After years as the nerdy but sexy analyst in NCIS, Ellie Bishop went all badass just before leaving the show – and fans struggled to get onboard with the idea.Of course, it stands to reason there are going to be a few episodes or storylines in any long-running seriesthat fail to land with the fanbase. But this particular character transformation was maybe just a bit too confusing.
It wasn't that Ellie had never been out in the field. Nor was she new to carrying a firearm.It was just that the whole maverick "cover me" followed by the heroic shoot-slide-shoot in the warehouse, taking down martial artists and punching criminals in airports had never really been her thing.Perhaps if she'd been backed into a corner and had to act at some point, it would have made a bit more sense. If she'd been surprised by her own actions and discovered a new Ellie, we might have seen some sense to it.Because she just kind of started being intimidating and throwing her weight around out of nowhere. Take that warehouse scene for example.
Had she been backed into a corner, it would have been perfectly believable for her fight-or-flight sense to kick in.But she made that decision to expose herself to the gunfire of her own volition. And she knew at the time that backup was on its way.
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