The Perfect Episode *SPOILERS for 7x14*

After watching the most recent NCIS episode (7x14 Masquerade ) Icame to the conclusion that it was the perfect NCIS episode.

It wasn't a 'Big' episode like the 150th, the premiere, the season finale or even 7x13's TIVA epdisode, it wasn't even a 'Special' episode like the Halloween or Christmas episodes, it was just the perfect NCIS episode.

I think it was Pauley Perrette that once said NCIS was a show for the fans and Masquerade definitely proved that to be right. In my opinion it had (almost) everything for any and every NCIS.

What the episode had:
*A thrilling case - very suspensful and you could feel the panic about the possibility of a dirty bomb.

*Classic McGeek - Only our little probie could be in the middle of the bullpen, in a tux, 'at' the wedding of one of his RPG friends... I am expecting him to get married online one day.

*Tony and Ziva (friendly) teasing the the Probie - how could they not!

*Paranoid Tony and mentions of the Plague - ever since SWAK DiNozzo has gotten more and more paranoid about biological/chemical attacks and I loved the quote about how Tony's kids are possibly screwed because all he had to give them were good looks!

*Tony personal tidbit - wow Tony has a therapist! Even though he tried to cover and say it was a Physical Therapist for his knee I still think it is a shrink... the man has some serious Daddy Issues (not to mention the above mentioned Plague issues).

*Ultimate Abby hug - As a Tabby fan that hug was squee worthy!

*Abby eccentricities - Loving the fact Abby stayed in the yellow suit just because she thought it was cool, reminded me of the hat she wore back in Caught on Tape.

*Team Gibbs eccentricities - come on do you think there is any other team in the whole dang agency that would get popcorn to watch an interrogation? also Tap dance parties and pirate parties!

*Serious Tiva scene - I may not be 100% for Tiva (I'd say about 25% for the ship only because MW and CDP play it so well!) but that scene where they are talking about Somalia was well done.

*Palmer eccentricities - Palmer being caught by Ducky and Gibbs tap dancing in autopsy.

*Hint at Tony/Palmer friendship - I think the DiNozzo/Palmer friendship is equal first with the Tony/Gibbs and Tony/Abby friendship (for me at least) I also love how it seems as though Tony only invited Jimmy to the party.

*Brave Gibbs - Jethro single handidly (lol sorry bad injured arm joke) dismantles the bomb not giving a damn about his own life, only worrying about McGee getting out before it blew.

*Brave Timmy - I love how in this team when one person dismantles a bomb someone is always there beside them. While I am not McGee's biggest fan (I think he is making up for seasons 4 & 5 this season though) I loved that it was him refusing to leave Gibbs because usually it is Tony and Ziva.

and while it was not a part of this episode but next weeks:

*FORNELLAGE! in the promo for 7x15 - while scary bearded Tobias freaks me out a tiny bit (having flashbacks to disturbingly bearded and mustached Gibbs) I was definitely having withdrawals from the lack of our fave FBI agent this season.

There is only one thing that disappointed me about this episode (well this season really) and that is Rena Sofer - EPISODE KILLER!

Maybe that is just because I thought her character in Just Shoot Me ruined the show (hence the title of episode killer) but I think where they are headed with the possible relationship of her character and Gibbs is a horrible, horrible idea.

I am not anti-Gibbs loving, in fact I loved Gibbs and Hollis, Gibbs and Jenny's history, Gibbs and Stephanie (I think out of all his ex wives he loved her the most), Gibbs and Shannon and Gibbs and the Mysterious Readhead but Gibbs and the EK? HATE IT! I am glad they didn't show them kissing at the end, I like to believe that Tony popped out from behind the sofa and whacked her with a 2x4.

I think I have said it after every episode this season but season 7 may be my fave season so far, definitely making up for season 6!

Peace... Out!

Another reason for my love of Tony DiNozzo:

My life is complete!I didn't think it could be anymore complete than the awesome 150th episode of NCIS but boy was I wrong!

I almost fainted during this weeks NCIS ep when... wait for it... Michael Weatherly as Tony DiNozzo referenced my favorite all time movie... POLLYANNA! Not just any Pollyanna though, the Hayley Mills Pollyanna, which I have on both DVD and VHS and have watched about as much as I have watched NCIS episode SWAK! OK maybe I have watched Pollyanna maybe just a little bit more than SWAK because I did watch it at least once a week during my childhood.

I have been hoping for him to do it since the first time he ever made a movie reference and today it was realised!

Now I finally have the first movie for my movie reviews.

Also I am choosing to ignore that he referenced the WORST book series EVER... There is only one Twilight that matters to me and that is the final episode of season 2 of NCIS!

Not that I really need to watch Pollyanna to write a review but it looks as though my Wednesday night is going to be spent curled up in bed watching it for the billionth time.

Dissecting DiNozzo Session 2: Compare and Contrast

Sorry I have been AWOL as of late, I have been in the middle of an NCIS inspired muse overload and am trying to work on 17 fics at once.

I am not sure if you are aware of it or not but one of the fics I am currently working on is and NCIS/Dark Angel epic crossover saga where Tony and Logan are the same person.

I have watched every episode of the two (very different) Michael Weatherly shows multiple times and while I have been writing the fic entitled New World (Dis)Order I have come to a realisation about the two characters that, seperately would not have an impact, but when they are morphed into one character becomes a factor that is making it hard to write the story at times.

If you have ever watched Dark Angel then you will be aware that Michael Weatherly's character of Logan Cale gets shot in the first episode leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and dependant on a wheelchair (and later on an exoskeleton and then healed).

You see the journalist and freedom fighter sturggle to accept his fate in many episodes, one in particular where he pulls out a gun and is prepared to kill himself, so it is definitley not been an easy transformation from being able to work to have someone, as he says, 'do the legwork' for him.

Michael Weatherly's performance is absolutely amazing and heart wrenching at times in the two seasons but when I thought of Logan as also being Tony my heart seemed to break.

Over the seven seasons, and two JAG episodes, of NCIS we have established the Tony DiNozzo is a very energetic and athletic guy whose major at college was PE (and was on numerous sporting teams). In Twilight when Tony returned from sick leave after the plague he said to Gibbs that he had to return early because he was getting bored at home. DiNozzo is a man that constantly needs to be doing something whether it is chasing suspects or chasing (as Gibbs put it once) 'a tight ass'.

For Tony to end up in a wheelchair as Logan did would be a massive blow to not only his physical pursuits but also to his state of mind.

This is where my discovery came in. We have known Tony for (as of next week) 150 episodes of NCIS as well as 2 bonus JAG episodes, where as we have only known Logan Cale for a few scenes in Dark Angel before he gets his spinal cord damaged. While it is sad that this character can no longer walk we haven't really gotten to know him and so it is a bit difficult to know the impact it will have on him physically, mentally and emotionally.

I think it (the shooting, blown out spinal cord and the aftermath) has a bigger impact on the audience if we imagine the same thing happening to this character we have known for the better part of seven seasons.

Another scene in Twilight is something Ducky says about Tony after examining him following the car explosion: He is unnaware of his own limitations*. If Tony was the one that ended up in the wheelchair those limitations would suddenly come crashing into his focus and another set of limitations would be added to the pile that were already there.

With Logan we learnt these things about him as the series went on AFTER the shooting so the impact and ramifications were drawn out over multiple episodes as opposed to being aware ot them the moment we saw him go down.

For anyone, in real life or on screen, it would be difficult to have to learn you will never walk again but I think that out of these two Michael Weatherly characters Tony's pain, struggle, etc. is a lot more sudden.

What I am basically saying is that if it takes me a while to write New World (Dis)Order it is because my heart breaks for Tony and not his new identity of Logan.


Peace... Out....

*Ducky's prognosis of Tony is much longer than in the ep and I may be mistaken as to what he actually said, but as it is 5.33am here I can't really be bothered looking for the exact comment. However the basic idea is the same.

Tis The Season!

It is offically Christmas day here in Australia (sorry if you follow me on more then one site, you have probably already read that if you do) and I just wanted to wish everyone a very safe happy and fun Christmas day.

I plan on watching the first movie from my NCIS list today (an Abby gingerbread woman if you can guess which one) so hopefully the review for it will be up soon.

In other NCIS/Christmas related news I brought in the holiday watching Apollo 13, odd I know but I don't like the Christmas movie on and the only Christmas ep is one of Frasier and yeah not that big a fan of Kelsey Grammar. Good news, I got my Joe Spano fix which has been lacking in this season of NCIS... I want to see some Fornell!

Anyway have a great day and merry merry Christmas!

MISSING

Well sorry I haven't been around lately with the holidays and a school reunion I have been run off my feet, now things are slowing down with Christmas next week I thought I would have more time... but wouldn't you know it I killed my laptop charger last night... I have resorted to emailing NCIS fanfiction to my hotmail so I can read it on my massively tiny screen of my phone. Hopefully I will get the charger tomorrow but knowing my parents they just might make me wait until christmas day for it. I MISS SYLVIA (my laptop) and all our NCIS fun we had together. Thank God I didn't break it until after I saw the new episode of NCIS... anywho all this means is that I will be back whenever I get the charger, expect a movie review soon.

Oh and in case you didn't know Daddy DiNozzo and the 15oth episode of NCIS air on the 12th of January... I am actually counting down the days.

Until whenever stay safe and enjoy NCIS!

Possibly A Frame Up?

I just went to sign in blogger to make a post about NCIS and it wouldn't let me because apparently my account had been temporarily disabled, I have no clue why. So after 5 minutes of confusion, 10 minutes reading every terms and conditions relevant, a minute to send a message to google 10+ minutes searching my room for my missing phone, 5 begging prayers to the PTB to find my phone, 1 minute searching for my phone charger and 2 codes to verify my account (the first didn't work) I am back... not that anyone would have noticed I was missing.

All this on top of no new NCIS this week and already being stressed out about my high school reunion/farewell on Saturday I am in dire need of of some SERIOUS Tibbs or crack!fics. Instead I will try and make said post or end up bashing my head into the nearest wall.

Dissecting DiNozzo Session 1: The Begining

For some random reason, a reason that's still unknown to me, I stayed up until after 4am on Saturday morning watching the JAG episodes 'Ice Queen' and 'Meltdown' which introduced the characters of NCIS, well Director Morrow and the core four (Gibbs, DiNozzo, Abby and Ducky) at least, and was the launching pad for the show we all love so very, very much.

Originally I was a JAG fan so I have actually watched NCIS right from the very start and I saw these episodes the first time they aired on TV in Australia.

There were a few things I noticed on this most recent viewing of the JAG episodes that I think may have stuck in my subconscious after the the first time I watched it.

The first is something which is obvious to pretty much every fan of NCIS and that is the Gibbs/DiNozzo working relationship. While Gibbs is a man of few words and only really shows affection towards Abby and Ducky, there is a... well it is hard to describe what it is, but let's say a trust and understanding between Gibbs and his senior field agent that was obvious from these first two non-NCIS episodes.

Point one is that Gibbs trusted DiNozzo to work on his own while he took Blackadder to question the JAG lawyers.

Point two is that Tony was the one person Gibbs wanted when they went to take down the terrorist, Gibbs didn't care who he brought with him just as long as Tony was there.

Now if we were going into the realm of Slash fiction, and boy is there a hell of a lot of Tibbs (Tony/Gibbs) fics, then I would say that point two was merely a sexual thing. As they have yet to show any Tibbsiness on the show (though DiNozzo has stayed at Gibbs' more than once) I will digress and say that there is a trust established from those two episodes that not too many people would understand and probably even notice.

Kate, I think is a good example of this, though she wasn't in the JAG episodes, I don't think the ex-secret service agent understood Tony let alone why Gibbs kept him on the team half of the time. There are examples in certain scenes which I will go into in other Dissecting DiNozzo posts but for now let's just leave it at that.

While Ziva may understand the Italian agent a bit more then Kate I still don't think she has a full grasp of Tony's mindset and the bond between him and Gibbs.

That being said I think it leads me onto another observation which I have had since 'Ice Queen'.

I have always been a Tony/Abby shipper and until I had re watched the JAG episodes, I thought my Tabby fascination spanned from the chemistry between Michael Weatherly and Pauley Perrette both on and off screen. If you have ever seen photos or footage of the two off set then you will know what I am talking about, it isn't a sexual thing it is a friendship.

When I re watched the JAG double I was shocked to see that there was actually quite a few Tabby moments in there. It may just be me but it seemed as if Abby may have had a touch of DiNozzoitis and had a little crush on our boy Tony.

I have spoken to other NCIS fans about the Tony/Abby friendship and most people agree that if Tony would tell anyone anything about his past, particularly his childhood, it would be everyone's favourite Goth. It may have never been shown like many other assumptions of fans but there has to be something there for so many of us to have agreed, right?

Yes I do realise that our fearless leader Leroy Jethro Gibbs has a rule about assumptions but let's just call it reading between the lines.

While I didn't really do any real 'dissecting' of DiNozzo's personality and character in this post I will put that down to the episodes themselves, as they weren't official NCIS episodes things were likely to change *cough*Blackadder*cough* between then and Yankee White to make the show work.

Tony though didn't really change too much... apart from those glasses, his missing movie addiction and now he is just ever so slightly more insane.

I don't know when or what episode I will do for the next Dissecting DiNozzo post, though I'm thinking it may be season 3's Undercovers, but it will definitely be more exciting and in depth than this one.

Peace... Out!

Diagnosis: Terminal

Tony DiNozzo: "So, let me guess. You guys caught a bad case of
'DiNozzo-itis', had Vance send you down south?"

Ziva David: " 'DiNozzo-itis'... Sounds venereal."

NCIS 6x02 Agent Afloat

Well it may not be venereal like Ziva David thinks but it is damn infectious and a cure is yet to be found... Just ask one of the numerous NCIS fangirls out there. Of course I don't think there are actually any of us who are actively looking for a cure.

Never heard of DiNozzoitis? Basically it is a loss of all sense and reason the moment Michael Weatherly, who plays Special Agent Anthony D. DiNozzo Jr. on NCIS (the greatest show in the world), is shown on screen, in photos and more recently sings. There is just something about Michael Weatherly, particularly as Tony DiNozzo, that has sufferers going insane and drooling.

Signs of DiNozzoitis:

*Uncontrollable drooling, daydreaming and fantasizing

*Repeat viewings of NCIS and often times Dark Angel

*Spending an entire day Tweeting with other DiNozzoitis sufferers about Tony DiNozzo and not seeing anything wrong with it

*Spending obscene amounts of money buying all of Michael Weatherly's movies and TV shows, even if you have to buy online or from overseas

*Constant quoting of Tony/Michael lines

*Relating any and all things in life to Tony/Michael

*Dreaming up ways to be with Tony/Michael and/or your future lives together

And dozen of other symptoms all relating to Tony/Michael

If you are showing one or more of the above symptoms take 2 episodes of NCIS with a glass of NCIS fan fiction. If symptoms persist consult Dr. Donald 'Ducky Mallard', if symptoms worsen seek out Dr. Brad Pitt IMMEDIATELY!

For me, a sufferer of DiNozzoitis, I set up this blog to write reviews for an NCIS related New Years Resolution, my goal is to watch every movie ever referenced in the hit drama, and it will also be another place where I rant about and examine Tony DiNozzo.

Don't worry I am not completely insane, I do have other interests, I just felt I needed an outlet for my love of Tony DiNozzo... yes I do realise he is a fictional character and I do know how to separate life from fiction, I am a writer myself and just appreciate the creation that is DiNozzo and as a fangirl I appreciate the talents of Michael Weatherly, if you really sat down and watched the show you would see what I mean.

I don't really expect anyone to read this, let alone comment, but it would be nice.... you should know though me track record with blogs is not that successful, hopefully writing about NCIS, Michael Weatherly, Tony DiNozzo and things connected will help a bit. Fingers crossed!

Peace... Out