NCIS - the Director Shephard years...

I liked NCIS - when it focused on crimes against Navy and Marine folk. When they got all hot and heavy Ziva and her father and her half-brothers and all that crap, it got on my nerves and I sort of lost interest...

But one thing I never liked was the Jenny Shepherd character and how she was treated on the show.

She was the Director of NCIS, but Gibbs - of course, a former lover - never treated her with the respect she deserved.

In one of the early shows, she comes down to the bullpen, sits in Gibbs chair, and asks questions about the current investigation. Gibbs team gets nervous...and then when Gibbs comes in and sees what shes' doing, he takes his team up to her office and sits in her chair.

That whole dynamic irritated me, and it has to be blamed on the scriptwriters.

Of course her death episode stunk, too. She and Mike Franks are holed up in a restaurant. She has recruited Mike Franks to help her survive...so what does he do? He goes out of the restaurant to get some water, so he's conveniently out of the way when her attackers come in, there's this shootout, and Jenny dies. Talk about inept!