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[donutsweeper]

I just signed up for yuletide

*hyperventilates*

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[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I can point you to fic if you're interested when the time comes. Although I know of more stuff with my favorite and that ship than others

[tejas.livejournal.com]

I'll let you know. :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*waits patiently*

[tejas.livejournal.com]

May be after Thanksgiving, so don't hold your breath. ;-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

:) I'm weird. I'll delve into a fandom and read voraciously for a few weeks and then drop it completely. I really thought Mag7 would be like that for me, but it's sticking. It doesn't hurt that the shine is going off other fandoms I suppose...

[tejas.livejournal.com]

A lot depends, I think, on if there's a critical mass of either fic or writers producing new fic. There's too little, for example, NCIS fic and not enough writers producing new stuff. Makes it difficult to maintain it as a habit. With SG1, there were some amazingly productive years and people are still writing. So even though production has slowed down, there's enough older stuff out there that you can reread without memorizing. :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. There's only a little Mag7 written now, but there SO MUCH backlog I can read like mad and always have something new. But NCIS was never a huge or massively productive fandom so it doesn't take that long to catch up

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Yep. We'll see if the rest of this season sparks more or kills it completely.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I think the infighting is more likely to lead to killing the fandom than anything else.

[tejas.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of the infighting will stop if the show gets it's act together.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

that's a big if though

[tejas.livejournal.com]

There are some positive signs on the horizon. The key is if they pan out or fall flat.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I don't have high hopes for the horizon. *sigh*

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Robert Wagner playing Tony's dad is a potentially positive sign. If nothing else, he's believable in the role (or at least the role as a lot of us envision it).

I'm curious to see what they're going to do with Jackson Gibbs in the Christmas episode.

It's too much to hope for Ziva to be abducted by aliens, I fear. *sigh*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Tony's dad thing can either go REALLY well or REALLY badly. But Robert Wagner is an amazing casting coup. He actually looks close enough to be MW's dad. But what they choose to do with him could be scary.

I loved Jackson Gibbs. Not remotely what I would have expected (and AUGH at the Shannon flashbacks and canon rewrite) but it really worked.

[tejas.livejournal.com]

What was wrong with the Shannon flashbacks and what canon did you see rewritten?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It implied Gibbs got the idea of the rules from her. Not Mike Franks like they'd said earlier. (Besides it de-aging Gibbs a bit)

[tejas.livejournal.com]

I don't remember them ever saying he got the idea of the rules from Franks and his age is perfectly inline with what we already knew.

How did it deage him? He'd told Morrow he wasn't old enough for Vietnam, which makes him being 18 in '76 pretty much dead on.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

they never said straight out about the rules, but Mike talked about his own rules when he was first introduced.

[tejas.livejournal.com]

My take was that Gibbs just integrated what he learned from Franks into what he learned from Shannon. Shannon gave him the structure that he stuck with, while Franks gave him at least *some* of the content.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I guess. It just muddled the waters and they didn't need muddling

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. :-) But I saw it as a minor muddle and easily unmuddled. They've got much bigger muddles to worry about. :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

So very, very true. *big sigh*