A Show About Criminal Investigation
NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is a very popular show, which began as a spin off of another popular show called JAG, in 2003. I am among the many viewers ranging from teens to the elderly, who enjoy watching shows such as this one, that deal with the forensic science side of solving crimes. My Mom and I watch all of the CSI shows each week.
NCIS deals with a main cast consisting of five men and two women. There really isn't any one character who is in the leading role, they all have a bit of history that has been told about them through out the story line. Members of the cast are as follows:Leroy Jethro Gibbs "Gibbs", lead agent of the team, Anthony "Tony" Dinozzo, agent who is always trying to impress Gibbs, Ziva David "Ziva", a multilingual Israeli super agent and the only female minority,Timothy McGee "McGee", young baby faced agent who is super with computer programs, Abby Sciuto "Abbs or Abby", Lab technician, Donald "Ducky" Mallard, Medical examiner and Leon Vance "Director", the Director of the NCIS Agency. The shows characters are of the ages between the late 20's to early 60's, the oldest ones being Gibbs, Ducky and the Director. All the characters are healthy and fit.
The women are portrayed each week as highly educated professionals in their field. The occasional ribbing between Tony and Ziva, as to which of them is the better agent, seems to be the only discrimination against women that I have seen on this show. And actually I really don't think of it as that. I see this as more of a silly bantering between two colleagues who are also friends. The characters all work together as one team, solving crimes by collecting, viewing the evidence and tracing down their killer. Ziva dresses as a professional woman, wearing stylish suit jackets and dress pants. Abby dresses in the "Gothic" style, which would appeal to the teenage viewers. I feel that the show portrays women in a positive way, showing that they are as highly educated in their field and can do the job as well as the men on their team can.
NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is a very popular show, which began as a spin off of another popular show called JAG, in 2003. I am among the many viewers ranging from teens to the elderly, who enjoy watching shows such as this one, that deal with the forensic science side of solving crimes. My Mom and I watch all of the CSI shows each week.
NCIS deals with a main cast consisting of five men and two women. There really isn't any one character who is in the leading role, they all have a bit of history that has been told about them through out the story line. Members of the cast are as follows:Leroy Jethro Gibbs "Gibbs", lead agent of the team, Anthony "Tony" Dinozzo, agent who is always trying to impress Gibbs, Ziva David "Ziva", a multilingual Israeli super agent and the only female minority,Timothy McGee "McGee", young baby faced agent who is super with computer programs, Abby Sciuto "Abbs or Abby", Lab technician, Donald "Ducky" Mallard, Medical examiner and Leon Vance "Director", the Director of the NCIS Agency. The shows characters are of the ages between the late 20's to early 60's, the oldest ones being Gibbs, Ducky and the Director. All the characters are healthy and fit.
The women are portrayed each week as highly educated professionals in their field. The occasional ribbing between Tony and Ziva, as to which of them is the better agent, seems to be the only discrimination against women that I have seen on this show. And actually I really don't think of it as that. I see this as more of a silly bantering between two colleagues who are also friends. The characters all work together as one team, solving crimes by collecting, viewing the evidence and tracing down their killer. Ziva dresses as a professional woman, wearing stylish suit jackets and dress pants. Abby dresses in the "Gothic" style, which would appeal to the teenage viewers. I feel that the show portrays women in a positive way, showing that they are as highly educated in their field and can do the job as well as the men on their team can.
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