The Ziva that was devastated in Bury your Dead when Tony’s car blew up, who risked death or injury from shrapnal to protect,Tony from the bomb when he couldn’t hear her warning. The woman Tony loved to challenge and push, with whom he gave as good as he got. Two emotionally damaged fragile folks who had their own way of dealing with emotions Gibbs Rules and life’s tragedies kept forcing them to supress. The Ziva that told Tony he was loved. The Ziva who, I have no doubt would have taken a bullet for him. The Ziva who thought she too damaged to deserve being loved by him, damaged by what happened with Ari, and no doubt still dealing with Somalia in her own way. No, they are not conventional, easy, straighforward.

That is what is so compelling.

Although GIbbs is not my favorite, I take every single Gibbs-centric finale or episode over Ziva or Tiva. You have already watched the last episode since you seem to know for sure that Tony will be her hero again.

We are talking about the Ziva who said that she needs a shower after talking to him? The Ziva who punched and abused an injured Tony and wanted him dead? The Ziva that went behind his back all the time? The Ziva that send him away in Israel? Yep, she loved him for sure *sarcasm*. If her behavior torwards him though the years means romantical feelings to you then the two of us have a different view at romance and love fo sure. Goodbye.

Tony was a hero for Ziva, and he will be again. He was her rock, her supportive sentry, her best friend. They both teased and challenged each other, as two emotionally dysfunctional adults who both hid behind their respective masks and needed to get to know the person behind it.. He planned the mission to Somalia, now he’ll be her hero again, it seems. The push pull writing was aggravated by two factors: the SRs being too chicken s**t of the so called Moonlighting Curse, so they wanted the draw of Tiva without committing TOO much, so they’d keep dropping seasonal sabotage to slow things down. I will be polite and not talk about the other reason, but there is a reason the last NON Gibbs-centric finale was under the old regime, IMHO.

He was nothing but a doormat with Ziva around and when she wasn’t there anymore, the writers forgot to write Tony as Tony and not as the T in tiva.