{"id":3839,"date":"2009-05-22T05:30:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T21:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2018-03-14T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T03:28:54","slug":"ncis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/05\/22\/ncis\/","title":{"rendered":"NCIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blog-ncis-01\" NCIS<\/a> (2003+)<\/em>. In between the episodes of The Tudors<\/em>, another series I\u2019ve started watching on DVD rental is NCIS<\/em>, short for Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The series is based on the investigative cases by a fictitious team of special agents from the real-world naval agency.<\/p>\n

I got into this series cold-turkey. The series\u2019 lead star, Mark Harmon, had a guest appearance in The West Wing <\/em>as a Presidential Secret Service agent assigned to protect C.J. Cregg, the series\u2019 White House Press Secretary. His guest role in The West Wing <\/em>spanned just four episodes though \u2013 his character is tragically killed while attempting to stop a convenience store robbery \u2013 but left me with a deep enough impression to search for a series where he shows up as a lead.<\/p>\n

The NCIS<\/em> series is a little different from the usual law enforcement shows on account that it\u2019s not really about law enforcement but about investigation of criminal cases. There\u2019s rarely violence, gun battles, explosions and car chases. Rather, the team of agents, headed by Jethro Gibbs (Harmon\u2019s character), spend each episode\u2019s running length gathering clues, analyzing evidence, talking to witnesses and suspects, with each case reaching its conclusion at the episode\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Harmon\u2019s Gibbs is terrifically fun to watch. He\u2019s all business when it comes to investigative work, but displays also cynical and dry wit. His small team of special agents all come with their own eccentricities but are all nonetheless likable. There\u2019s one, Anthony DiNozzo, who thinks he\u2019s God\u2019s Gift to Women but really is a womanizer-lite. His spoil is fellow agent Caitlin Todd, an ex-Secret Service agent. The pair is fun to watch as DiNozzo constantly tries to bait Todd with innuendos.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a pair of agents who handle the forensic and scientific backend of cases: a Abby Sciuto who\u2019s the techno-whiz-girl but dresses up in pig tails, tattoos and likes all things Gothic, and the fatherly “Ducky” Mallard, a medial examiner who talks to dead corpses and rambles to the living, especially Gibbs LOL.<\/p>\n

NCIS <\/em>as a series has been running for six seasons now, and according to the series\u2019 Wiki entry, the team of agents has stayed relatively the same throughout the years with just one or two personnel changes.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t got very far into the series yet though \u2013 just perhaps half of the episodes in the first season \u2013 but I really like what I\u2019m watching.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NCIS (2003+). In between the episodes of The Tudors, another series I\u2019ve started watching on DVD rental is NCIS, short for Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The series is based on the investigative cases by a fictitious team of special agents<\/p>\n

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