#and also it looooves praising cops and idolizing the maverick mentality and villifying defense lawyers

[zannolin]

(re-ish)watching ncis in 2023 is like came for the murder and crime solving, stayed for the absolutely unhinged tiva plotline

#zanna talks #ncis you beautiful mess of a show #like yeah it's blatantly nationalistic and Very post9/11 and us military propaganda #it likes to be misogynistic and xenophobic and try to play it as a joke #sometimes gibbs will do things that make me feel ill #and also it looooves praising cops and idolizing the maverick mentality and villifying defense lawyers #um point being it's got a lot of flaws and if i hadn't associated it with childhood nostalgia i'm not sure i could have made it far enough #in my rewatch to hit the point where it actually feels worth it past being a good distraction when i feel bad #like the point where you watch tony really start to grow and the plotlines get better and the relationships deepen etc #but man when it hits it hits #wild to watch it as an adult and realize actually the tiva stuff was there all along with effort put in and it wasnt just me making it up #75% of the time theyre just sniping at each other and being annoying coworkers but sometimes they give u a glimpse #not just of how good thye are as a dynamic but just the mcrt in general? #tony burning the letter from jeanne and trying to let go after realizing his team is like his family?? #them being the ones to get ziva out of somalia and not her shitty bio dad and sticking up for her when she wants out??? #them always believing in each other when they get framed ?? thanksgiving together?? #coworkers as family is highly unrealistic in this day and age and maybe just in general but im willing to allow it bc man. they care. #sorry this got. away from me. what was i even talking about #ncis