it's not, and everyone around him knows it.

The expressions on both Ziva and Tony's faces when they hear McGee say that the guy was a Metro cop were perfect, just filled with horror and sadness for Tim and for the cop.

it's about Gibbs teaching his team how to become the kind of people who will be able to lead teams of their own and now to make him proud

I think Gibbs treats them like children most of the time. The head-slapping is horrendous, and the constant "Really?" is disrespectful. The show has stated that Tony can lead his own team, but not that Gibbs realises it. And Weatherly deliberately portrays Tony like someone not ready to graduate. I don't think anyone will ever get promoted over him.

I just watched this week's SVU. They seem to have gone from "ripped from the headlines" to "ripped from the history books."

Foyet: Now I understand that profilers think that stabbing is a substitution for the act of sex. That if somebody's impotent, they'll use a knife instead. Is that what you think, Agent Hotchner? Maybe this will change the way that you profile. [thrusts] [Hotch gasps]

I still can't tell how sexual that was supposed to be.

I still can't tell how sexual that was supposed to be.

Me either. It was disturbing as hell. At the "thrust" moment, the camera was fairly tight on Foyet's face and upper chest; it was hard to tell exactly what he was doing. I think (spoiler fonted for grossness) that it was either rape or more likely wound rape, I think that's what the writers meant it to be, but they deliberately left it vague, both because they couldn't get anything that fucked-up past the censors, and because the audience might be best left to its own imagination - the more innocent among us, and those who don't really pay such close attention to dialog, might never notice the hints that some of us picked up on.

Stabbing=rape is terribly simplistic. Not wrong per se , but doesn't encompass the spectrum of wrongness possible there.

Stabbing==rape is sort of what they're working from on the profile, with knife==phallus. So they have anywhere along that continuum to place the violation.

Apparently L&O isn't a certain go for #21. From the TCA Winter Press Tour:

"Law & Order" has been picked up for at least four additional episodes, bringing its season total to 20. Despite the extension, Bromstad confirms the show isn't yet a go for season 21.

NBC doesn't have anything else and needs hours and hours of programming next year.

I think L&O is a go.

NBC ordered a record number of pilots for next season. 18 I think.

As far as I can remember of the numbers, L&O has been a reliable performer, and I haven't heard about money problems with it like SVU and CI. I'd like to think that weighs in their favour--a week full of new drama at 10 is a bit of an intimidating risk.

One of the pilots NBC ordered is a L&O show set in LA.

I cannot believe they want to do yet another L&O. They are copying plots across the programs as it is.