Good points! I've thought for a long time that Gibbs used Tony as a sort of litmus test on the other agents.
If Kate, McGee, and Ziva could survive Tony then it somehow made them better agents and if they can survive the frat boy and the Marine then they're the best team in NCIS.
Gibbs has also used Kate and co. to fire up Tony's competitive streak. He and Kate ofter vied for Gibbs' attention by having information he needed or ideas about their cases.
Same for McGee and Ziva though I think as shy as McGee is, he's more confident in his tech smarts, and Ziva is confindent with her profiling and fighting skills.
Loved the first season where Gibbs mentions that he'll have to learn how to work his PDA from Tony who learned from McGee and how backward that is.
But later Gibbs is a little more proficeint with his PDA(only a little since they end up replacing his phone or pda a lot)so Tony must have taught him a few things.
So yeah Tony acts goofy, plays jokes, maybe makes the serious times a little easier to take and Gibbs observes how others react.
Gibbs does the same with suspects. Send in the agent that seems all goofy and busy leering at women and then bam! a question or two and the suspect is in handcuffs.
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on 2009-01-28 09:20 pm (UTC)If Kate, McGee, and Ziva could survive Tony then it somehow made them better agents and if they can survive the frat boy and the Marine then they're the best team in NCIS.
Gibbs has also used Kate and co. to fire up Tony's competitive streak. He and Kate ofter vied for Gibbs' attention by having information he needed or ideas about their cases.
Same for McGee and Ziva though I think as shy as McGee is, he's more confident in his tech smarts, and Ziva is confindent with her profiling and fighting skills.
Loved the first season where Gibbs mentions that he'll have to learn how to work his PDA from Tony who learned from McGee and how backward that is.
But later Gibbs is a little more proficeint with his PDA(only a little since they end up replacing his phone or pda a lot)so Tony must have taught him a few things.
So yeah Tony acts goofy, plays jokes, maybe makes the serious times a little easier to take and Gibbs observes how others react.
Gibbs does the same with suspects. Send in the agent that seems all goofy and busy leering at women and then bam! a question or two and the suspect is in handcuffs.