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Minha versão definitiva de Roarke & Eve Dallas

Iam Somehalder & Kate Beckinsale

I have a few shows I tend to watch regularly either just because or as background noise. Friends, Fraiser, HIMYM (before it got tedious) Futurama, and NCIS. I usually don't get into cop shows but I liked all the characters on NCIS and I will stick with a show, or a book series for a long time if I like the characters, even if the plots are so-so or not my usual taste.

Hell, I read the In Death series (mysteries, but heavy on the romance) for years even though I'm not really into romance because I liked the way the characters were written.

I will usually drop a series if enough original characters either leave or are killed off, things get so boring that even good characters can't save it, or enough people start acting suddenly OOC. With the In Death books it was a combo of the second and the third reasons. The main characters were starting to be parodies of what they were in earlier books, and the plots became so formulaic that you could tell what kind of story you were going to get by the end of the first page.

If the book started with the main character Det. Eve Dallas at a crime scene then you were going to get a mystery story focused on getting the bad guy. On the side there would be stuff involving her husband and friends. If the book opened with Eve and her husband Rourke together in social or domestic situation, you would still get a mystery but the main focus of the book would be a melodramatic fight between husband and wife that would leave Eve distracted and fighting to stay on task and catch the bad guy. Considering that when I stopped reading there were 29 books and short stories in the series, Eve and Rourke had only been married for two years and this pattern started somewhere around book 15, the number of huge relationship rattling fights these two had should have sent them into counseling. I gave up.

NCIS is another one I am giving up on partly because most of the original characters, or long term characters have left the show and because of a surprising reason that isn't in my normal list. I'm kinda tired of them killing off women just because the actresses want to leave the show... I mean the creators have never come out and said it, but it is true! If an actor is a chick they better stay for the duration, or not be a side character because you are not allowed to own a vagina and leave that show alive! And what is weird about this is that I have not seen anything online talking about it. I mean, this is the internet, everyone talks about everything but no one has noticed this?

I'm going to list all of the female characters they have killed off as of season 13 (I think that's where I stopped) If you are currently watching the show, and are not to season 13, spoilers. And if you don't watch the show, this list will mean nothing to you, sorry!

Let's start at the start.

1. Special Agent Caitlin Todd -Shot in the head by a double agent.

The actress had decided to leave at the end of the second season

2. Special Agent Paula Cassidy - Blown up by a suicide bomber

I think they just killed this character for plot reasons, she only showed up once a season.

3. Director Jenny Shepard - Shoot out with Russian spies, but was also dying of some degenerative disease.

The actress wanted to pursue other roles

4. Special Agent Michelle Lee - Shot while Gibbs was trying to stop a kidnapper/murder.

Again, I think this was just for plot reasons. Lee was working with the bad guy because he had kidnapped her little sister.

5. Special Agent Lara Macy - Killed by a drug cartel trying to throw Gibbs off balance.

This one is a cheat since she was a cross over character but like, Paula Cassidy, I am counting her because she was important to a member of the main team (Gibbs) Paula was important to Tony.

6. Jackie Vance (Director Vance's. Wife) - Killed when a hit was carried out on Eli David who was at the director's house.

I think the actress was pregnant. Leading up to her last episode she was always holding something in front of her stomach.

7. Diane Sterling (Gibbs and Fornell' s ex-wife) - Shot by the brother of the guy who killed Kate

Don't know why they killed her off, plot wise, it could have been any woman that had been important to Gibbs.

8. Special Agent Ziva David - Killed by a bomb that was launched at her house in Isreal.

The actress left at the end of the season before they killed the character off to move closer to her family. When she left the the show's producers said that they weren't going to kill Ziva because trey wanted her to come back for guest spots. Apparently, the actress said that she didn't like their plans for Ziva, that they were going to turn her into a bitter woman and until they gave Ziva a story that would be keeping with the character she wouldn't come back. So, naturally they kill off the trained assassin by tossing a bomb on her house and killing her in her sleep.

9 & 10 - Shannon and Kelly Gibbs - Killed by a drug cartel.

Yeah, this one happened before the show started but starting in the 3rd season these two characters are so woven into the story that it would be weird not to include them.

10 main, reoccuring, or influential female characters all killed off. As opposed to 6 guys who were killed off (I'm not counting Ducky's mom or Gibbs's dad because the actors who played them passed away and I'm not counting bad guys. Lee was an exception because she wasn't bad so much as desperate).