As NCIS Season 19 was winding down earlier this year a new romance started blossoming. After previously attending a wedding together Brian Dietzens Jimmy Palmer and Katrina Laws Jessica Knight eventually acknowledged they shared feelings for one another and by the Season 19 finale they were committed to exploring this new dynamic. This certainly is not the first workplace romance NCIS has delivered but showrunner Steven D. Binder has explained how this relationship will differ from what we saw between Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David and Nick Torres and Ellie Bishop.
Tony and Ziva infamously channeled the Will they would not they trope during their seasons together on NCIS which Steven D. Binder acknowledged to TV Line became a thing that externally was more of a thing than it was in our heads. Then with Nick and Ellie the NCIS writers sensed some sparks between the two and took the football and ran with it. As for Jimmy and Jessica Binder made it clear that this romantic relationship will unfold a lot differently saying:
This one is something that we birthed ourselves in a vacuum. We did not want to go down the same road we went down before. Instead we wanted it to play out more realistically two people at work who actually having feelings towards each other and they are not being so coy about it.
Steven D. Binder continued by saying that the reason that Tiva and Ellick for the shippers out there were stretched out across multiple seasons was because the NCIS writers were in denial resulting in them playing around with these respective arrangements but never really doing anything with them. In contrast Binder and his team are looking to explore a realistic workplace romance with Jimmy Palmer and Jessica Knight that’s still entertaining.
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