It was like they veered from having Gibbs slap everyone, to Gibbs slap no one – which didn’t work either, the head slap is essential to the Gibbs/Tony dynamic.
I have to disagree on the Tim front though. I’ve aways viewed Gibbs giving him a headslap as very inclusive. It was always a ‘wake up, you’re not at school anymore, you’re playing for keeps’ sort of thing. It did leave a bit of a whipped puppy look on his face – the same one that occurs when he headslaps himself, but that’s been fading and he’s been taking the headslaps a lot better in the last few seasons – a bit of character developement that makes sence to me.
I also find it very funny when Tony and Tim are bickering like brothers and Gibbs comes along and headslaps them both back into work mode (it also gives my muse some very kinky threesome ideas, but we won’t go there).
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