1/ Ducky: Deep down inside, he’s still Illya Kuryakin. With a medical degree!
2/ Gibbs: He’s my age and can still surpass the youngsters. he has an excellent team and knows who to put where while solidly backing them.
3/ Abby: Gibb’s favorite, but much more than competent in her assigned field. Also a very talented and versitile actress.
4/ McGee: The charcter I empathise with most closely. Having started out as an FNG in the Air Force Reserves and as an Air Reserve Technician. (Same sircraft maintenance job as in the Reserves, but in civilian clothes) It’s nice to see him growing a quiet pair!
5/ DiNozzo: The quintisential obnoxious government employee with lots of hidden issues. How he’s made those traits his own and pulls them off so easily shows how much he’s grown since being opposite Jessica Alba in ‘Dark Angel’.
6/ Ziva: She’s hot! She’s deadly! She’s Mossad! What more needs to be said?
7/ Jenny: Liked her manitaining the paternal, ‘Captain of the Ship’ mystique while giving the Executive Oficer (XO’s) role to Gibbs. I’m sorry they wrote her out of the show, because the new director just ain’t cutting it!
8/ Kate: Always struck me as something of a cipher with a whiff of history, yet no there there. Though she did manage to out-think and out-snark DiNozzo on several occasions.
Jack.
2/ Gibbs: He’s my age and can still surpass the youngsters.
Like that one show where Gibbs and DiNozzo are chasing a guy through the woods and Tony can’t catch him. All of a sudden, Gibbs brings the guy down..
Tony said, “Gee boss, I thought you were behind me till you tackled the guy”..