Penelope is Derek's god-given solace. Not every chick gets to be that to a stand-up take-down sort of guy.

NCIS: LA recasts female lead. I feel bad for Louise Lombard.

I feel bad for Louise Lombard

Sorry for the actress losing a job, but I'm not surprised. I don't know if it was acting, directing, or writing, but the female lead made me antsy, she struck me as too desperate to be perceived as competent, with a bad case of "I must always remind them that I can do this even if I am a woman." I know that angle is considered an easy source of drama for writers, but I long for a female commander who doesn't feel compelled to apologzie/explain/account for her vagina and breasts.

I didn't like Jenny at first, it seemed a cheap plot twist to bring in Gibbs' old lover, but the conflict quickly when from "can A woman do this job" to "can THIS woman do this job".

I fondly remember Gina Torres being a police captain in a hostage negotiation unit--Standoff, was it?--and I never got the idea that her competence vis a vis her gender was ever a topic.

I long for a female commander who doesn't feel compelled to apologzie/explain/account for her vagina and breasts.

amen.

I fondly remember Gina Torres being a police captain in a hostage negotiation unit--Standoff, was it?--and I never got the idea that her competence vis a vis her gender was ever a topic.

yeah, one of the few things that show ever got right.

I might have been interested in watching for Reiko Aylesworth.

Recent Lostie Reiko Aylesworth can forget about being part of The Forgotten, as the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced ABC drama is recasting not just her amateur detective but also the lead character played by British actor Rupert Penry-Jones.

No Rupert Penry-Jones?

There goes my incentive for watching that show.

I hated Jenny and thought she was consistently incompetent. And that's how she went out.

Yeah, she did rather let her obsession get in the way of rationality.

I'm glad they are replacing LL. With the character's history with Gibbs, she should have been so much more interesting than she was. I do think that history had more to do with why the character was apologizing for herself than the fact that she was a woman in power.

I hated Jenny and thought she was consistently incompetent. And that's how she went out.

I agree. Also, I thought that Ziva's presence was explained as a favor to Jenny - didn't they say that Ziva and Jenny were friendly in the past, and that at one point Ziva had saved her life? Because other than that, I don't understand why a foreign operative would be acting as an employee of an American military investigative unit for such a long period. (I mean, she wasn't there just for one case, or a case specific to the Mossad. She was there long-term.) It never made sense to me. On the other hand, I freely admit that my law education comes from the school of L&O, so I could be completely wrong.