PatH
Second Unit
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2004
- Messages
- 323
I'll take a backseat to no one in my admiration for the L&O franchise in whatever flavor, but has anyone been watching the current season of CI on USA? I'm ecstatic that Goren and Eames are back; I thought their exit after season eight was handled poorly. Now they're back in a return which was no less sketchy. Jay O. Sanders' character has that much pull? And every episode is truncated so we can have a big psychoanalysis scene with Julia Ormand? That's lame; the only way it would be even remotely interesting is if in the final episode she rips off her disguise and reveals herself to be Nicole Wallace. Yeah, I know she's "dead", but in TV and comic books no one dies if the writers are good enough and Goren has caught that hack Medical Examiner Rodgers in several errors already. Even if they don't do that, the Ormand sequences are seriously bad.
Now, on to SVU. I fear we're seeing the last year upcoming. Meloni's departure, while no disaster for a franchise that has seen many cast changes (and I'm speaking of the L&O franchise in general), may tempt the writers to cut with a meat axe instead of a scalpel. I see no reason to lose Cragan, Munch, or Finn. My only regret is that I won't get to see either Stabler or Benson get any kind of discipline for their often high handed methods beyond a stern lecture by Cragan, who then has to get it in the neck from One PP. In Benson's case, this regrettably mirrors real life, as apparently she's being kicked upstairs to facilitate Mariska's reduced schedule.
I liked the series with Bebe Neuwirth, though I can't remember the title. I also like LOLA, in both incarnations, though NBC has so little regard for its viewers intelligence that they showed a Skeet Ulrich ep after his character was killed. I like Alana de la Garza and , , , hey, there's a thought. She moves back to NY, replaces Hargitay and re-teams with Linus Roache, who replaces Stabler. Or, maybe Corey Stoll can replace Stabler and de la Garza can be the new SVU ADA.
PatH
Now, on to SVU. I fear we're seeing the last year upcoming. Meloni's departure, while no disaster for a franchise that has seen many cast changes (and I'm speaking of the L&O franchise in general), may tempt the writers to cut with a meat axe instead of a scalpel. I see no reason to lose Cragan, Munch, or Finn. My only regret is that I won't get to see either Stabler or Benson get any kind of discipline for their often high handed methods beyond a stern lecture by Cragan, who then has to get it in the neck from One PP. In Benson's case, this regrettably mirrors real life, as apparently she's being kicked upstairs to facilitate Mariska's reduced schedule.
I liked the series with Bebe Neuwirth, though I can't remember the title. I also like LOLA, in both incarnations, though NBC has so little regard for its viewers intelligence that they showed a Skeet Ulrich ep after his character was killed. I like Alana de la Garza and , , , hey, there's a thought. She moves back to NY, replaces Hargitay and re-teams with Linus Roache, who replaces Stabler. Or, maybe Corey Stoll can replace Stabler and de la Garza can be the new SVU ADA.
PatH
