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Richard Paolinelli's avatar

I stopped watching after Ziva and then DiNozzo left.

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Xavier's avatar

The writers didn't know what to do with him alternating between doofus frat boy or hardboiled noir dectective. They should've given him the superficial fratboy doofus persona hiding the noir hardboiled dectective. It would've given his nteraction wirh Gibbs a lot more logical sense

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Declan Finn's avatar

It would have made hiring Tony make more sense. I still can't reconcile his fratboy nonsense with having worked Baltimore homicide. There's a line between dark cop humor and "never left puberty."

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Xavier's avatar

Exactly Underscoring who the writers simply had read enough Scarlet Pimpernil and 3 Gun Kelly/Race Willams to make Dinozzo a dangerous man to anger/cross. More so than Giibs I always thought he'd take over from him. But whatever

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Declan Finn's avatar

Nah. He was far too set in his ways. And the actor thought he could carry his own TV show on his own personal charisma. He was wrong.

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Declan Finn's avatar

Ziva leaving annoyed me. Tony's existence annoyed me. It balanced out

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