"Hey, Ziver."
Maybe the way she'd been raised - to instantly mistrust - was the reason she reacted to Gibbs's voice like she did, with nervousness coiling up in her belly as if something bad was about to happen. Maybe it was just the tone of his voice, though. So very soft, with a hint of rare emotion simmering somewhere deep inside.
She said his name then, making it sound like a question, and he sighed and shoved his hand into the pocket of his jacket.
"Cleaned out a few boxes last night. Found this," he said quietly, and the lump in her stomach tightened even more. "Thought you might want to have it."
She stared at the photograph he handed her, blinking hard all of a sudden. Cairo. That first night after she had run into Jenny and ended up saving her life. And then the older woman had completely baffled her and dragged her away on a trip through half a dozen night clubs. Her way of saying thank you.
"Where... did you get this?" Her own voice surprised her. Ragged, hard to control.
He shrugged, surprising her. She had never seen him look awkward before. "That night Jenn's house burned down," he replied quietly. "We took a few personal things. Wanted to give it to you back then, but you were gone so fast. And I just forgot."
She nodded, slowly, then lowered her eyes and stared at the picture again. Blinking suddenly didn't help anymore. A tear made its way down her cheek, and part of her thought she should wipe it away and hide the turmoil inside her, like she had been taught to do from early youth. Like she had done for the better part of her life.
She ran her thumb across the photograph instead, and for a moment she imagined feeling her friend's arm around her shoulders again. Felt the unexpected laughter Jenny had drawn out of her that first night. How good it had been to forget about her assignment for a few hours. To just relax.
Good times.
She sighed and tucked the photograph between her pencils in their plastic holder on her desk.
"I miss you," she told the photograph, and Jenn smiled back at her, good-naturedly, as if she'd known that all along.
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Truthfully, I know I could have done much better on this one, especially on the clothes, but I was beginning to feel frustrated with it and just wanted to see it finished. And in the end, I'm pretty satisfied with it, even though there's still something slightly off about Ziva. I blame it on the long night of partying she did with Jenny. :)
Done with only a few different pencils (4H, 2H, HB, 2B and 8B for the really dark blacks, plus a mechanical pencil for very fine details and hair) and some minor cleanup work in Photoshop. Original size is about 15 by 15 cm (about 6 by 6 inches).
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"You jeopardized your entire career, for what?" - "For you."
For Tony, it's really as simple as that - you love someone, you stick to them, and you care about them, and you look out for them if they get themselves into trouble.
"You loved him."
And that's it, for him. That's the one thing that suddenly makes sense to him in this whole mess. Because Ziva's erratic and angry behavior of the past weeks sure doesn't because the girl he's come to know and love doesn't lie to him and doesn't lie to Gibbs and doesn't get herself deeper and deeper into a mess of gargantuan proportions.
Split loyalties don't make sense to someone like Tony, and he couldn't give a lesser fuck about her obligations to Mossad and Israel because he hasn't seen any of that lately, so her torn behavior doesn't make any sense to him at all. (And that's why he starts to snoop around, really.) But the thought that she loved Rivkin - that makes sudden, painful sense to him, and the realization is only emphasized by the fact that, basically, he did the very same thing for her.
You love someone, you stick out your neck for them, and you have their back, and you cover up their mess, no matter how deep the shit gets.
It's not really what motivated Ziva there, but Tony doesn't know that, and I think on some level he doesn't care to dig deeper after that. Because this interpretation is what makes sense to him, and I think it's a lot easier for him to swallow than thoughts of betrayal and mistrust: she loved the wrong person, and she was screwed over. He knows a thing or two about that himself, and it's not something he'd ever blame her for.
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Let's dig out my little warning label again: This review will be full of emotions and clutching chests and gasping for air. I will try to stick to coherent interpretation, but will I manage? Unlikely. Because I think this was one heck of finale, and Gary Glasberg did an awesome job at that. I bow to this man.
So, if you want to be frustrated about not getting what you wanted out of this - I'm really sorry the finale didn't meet up with your expectations, but I loved it, every single second of it. And I find it really sad that you can no longer really enjoy the show, but please go elsewhere to vent and don't tell me about it. There are enough other places for that. I, for one, am fiercely protective of my happy little bubble these days, and I react strongly to people telling me that I'm "overly positive" in loving my show and that I see things that aren't there.
( Reviewy and very random ramblings. Spoilers, obviously. And pictures. Lots of them. )
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Whew. Now that we have this one out of the way...
( Reviewy and very random ramblings. Spoilers, obviously. And pictures. Yummy, delicious pictures. )
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As usual - clickety-clicking gets you a much bigger version. ;)
But there was something about it that left me watching it again on my trainride to work (thank the creator for smartphones, really!) and this time around it already clicked a lot better and seemed like a pretty solid plot, except for the end. And then, after my quote discovery and during the third viewing of the episode, I started to actually love it.
It's literally just three minutes of this ep that are told like crap. They're not even illogical or full of holes, all the important facts are presented to us. (The CIA folks locate the places where the Chaplain might be held, and then our gang goes through them one by one to find the right one.) There are just big chunks of that particular narrative missing. And in the end, the parts that are left out aren't important enough for me to actually make me *miss* them, you know? It's not enough to spoil the whole ep for me, like it seems to have for a whole bunch of folks.
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Also, I seem to be one of the few who thoroughly enjoyed the episode, especially after viewing it a second (and by now, third) time. I, personally, think it's just three minutes during the end that fell flat, after they uncover the CIA involvement and decide to act on that, but the rest? Was actually pretty solid storytelling with just a few holes in it, but even nit-picky me can sort of ignore these ones without much effort. So yeah, you have been warned about that, too. ;)
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And he ripped that beast
And he killed him dead
Last of my "Aliyah" arc edits. Song these are based on can be found here.
As usual, click for much bigger version.
- Mood:
accomplished
Then she spoke so kind
and she talked so fair
'til Samson said
Delilah
cut off my hair
~ Shirley Manson, "Samson and Delilah"
Third in my series of "Aliyah" edits. One more to come. Song these are based on can be found here.
As always, click for much bigger version.
Delilah she climbed up on Samson's knee
said tell me where your strength lies
~ Shirley Manson, "Samson and Delilah"
Second one in the Aliyah series. Not going for gifs after all, since this feels more powerful to me. Click for much bigger version. Song this is based on can still be found here.
Also, I reworked the Ziva one and took out the animated part. It distracted too much from her pain and emotions. (Same here, click for much bigger version.)
I feel a little drunk on colors right now. And yeah, looks like spring is definitely here. :)
( a dozen shiny pictures behind the cut )
"Aliyah", 6x25
If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I'd burn this whole
building down~ Shirley Manson, "Samson and Delilah"
First in a series of gifs dealing with that storyline and based on this particular song. If you want to listen to the song, you can do it here. There will be more, most likely over the weekend.
Yeah, apparently I've been busying myself with a lot of visual art lately...
Bolo
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