‘NCIS’ season 12, episode 21 preview: Tony’s jealousy; tension between Gibbs, Bishop
Of course, we’re all about this story, mostly because anytime you can give Michael Weatherly and Sean Murray a chance to build on more than a decade of chemistry-building, we’re bound to enjoy it. Plus, Weatherly plays comedy extremely well, and we’ve always thought that whenever this show does end (let’s hope not anytime in the near future), he could get a pretty wide array of comedic work.
Hopefully, you are going to get your fill of comedy in this story, because things are going to be taking a turn for the serious elsewhere during this episode. Specifically, there will be a hefty amount of tension between Gibbs and Bishop as he starts to push her beyond her comfort zone while working in Afghanistan.
This is a very important story for Bishop’s character development, given that so far she has tried to almost shape her own role in the organization rather than be pushed into one. This is Gibbs giving her the same tough-love treatment that he is known for, throwing her into the deep end. He’ll help her stay afloat, but she is going to have to do a ton of the swimming.
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Dido Twite
April 14, 2015 @ 2:41 pm
Bishop hasn’t shaped jack., She has no role on the team. She was given a lobotomy, does no analysis, and even though Gibbs promised to get tough, he coddled her as much as ever. I was not aware that Gibbs’ new training method is to treat an agent like a helpless child, give no training, then take them to a war zone. This isn’t tough love, this is a bad boss. I’m sure she will magically get out of it, everyone will praise her for the little she does, and Gibbs will gaze proudly. But when they get home, nothing will change. She will still be a weak little girl who cares more about gossip than doing her job.
sadtonyfan
April 14, 2015 @ 12:36 am
Get your facts straight. McGee won’t be replacing Tony, he’ll be replacing Gibbs. In an almost identical humiliate Tony B plot in season 8, Tony was destined to be the face on a recruitment brochure only to be replaced by Gibbs. The joke was of course how stupid and disappointed the whole thing made Tony look. As a Tony fan, it was humiliating and this sounds like the same unflattering “joke.” No thanks. The rage of tptb to make Gibbs and McGee look valuable and Tony look like a buffoon is handled with all the subtlety of a sledge hammer. Oh well, the McGee and Gibbs are awesome and Tony is an idiot writing continues. Mission accomplished.
Dido Twite
April 14, 2015 @ 2:42 pm
Agreed, this is clearly going to be another humiliate Tony episode.
liz laughlin
April 14, 2015 @ 7:39 pm
The question is “why?” The only two answers that I can see are defending Cote de Pablo and the Sarah Silverman video. Except for TPTB getting torqued.out of shape over one or both of those, what other reason can they have? Why pay him big $ when he could now be replaced with a potted plant or Bozo the clown? The only answer to that is that the fans like him and they are already bleeding viewers. The average viewership is still below season 6— 2.51 (18-49 demo) and 17.70 mil average. (Those numbers would be to die for for any other show but not for this show.) My guess is that if they got rid of MW entirely thy could drop another million viewers very quickly .
My mom used to call this cutting off your nose to spite your face–punishing someone in a way that causes more damage to you than the one being punished.
For anyone who is a JAG fan, TV Guide has a great article written in 2005 explaining what caused that show to be cut when they still averaged about 10 million viewers. It’s still available on the net. Search for JAG’s Star:Why…
Lorraine64
April 14, 2015 @ 3:39 pm
My thoughts exactly! :-(