Yeah TTime. I’ve noticed the decline in good fic – or much fic at all too. And the discussion boards are really slow now as well. I just don’t feel the same love for the show I used to and it ends up upsetting me because I USED to love it so much.
Beardy!Gibbs was a different AU to Baby!Tony. Baby!Tony was the AU where Kate lived. Beardy!Gibbs was the AU where Gibbs didn’t shoot Hernandez. Kate still had a baby but Tony didn’t seem to be around anymore – nobody mentions him and he seems to be either dead or never in Gibbs’s life in the first place. And I think Tony’s baby was a boy but the second one in the beardy!Gibbs reality was a girl. But see – that’s what’s so confusing. I didn’t get that either on first viewing and someone else had to tell me. And you didn’t get it. It was a muddle – so confusing.
Ditto the stuff with Gibbs’s mom which I think I MIGHT have found touching if I knew what the hell the back story there was. See – you think she was ill and the ‘left’ was dying and maybe it WAS but it could have been something else too – if Gibbs meant she’d ‘died’ on them he should have bloody well said so! It was all so cryptic and ambiguous and while I don’t mind that NCIS leaves SOME stuff open, it’s gone too far now and is just unsatisfying.
Sigh
And yes re Tim – the dog, his novel, SOMETHING other than fading utterly into the background all the time even when he gets a wodge of story. I mean, this thing could have been a big deal for him but to stick it in a heavy Gibbs-centric episode meant it got utterly swallowed up. Even Abby didn’t have a reaction to the news he’d been offered the job! And Gibbs didn’t either!
As for fanfic, I’m fairly sure I won’t write any more NCIS – but on the plus side I have started something else – she said mysteriously! Too soon to tell how (or if!) it’ll pan out though!
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