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Even NCIS has had some snarky comments about Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin. I feel that Shane Brennan has ruined that show. The characters look the same, but they don't sound or act the same. I suspected we'd feel the loss when Donald Bellasario left the show, and it has become glaring.

I have watched every episode of NCIS. I told my wife that this past Tuesday's episode, which was a plea for tolerance of gays, was the last one. The show is as dead to me. I don't know if the downturn is due to Shane Brennan or Mark Harmon. Brennan also produces NCIS Los Angeles, and it has become a better show than the original. They actually still battle mideast terrorists on that show.

I remember reading that Harmon pushed to get rid of Bellisario, and Harmon is listed as a producer. Brennan is still the Executive Producer, but I wonder if Harmon is leading the show to a more leftward slant.

Last year we had the "plea for Muslim tolerance" episode, and an episode in which Tony and Ziva broke into a building and Ziva wondered aloud "if we are any better than the terrorists".

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I know what you mean. I still watch from habit, but, as with this week’s show, I ask myself after it is over, “why bother”? This week’s was an especially poor show as the Newhart character was just written in to give Newhart a vehicle.

I used to buy the seasons on DVD, but I stopped after the 2008-2009 season. The thrill is gone.

"the last one"

Maybe you missed the episode from a few years ago when after one the characters remarked on the number of Islamic bombings going on, Harmon's character opined that there were quite a few abortion clinics being bombed also. The show has always been politically correct/left leaning.

It's mostly Harmon who's driving the changes. He's a hardcore lib.

Last year we had the "plea for Muslim tolerance" episode, and an episode in which Tony and Ziva broke into a building and Ziva wondered aloud "if we are any better than the terrorists".

Don't forget last year's Christmas Eve episode which featured a Christian "honor killing" in which a soldier who converted to Islam in Iraq was killed by his Christian minister father and brother.