huh, i guess it was just season 1 they redid.
― j., Sunday, 10 February 2013 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
the early seasons have had spotty full widescreen/HD broadcasts on TNT, so at least some of the eps have been upconverted from the original film
― Nhex, Sunday, 10 February 2013 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
is jack mccoy supposed to be drunk in his first episode (at the beginning of season 5)?
― j., Sunday, 24 February 2013 06:59 (eleven years ago) link
rey curtis, bleh
― j., Thursday, 28 February 2013 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
is the beginning of season 8 the first episode that starts with a live victim?
― j., Thursday, 7 March 2013 11:30 (eleven years ago) link
unfortunately not in the spreadsheet: http://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/11/13/the-law-and-order-database-all-20-seasons/
― s.clover, Thursday, 7 March 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
i never looked at that before. i didn't realize that he keeps track of NOTHING.
i started my OWN spreadsheet last year for homicide.xls and it was a monstrous task trying to keep track of even the little i tried to keep track of - the different detectives' cases and the big incidents in their lives / relationships. of course, in the first couple seasons they would routinely be running three separate stories per episode.
L&O spreadsheet should keep track of things like law-time-to-order-time proportion, cases where adam schiff leaves the office, episodes where the crime involves people in the criminal justice system, etc.
― j., Friday, 8 March 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
ha, i had a homicide board spreadsheet where i'd keep a note of all the names that appeared on the board. got kinda messy has i hadn't realised that they flipped the board over for the other shift... (also, episodes were sometimes shown in a different order to the filming order so lists would go up and down).
― koogs, Friday, 8 March 2013 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
don't they also add names for cases that aren't shown?
― j., Friday, 8 March 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, often members of the crew or visitors.
― koogs, Friday, 8 March 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
i had forgotten how much skoda is just like FUCK IT WHATEVER in comparison to olivet
― j., Saturday, 9 March 2013 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
'don't get weepy on me. i'm not nixon, and you're not ehrlichman.'
― j., Friday, 29 March 2013 09:44 (eleven years ago) link
I need to start watching the reruns again regularly, the Lenny Episodes were just straight gold.
Stopped caring about SVU a few seasons back.
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 29 March 2013 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
This is as good a place as any for me to mention that I'm still pissed that the LA spinoff was cut off at the knees
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 29 March 2013 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
loved corey stoll on the LA spinoff, the rest was iffy
― max, Friday, 29 March 2013 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
I like that they brought back Connie on LOLA.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 29 March 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
that woman really deserved better
― Nhex, Friday, 29 March 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
i know the ratings weren't great but c'mon it was a law and order show. given another season i'm sure it would have gotten an audience! i have no idea why they thought they had any remotely better ideas.
― s.clover, Friday, 29 March 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Bear in mind that was the same year as The Event, The Cape, and Outsourced. The following year they made and cancelled the US remake of Prime Suspect
But I have to admit I kinda hated LOLA, pre- and post-retool. Definitely would've preferred that they NOT cancel the original, the team at that time was pretty decent
― Nhex, Friday, 29 March 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
this show has the best russians
― j., Saturday, 30 March 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
The last few seasons of Law and Order were pretty good.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 30 March 2013 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
Ha ha, Jenna Stern retweeted me.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 31 March 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
they were GREAT
― maura, Sunday, 31 March 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
Somehow I only just noticed Law and Order: UK exists.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 March 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
it's re-imaginings of old l&o scripts. you're not missing much tbh.
― koogs, Sunday, 31 March 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
'she scared me, that girl… she have heart like KGB'
― j., Monday, 1 April 2013 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
They should call L&O: UK L&O: Doctor Who
― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Monday, 1 April 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't the UK one have the Adama kid from Battlestar Galactica?
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Monday, 1 April 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
yeah apollo was on the uk one
― balls, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
pff who cares, it had Martha Jones
― Nhex, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
man i hate this guy
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080902171418/lawandorder/images/4/4d/William_Wright.jpg
― j., Tuesday, 2 April 2013 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
huh this makes perfect sense who woulda thunk it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-back_life_sentences
― j., Friday, 5 April 2013 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
they have real mayors and governors and presidents but when jack argues in front of the supreme court they're strangely vague about any real-world correspondences to the justices -
http://lawandorder.wikia.com/wiki/Vaya_Con_Dios
even though in the next episode giuliani appears as himself to introduce nora lewin as schiff's replacement
― j., Saturday, 6 April 2013 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://lawandorder.wikia.com/wiki/Everybody%27s_Favorite_Bagman
Steven Zirnkilton, best known as the opening credits narrator for all L&O series, makes his sole on-screen appearance in this episode. He is one of the NYPD technicians conducting covert surveillance of a restaurant where corrupt politicians are dining. He has one line of dialogue: "Look at that. Do you believe these guys?"
= opening credits guy must be the one who is compiling all the footage and telling the stories for 20 years!
― j., Friday, 19 April 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
I bought the Jerry Orbach biography. I cried at the end.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 19 April 2013 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
'crouching tiger, hidden student'
― j., Friday, 19 April 2013 08:38 (eleven years ago) link
man, i've been watching later-season episodes on like russian and indian pirate streaming video sites, every once in a while there's a wonky video transfer that makes it like watching a law & order screw tape
― j., Sunday, 21 April 2013 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
caught so flat-footed after 9/11, half a season before they even mention it and then it's always these awkward punch-ins, 'well with what's going on in this city…', 'nowadays people think the more information, the better'
― j., Tuesday, 23 April 2013 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
clay davis really tears it up in the wire reunion episode w/ wee-bey and bunk in it
― j., Monday, 10 June 2013 09:38 (ten years ago) link
i never noticed before, like half the episodes fontana has been in so far, he's told a witness 'we're authorized' to get information out of them. is that some kind of in-joke from farina's earlier roles?
― j., Monday, 10 June 2013 09:58 (ten years ago) link
he keeps doing it, it's hilarious
― j., Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:57 (ten years ago) link
nearly every opening in season 17 shows the victim getting killed, or alive before the body is discovered.
something something did not honor the fire.
― j., Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:36 (ten years ago) link
season 18 is so much better than the preceding ones (back until harmon/schiff were still around). proof of the showrunner principle - rene balcer was back!
more leisurely scenes (sisto must make a difference there, the conversations he's in just seem naturally slower), and more small details, like the thing with the whistles during the blackout episode, or the larry craig bathroom-tapping scene with john doman, or the new workplace adjustments of having mccoy sticking his nose in between cutter (the new guy) and rubirosa (pre-existing relationship with mccoy, but now reporting to cutter). tricksier cases, too.
― j., Thursday, 20 June 2013 07:56 (ten years ago) link
I love the last 3 seasons.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:25 (ten years ago) link
anthony anderson explains unions 2 u
― j., Friday, 21 June 2013 04:44 (ten years ago) link
cutter vs. rubirosa!
man this season is on point
― j., Friday, 21 June 2013 05:12 (ten years ago) link
that was one of the most hilariously contrived L&O situations ever
oh no! there's a DA strike... so Connie has to defend the criminal!!
― Nhex, Friday, 21 June 2013 05:15 (ten years ago) link
lol mccoy on the kennedy assassination - 'ongoing investigation??!'
― j., Sunday, 23 June 2013 08:39 (ten years ago) link
'so where do the juggalos hang out?'
― j., Saturday, 29 June 2013 08:48 (ten years ago) link
http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/named-entities-in-law-and-order-using-nlp.html
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Friday, 5 July 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link