There was definitely Italian food involved. There just HAD to be.
DiNozzo DeNial makes the most sense to me - Tony hides from his feelings. Look how long it took him to say 'I love you' to Jeanne and that was an assignment. Especially when you throw in a dash of societal homophobia, it becomes far easier for Tony (who is still insecure of himself) to retreat from someone who so clearly presses all of his buttons AND is confident in himself like our Timmy, who has visibly become more and more accepting of who HE is over the course of the show. In the face of someone who is so visibly self-confident, Tony retreats to immaturity and veiled innuendo to express how much he wants to get into Timmy's pants (and heart). And Tim indulges him in his game, but that's got something to do with Tim's own vulnerabilities and fears that maybe Tony isn't actually interested in him that way because Tim's only managed to build this self-confidence recently, so if he were to try to take it too far and learn that Tony actually doesn't want a relationship, it would probably destroy him, because here's Tony, the kind of guy who surfacely resembles the guys picked on Tim most of his life, who is interested in him, the McGeek, and it would be one more time that the bullies managed to get one on him, only this time taking away the happiness that he has workedso hard to gain (because not only would he lose his self-confidence, he'd probably have to leave the team, if not NCIS completely because he couldn't take being around that type of Tony). So they both play the game, neither one willing to take that step to the next level because they're comfortable where they are.
I liked Jenny, even her yen for getting the Frog putting our McNozzo at risk, because the whole white whale thing made her human, and I like it when the people on my TV are portrayed as being flawed, not just perfect little automatons. I just wish there had been a little more done that played her with the other members of the team instead of just Gibbs and Tony. Even her friendship with Ziva was fairly underplayed.
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DiNozzo DeNial makes the most sense to me - Tony hides from his feelings. Look how long it took him to say 'I love you' to Jeanne and that was an assignment. Especially when you throw in a dash of societal homophobia, it becomes far easier for Tony (who is still insecure of himself) to retreat from someone who so clearly presses all of his buttons AND is confident in himself like our Timmy, who has visibly become more and more accepting of who HE is over the course of the show. In the face of someone who is so visibly self-confident, Tony retreats to immaturity and veiled innuendo to express how much he wants to get into Timmy's pants (and heart). And Tim indulges him in his game, but that's got something to do with Tim's own vulnerabilities and fears that maybe Tony isn't actually interested in him that way because Tim's only managed to build this self-confidence recently, so if he were to try to take it too far and learn that Tony actually doesn't want a relationship, it would probably destroy him, because here's Tony, the kind of guy who surfacely resembles the guys picked on Tim most of his life, who is interested in him, the McGeek, and it would be one more time that the bullies managed to get one on him, only this time taking away the happiness that he has workedso hard to gain (because not only would he lose his self-confidence, he'd probably have to leave the team, if not NCIS completely because he couldn't take being around that type of Tony). So they both play the game, neither one willing to take that step to the next level because they're comfortable where they are.
I liked Jenny, even her yen for getting the Frog putting our McNozzo at risk, because the whole white whale thing made her human, and I like it when the people on my TV are portrayed as being flawed, not just perfect little automatons. I just wish there had been a little more done that played her with the other members of the team instead of just Gibbs and Tony. Even her friendship with Ziva was fairly underplayed.