topaz119 | (no subject)

What happened?

Fridged Ziva (who's been off the show for years b/c they didn't want to pay the actress) and then threw in a previously unknown child so that Tony had A Reason To Grow Into A New Phase Of His Life. (Note that the mad killer didn't manage to kill Fornell, the male FBI agent.)

I actually said/yelled, "Thank god my mother is not alive to see this!" loud enough that the kids came to see what happened. (#2Son came in the room saying, "Who'd they fridge?" so at least I have gotten them to the point where they understand. Small consolation.)

...uuuugh.

SMH.

I stopped watching in 2012 due to the complete utter lack of character development (or rather, the backwards development) and I'm glad I stopped when I did.

I stopped watching a few years ago but read about the actor leaving. I thought they would either kill him off or have him leave to lead his own team.

This way just sucks big time.

Everybody spoke *for* Ziva. Even when Tony saw her in his mind's eye, she was silent, which is even more infuriating. Total hate watch.

I'm so pissed. I mean, they managed not to fridge her when Cote left; doing it now is even *more* insulting. (I haven't watched in years either but watched one more time, unfortunately.)

Yeah, I feel the same way. DNW. I've read better fanfic with a similar premise that fridges nobody.

ah crap. I gave up early, but it's still disappointing to hear.

(there were eecards going around some time ago that read "I'm so sorry that your fandom canon creators are dumbasses". Consider this one of those.)

I know! Even the hard-core Gibbs/DiNozzo writers have managed better w/o a body count.

Thank you, I appreciate sentiment.

The more I think about it, the madder I am, and it's not like I expect a lot from a formulaic procedural, but gdi, come up with *something*. NCIS isn't really something I feel compelled to write, but there is a giant fuck you brewing in the back of my brain.

I am still angry about that story choice. They could have accomplished the same damn end result with a good old soap opera coma or something.

UGH. This show! Why am I still watching it! (I know why, but team feels may no longer be an option.)

Even while I was sputtering furiously at the TV, I was still missing the characters. I may be pissed enough to write the (clearly unfilmed) ending, where Tony gets up in the middle of the night (because he's not sleeping much these days) and goes to get a glass of water (because he's not getting near anything alcoholic either) and finds Ziva sitting at the little kitchen table of his and Senior's Paris apartment. Shouting, tears, hurt feelings, overwhelming gratitude ensue.

YES THIS OH PLEASE.

I mean, Ziva was literally RAISED IN SPYCRAFT. It would make far more sense to me that she would have safeguards in place where it looked like she was dead so she could go after the enemy who thought she was out of the picture, than for her to assume "Oh, an idyllic cottage in the countryside, no one will come after me here!"

ARGH.