The Insanity Continues

10/4/13

I was online recently checking something and noticed that a blog I follow had updated. When I went to read the new post I discovered it was about the fall season of TV. One of the shows she talked about is NCIS.

She had stopped watching the show for various reasons that I don't recall and decided to give the current season (season 11) a try because Ziva (Cote) is leaving (she's one of the reasons she stopped watching).

She said that she liked how the writers wrote Ziva in the most current episode (episode 2); how they had her finally admit, and confront, her demons.

I happen to disagree.

I was on the verge of no longer watching the show because the last season or two has become to be, in my opinion, the Ziva David Show. Most of the episodes last season were about Ziva. We now know more about her than the rest of the cast, most of who are from the original cast. And that is NOT okay in my book.

And then there's Ziva's treatment of Tony.

But before I get into that I should state that I didn't start watching the show until the third season because to me Mark Harmon will always be Freddy Shoop from Summer School. I did watch one or two of those early episodes but didn't feel the need to watch every week.

Then the first episode I consciously sat down to watch 'live' was the season three episode where Tony and Ziva went undercover as a married couple.

I turned it off after less than five minutes.

But later that season I started watching for real.

And immediately realized that the writers weren't sure what Tony and Ziva's relationship should be.

One week they'd be flirting and the viewers would be left wondering if they're having sex (or if they had sex while on a mission as in the episode where they had been in Paris for a week) and then the next week Ziva would be sneeringly dismissive of Tony.

I quickly came to hate the character because she didn't want Tony but he wasn't allowed to be with anyone else. But she was allowed to have as many boyfriends/lovers as she wanted and Tony wasn't allowed to say shit about it.

The best example I can think of is when he was romancing Jeanne on orders from Director Shepard. The whole time Ziva was so incredibly jealous. She just had to know what he was doing and with whom. Even when he asked her to back off she wouldn't.

And then he had to kill a guy she was sleeping with but she never forgave him and held it over his head for the longest time.

And we're supposed to believe that after all that they fell in love? Without once showing it to us? Who wrote these episodes, the writers of CSI: NY who did the same with Danny and Lindsey?

I, for one, am so glad that Ziva is leaving. I did not enjoy these episodes as much as I was hoping and Ziva is the reason. From the moment we met her she was been extremely arrogant and has not missed a single opportunity to show up her team mates, even Gibbs. And yet in her final episode we're supposed to believe that the death of her father, a man she doesn't even like, broke her so completely that she ran back to Israel. I felt that the whole episode was the writers trying to get the fans to clamor for Cote to change her mind about leaving.

The little speech she gave Tony about why she was leaving NCIS felt very whiny to me. What I heard her say was she had to kill her brother and then lost one of her best childhood friends because she had been in love with said brother. Oh, boo-freaking-hoo. I really couldn't care less. Just get the fuck out, bitch and don't let the doorknob hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.