Doozer61
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all reruns this week :stupidbaseball:
VertigoGal said:omgz i'm watching the best episode, the one where alex cabot comes back from the dead to testify against liam connors. and the little boy is so cute.
can't wait for tuesday.
VertigoGal said:omgz i'm watching the best episode, the one where alex cabot comes back from the dead to testify against liam connors. and the little boy is so cute.
can't wait for tuesday.
bono_212 said:
However, I think that they're starting to write E&O stuff...I mean did you see the jealous gleam in Olivia's eye
BluRmGrl said:Dani + Elliot =
I just don't like Dani... like IWB said, the character's just too over the top & inconsistent. Next week's show does look interesting though. The creepy little girl is Dakota Fanning's sister, right? What have they done, anyway - cornered the market on the 'freaky little girl' schtick?
bono_212 said:
I am in agreement with everything...including the Fanning sisters comment.
They built no sexual tension between dani and stabler whatsoever and now it's just like...why? what was the point of this? Just HAD to have stabler get with someone else? Why can't he just get back with his wife...I know I know, it's silly to hope for, but that's still what I wish would happen.
IWasBored said:
the reason i got so easily hooked on this show was because it lacked sleazy romances. i'm going to start to think i'm a jinx--after 7 years, the season i start watching is where they introduce this crap?
Liesje said:
It's been a loooooong time coming! I've been predicting a Benson/Stabler hookup for four years, nearly the start of the show. After that long, I'll take what I can get! Beck/Stabler rather than Benson/Stabler.....meh, close enough.
IWasBored said:
i forgot. this is the internet, and for some strange reason everyone online automatically assumes that every character on every show has to be interested romantically in one of the other main characters. no such thing as just friends. never.
Liesje said:
Yep, that was exactly my train of thought. "Regular" Law & Order is completely above all of this, and almost has this aura of prestige among crime dramas, so I figured that with SVU, it would go more mainstream and somewhere down the line, there would be a hookup. Stabler's relationship with his wife was rocky from the beginning. The divorce was obviously going to happen, and the next logical thing would be the Benson/Stabler hookup. I've accepted the fact that the writers of this show are going to give the mainstream what they want. I'm pleasantly surprised with the recent turn of events. For everyone who's called the Benson/Stabler hookup from the beginning, they did one over on us!
VertigoGal said:I may start watching again.
saw a rerun tonight (I only ever see reruns it seems like)...the one where Elliott goes to Prague to catch child rapist/pornographers or something. And they've got some sicko in a basement and Elliott's completely beating the guy to a pulp because "we're not in america anymore!" Anger management issues there.
VertigoGal said:I may start watching again.
saw a rerun tonight (I only ever see reruns it seems like)...the one where Elliott goes to Prague to catch child rapist/pornographers or something. And they've got some sicko in a basement and Elliott's completely beating the guy to a pulp because "we're not in america anymore!" Anger management issues there.
Liesje said:
IWB, I think "regular" Law & Order is becoming a lot less mainstream. I don't know many people who loved L&O who watch the new ones from the past few seasons. Hell, I don't even make a point of it, now that Jerry Orbach is gone. I'm sure they've taken a HUGE hit and that's a major reason why they've gone to such lengths to promote SVU and CI. The only place to get decent Law & Order now is TBS. No one I know that likes SVU watches the real deal; some don't even know it exists! I remember L&O:Trial By Jury and LOVED that. That was really the only spinoff to even come close to the regular L&O, and it only lasted what, like one season? It's crazy how the whole thing evolves. It was all born of Homicide: Life on the Streets. I don't think we even owned a TV when that was running!
I still love the original series' the best because it's all about the cases at hand, there's not these cheesy attempts at character development. You don't really know anything about any of the characters because it doesn't matter. Right from the beginning, SVU was different in this respect. The pilot episode opened up the whole thing about Olivia and her mom, and the "don't pick the vic" yadda yadda. L&O has been running for 16 years and I still couldn't tell you if Jack McCoy is married. I don't really understand why the powers that be decided to include this relationship crap in SVU, but apparently the majority must eat it up since the show has been going strong ever since. Most of the younger crowd I know that watches SVU says regular L&O is "too boring" and is too focused on the courtroom and not enough on the characters' drama. Eh, no thanks!