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Thirty Days NCIS Meme. Day #26 - The Most Shocking/Unexpected Season Finale

I saw this quite some time ago on dinozzoitis's journal and finally got around to doing it.



Day 01 – Favourite season
Day 02 – Least favourite season
Day 03 – Favourite episode
Day 04 – Least favourite episode
Day 05 – Favourite male character
Day 06 – Favourite female character
Day 07 – Least favourite character
Day 08 – Favourite villain
Day 09 - Best story arc
Day 10 – Favourite rule
Day 11 – Favourite DiNozzo movie reference
Day 12 – Favourite Ziva-ism
Day 13 – Your OTP (one true pairing)
Day 14 – Favourite quote
Day 15 – Favourite case
Day 16 – An episode you’ve seen more than three times
Day 17 – Best kiss
Day 18 – Saddest moment
Day 19 – Funniest moment
Day 20 – Two characters you wish had met properly
Day 21 – Something you wish you could go back and change
Day 22 – Saddest character death
Day 23 – An episode you wish you could have been in
Day 24 – Favourite friendship
Day 25 – An ‘OMFG did that just happen?’ moment
Day 26 – Most shocking/unexpected season finale
Day 27 – Episode you shed the most tears in
Day 28 – Favourite cast member
Day 29 – First scene that comes to mind
Day 30 – Anything NCIS related



Day 26 – Most shocking/unexpected season finale

Another not overly straight-forward one for a couple of reasons. Firstly, 'shocking' and 'unexpected' to me are two different things. Something can be unexpected but not shocking equally so something can be shocking but not unexpected. And secondly, are we talking about the final scene or the whole episode?

For me, most of the season finales have ended on an unexpected note. The exception being Season One which,h in a way, could possibly be seen as both 'shocking' and 'unexpected' as it didn't end with a cliff-hanger or even a 'ooh, what's going to happen next'. However, not all of them have ended on a shocking note.

There hasn't been a finale where I've been on the edge of my seat throughout being shocked and/or surprised time and time again. The finale that probably produced the most unexpected moments was Season Three 'Hiatus', but it wasn't really a shocking episode.

So in the end I'm going to go with:

Season Two's finale - 'Twilight'.

Whilst I knew before I watched it that Kate was going to be killed (at that point I wasn't able to get the episodes as quickly as I do now) had I not known I would have been mightily surprised as there wasn't all the 'talk' before-hand.

And it was certainly a shocking ending - made all the more so because she apparently survived, only to stand joking and exchanging banter with Gibbs and DiNozzo seconds later to be shot in the head and killed by Ari.

The episode did have a number of surprises over all and mild shocks too. But the ending really was so very well done, so well set up, so unexpected - it had me crying even though I knew Kate would die.

So that's why it gets my 'vote' as the most shocking/unexpected finale.