NCIS: Origins Success Guaranteed if It Follows Young Sheldon Finale Suit

The NCIS franchise is just several months away from dropping its big universe extensions and bringing two brand new spinoffs alongside its original series season 22.

This time with no specific location put in the storyline, NCIS’ upcoming spinoff titled NCIS: Origins will take its viewers back in time to the 1990s giving a sneak peek into an earlier career of the original show’s biggest figure Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

Though the series is already boycotted by many fans who have doubts regarding Austin Stowell’s portrayal of younger Gibbs, the spinoff can still make it up to all the skeptics by bringing the original actor back to the screen.

However, there’s only one way to turn the heavily criticized show into something triumphant.

Despite NCIS: Origins’ storyline set years before the original series picked Gibbs’ story up, the upcoming show will have zero value in most of the fans’ eyes if it doesn’t feature Gibbs’ original actor Mark Harmon at some point.

In here, we are talking specifically about Harmon’s physical appearance as it’s already been revealed that the actor will be back to his role, but in a different way, stepping into NCIS: Origins as its narrator.

Given that the whole plot will now revolve around young Gibbs portrayed by Stowell, seeing Harmon show up too much would indeed feel weird even for those who are craving for the actor’s return to the NCIS universe. Still, a simple yet effective solution to such a dilemma has already been successfully demonstrated by another CBS hit, The Big Bang Theory ’s prequel Young Sheldon.

In the latter’s finale, Sheldon Cooper’s younger and adult versions, played by Iain Armitage and Jim Parsons respectively, reunite for a sweet ending scene that gives an update on how things were going in the adult Sheldon’s life.

As it later turned out, the whole prequel came as the result of the character’s work on his own memoir, giving another explanation for why it was Jim Parsons who narrated the show’s every season.

Now that NCIS already said goodbye to Gibbs in season 19, making it clear that everything he wanted at that moment was to spend his retirement relaxing in Alaska, the character’s future after departing from the flagship show comes as a perfect opportunity to introduce the upcoming spinoff.

There’s surely no need for Mark Harmon’s Gibbs to pop up in every single episode, but he can follow Sheldon Cooper’s suit by opening or wrapping the whole story up letting the viewers know that the entire series is just a visual representation of his own memoir that he decided to start writing in Alaska.

Given that Harmon, just like Jim Parsons in Young Sheldon, is NCIS: Origins’ narrator, such an idea seems to be a perfect pretext for fitting the actor in the show where his role also belongs to someone else now.