NCIS- "Chained"

[ealgylden]

You ever watch an episode of Show BlahBlah and think the entire time, "Wow, this episode is really good! I'm really enjoying this! And the stories it inspires are going to be so baaaaad!"? Good NCIS tonight, but oh, how I fear for the future. So much of the fic for this show is unfortunate enough as it is. And with this episode... fingers of dread running up and down my spine. Flee the fangirls, Tony, flee!

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[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

It was a good episode, but... yeah. It was just loosely enough constructed and had just enough missing scenes and just enough meaningful pauses that it was practically cooing "Write fiiiic...." I mean, it would be a godsend to a good writer. But not a lot of good writers have tried their hand at NCIS fic. There are a few good stories, but there's mostly an abundance of mega-h/c, cuddly OOC mush, lack of humor (the show is funny, guys! Come on!), weird nicknames- which doesn't even touch the issue of what Tony would call Gibbs. Jethro? Really hard to picture. Leroy? No one calls him Leroy. "Jet" or "Jeth"? The heck?- tears, lots of tears... it ain't pretty. And I'm sure there's Kate/Tony out there. But I haven't gone looking either. I like my eyes, and I'd hate to have to gouge them out. ;)