Did the ‘NCIS: LA’ Premiere Give ‘JAG’ Fans Hope About Harm & Mac’s Future?
Spoiler Alert
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Season 11 premiere of NCIS: Los Angeles, “Let Fate Decide.”]
The door isn’t closed on Harm (David James Elliott) and Mac’s (Catherine Bell) future, at least not yet.
In the NCIS: LA Season 11 premiere, the JAG reunion finally took place in person, as Harm and Mac met on the ground during the mission. They didn’t have any time to do more than exchange hellos and hug (though he went for a handshake) before everyone split up. But once the case was over, they took a moment to discuss their past, present, and potential future.
She knew they hadn’t seen each other in nine years not because of their jobs, but because they’re scared. “We never gave it a shot, a real try, never put our all into it because we were scared to,” she told him. As for what that means for their future, “we’re way past letting fate decide,” she said, so at least JAG fans don’t have to worry about another coin flip and then finding out the results years later on another show.
Furthermore, Hetty (Linda Hunt) suggested Harm put in for a leadership role at an NCIS division, such as one in San Diego. (That just so happens to be where the two went after JAG before things fell apart.) And we’ve met a few people working out of San Diego on NCIS: LA in the past — including Agent Jasmine Garcia (Alyssa Diaz), who briefly appeared in the premiere, and Dave Flynn (Scott Grimes), from the failed NCIS: Red spinoff. Could they be setting up a spinoff with some familiar JAG faces?
One thing’s for certain: the door is clearly open for both Harm and Mac to return to NCIS: LA at some point, especially if he takes one of the positions Hetty suggested. Should we read into the fact that Sam (LL Cool J) and Callen (Chris O’Donnell) return to the USS Allegiance for the October 20 episode, “Yellow Jack,” and Elliott isn’t listed in the guest cast as possible confirmation he will? (Or is it simply due actor availability?)
A reunion 9 years in the making. #NCISLA pic.twitter.com/vPzCbfbvnj
— NCIS LA (@NCISLA) September 30, 2019
Whatever happens, Harm and Mac do appear to have left things in a better place than they were going into the end of Season 10. And a romantic reunion for the two could certainly be in the cards considering neither is in another relationship nor have they moved on.
We’ll just have to wait to see if we find out what comes next for the two of them off-screen, through another guest appearance from one or both, or a spinoff. After all, it has been a while since they’ve tried to expand the NCIS universe, and what better way than with two characters from the series that started it all?
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I was disappointed in the NCIS story line as it pick up on the ending of JAG.
So he lost the toss, gave her up in San Diego, and returned to duty at the end in their first year of ...(marriage?).
I would rather be at the story line as it was left at the end of JAG than at the NCIS LA story line on JAG.
Sad. I was a huge JAG fan as was my dad.
All things must pass. Let it go scriptwriters and actors. I feel like I was exploited by the JAG characters in the NCIS episode.
A let down JAG fan
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Do we really need another NCIS spin-off. I think not. This whole storyline was somehow absurd. Do we really want to see once again will they/won´t they, him giving up his career for her. I mean both are now in their 50th. To say it with their words. We are way back all of this. I am still angry about the storyline they choose. They led him somehow look like a fool (I love the carrier, we worked together, we we´re together, we got engaged, then we were not). Show me a 56 old XO of a ship who talks this way. They led her look way more mature but also very dominant in what is left of their relationship ( I don´t see any). I mean they could not make it in 23 years. Maybe then it was simply not meant to be. To me their "thing"
now looks like a very unhealthy co-dependency. The writers wrecked it with that storyline. It´s the same depressing underlying we already had a lot in season 9 and 10 of JAG. They were frustraded, bitter and angry torwards each other. Neither I need nor want that. This whole storyline was so absurd that it made me stop watching the Jag reruns immediately.
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Just hoping to hear more about this in the coming days.
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If only Macngd Harm can find their happiness together
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I was so happy to see both Catherine and David reprise their iconic roles I just wished they would let them be together! We have had enough of the back and forth, just let them be a couple! Here’s to hoping they come back soon to fix this disaster! Maybe they can come to back save hetty and partner up or something!
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Honestly I don´t Need anaother NCIS spin off
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I think the groundwork has been set for DJE and Catherine to either become recurring cast members of NCIS:LA, for a new NCIS spinoff or (hoping most for this), a JAG reboot with Harm as the top Navy JAG. I guess the ratings will bear out if Bellisario and CBS chose to invest in this. A great ending to a pretty decent premiere week!
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