The plot bunnies are attacking Rebecca! Help!
All hail Rebecca, who actually did something with her day off! First, I woke up way too early this morning and had coffee with Sassy Jewish #1. He's in another play, The Odd Couple this time, and I read through Acts I and II with him to help him learn his lines. He's playing Oscar (the slobby one) and only has about half his lines memorized with
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Well done for using your day off. Very honorable cause.
I agree with you on NCIS, somewhat, it was a good episode. Iffy bits are kinda to be expected now, we're nine seasons in.
I want an Abby and Ziva friendship scene too. Maybe, Abby can talk to Ziva about Abby's adoption, Ziva would understand more than any of them about long lost brothers and family being more than DNA.
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Israeli families where at least one parents are on a job like that tend to... congregate in neighbourhoods or small towns. (Tel Aviv has a neighbourhood that got named for that, no lie.) Not everybody lives in those clusters, but a lot do. So in my head-canon, Ziva would've grown up in a couple-thousand-people town where you were weird if you didn't have at least one parent in the Community, and where this kind of jobs and what it does for family were... out in the open. It wasn't a secret.Her parents divorced. The job-family conflict is very much an American thing that Israelis are less afflicted by, and this was even more true twenty years ago. The way Israeli culture is structured just doesn't give to that: the way Israelis undersand "job" and "career" and "family" is different. So the way Eli failed on this, and the way her mother responded? Those would've been Big Deals, and she would've been surrounded by families with similar circumstances that didn't get ( ... )
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