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NCIS finale reaction
May. 20th, 2016 02:21 amHere's my FB post from very early Wednesday morning:
It's 3:58am, so why am I awake? Because I'm so gorram pissed off about the NCIS season finale, that's why.
They had a year - A YEAR - to write a fitting departure for Tony DiNozzo/Michael Weatherly, and that drivel was the best they could do?!
Third-rate, moronic, Hallmark Channel dreck, with a steaming heap of retcon Tiva bullshit and a baby on top. Until a couple of weeks ago, Michael steadfastly maintained that there was NO romance between Tony and Ziva. None. And why would there be, when she regularly denigrated and belittled him and his contributions to the team? When she lied to them all and helped Rivkin in his spying and murders? When she physically assaulted him when he was injured?
Why would he ever fall for the person who compiled the dossiers that told Ari how best to hurt Gibbs (by killing Kate). And consider this - if she had come clean sooner about her dad being the killer in 'Shabbat Shalom', Jackie Vance would still be alive.
Also, it wasn't that long ago that Tony told Tim that he truly loved Jeanne Benoit.
As if that wasn't bad enough, they never explained why Gibbs was such an unrelenting ASSHOLE to Tony all season.
All in all, though, I'm glad Tony's gone, because now I can be done with the show. The past couple of years I've only been watching for him and Ducky, and there's just not enough of the delightful ME to make me stay. The show and characters I enjoyed are long gone.
Gibbs went from an upstanding defender of the law to a murderer and scofflaw. He's also the worst supervisor any HR department could ever hope for and an absolutely wretched friend and mentor. (They basically turned him into the character McGee wrote about in his novels.) And, my god, the never-ending fucking angst!
Tony devolved from 'the best young agent I ever worked with' to a sometimes cowardly buffoon and Ziva David adjunct.
Abby is more like a tweener twit every episode (though she didn't make me want to hurl this week), and she's matched in her inappropriate stupidity by Palmer (poor Brian Dietzen).
McGee I've never been able to connect with.
Bishop's grown on me, but not enough to stay.
I don't know what Michael Weatherly did to make the writers and the showrunners hate him so much, but thank goodness he managed to escape because now I can, too.
As far as I'm concerned that was the SERIES finale.
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So you see, I'm a little bitter. With the degradation of the characters and the repetitive, season-long, Big Bad arcs (often terrorists, frequently related to Eli David :smirk: ), the show has jettisoned the appeal it once held.
My DVR timer has been deleted.
I'm out!
It's 3:58am, so why am I awake? Because I'm so gorram pissed off about the NCIS season finale, that's why.
They had a year - A YEAR - to write a fitting departure for Tony DiNozzo/Michael Weatherly, and that drivel was the best they could do?!
Third-rate, moronic, Hallmark Channel dreck, with a steaming heap of retcon Tiva bullshit and a baby on top. Until a couple of weeks ago, Michael steadfastly maintained that there was NO romance between Tony and Ziva. None. And why would there be, when she regularly denigrated and belittled him and his contributions to the team? When she lied to them all and helped Rivkin in his spying and murders? When she physically assaulted him when he was injured?
Why would he ever fall for the person who compiled the dossiers that told Ari how best to hurt Gibbs (by killing Kate). And consider this - if she had come clean sooner about her dad being the killer in 'Shabbat Shalom', Jackie Vance would still be alive.
Also, it wasn't that long ago that Tony told Tim that he truly loved Jeanne Benoit.
As if that wasn't bad enough, they never explained why Gibbs was such an unrelenting ASSHOLE to Tony all season.
All in all, though, I'm glad Tony's gone, because now I can be done with the show. The past couple of years I've only been watching for him and Ducky, and there's just not enough of the delightful ME to make me stay. The show and characters I enjoyed are long gone.
Gibbs went from an upstanding defender of the law to a murderer and scofflaw. He's also the worst supervisor any HR department could ever hope for and an absolutely wretched friend and mentor. (They basically turned him into the character McGee wrote about in his novels.) And, my god, the never-ending fucking angst!
Tony devolved from 'the best young agent I ever worked with' to a sometimes cowardly buffoon and Ziva David adjunct.
Abby is more like a tweener twit every episode (though she didn't make me want to hurl this week), and she's matched in her inappropriate stupidity by Palmer (poor Brian Dietzen).
McGee I've never been able to connect with.
Bishop's grown on me, but not enough to stay.
I don't know what Michael Weatherly did to make the writers and the showrunners hate him so much, but thank goodness he managed to escape because now I can, too.
As far as I'm concerned that was the SERIES finale.
------
So you see, I'm a little bitter. With the degradation of the characters and the repetitive, season-long, Big Bad arcs (often terrorists, frequently related to Eli David :smirk: ), the show has jettisoned the appeal it once held.
My DVR timer has been deleted.
I'm out!
