I very much agree with tejas about Tony being the most complex character on the show... which is why his writing in season 6 annoys me so much. He's regressed in a lot of ways, and I think it's pretty obvious that the writers are just looking for cheap laughs.
I do wonder if it can be fanwanked, though, given Gibbs' weirdness towards Tony this season. He's been very curt and cold - I mean, even for Gibbs. No headslaps, nothing that's a compliment even if you look at it through a Gibbs-filter and an awful lot of cutting remarks (as opposed to your usual Marine chivvying). Perhaps Tony's being more of a fratboy because he's acting out? Negative attention is better than nothing! I mean it doesn't quite work, because that doesn't explain things like Tony ... not knowing why Gibbs doesn't drink on a stakeout ... despite having more stakeout experience than McGee ... (that was just strange) ... but it's better than nothing.
With every Tony hint that we're given from the Powers that Be, the more convinced I am that "Callen," the character from the NCIS spinoff who's supposed to have chameleon-like abilities of subterfuge, is actually Tony. And my guess is that the tension between Gibbs and Tony is going to be the impetus to drive him up and away - hopefully as team leader, since we've seen that he's been ready since the beginning of season 4.
I'm a Gibbs/DiNozzo shipper (for early seasons at least), but I agree with you that Gibbs isn't so good for Tony, at least not any more. So honestly, if I am right about Tony moving to the spinoff, I don't mind too much. So long as the show doesn't, you know, suck, I think it'll be good for the character. He's been kind of frozen since the middle of season 5 or so, apart from his reactions to Jenny's death.
On another note: is it just me, or is Tony and Jenny's relationship something of a desert in fanfic territory? Jenny always seems to get cast as a villain when she's not being shipped, that I've seen, but I don't think she and Tony had a negative relationship. I don't think it was a healthy one, either, but she mentored him and saw his potential, even while manipulating him to her own ends. I really think we should have seen more of how her death affected him.
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on 2009-01-29 07:06 am (UTC)I do wonder if it can be fanwanked, though, given Gibbs' weirdness towards Tony this season. He's been very curt and cold - I mean, even for Gibbs. No headslaps, nothing that's a compliment even if you look at it through a Gibbs-filter and an awful lot of cutting remarks (as opposed to your usual Marine chivvying). Perhaps Tony's being more of a fratboy because he's acting out? Negative attention is better than nothing! I mean it doesn't quite work, because that doesn't explain things like Tony ... not knowing why Gibbs doesn't drink on a stakeout ... despite having more stakeout experience than McGee ... (that was just strange) ... but it's better than nothing.
With every Tony hint that we're given from the Powers that Be, the more convinced I am that "Callen," the character from the NCIS spinoff who's supposed to have chameleon-like abilities of subterfuge, is actually Tony. And my guess is that the tension between Gibbs and Tony is going to be the impetus to drive him up and away - hopefully as team leader, since we've seen that he's been ready since the beginning of season 4.
I'm a Gibbs/DiNozzo shipper (for early seasons at least), but I agree with you that Gibbs isn't so good for Tony, at least not any more. So honestly, if I am right about Tony moving to the spinoff, I don't mind too much. So long as the show doesn't, you know, suck, I think it'll be good for the character. He's been kind of frozen since the middle of season 5 or so, apart from his reactions to Jenny's death.
On another note: is it just me, or is Tony and Jenny's relationship something of a desert in fanfic territory? Jenny always seems to get cast as a villain when she's not being shipped, that I've seen, but I don't think she and Tony had a negative relationship. I don't think it was a healthy one, either, but she mentored him and saw his potential, even while manipulating him to her own ends. I really think we should have seen more of how her death affected him.