Can I just hang out in the lab with Abby?
Apr. 24th, 2008 07:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phoenix64NCIS is supposed to be one of my light and fluffy shows, where the most distressing thing going on is my apparent inability to stop shipping Gibbs/Abby (I don't want to, but they're so cuuuuute when they're together). Heck, I've ended up missing big chunks of a season the first time around because there was something opposite it that was more important to me. NCIS is not supposed to gut me.
So Tony and Jeanne. Jeanne. Incidentally, for those of you who were familiar with my very brief foray into Whoville, I swear my using that name was a total coincidence. I won't bore you with the train of thought that led me to that name, but anyway. I find it too easy to understand where Jeanne is coming from. I don't think what she did by accusing Tony was anywhere near OK, but in general I know what it's like to be lied to and manipulated that badly (though in my case(s) there was no greater good involved). Director Sheppard's apology was something I was glad to see. But the scene between Jeanne and Tony at the end, in front of the elevators. It felt like I was watching the social rituals of another species entirely, because in some objective way I could understand that these people would believe that him telling her that it was all a lie was the right thing to say. But I just wondered, when you've had that big a hole torn into you, how could that possibly help in any way?
I was able to recover enough of my fannish fluffy feelings to want to pet Tony for what he's obviously going through. But I've still ended up spending too much time going back over my own experiences of betrayal in my head, wondering if there is anything that could have made it easier. That could make it easier.
So Tony and Jeanne. Jeanne. Incidentally, for those of you who were familiar with my very brief foray into Whoville, I swear my using that name was a total coincidence. I won't bore you with the train of thought that led me to that name, but anyway. I find it too easy to understand where Jeanne is coming from. I don't think what she did by accusing Tony was anywhere near OK, but in general I know what it's like to be lied to and manipulated that badly (though in my case(s) there was no greater good involved). Director Sheppard's apology was something I was glad to see. But the scene between Jeanne and Tony at the end, in front of the elevators. It felt like I was watching the social rituals of another species entirely, because in some objective way I could understand that these people would believe that him telling her that it was all a lie was the right thing to say. But I just wondered, when you've had that big a hole torn into you, how could that possibly help in any way?
I was able to recover enough of my fannish fluffy feelings to want to pet Tony for what he's obviously going through. But I've still ended up spending too much time going back over my own experiences of betrayal in my head, wondering if there is anything that could have made it easier. That could make it easier.
