Okay, they want to blame her for any shortcomings in season 11, because she “left them in the lurch.” Let’s play the game. and say that she screwed up season 11. What is the excuse now? She has been gone for over a year. Season 12 is gettimg viewership numbers on a par with season 6. Is she responsible for lackluster scripts and other changes made to the show? Hmmm…. She is one powerful lady. According to the Cote haters, the show is far better now without her. How come the viewership numbers have not soared through the roof? It’s so good now why are they not at 25 or 30 million?

The show itself changed after Cote left. MW given less to do, core premise of Team as Family mostly abandoned, No zip in character interactions, Bishop is as interesting as white chalk, Delilah paralyzed and sent away, everything is Gibbs, Gibbs and more Gibbs. Tony cant be his smart SFA self unless Gibbs is nowhere around GibbsCentric season enders almost every years since ToC! Cote leaving seems to have been the catalyst for a whole lot of other unwelcome changes. So yeah, many of us don’t like the show now. It is not the same show, not the same energy, not the same PAH. Maybe her and Michaels great interactions had been distracting us from the lax writing for some time. But now, the slide in quality and entertainment value is glaringly obvious.

I don’t know that I would say that Lightworkers Media is more powerful than CBS. I think that is a huge stretch. Roma Downey wanted Cote for the Dovekeepers. The mini series gave her an opportunity to be valued and show that she could play other roles.

Mark Harmon is highly valued at CBS. I can’t even imagine what he makes per year. If I ventured a guess, I’d say unpwards of 25 mil. He has the lead in NCIS and NOLA is his baby. Remember he was the one who got Bellisario fired off his own show. It is my understanding that Bellisario was allowed no input into the creative process of the show after the dust settled. Maybe that was Bellisario’s idea or not. I don’t know. What is sad is that the character Gibbs was Bellisario’s alter ego. Both DP and Gibbs were retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeants. They both had married 4 times and the name Leroy Jethro referred to DP’s father, Albert Jethro Bellisario ( also the name of the Admiral in JAG, Albert Jethro Chegwidden.)

You were obviously never a fan of the show itself. You were a fan of Ziva and since she’s gone, the Ziva show is over and of course you don’t like it. Now go in to your room and cry.

Bishop is god awful. She makes me cringe.

Bishop is wet tissue paper. she’s terrible. what a waste.

Cote is doing fine in her career. More than fine. She hooked up with Burnett/Downey, who are more powerful than Mark Harmon. IMO as part of the team, Ziva was exceptional. I see you are obsessed with the one scene in Aliyah, as are all of the crazy Ziva haters. You can talk to Jesse Stern (the writer) about that scene, he defends it and he defends Ziva very strongly. I don’t put Ziva on a throne. She was human and flawed, jsut as Gibbs is, and that’s why I love her.

News flash. All of the characters have been sacrificed to make Bishop look good. They have all become stupid old men. If you prefer this to how it was before, more power to you, I guess. I want the old characters back.

They always have a backup plan, every year, because actors’ contracts are up every year. Jesse Stern tweeted about having alternative scripts in past seasons in case actors’ contracts did not work out. It’s normal. they didn’t do it. They didn’t do their job. Then they blamed it on Cote.

Sasha broke her contract with no notice. Cote didn’t renew her contract, after months of notice. Who committed the crime? as for the rumors, that’s just gossip garbage. Those rumors about Cote throwing herself at Michael were spread by the few sickos who hate Ziva so much, they hate Cote by extension, and spread any rumors they can think of to try to defame her.