# How can anyone enjoy NCIS **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952 "2008-11-16T03:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952/41 "2008-11-18T16:33:41Z")
> [@BarnOwl](#): > > Aha! Killing the guard was the purpose of this elaborately planned robbery. You see, the guard’s son fucked the robbers over after a previous job, and the son would now come out of hiding to attend the funeral, at which time the bad guys would kidnap him. So, did they ever reveal why the hell the criminals burned the money instead of, oh, I dunno…_actually robbing the truck_? Incidentally – Garcia, saddled with a Tandy and a 9600 connection, could still outhack Abby any day of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952/42 "2008-11-18T16:44:15Z")
> [@schnuckiputzi](#): > > And when I’m not enjoying my Gibbs eye-candy, as a mother of girls and a teacher of teenage girls, I can rejoice that Abby is a kick-ass scientist:cool: while maintaining her own style and being herself. Girls should have cool geeky role models! KUDOS to CBS for having both Abby and Penelope Garcia, the computer geek of Criminal Minds. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952/43 "2008-11-18T16:47:11Z")
> [@schnuckiputzi](#): > > And when I’m not enjoying my Gibbs eye-candy, as a mother of girls and a teacher of teenage girls, I can rejoice that Abby is a kick-ass scientist:cool: while maintaining her own style and being herself. Girls should have cool geeky role models! Abby does not have “her own style.” :dubious: -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952/44 "2008-11-18T17:06:38Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Abby does not have “her own style.” :dubious: > > -FrL- Blah blah goth is just “trying to look different by looking the same as my friends” blah blah. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952/45 "2008-11-18T17:14:56Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > Blah blah goth is just “trying to look different by looking the same as my friends” blah blah. I’m not sure whether you’re agreeing or disagreeing with the sentiment you thought I was trying to express. But it really is a fact–Abby’s style is not her own. There’s nothing about the way she dresses or decorates that is unique to her or represents a unique combination of elements from others’ styles. She fits directly into a certain contemporary style archetype. I don’t criticize this–I don’t think most people who dress in her style claim to be trying to dress completely differently than anyone else–I just criticize the claim that she has “her own style.” She doesn’t. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952/46 "2008-11-18T17:17:01Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > So, did they ever reveal why the hell the criminals burned the money instead of, oh, I dunno…_actually robbing the truck_? > > Incidentally – Garcia, saddled with a Tandy and a 9600 connection, could still outhack Abby any day of the week. IIRC, the robbers didn’t want the money. The take was a mere 27K and if they waited a day or two they could have scored much much higher when a big truckload of cash would have come rolling in. Also, they had little to no hope of getting off the base with the . Logically :rolleyes: they burned it. The entire caper was set up to kill the guard whose son screwed the gang on a huge diamond heist. He kept the gems (worth many millions, I think), so the plan was to abduct the fucker when he showed up at his dad’s funeral and then get the diamonds back. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952/47 "2008-11-18T17:21:18Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Incidentally – Garcia, saddled with a Tandy and a 9600 connection, could still outhack Abby any day of the week. Abby is a scientist, not a computer geek. Could Garcia outhack McGee? ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952/48 "2008-11-18T17:22:14Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > KUDOS to CBS for having both Abby and Penelope Garcia, the computer geek of Criminal Minds. Amen to that! With television overpopulated with “magazine-cover” female eye-candy, they prove that girls can be smart _and_ sexy–indeed, that smart _is_ sexy. Garcia has been my #1 TV crush since day one, and Abby…well, she’s _Abby_! And, **Frylock** , compared to most of the women in TV dramas, she does indeed have “her own style”. I watch all the CSI’s, Criminal Minds, and NCIS. If their reruns were to be on simultaneously, I would choose to watch NCIS. Reality, hell! I love all the characters, they interact better than just about any crime-show ensemble, and the show’s humor is its saving grace. While I still love all the other shows, some of the plotlines are getting very depressing–Horatio’s wife and kid, Grissom’s breakup with Sara, etc. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having fun watching a crime show, and NCIS delivers, week after week. And if I were a crime investigator, I’d rather work for Leroy Jethro Gibbs than Horatio Caine any day of the week! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952/49 "2008-11-19T09:23:18Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > I don’t remember that her parents were deaf. Did it come up somewhere? Channel 5 in the UK is currently re-showing the first season – episode 3 or 4 shows Gibbs and Abby using sign language, and it’s mentioned then. I don’t remember either of them signing in later seasons – have the writers just forgotten they can? Another thing I noticed is that Pauley’s voice seemed a lot huskier in those days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-anyone-enjoy-ncis/472952.md?page=2)