NCIS: Hawai’i Legacy Can Only Be Saved by 1 Character From the OG Show

Summary:

• NCIS: Hawai’i was officially canceled earlier this year, though the show’s biggest merit was in fact a major milestone for the whole franchise.
• The spinoff’s representation of relationships between queer characters earned it a lot of acclaim, including from the LGBTQ+ community.
• Now that the series is scrapped, the original show has a big chance to save the trend, and it already has a right character to go with.

NCIS’ successful spinoff show NCIS: Hawai’i is officially over after a 3-season run, and so many good things sank into oblivion with it after all the cancellation news.

While devoted fans are still trying to bring their favorite show back to the screen, it seems to be barely possible and the series’ huge milestone that no other NCIS show ever had may be gone too unless the franchise’s original series steps in.

Before NCIS: Hawai’i was unfairly canceled, it had a nearly perfect LGBTQ+ community representation thanks to the show’s characters Kate Whistler and Lucy Tara. The relationships between Whistler and Tara evolved in a very natural way proving that the characters had a lot of love and care for each other with no sexual undertone highlighted throughout the show.

Apart from that, NCIS: Hawai’i introduced the storyline not as something that will come and go, but rather what will stay in the show permanently. The NCIS’ spinoff eventually received a lot of acclaim for developing an accurate representation of the queer community whose relationships are frequently distorted or proved to be toxic in other shows or movies.

Though NCIS had no problem with introducing queer characters throughout the whole franchise run, most of them never received a proper development for their personal story or even were killed off before giving deep into their love life.

Now that NCIS: Hawai’i and its couple of Kate and Lucy are gone, the franchise needs to make it up to the spinoff’s trend, and the original show already has a right character to do so.

NCIS’ latest seasons starting with season 15 feature Kasie Hines, forensic scientist for the MCRT who took over Abigail Sciuto’s position after the latter left in season 15 finale. Being a part of the LGBTQ+ community herself, Kasie’s actress Diona Reasonover has recently revealed that she would love to see her character getting “into some online dating” in the upcoming season 22.

Kasie’s personal life was in fact ignored during the last couple of seasons with the character herself claiming that she had no luck in relationships after failing to build ones three times in the last five years.

Though Kasie was once shown in a relationship with Piper from the NCIS Cyber Division, it didn’t work out and still nothing can really impede her to turn to a wider range of options.

Such a turn of events in NCIS’ season 22 will be just what the doctor ordered after NCIS: Hawai’i’s promising, yet lost storyline.

Source: TV Line