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MONDAY MORSELS

The only thing I have missed about not having cable television so far is not having to see NCIS reruns on the big screen TV. LOL ...but I can go out online and watch them during the day...oh heck, so, guess what?... Bud and I bought season 8 of all their programs. And we'll continue to look for and get all of the season packages that have ZIVA in them. The women agents/director before Ziva arrived on the cast of characters left a lot to be desired if you want my opinion. They were just more or less 'show case' characters... Neither one of us liked the character Caitlin Todd ---for being an ex-presidential secret service agent, she was really very naive [I know if I were president, I wouldn't have wanted her on my team of protectors]. If you don't agree, just pay more attention to her lines in any of the scripts---"Tony, what is wrong with you?" or MOTORCYCLE RIDER "My bike was stolen, you gotta help me." AGENT CAITLIN TODD "Who stole it?" or AGENT CAITLIN TODD "Look, don't dismiss me like that! Okay? I earned my jockstrap!" AGENT LEROY JETHRO GIBBS "Yeah? Does it ever give that empty feeling?" AGENT CAITLIN TODD "What?" AGENT LEROY JETHRO GIBBS "Your jockstrap." AGENT CAITLIN TODD "No. Like some species of frogs, I grow what I need." --stuff like that.. Ziva, on the other hand, is much more a believable agent. Tough, yet feminine...multilingual, etc. etc., not just a token female cast member...and when she comes across that she doesn't understand, it is more than likely a language barrier. [I loved the episode where Gibbs tells them that Ziva is the weapon!!...that she is] For instance: OFFICER ZIVA DAVID: [picks up a paperclip] "I will kill you 18 different ways with THIS paperclip!" or OFFICER ZIVA DAVID: [Referring to DiNozzo] "Officer Hadar will not harm him. Only two people have the authority to do that." NCIS Director LEON VANCE: "Your father's one. Second?" OFFICER ZIVA DAVID: "Me." And when it comes to the directors....I like Director Vance much better than Jenny Shepherd. At least he acts like a director; Shepherd was more or less given the character of Jethro's ex partner/lover... Blah, blah, blah. This is a suspense drama, not some soap opera flick.

Also, if you're obsessed with NCIS as I am, you may be interested in the characters and how they looked before [when much younger]. CLICK HERE [they don't have McProbie tho for some reason] When I first took a glance at the younger images of the cast, my memory of another comedian [from the mid 1980s] came about....Jim J Bullock. And I had to look for an image for comparison of Tony and Jim J. Do you agree with me that they resemble each other somewhat? Well, maybe a little bit. Then again, on second glance, maybe not. LOL ---



cropped images of Jim J and "Tony" courtesy of Yah00 and H0llyw00d Squares - no infringement intended.


PS...It started raining about 1 a.m. Sunday Morning and kept raining [hard and heavy at times] until about 8 a.m.!!! Yay...I wish it would stay in this weather pattern for about a month. Nice, saturating winter rains and high temperatures back to the normal 60s instead of what it was this past week [tho I liked it] ---in the high 70s to mid 80s.