago and Enigma was repeated last night.

Comments

[donutsweeper]

I like the way you think.

1991 is a magic year for Gibbs and is mentioned approximately 80 million times... that said DADT wasn't around back then, although you could be dishonorably discharged for it. So maybe after Gibbs was blown up (which resulted in the coma that is mentioned at the end of S3) he was 'asked' to retire a hero instead of facing being dishonorably discharged?

[mad_jaks]

1991 is a magic year for Gibbs
I seemed to think, even as I was writing, that that might be the case. If ever someone sits down to add up allt he things that happened to him, is it going to turn out that 1991 would have had to have had 500 days?

(And if it did have to, are we going to be able to blame one of our time travelling buddies?)

[donutsweeper]

There's a list that someone put together that lists everything from 1991

* Jethro is wounded in Desert Storm
* Shannon & Kelly are murdered
* (June) Jethro is released from Bethesda and visits Shannon&Kelly's grave
* (August) Jethro starts working for NIS
* Jethro is in South America
* plus about 10,000 other things Jethro did

There are more things, like it was mentioned as the year there was an insanely popular stuffed animal and he got it for Kelly and there's the flask and a lot more...

I like the idea it's the Doctor or someone else mucking around making all of it possible as opposed to sloppy canon compliance on the part of the writers

[mad_jaks]

sloppy canon compliance
I blame post-it notes. One day you just have to know that someone got a post-it and wrote "stuff happened in 1991" on it as a reminder to *themselves* not to use '91 again. Then they stuck it on a folder or the side of a monitor or a whiteboard where all the rest of the team could see it and then- they forgot to take it down...

Time Agent Jack running around screwing up the timeline I can well believe.

[donutsweeper]

You might be onto something there.

*hee* I'm actually writing another Jack/NCIS crossover right now, although it doesn't involve 1991

[mad_jaks]

YAY!

[donutsweeper]

IT's for a fandom free-for-all request thing. It'd been fighting me but I think I may have finally found the right angle to go at it so I tabled the fic you beta-ed yesterday to work on this one- I'll get back to the other one later

[mad_jaks]

*sends fic writing vibes*

[donutsweeper]

Ta muchly!

[drunken_hedghog]

Sorry if I'm being an arse, but it was 1989 that Gibbs bought the bear for Kelly. I only mention it as I watched the episode yesterday.

That said, there's still twenty billion things that happened to Gibbs in 1991. I'd love to read that list.

[donutsweeper]

Oh that's right. There was something about canon as to why the bear didn't work though, I can't remember now.

I thought I'd favorited the Gibbs in 1991 list, but I can't find it now :(

[drunken_hedghog]

No problem, now that I know it exists I can have fun searching for it. I think I was born to be a researcher - give me something to find and I'll happily spend hours looking.

Geeky fact - did you know Michael Weatherly did the voice of Beary Smiles in that episode? Drove me crazy trying to work out why the voice was familiar.

[donutsweeper]

Seriously? I hadn't heard that.

There are tons of random lists that people put together. I think my favorite is this one: http://spae.dreamwidth.org/9547.html it's a Tony/Gibbs listing

[drunken_hedghog]

Hah! That's both brilliant and reassuring; glad to know I'm not the only one that might do something like that. And I'm even tempted to start putting together a Tony/McGee one.

[donutsweeper]

I did something similar cataloging what Ducky called people the first 4 seasons. Embrace the insanity!

[mad_jaks]

Your version of insanity is very embrace-able :D