NCIS season 3 ongoing thread (1 Viewer)

[David Williams]

Yawn. I haven't been blown away by the new dynamic so far, but I'm hoping when they get things back to normal next week this will change.

I like Jenny Shephard but I'm not quite sure what to think of Ziva. I don't want her to be a Kate-clone but they picked a very poor way to introduce her character by making her antagonistic *and* duplicitous from the start.

I really liked Ducky's Asst from last season (his name escapes me), so I was kinda bummed at the return of Gerald, but it's a nice piece of continuity. Hopefully the newly therapied Gerald will show as much personality as the last guy, cause 1st Season Gerald didn't seem very talkative that I recall.

NCIS had perfect onscreen chemistry, too bad Sasha Alexander had to go an ruin it. Hopefully Bellasario leaves the remaining cast alone, since he has said in his EW interview that he may not be done killing off characters.

 

[Paul McElligott]

 

[Paul McElligott]

I think Gerald had more to say last night than he did during the whole first season.

 

[Julian Reville]

I just knew Jethro was going to take the wet dog home with him.

Darn, I hate it when I'm wrong.

 

[Paul Sandhu]

What was Gibbs driving in the premiere?

 

[Paul McElligott]

Well, this week's new episode...

won't be very popular with lawyers.




It looks like Ziva is back next week.

 

[David Williams]

Was anyone else pondering that Paula Cassidy would have been a much better replacement for Kate than Ziva? I really enjoyed the episode... it felt like the gang was sort of back together.

 

[MikeFR]

Good episode, but I didn't really like the quick wrap-up at the end. Of course the only other alternative would have been a cliched last minute 'save'.

 

[Paul McElligott]

You were not alone. I was wondering if they had changed their mind about a "foreign-born" replacement for Kate.

 

[Patrick_S]

I agree that Cassidy would be a better choice.

 

[Parker Clack]

I thought the chemistry with Cassidy was better too. They all really seemed to click as a group of actors. Where did she come from anyway and does Tony know her from some place else?

 

[Evan M]

EDIT:

Nevermind.. I'm not sure.

 

[Paul McElligott]

She's been a recurring "guest agent" over the course of the series. They obviously like her enough to keep bringing her character back. Why not just promote her to full cast member?

 

[Patrick Sun]

10/11/05

Ziva might have come off kinda strong, but she'll be fun to watch, though she seems too overt for the spy work in her past. Having her and Gibbs make the rest of the team think there is animosity between is a bit of fun and games between them, but will Gibbs' trust be betrayed later.

Ducky has the worst luck with women he's known from his past.

 

[JeremyErwin]

I'm starting to think that NCIS, rather than the CSI franchise, produces the kinds of strange forensic mysteries that led me to watch CSI in the first place.

 

[Bryan Toth]

I've been thinking that ever since the beginning of NCIS season 2. I've said it before (I think on the season 2 thread of NCIS), but of all the procedural shows, NCIS is easily my favorite. Gibbs is more like a real boss than any of the other CSI-type shows, and the interaction between the characters seems more realistic as well.
On a slightly different topic, Ziva is growing on me a little bit ... (although I think Gibbs would still be a little bit more wary of her ... despite her actions last week). Is it just me, or does she look a little like Sasha Alexander (who played Kate) ?? From certain angles, she looks like her quite a bit ...

 

[Patrick Sun]

When Ziva's hair isn't puffier, she does look a little like Kate from certain angles, but her speech patterns are totally different from Kate's as Ziva is more willing to try new things, and is open to more, as Kate was rather more restrained in her reactions and responses.

 

[JeremyErwin]

Kate didn't read dodgy men's magazines.

 

[Walter Kittel]

In terms of physical appearence the closeup shots of Ziva do resemble Kate from certain angles. I thought the closeup where she winks at Gibbs when he says 'You have no idea' at the conclusion of the episode was the one shot in last night's episode where she most closely resembled Sasha Alexander.

In terms of the character it appears that they are attempting to reverse the dynamic between Tony and Kate where Ziva is now the more adventuresome one in counterpoint to a more restrained (relatively speaking) Tony.

- Walter.

 

[Paul McElligott]

One benefit of the post-Kate era is that Tony is acting a lot less goofy than the previous year.