🔴Anthony DiNozzo Will Face Major Changes In The Tony & Ziva NCIS Spinoff Without 1 Character🔴
0Anthony DiNozzo Will Face Major Changes In The Tony & Ziva NCIS Spinoff Without 1 Character
Michael Weatherly's Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo will face major changes in the Tony & Ziva spinoff without one major NCIS character who isn't set to appear in the new show. While the Tony & Ziva spinoff promises exciting firsts for the NCIS franchise, the characters themselves will also be undergoing major transformations from their roles on the original series. Tony and Ziva's characters got their start on the original NCIS series, with Michael Weatherly appearing on the show since its pilot and Cote de Pablo joining the show to play Ziva David in season 3.
While NCIS is currently airing season 21, de Pablo left the series in season 11 and Weatherly departed after season 13. After their departure, the fan-favorite characters were missed and, eventually, returned to the NCIS universe. De Pablo appeared on the show throughout season 17 to seek help from Gibbs, and Weatherly made a cameo in NCIS season 21 to visit his grieving friend Brian Dietzen's Jimmy Palmer in Ducky's tribute episode. While audiences have witnessed de Pablo and Weatherly teaming up on investigations, the series has not seen the pair working outside the influence of other core NCIS characters.
Tony DiNozzo will face major changes in the upcoming Tony & Ziva spinoff series, because, for the first time in NCIS history, Tony will be working without Mark Harmon's Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Although Tony's character was featured in the original NCIS series for years, he always operated under the wing of Gibbs' character and leadership. Considering that DiNozzo departed the show after season 13 and didn’t return until a brief cameo in season 21 after Gibbs was long gone, the series hasn’t seen DiNozzo work out from under Gibbs.
Tony worked as Gibbs' second-in-command as a senior field agent, and was set to take Gibbs' place until DiNozzo departed the series and his position was passed on to Sean Murray’s Timothy McGee. On rare occasions, in Gibbs' absence, DiNozzo was the automatic temporary leader of the team. Gibbs also had a father-like dynamic with many of the characters on the show, and witnessing DiNozzo outside this dynamic will have audiences noticing major changes within the character.
There will certainly be room for dynamic character development for DiNozzo’s character in the Tony & Ziva spinoff. Working outside the dynamic that DiNozzo had with Gibbs in the original NCIS for many years, DiNozzo is likely to offer audiences different aspects of his personality. In NCIS, Gibbs was the more serious character in the father-son dynamic and that left DiNozzo to be a lighter, more playful character who had more availability to clown around, make jokes, and slack off.
The spinoff will likely see Tony in a more serious, protective state, on the run in Europe protecting his wife, Ziva, and his daughter, Tali David-DiNozzo. The grave circumstances of Tony’s character will surely give rise to a more intuitively protective and alert character, giving DiNozzo the opportunity to flex more serious aspects of his personality. DiNozzo has already exemplified to NCIS audiences that he will take a more serious approach and go the distance for his family when needed, as he did after season 13 when Tony exited NCIS to raise his daughter with Ziva.