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From the NCIS FAQ on becoming a Special Agent:
Is U.S. citizenship a requirement for the special agent position?
Yes. Applicants must possess a US-born or naturalized citizenship. Permanent residents are not eligible to apply for a special agent position.
http://www.ncis.navy.mil/join/becoming.asp
From the NCIS FAQ on becoming a Special Agent:
Is U.S. citizenship a requirement for the special agent position?
Yes. Applicants must possess a US-born or naturalized citizenship. Permanent residents are not eligible to apply for a special agent position.
http://www.ncis.navy.mil/join/becoming.asp
w.w.w.
Oh, god. Terrible thought- what if she needs to be married to get her citizenship?
Blasphemy. Or let McGee do it. He'd be more convincing to the people who investigate those types of marriages.
*headdesk*
Too bad I don't write femslash, the D/s potential would be amazing
Then Gibbs grabs Tony to save him from the stupid.
Abby goes for Ducky because didn't she say she liked older guys once...
And poor 'ittle ninja!Ziva is left running home to father never to be heard from again. The End.
Yeah. Right.
I don't know. This might be it for me. I'm not sure I can tolerate this if they're also sucking Gibbs into the stupid zone. He should have never taken the paper from her. He should have asked, "Are you an American citizen?" When she answered "No", he should have replied, "I thought you were enough of an investigator to have looked up that information BEFORE YOU BOTHERED ME WITH THIS! I can see I was wrong. Have a good flight back to Israel."
The way it should have been... And Tony walking up in the background, "Even I knew that Zeee-vah."
But I could just hear Gibbs starting at his most reasonable tone and ending up in a desk-thumping angry yell, only to drop back down to reasonable as he told her not to let the door whack her in the ass on the way out.
I hope the writers don't think we are stupid enough not to notice her non citizenship status
Or they explain it as one of the many, many things that she hasn't been telling Gibbs because it was part of her super-secret Mossad mission?
I think I could accept something like that more than them just pretending the problem doesn't exist - merely annoying, rather than actually insulting the viewers' intelligence.
I thought it was quite a blah episode. I didn't understand half of it - when did NCIS eps require THIS much explanatory exposition at the end? Did they start hiring JK Rowling to write them? Last week's was convoluted, and so was this week's. And both required the characters to explain the plot to us because it was too complicated to follow as we went along.
Tony looked like he was veering back towards idiot territory too although not as bad as S6.
I long for plots like "High Seas" and "Mind Games". Interesting AND easy to follow. I like twists and turns, but not ones the characters have to explain to me at the end.
Did we ever find out why Gibbs had the baseball bat at the beginning? I like to think it was to threaten his agents with when they start being annoying *g*.
The thing about complex plots is you've got to focus on them and keep the viewer engaged. This one wasn't all that complex. It was just *very* contrived and clumsy and mostly ignored. I really didn't get the feeling the actors gave a shit about the episode. The writers certainly didn't. Even the direction was uninspired. It just plodded from one set of talking heads to another. The thing in the impound lot was... not nearly as good as it should have been.
The writers need to be locked in a room with S1, S2 and S3 dvds and forced to watch them all, back to back, before they're allowed to write another episode.
Edited 2009-10-07 07:47 am (UTC)
You're right about the writing and direction. It all felt like "Plot - blah blah blah". "Zany Abby - blah". "Ziva angst - blah blah blah". "Silly Tony - blah blah". "DOGS! Blah!". "Worried polygraph Tim blah". "Gibbs pissing contest scene 101 blah" "Plot again! Lots of it. Tony and Tim can explain it to the audience. Blah." The End (Blah).
Now having said that and been all reasonable.......
Ziva threatened to show the guy at Immigration what she can do with a paperclip ;-)
We deal with government contracts to military bases through work and one of the contracts is for vehicle registration and we can't get anyone without US citizenship for even that... Ziva never even would have made it to submitting her resume with us, because once they check 'no' on that box on the pre-questionnaire, they get no further.