NCIS Upcoming Spinoff Can Finally Fix Gibbs’ Biggest Plot Hole
The character’s personal story was never taken that seriously.
The NCIS franchise is one of the biggest players for the upcoming TV season as the show isn’t only coming back with its season 22, but also brings two more brand new spinoffs that are set to finally change the franchise’s entire perspective.
This time staying away from a specific location that for years has been an essential part of every NCIS spinoff, both shows will put their focus on the original series’ beloved characters, with Leroy Jethro Gibbs being one of them.
As the upcoming series titled NCIS: Origins potentially aims at taking a closer look at Gibbs’ professional and personal life, there’s one specific storyline that the show just can’t ignore, and it concerns the character’s biggest life tragedy.
Throughout all the 19 seasons that NCIS has featured Gibbs, the character was mostly discreet about his personal life, though at some point more details about his family started resurfacing letting fans know the horrible truth about Gibbs’ first wife and daughter, Shannon and Kelly, who were brutally killed.
Given that NCIS: Origins is set to take its viewers back to the 1990s, it is very likely to finally dive deeper into the character’s darkest period of life, yet there’s still another confusing detail that fans hope to see clarified in the upcoming series.
Apart from all the mystery surrounding the death of Gibbs’ first wife and daughter, NCIS: Origins also needs to make things clear about the character’s relationship with FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell, especially since the original show surely entangled it all even more.
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Just like Gibbs himself, Fornell is introduced in NCIS season 1 episode 1, where the two apparently meet for the first time. Yet it appears to be an unfeasible version of events when it’s revealed that Fornell married Gibbs’ second wife after the latter divorced the NCIS Special Agent, with all this hinting that Gibbs and Fornell met much earlier than the show implied.
Ironically, they eventually develop a good relationship and later become best friends, but their first meeting definitely has a different and more compelling story that may have happened long before NCIS featured them in season 1.
If such an option is indeed true, NCIS: Origins and its time-traveling storyline have in fact all the chances to finally dive deeper into Gibbs and Fornell’s friendship that has been the original series’ essential plot line since the very beginning.
NCIS: Origins will arrive at CBS this fall.