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NCIS

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Name: NCIS
Abbreviation(s): NCIS
Creator: Don McGill and Donald Bellisario
Date(s): September 23, 2003 – present
Medium: television
Country of Origin: United States
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Show Synopsis

NCIS is a procedural crime drama following a fictional team of special agents in the (real) Naval Criminal Investigative Service, dealing with US Navy and Marines personnel. It is a spin-off of JAG. The original team comprised field agents Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo, Caitlin "Kate" Todd, and Timothy McGee, as well as medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, and forensic scientist Abby Sciuto. After the death of Caitlin Todd, Ziva David joined the team. Seasons 3-5 featured NCIS Director Jenny Shepard, who was replaced by Director Leon Vance in season 6.

Fandom

The fandom is small and fairly quiet (somewhat like how the show has great ratings, yet rarely gets press or Emmy nominations). The most common slash pairing is Gibbs/Tony, followed by Tony/McGee and Ducky/Gibbs, but there are f/f, het and gen stories as well. While the show has implied attraction between Tony and Ziva, much of the fanfic does not play on this subtext, and some fans are actively opposed to it.[1]

The single biggest canon plot point, or (strange attractor) to inspire fiction is the death of Kate Todd in the last moments of the season two finale (episode 2.23 "Twilight). Another common story type are prequels, showing how individual characters met before the beginning of the show.[2] Hurt/comfort is a common theme, especially in gen fic, with Tony vying with McGee for status as most-whumped character.

For non-canon plot points, BDSM and other kinks have a significant following in the fandom, possibly due to the fact that Gibbs whacks his team in the back of the head a lot, asserting a strong corrective appearance, and Abby canonically wears a dog collar and fetish gear to work. In addition, Kate, Abby, and Ziva make comments in canon implying at least occasional interest in other women.[3]

Controversies

Ziva is frequently the object of character bashing[4], and sometimes called a Mary Sue[5] [6].

Tony's behavior has also been called into question as sexist and disrespectful toward his female co-workers. [7]

Crossovers

Fandom crosses over all of the different procedurals shows, and while crossovers within the CSIs are more common, NCIS does get crossed with them, as well as with such shows as Criminal Minds and Bones, more often than it does with other shows with larger fandoms. Maybe because there are Marines in SG1 and SGA, crossovers with the Stargate universe are fairly common; Supernatural/NCIS fic is also fairly popular.[8]

Because Ducky is played by David McCallum, once upon a time known as the original fangirl bait Illya Kuryakin on The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NCIS is often crossed over or melded with MUNCLE. Ducky is also on occasion slashed with Albert Stroller from Hustle (a character played by Robert Vaughn, who was Illya's partner on MUNCLE), and some crossovers blend the characters from all three series.[9]

Ziva David may be a little black dress, as she seems to get more than her share of crossover attention, showing up in many non-procedural universes as well.

Fanzines

Gen&Het:

Slash:

Online links

Livejournal Communities

  • the newbieguide has a list of all NCIS livejournal communities as of 11/25/08

Fanfic Archives & Lists

Resources

References

  1. ↑ The livejournal community no_tiva is self-described as "A place where members would rather see NCIS without the pairing of Tony and Ziva – better known as TIVA." (Accessed 12 Nov 2009)
  2. ↑ The best-known of these is probably Sequitur's "Rictus", an angsty gen case-fic recounting how Tony met Gibbs. (Accessed 12 Nov 2009)
  3. ↑ In 3x04 "Silver War", Ziva owns her own copy of G.S.M., a Playboy-style men's magazine, and comments to Tony, "I especially like the article on page fifty-seven. In my experience, it works every time."
  4. ↑ A little consideration on 6x08 "Cloak"
  5. ↑ You Made Me Hate You (I Didn’t Want To Do It) Accessed November 19, 2008
  6. ↑ Kate vs. Ziva Accessed November 19, 2008
  7. ↑ Why I No Longer Watch NCIS Accessed November 19, 2008
  8. ↑ Fanfiction.net NCIS crossovers show 20 Supernatural crossovers, and 27 SG-1 or SGA crossovers, as of 12 Nov 2009.
  9. ↑ Such as in Evan Nicholas's Gibbs/Ducky story "Contrapositive". (Accessed 12 Nov 2009)
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