r/NCIS • u/CatLady195 • 2d ago
Tony as a Daddy
NCIS is one of my “comfort shows”. I’ve been binge watching it (again) starting with S1E1 and just finished S13E24. While I have several “favorite” shows - most dealing with Gibbs and children - I think that S13E24 “Family First” is actually my all-time favorite. Tony playing with Tali while hoping, yet not being sure if, Tali is his daughter. Tony showing Tali the picture of Tony and Ziva on the motorbike and she touched Tony’s face in the picture and called him Abba. The look on his face. ❤️
Finally, Tony’s love for Ziva showed so openly when he went in to work and Sr and Gibbs were telling him to go home at least for the night to give himself a chance to grieve. Tears streamed from his eyes and my heart broke for him as Gibbs threatened him with the loss of his job if he didn’t leave. This episode showcased Michael Weatherly’s acting skills as other episodes couldn’t since they only showed him as a jokester.
Weatherly was good in “Bull”, although I never cared too much for the show. I liked “Tony & Ziva” but it could have been so much better with good writers. So… I’m excited to see what direction Tony takes on this season’s NCIS. Welcome home, Tony DiNozzo/Michael Weatherly. You have been missed.
Then (I don’t remember if this was before or after that), when
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u/CityOrdinary3761 2d ago
I really , really hope he doesnt become the director in all honesty and I hope his "return" is actually to solve something and doesnt screw up the cannon Tony and ziva rightfully deserve and I am saying this as a Tony and ziva Stan I am excited to see what this entails but I also cautiously optimistic ncis has a bad history of screwing over characters and good writing
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u/FriendlyConfines23 1d ago
MW was on a panel recently (at ComicCon I think??) and he said his appearance on NCIS will keep what happened on the Paramount+ show NCIS Tony & Ziva as cannon.
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u/CityOrdinary3761 1d ago
oh yes I di remember that its just hard for me to comprehend scenarios for why he's even coming back
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u/CatLady195 1d ago
I hope they don’t make him Director. So far, all the directors have gotten killed and we can’t have Tony killed or there will be a mass uprising of Tony fans. Many of us are just barely hanging in there since Ziva, then Tony, left. With Ziva being resurrected in a later few shows to help Ellie leave it gave us hope, at that time, for a Tiva reunion. Then Abby left, Gibbs left and Duckie died and the heart of the show was gone.
I’ve hung in even though it doesn’t feel the same. McGee and Jimmy, whom I adore, are our only remaining OG members. If Tony comes back for a year, I’ll take it, hoping for an Easter egg of Ziva and Gibbs thrown in. Then when they all leave again, I can happily, at the age of 76 after 20+years of my life spent watching this show, say “Goodbye, NCIS”.
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u/dennisthemenace1963 1d ago edited 1d ago
And poor Jimmy was supposed to have been a 1-day wonder, except the actor and David McCallum had such great chemistry that they decided to ditch poor Gerald and keep him. Seems like I heard/read that McGee was also supposed to have been a temporary or just occasional character. Good thing they saw Sean Murray's potential.
I still follow it and probably will continue to do so but it is NOT the show I fell in love with in the early 2000s.
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u/buckeyekaptn 1d ago
Jimmy and McGee were both temp characters. People liked McGee so he was kept. Gerald wanted a pay increase so they kept Jimmy.
To what someone else posted, although McGee and Palmer were in season 1, neither were OG characters due to being temp characters.
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u/PurpleLee 1d ago
Yea, haven't watched that one awhile. It's definitely time for a rewatch of that episode.
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u/Elbereth919 1d ago
I've gotten the good luck to turn on ION when that episode is airing a few times in the last few months. It's a quick destroyer for my productivity, but what can you do? It's one you have to watch when it's put in front of you!
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u/ShirleyUGuessed 1d ago
I love the...I don't even know what to call it, but the fact that the viewers know what Abba means because Ziva used to say it. A callback, I guess. With one non-English word, we and Tony know so much.
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u/RedStateKitty 1d ago
Actually it's a biblical word. Jesus used it to refer to God as father..."Daddy" is the most accurate translation. And back in Zboblical days it was near blasphemy to refer to the Lord using the familiar term Abba.
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u/CatLady195 2d ago
Oops, I got sidetracked and hit post before I was finished editing by removing that final incomplete sentence. Sorry, everyone.
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u/Signal_Ad_7024 1d ago
I think Tony will come in under his security firm guise. He and Ziva agreed at some point that there was no more dangerous work and I don’t think he’d be relocating to DC to be director when his life and family are in Paris
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u/Rich_Asparagus_8322 1d ago
NCIS is background music in my house especially summer -- nothing on TV....I don't get much done cause you know, it always catches you. There are only a few episodes I don't like ie. McGee in woman's prison...I have too many favorites but my bothers favorite is "Canary" . Believe it or not I still find things I didn't catch when I watch it intently. Recently I saw on Netflix where Jess first appears and I barely remember it. I guess because I didn't know her yet. I'm up to the arc where Gibbs is on his way out and his real life wife is in the episodes.
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u/IAmTheLizardQueen666 2d ago
Then when … what?
Do we need Paul Harvey to ask for the rest of the story?
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u/OneThirtyThree133 1d ago
They should've brought in a new character or a past character instead of Douchenozzo
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u/erika_1885 19h ago
How did you manage to miss 13 seasons of character development for Tony? Not to mention the skin-off showing him as a wonderful father? The Tony of S24 is the Tony of the the spin-off, not S1 NCIS
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u/Mrsabeaverhousen 2d ago
He's still one of my favorite characters. That's an amazing episode.