NCIS

[rhienelleth]

The premiere of NCIS was brilliant last night, wasn't it? I scrolled through my f-list first thing this morning, but very few people seem to be talking about it. *pouts*

I haven't yet watched the premiere of the new spin off, but it's waiting on the Tivo.



Okay, so first of all, it's a good thing they do the "previously" recap, because somehow I totally and completely forgot that Ziva was being held somewhere and tortured. In my mind, the season finale ended with her telling Gibbs she was staying to work with her father, and that was it. My subconscious must have decided it really wasn't worth it to stress over that for all of summer, and so blocked it out.

(Too bad it didn't do the same thing with Hotch on Criminal Minds, but whatever. I'm still peeved at TPTB for putting yet another main cast member in a cliffhanger life-or-death situation.)

Let's get this out of the way right up front: I totally ship Tony/Ziva, and have pretty much since she was introduced - since the box car episode, anyway.

*clasps hands and squees Tooooooooooonyyyyyyyyyy!*

~ "After that, business as usual lost all meaning."

("Blah, blah blah, computer stuff, blah, blah, blah."
"There's so many things, and stuff, and emotions - thanks for listening.")

~ Tony and McGee, volunteering for a dangerous 'secret fact finding thingy in the Sahara that isn't actually secret" so they could get captured on purpose - not to rescue Ziva, but to avenge her.

~ "Out of everyone in the world who could have found me - it had to be you." That's right, Ziva. It wasn't Daddy, it was Tony - and Gibbs and the team.

~ "You thought I was dead?"

"Oh, yeah."

"Then why are you here?"

"McGee didn't think you were dead--"

"Tony, why are you here?"

"Couldn't live without you, I guess."

"So, you will die with me. Should've left me alone."

"Okay. Tried. Couldn't. Listen, you should know I've taken some kind of truth serum, so if there's any questions you don't want to know the answers to..."

Like the fact that he couldn't move on without her? Oh, Tony.

~ "That would involve being rescued."

"Yes it would."

"How long will that take?"

"I don't know. How long do you think I've been talking?"

"What's the plan??"

"Well, we fail to contact, word gets to the carrier group in the Med, and they launch F-22 Raptors that burn sand into glass. How long that's gonna take, I don't know. Hours. Days."

The promo for next week just about killed me - it's going to be harder to wait that week than it was to wait all damn summer.

"He risked his life to go there and rescue you." Actually, Abby, he risked his life to go there and avenge her, which is even more telling, actually.

Other random things I enjoyed:

~ when Gibbs made the Tough Chick cry.

~ When the Airforce Chick overheard the team talking about hacking into Mossad - or Vance - and was out of there - most particularly, their reaction - "Whatever."

~ Sniper!Gibbs saving his team. Although it would have been impossible for him to get there at the end all the way from that hill he was sniping on to help them get out of the building, but whatever.

~ Tony was so off the emotional rails in this one - he couldn't let it go, even believing Ziva was mad at him and hated his guts enough to leave the team. He couldn't let it go, even believing Ziva was dead.

~ That look at the end, between Tony and Ziva while Abby's hugging her? There is some definite unfinished business there.