Consider the error of my ways corrected.
Thank you, twcks, thank you all.
Shrug. I like it and don’t feel a need to analyze why.
Yeah, if I am talking about it among friends I freely admit that it’s the “guilty pleasure” among my TV watching. But you know what? It’s a solid B+ worth of enjoyment every single week. It will never hold the place in my heart that the Best of TV will, but I know that every single week when I pull NCIS off of my DVR (or, recently, when I get home and turn on USA for something to have on while I’m cooking dinner) it’s going to be consistently light and enjoyable.
Also bear in mind, while complaining about the comic bookishness of this show, that it is the spinoff of a show about a fighter pilot who, after after crashing on a carrier deck at night due to Night Blindness, uses his Top Gun skills in the courtroom as an attorney for the Judge Advocate Corps. This was a show that involved plots like the theft of the US Constitution, a supervillain spy/assassin, a long-lost POW/MIA dad from Vietnam, recently-discovered brother who is a pilot for the Russian Air Force, identical not-twins (Mac and Harm’s late ex-girlfriend), and psychics.
Oh, and then there were some of the weird plots. Really, just roll with it and enjoy the action sequences, and see if Gibbs ever opens fire with a submachine gun in a courtroom.
Man, I love NCIS. I don’t know why. Abby is completely unrealistic – but she’s my favorite character on the show.
Hilarious!
Thank you, Raquleader.
Got Season 1-3 on DVD and expect to collect all that are available. Yes the characters are exaggerated but for some reason none of them annoy me.
I find David Caruso’s character in CSI Miami to be so bizarre that I can’t tell if he’s just acting poorly or if he’s trying to put on some kind of a comedic undertone. (Why does he have to shuffle to a stance that is a 45 degree pivot when talking to a bad guy? Why does his head tilt at a 45 degree angle every time he’s talking to a pretty woman?)
I can’t even watch Criminal Minds. There is not one character on that show that does not irritate the hell out of me from the computer geek girl I call “Not Abby” to the 30 year old teenage skinny geek every one of them continues to say the stupidest or blatantly obvious lines. The writers must be binge drinkers
Abby Sciuto’s employee assessment file
That’s why I love her.
Ther New York Times has an article today on the popularity/ratings increase-ivity
of NCIS.
While no one was looking, a six-year-old television series that lands on few magazine covers, enjoys almost no love from critics and never gets a sniff of a nomination for prestigious awards is suddenly the hottest show on the air.
It also talks about the querky team, the camaraderie, the humor, etc., everything covered rather well here.
If you can get it online it’s at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/arts/television/17ncis.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=No mystery: ratungs heat up for ‘NCIS’&st=cse
If you can’t. I’m sure other Dopers can amplify and excerpt much better than I can.
THANK you! I was trying to remember the show with the character who seems like a total third-rate rip-off of Abby. “Was it CSI? No … CSI New York? CSI Miami? No … Bones? No … dang it, what was that show?” And that was it. The computer chick on Criminal Minds makes me want to reach into the TV and find the person who came up with her character and smack them around for a bit while yelling “HOW DARE YOU!!?!?!? HOW DARE YOU TURN ABBY INTO THIS?!?!?!??!”
Dude, whoever wrote that bio is totally old. 
She’s in her late 20s, yet was arrested for indecent exposure at a Stones concert in 1990? The oldest she could’ve been in '90 is… 11. I don’t think that works.
And the actress is 39!
I don’t have time to watch much TV anymore, but NCIS is one of the shows I’ll make time to watch. Mark Harmon is pretty easy on the eyes, too.
NCIS and CSI: New York are pretty much all I watch these days. I lost interest in CSI: Vegas, and never got into CSI: Miami. The New York version is pretty good, IMO.
How can you not love a show where someone can ask what Dr. Mallard looked like when he was young and the answer is, “Ilya Kuryakin”?
I’m apparently of a certain age. Harmon was sexiest man alive for good reason, even with that really awful haircut.
I don’t remember that her parents were deaf. Did it come up somewhere?
The plots are kind of incidental to the show. Sure, there’s a dead or guilty sailor or something happens on a base or whatever. But I’m watching to see the cast interact.
But, but Abby! & McGee! & Ziva!
Oh, whatever, it’s wasted on you.
I don’t watch it all the time, so I haven’t burnt out on it.
But, Abby!
Also, what Loach said, pretty much.
It’s most unlikely that you folks are unaware of it, but subscribers can Watch Instantly, the first 6 seasons of NCIS at Netflix:
:smack: I KNEW he looked familiar, but I couldn’t place him (I never saw the one that actually contained that gag)…
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!
The assessment is from 2004. She’d’ve been 15.