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.

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The board seems to have taken a dislike to me. When I was trying to formulate the message it kicked me out twice, and after I wrote it in Notepad and then tried to post, it posted it twice. Tonight's not a full moon, is it?

I always assumed Jenny had forced Ziva's presence, and I think we were supposed to assume that they were more than friendly. By the time Jenny died, Gibbs had fully integrated Ziva into the team and wasn't likely to make it easy to pull her out. Keeping her also made Mossad happy. She was One of Ours by then, so Gibbs fought to get her back after the team was broken up. When she asked him to choose between her and Tony, though, she showed she didn't trust Gibbs the way he trusted her, and he wasn't going to choose one agent over another. It will be interesting to see how they get her.

I thinl Ziva knew Gibbs wouldn't choose and said what she said to get the team to leave.