Tony and Ziva looked quite promising in the trailers, and I was looking forward to the first episode. I knew full well it would not be an NCIS- type of episode, and was fine with the tangential references. The weakness, however, occurred in the story execution. Much of the back-narrative is shown through an opening montage some of which did not take place in any NCIS episode. Then moving forward, the storyline also jumped back-and-forth in time, which is normally not a problem unless the dialogue is insufficient to fill in the blanks - which it was. Eventually, by the end of the episode, it all starts to pull together, but it was too little too late. Plus the added swearing. There's no need for that, and it degrades from the show's quality. Is that supposed to be edgy? It doesn't add anything and is often a cover-up for lazy writing.

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