NCIS premiere
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xparrotI'm plugging away at the drabbles commentfic - thanks much for the great prompts, and if you want one for your very own, all you gotta do is ask!
As for NCIS 7x01:
Loved it! NCIS is so my safety show, the one I know isn't going to let me down. I don't ask anything of it but adorable team-as-family dynamics, funny with a touch of angst, and it pretty much never fails to deliver. And if it delivers me Tony!whump and McGee!whump in the same ep, well who am I to argue? Not to mention Gibbs being utterly badass - I like Gibbs best this way, from Tony's POV, when he's more superhero than man, a force of silver-fox badassery who can do anything - not that I don't like his more vulnerable moments (especially with his dad!) but when he's portrayed as human he can be almost MarySue-ish; as a superman he's just awesome.
Plus Abby!hugs! And Gibbs-Vance alpha-wolf posturing! And gratuitous Tony/Tim dinner-dates complete with red-leather-pants jokes! (Tim was totally taking care of Tony all summer, wasn't he?) And Ducky (even if his David McCallum-ness still weirds me out...I haven't fanned on an actor with a 45-year spread before, it's disconcerting...)
And they got Ziva back! <333 Love my girl Ziva, even battered but not quite broken.
I also have to confess that for all my enjoyment of Tony/Tim (and how they keep handing it to us on a shiny platter) I am totally, 100% on board with Tony/Ziva. Which is just - I don't know how they're doing it. Abby/McGee's adorable geek-love is the sort of low-key 'ship I often like, no surprises there; but Tony/Ziva is a kind of relationship that usually I'd be rolling my eyes and gnashing my teeth over how it's interfering with team dynamics or how annoying it is that the female character needs to be paired off or how it's wasting screentime or whatever. Except that I'm not. I think it's partly because the show has been remarkably cagey about actually defining their relationship as UST or true love or possibly deep friendship (it plays more like really blatant subtext than actual text - more like slash than a standard het 'ship, really. See also: Mulder/Scully); and partly because the team dynamics are so solid between all the chars that it's not interfering with anything. Or whatever - all I know is that I'm not just tolerating it, I'm actually enjoying it. That bit where Tony loses it? Oh, yeah, loved it.
(Though I can't really call it an OTP because it's obviously not stopping me from shipping Tony/Tim. Or Abby/Ziva. Or Tony/Gibbs (only because it's well-nigh impossible not to). Or pretty much any other combination (though the ship of my heart remains the Tony/Ziva/Tim/Abby OT4).)
So, yup, loving it - can't wait for the rest of the season!
There's also NCIS: LA, which I haven't watched yet...got enough other shows on my plate, and I hate getting into things in their first season, when their future's uncertain. But let me known how it goes!
As for NCIS 7x01:
Loved it! NCIS is so my safety show, the one I know isn't going to let me down. I don't ask anything of it but adorable team-as-family dynamics, funny with a touch of angst, and it pretty much never fails to deliver. And if it delivers me Tony!whump and McGee!whump in the same ep, well who am I to argue? Not to mention Gibbs being utterly badass - I like Gibbs best this way, from Tony's POV, when he's more superhero than man, a force of silver-fox badassery who can do anything - not that I don't like his more vulnerable moments (especially with his dad!) but when he's portrayed as human he can be almost MarySue-ish; as a superman he's just awesome.
Plus Abby!hugs! And Gibbs-Vance alpha-wolf posturing! And gratuitous Tony/Tim dinner-dates complete with red-leather-pants jokes! (Tim was totally taking care of Tony all summer, wasn't he?) And Ducky (even if his David McCallum-ness still weirds me out...I haven't fanned on an actor with a 45-year spread before, it's disconcerting...)
And they got Ziva back! <333 Love my girl Ziva, even battered but not quite broken.
I also have to confess that for all my enjoyment of Tony/Tim (and how they keep handing it to us on a shiny platter) I am totally, 100% on board with Tony/Ziva. Which is just - I don't know how they're doing it. Abby/McGee's adorable geek-love is the sort of low-key 'ship I often like, no surprises there; but Tony/Ziva is a kind of relationship that usually I'd be rolling my eyes and gnashing my teeth over how it's interfering with team dynamics or how annoying it is that the female character needs to be paired off or how it's wasting screentime or whatever. Except that I'm not. I think it's partly because the show has been remarkably cagey about actually defining their relationship as UST or true love or possibly deep friendship (it plays more like really blatant subtext than actual text - more like slash than a standard het 'ship, really. See also: Mulder/Scully); and partly because the team dynamics are so solid between all the chars that it's not interfering with anything. Or whatever - all I know is that I'm not just tolerating it, I'm actually enjoying it. That bit where Tony loses it? Oh, yeah, loved it.
(Though I can't really call it an OTP because it's obviously not stopping me from shipping Tony/Tim. Or Abby/Ziva. Or Tony/Gibbs (only because it's well-nigh impossible not to). Or pretty much any other combination (though the ship of my heart remains the Tony/Ziva/Tim/Abby OT4).)
So, yup, loving it - can't wait for the rest of the season!
There's also NCIS: LA, which I haven't watched yet...got enough other shows on my plate, and I hate getting into things in their first season, when their future's uncertain. But let me known how it goes!
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Date: 2009-09-24 06:31 pm (UTC)Heee~ enjoy the MUNCLE! s3 especially both terrifies and delights...