The Wonderfulness that is NCIS

Tonight, my friends, is the NCIS finale.

I’m going to take this opportunity to enlighten you on the awesomeness that is NCIS.

[Plot isn’t entirely predictable]

Like any crime show on TV, after you’ve watched enough episodes, you kind of get the gist of the formula the show uses. While NCIS has a loose formula—you generally know the first suspect they accuse isn’t the real one—the show is pretty hard to guess.  There’s usually a big twist you didn’t see coming, and the show does a good job of explaining the twist too. 

They also have a good mix of crime-solving and character building. Some shows have episodes of all one or the other, but with NCIS if the episode involves character building, it is always built through solving a crime.

[Mix of drama and comedy]

While it has its fair share of fast-paced action and suspense, one of the great things about NCIS is that it still has humor.  It’s not just silly catchphrases placed here and there either; the characters all have very developed personalities (see below) and thus joke around with each other.  Another thing: the characters are all normal people.  They make normal goofs and mistakes, which are usually funny. Now, this is still a drama crime show, so don’t expect to be cracking up.  It just has a little more humor in it than a lot of other shows in the genre.

[Characters]

Definitely my favorite aspect of the show are the characters. My favs:

Gibbs

Gibbs is the father figure of the team, who will never admit how much he cares about the other agents (…which is a lot).  He goes by his gut, has a list of rules he lives by (Rule #22: Never, ever bother Gibbs in Interrogation), and has a troubled past which has recently come back to haunt him, particularly in this season’s finale. I <3 Gibbs.

Ducky

Ducky (aka Dr. Mallard) always intersperses trivia facts throughout everything he has to say. For example, last night I learned where the term “red herring” came from from him (if you’re interested…British hunters used to drag dead red herrings along fox trails when training their hounds to disregard false scents). He’s the loving medical examiner who likes to have one-sided conversations with the dead people he is cutting open.

DiNozzo

Om nom nom. Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo. Commonly refers to himself as Very Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo. And for this I love him.  He is a movie aficionado and is one of the funniest characters on the show. He’s also damn good looking (although I recently found out he’s 41…sad face!! He doesn’t look it…) Love him long time. Maybe because he looks like C. Pine…

 Om nom nom.

Watch the finale on CBS tonight at 8pm!

For the comments: Do you watch NCIS? If so, what’s your favorite thing about it? If not, what’s your favorite show?