NCIS 7x12 - Or, seriously, I am so embarrassingly full of wishful thinking.
So - once I saw this quote -
No. Wait. I'll start again.
So - there seems, from the edges, to be a fairly wide dividing line in NCIS slash fandom. Gibbs/DiNozzo vs. DiNozzo/McGee. Through an odd series of events (that included me loving Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly and somehow having not got around to watching NCIS until I was in NZ with my grandparents) I ended up shipping the first before I even started watching the show courtesy of one fic. It utterly sold me on the pairing.
Then I watched the show and it just - totally hit me in the face. I guess this is probably the way most people feel about House/Wilson* (wow, how about this week's episode, House-fans?), now that I think about it.
(For the record Tim/Tony people? I do totally get it - the show has totally had fun with it over the years. But at the end of the day I think my heart fell in love with the idea of Tim/Abby and never moved on.)
When it comes to shipping in NCIS I am Gibbs/DiNozzo OTP all the way.
Back to the quote - when S6 was getting underway there was load of press in America. Things about NCIS being the best show on TV you're not watching (but loads of people were - and the numbers just keep getting better) and so forth. There was an article about an onset visit where the journalist spent a lot of time talking about how lovely Mark Harmon was.
And the one quote that stands in my mind is this one - Mark Harmon (I'm paraphrasing a little) said of NCIS that 'you never really know what might be coming'.
(This being circa S6 I think we can all agree he was referring to the major storyline of the first half of the season. *is vague to avoid spoiling others*)
There are times - there are times where I daren't even hope that my silly shipper heart was going to be answered. Then there are times where I really wonder if maybe this show might have the guts to push a little further and make Tony's obsession with Gibbs' approval turn out to mean something more.
Then we get the strangest coda for this episode - with Tony just walking into Gibbs' house all casual with a six-pack (which, fair enough, we all know that anyone can walk into Gibbs' house whenever) and Gibbs is cooking a steak on the fire (seriously, what? Oh, Gibbs, ILU so) and there's a pillow to be shifted from the couch and then they share the steak and I don't even know what the hell is going on anymore.
Tony has a line, after he wraps up the Tony Sr storyline, about not saying everything that you know. Which has about fifty different interpretations.
But all my brain is thinking = wait, is Tony living there? I don't understand. What?
(That's not even touching on the part where awesome Gibbs is awesome and tells Tony Sr. off for being a miserable excuse for a father when Tony was a kid and says all sorts of wonderful things about Tony he'd never actually say to Tony's face)
So - although they haven't gone there, not really, and although the hints and subtexts remain the same I have to say - after that episode? I wonder if we really don't know what's coming - but it just might be something daring. One day.
Aside: I think y'all can safely assume that a large amount of this pondering has been brought on by this post by bookshop about homoerotic subtext and how it is good and bad and all sorts of other thinky thoughts that are fascinating to mull over.
It's got me thinking about my own fandoms and their subtexts. Food for thought.
*Reason why Jen can't bring herself to ship House/Wilson used to be the same reason she didn't ship Holmes/Watson** but now mostly comes down to it's Hugh Laurie.***
**Which was that I just couldn't picture it. But now I realise that it's because my brain has pinned Holmes down as completely asexual in orientation. Though you could easily argue him as having a -romantic orientation and I wouldn't disagree.
***Who can only be shipped with Stephen Fry. Obvs.
No. Wait. I'll start again.
So - there seems, from the edges, to be a fairly wide dividing line in NCIS slash fandom. Gibbs/DiNozzo vs. DiNozzo/McGee. Through an odd series of events (that included me loving Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly and somehow having not got around to watching NCIS until I was in NZ with my grandparents) I ended up shipping the first before I even started watching the show courtesy of one fic. It utterly sold me on the pairing.
Then I watched the show and it just - totally hit me in the face. I guess this is probably the way most people feel about House/Wilson* (wow, how about this week's episode, House-fans?), now that I think about it.
(For the record Tim/Tony people? I do totally get it - the show has totally had fun with it over the years. But at the end of the day I think my heart fell in love with the idea of Tim/Abby and never moved on.)
When it comes to shipping in NCIS I am Gibbs/DiNozzo OTP all the way.
Back to the quote - when S6 was getting underway there was load of press in America. Things about NCIS being the best show on TV you're not watching (but loads of people were - and the numbers just keep getting better) and so forth. There was an article about an onset visit where the journalist spent a lot of time talking about how lovely Mark Harmon was.
And the one quote that stands in my mind is this one - Mark Harmon (I'm paraphrasing a little) said of NCIS that 'you never really know what might be coming'.
(This being circa S6 I think we can all agree he was referring to the major storyline of the first half of the season. *is vague to avoid spoiling others*)
There are times - there are times where I daren't even hope that my silly shipper heart was going to be answered. Then there are times where I really wonder if maybe this show might have the guts to push a little further and make Tony's obsession with Gibbs' approval turn out to mean something more.
Then we get the strangest coda for this episode - with Tony just walking into Gibbs' house all casual with a six-pack (which, fair enough, we all know that anyone can walk into Gibbs' house whenever) and Gibbs is cooking a steak on the fire (seriously, what? Oh, Gibbs, ILU so) and there's a pillow to be shifted from the couch and then they share the steak and I don't even know what the hell is going on anymore.
Tony has a line, after he wraps up the Tony Sr storyline, about not saying everything that you know. Which has about fifty different interpretations.
But all my brain is thinking = wait, is Tony living there? I don't understand. What?
(That's not even touching on the part where awesome Gibbs is awesome and tells Tony Sr. off for being a miserable excuse for a father when Tony was a kid and says all sorts of wonderful things about Tony he'd never actually say to Tony's face)
So - although they haven't gone there, not really, and although the hints and subtexts remain the same I have to say - after that episode? I wonder if we really don't know what's coming - but it just might be something daring. One day.
Aside: I think y'all can safely assume that a large amount of this pondering has been brought on by this post by bookshop about homoerotic subtext and how it is good and bad and all sorts of other thinky thoughts that are fascinating to mull over.
It's got me thinking about my own fandoms and their subtexts. Food for thought.
*Reason why Jen can't bring herself to ship House/Wilson used to be the same reason she didn't ship Holmes/Watson** but now mostly comes down to it's Hugh Laurie.***
**Which was that I just couldn't picture it. But now I realise that it's because my brain has pinned Holmes down as completely asexual in orientation. Though you could easily argue him as having a -romantic orientation and I wouldn't disagree.
***Who can only be shipped with Stephen Fry. Obvs.