Well, NCIS: Hawai'i hit the ground running so quickly that I found myself happy that there were no NCIS characters around to mess up the flow of Special Agent in Charge Jane Tennant's team working out of Pearl Harbor. I didn't miss Gibbs at all (which is good considering he reportedly won't be around his own show as much this season, let alone popping up on spinoffs) and Hawai'i might not have been able to introduce the characters and their dynamics as well if the familiar NCIS characters were in the mix. And there's not as much dissonance between NCIS at 9 p.m. ET, with 18 seasons of history behind it, and the brand new NCIS: Hawai'i as I was afraid there would be.
