This goes out to all of those NCIS fans who have lost hope because of the really sucky end to the sixth season- I'm totally with you, but I think that things will get better.

I'll start with my own little rant-within-a-rant: I do not agree with the way Tony and Ziva's story arch was handled at all, and I think the whole thing is ridiculous. In one episode Aliyah managed to undo seasons and years of the Tiva relationship. I am a Tiva supporter, but ignoring romance, this really screws with not just the canon portrayals of the characters, but the entire dynamic of the show as we know it. I believe that Ziva is completely out of character, and needs to see what Tony did as self-defense. The whole thing really pisses me off, especially when she tried to make Gibbs choose between them. What the heck was she thinking? If she's going to act like that, then she totally deserved to be kidnapped by pirates. Maybe they can beat some sense into her. But all this crap with Tony begging forgiveness is possibly the most annoying thing I've seen for a while. Ziva should be freaking begging at his expensive-Italian-shoe-wearing feet. She's treating him like crap. Aside from the fact that I think they should be together, SHE is the one destroying their relationship. And not just the Tiva-friendship. Asking Gibbs to choose? Kick her ass back to Israel! Let those pirates be freaking cannibals and eat her! The worst part is, I LIKE Ziva's character. But I love Tony more, and this will not do.

But there is hope, and let me tell you why I'm attempting to look on the more humorous and optimistic side of things. One of my other favorite shows is The Office. I've been following for it years, but I think it also hit a snag a few years back. If anyone's familiar with the show, they obviously know that the one true pair the media goes wild for is Jim and Pam, commonly and fondly referred to as JAM. They also might recall Season Three, when Pam had recently dumped Roy because she was pondering her feelings for Jim, who, at the end of the previous season, had mustered up enough courage to tell the engaged Pam that he had been in love with her for quite some time . But Jim (who is one of my favorite television characters ever anyway, even if he did screw up), had to go off and get a girlfriend... Karen. Who I always hated, even before she and Jim got together. The entire season was ridiculous, because they had a weird, awkward "both know we're destined to be together, but don't want to admit it, so every single conversation between us is going to be stupid and illogical and not what the viewers of the show have come to know and love" thing going on, and I hated it. I wanted the jokes and pranks back! I think there were two really good pranks all season, and it was so stupid.

And here we are, two complete seasons later, beginning Season Six, and Jim and Pam are engaged, living together, and having a baby. It happened all of a sudden, really. Between seasons- they ended one really crappy, idiotic season barely speaking, and started the next spectacular one secretly dating and REALLY happy. I'm not saying that this is what's going to happen to NCIS. In the words of Leroy Jethro Gibbs... "I don't believe in coincidences." But it's why I believe that good things will come. Sometimes things have to get MUCH, MUCH worse before they can get better. And I'll be the first one to admit that just about all of this season, but specifically the end, sucked beyond belief. A fairly new viewer catching up, I couldn't understand why everyone was pissed. But I get it, and if I didn't love this show with all of my might, I'd have given up as well.

Then there's the fact that I love all that is Tiva. What do I want to happen? I think Gibbs and Co. will find Ziva. Maybe not right away. But I really think Tony should be the one to save her. Just to make her bitchy-assness turn into guilty/grateful-assness. But I totally want some Hurt!Tony. More than the Hurt!Ziva we saw at the end of the finale. Because what better way for her show appreciation for a guy then to stoically pretend her Mossad Ninja-ness makes her not care as she's secretly sobbing at the bedside of the hot guy she totally and irrationally bitched out at the end of the season? Will it happen? Nah. But I need me some Tiva, even if they just repair their relationship. Four seasons of hot-chemistry can't go to waste because of one or two episodes, can it? They'll work it out.

I don't believe that romance or pairing support should have anything to do with a sound argument, so I tried to leave it out, except for the paragraph above, which is my fangirl-ness showing. But I think that The Office's JAM should help inspire some hope in all supporters of Tiva, whether it's for friendship or romance. Because what is the show without repeatedly awesome and reciprocated red light sexual harassment and Gibbs' head slapping? Nothing. Which is why I believe it'll get better.

Would we have it any other way?