Not My Usual Blog Post
I try not to get into ranting about about 'trivial' things like TV shows, movies, and the like. I tell myself that it isn't real, there's no reason to get so upset, etc. Most of the time that thinking works. This time it didn't.
Mind you, I've had a week to cool down. I wanted to go on a tirade within hours of this show's episode but I restrained myself to give my thoughts a chance to sort themselves. I'm still ticked. The show I'm referring to would be NCIS. If you are a fan and haven't watched last week's episode yet, STOP reading now.
This is a rant.
They killed Ziva!! How could they kill Ziva? The nerve! The audacity! The "I can't believe you just did that... you have got to be freaking kidding me!"
Let me explain. I know not everyone liked Ziva, some fans probably wished her dead more than once. However, when Cote de Pablo left NCIS. three years ago, I had believed her character had avoided the fate of almost every important and semi-important female character on the show. Namely, Ziva had left, psychically battered... but alive. I celebrated that exit.
Alas, Ziva's ultimate fate was finally revealed last week when she joined the likes of Kate Todd, Jenny Shepard, and Diane Sterling among others. You see, female characters tend to end up dead a lot on this show.
I really don't know why. I don't understand why every major female character dies - violently no less.
It didn't used to bother me. At first I shrugged it off, thought I was overreacting. The fictional female body count kept rising though. Yes, male characters died too, but with the exception of Mike Franks, or now Tom Morrow, those male characters were cut-outs.
And now, it has started to irk me. Ziva (and DiNozzo) could have had a simple non-violent ending. They could have left Ziva's character alone, but instead they had to kill her. Why? So they could say they left no major female character alive?
DiNozzo better take that daughter of theirs and run far away. Bishop and Abby better watch out. Other than Fornell's daughter, they are the only major female characters left in the show. And if history continues to repeat itself, neither character will get a happy ever after.
Mind you, I've had a week to cool down. I wanted to go on a tirade within hours of this show's episode but I restrained myself to give my thoughts a chance to sort themselves. I'm still ticked. The show I'm referring to would be NCIS. If you are a fan and haven't watched last week's episode yet, STOP reading now.
This is a rant.
They killed Ziva!! How could they kill Ziva? The nerve! The audacity! The "I can't believe you just did that... you have got to be freaking kidding me!"
Let me explain. I know not everyone liked Ziva, some fans probably wished her dead more than once. However, when Cote de Pablo left NCIS. three years ago, I had believed her character had avoided the fate of almost every important and semi-important female character on the show. Namely, Ziva had left, psychically battered... but alive. I celebrated that exit.
Alas, Ziva's ultimate fate was finally revealed last week when she joined the likes of Kate Todd, Jenny Shepard, and Diane Sterling among others. You see, female characters tend to end up dead a lot on this show.
I really don't know why. I don't understand why every major female character dies - violently no less.
It didn't used to bother me. At first I shrugged it off, thought I was overreacting. The fictional female body count kept rising though. Yes, male characters died too, but with the exception of Mike Franks, or now Tom Morrow, those male characters were cut-outs.
And now, it has started to irk me. Ziva (and DiNozzo) could have had a simple non-violent ending. They could have left Ziva's character alone, but instead they had to kill her. Why? So they could say they left no major female character alive?
DiNozzo better take that daughter of theirs and run far away. Bishop and Abby better watch out. Other than Fornell's daughter, they are the only major female characters left in the show. And if history continues to repeat itself, neither character will get a happy ever after.
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