naye is an evil enabler

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Last fall naye mailed us DVDs of a little show you might've heard of, goes by SGA. And we all know how that turned out. Now she's subjecting us to Life (entertaining bit of cop-show surrealism) and NCIS (which is not, I was surprised to learn, a CSI variant. Am rather amused by how often the show itself sees fit to belabor that point...well, it's an easy mistake!) While I'm not likely to completely fan on it (it's not scifi, plus it has the same problem that so many shows that are not SGA suffer from, namely a crippling lack of Rodney McKay), NCIS is an entertaining popcorn show. By which I mean it's pretty much impossible to eat just one ep, not when there's another right there, sitting in the bucket and soaking up delicious faux-butter grease.

I admit to getting a bit twitchy around some of the show's politics, it's slanted more blatantly right than my typical fare, and the pro-military pro-War-on-Terror agenda can get a bit wearing. But mostly it's the usual cop-show shenanigans (the mysteries run the gamut from obvious to clever to extremely WTF did you catch the number of the truck that just drove through that huge gaping plot hole?) and the cast is very likable (if rather blindingly white) - I love all the characters and their interactions. Most especially Abby, I <333 her fiercely and want to go on sleepovers with her and feed her caffeine and play with her adorable hair. I also love love love that she has a friendship with Kate, I've lately been jonesing for girl-girl friendship and while we don't see much of them together, what we do get is SO DANG CUTE, betting against the boys and all. Abbs is also cute as anything with Gibbs, and McGee, and Ducky, and Ducky's silly assistant boy who she just got superglued to in the last ep (Jimmy, is it?)...yays for goth girl geniuses!

Also really love Kate and Tony, because, yes, platonic male-female friendship = LOVE and their sibling dynamic is the best, what with the food fights and going to Ducky for mediation and the occasional moments of worry. Rather do like Tony, even if he can be an ass (and we were driven nuts for the first half a season before we finally IDed him as Logan from Dark Angel. Mmmm, Logan. ...oh shut up, he wore glasses as Logan. I am 100% susceptible to hot glasses.) Tony is also the show's whipping boy, and as a card-carrying (figuratively, though if they had such cards I totally would have to register) h/c fan I can't resist.

And I'm not actually slashing Gibbs/Tony, except around naye because the way it makes her squirm and wail is so dang funny. Well, and the show encourages it (if worse 1st season) in that innocent Really Really Hetero Guys way, "we are so obviously straight that no one would ever even imagine us otherwise except a million fangirls" so they are free to stand so very close together when they talk and Gibbs touches him a lot and Tony is hopelessly oversexed and Gibbs can't handle relationships with women and Tony knows what Gibbs looks like when he's asleep, and the cute little conservative show has no idea what it's doing (unlike say Merlin, which is nudge-nudge wink-wink-ing the audience in practically every scene.) But I can't seriously see the slash because Gibbs is so very much the father figure to all of them that it would be kind of creepy and wrong. It does crack me up, though.

So, not full-out fanning, but looking forward to seeing more. (Ah, and please don't spoil me for anything in later seasons, I'm mostly ignorant about this show and while I know there are some cast changes, I don't know the details, so don't mention anything specific in the comments, thanks!)



In other news, this still has me high. YES WE CAN!!!

(So who's writing the RPF-ish thing wherein our new President-elect's intelligence briefing includes a summary of the Stargate Program? "We spend how many billions on archaeological research in order to defend the planet from alien spaceships made from giant pyramids? And what was that about intergalactic vampires, again?")

ETA: ariadne83 informs me that Ladycat777 is writing this!

Comments

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I think Abby/McGee is cute, really - but it's the family nature of the team that does it for me.

I agree that Abby and McGee are cute together, and I wouldn't be sad if the show ever put them together for good...but as it is, the scripts keep making it perfectly clear that Abby no longer views McGee as romance potential.

I do really like the way the team is written as one big family.