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"straight from the headlines"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

actually i would totally pay to see a jack mccoy johnny rotten throwdown

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

that'd surely be better than the Jack McCoy-John Doe throwdown.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, I didn't have your new AIM name!

Do you work downtown? Are you near William St? I maybe be going there sometime this month, we should do lunch! We could eat in the park in front of the courthouses and have a Law and Order moment.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to see Jack McCoy vs Peter Gallagher, the battle of the eyebrows.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

jack mccoy wins because he has the palsy chicken neck

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

plus he rides a motorbike! he's tough!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I wrote a ten page paper about L&O for my media critiscm class last (fall) semester. I have also done a few marathons - TNT, 13 episodes in a row, etc. only getting up to refill my beverage. last night was crazy, because their were SIMULTANEOUS runs of L&O on...I watched NBC, mostly, because i think I have almost probably maybe seen all the old episodes.
Things I love:
*McCoy's inability to turn his head without moving his whole body when he's "stunned" by someone else's statement.
*The episode where McCoy is called, by an evil perp who is Revived in a later episode, "Your gloomy little friend...".
*Adam as DA, always. Whatsername sucked (and I've loved her in other things) and Thompson is a retired Republican senator who should be retired, permanently, from the public eye.

I will list more things I love, but Thompson and Elisabeth umglot Rohm make the whole show interesting ONLY because Sam Waterson (and the other regulars) are always acting like they can't believe they have to practice their craft with such talentless stand-ins.

Disclaimer: I only started watching L&O, in syndication, in late 2002.
Claimer: I've watched it like a junkie (sometimes seven episodes in a day!) since then.

Disclaimer: I watched ALL of Dawsons Creek in back to back episodes in approx. five weeks. Binge.
Claimer: I never watch (well almost never) L&O's bastard spawn - I'm a purist. Purge. Purgist.

― aimurchie, Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Is Thompson the newest "young cop"? If it is, I like him. They haven't tried to give him a real personality to distract from the actual plot of the show, unlike Bratt or Noth.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

no Fred Thompson is the DA and he sucks and almost always when he pushes some dumb Republican point in the dialogue, McCoy knocks him down.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"well i'll tell you what, this here country boy ain't gonna be hornswoggled by no special interests come election time, i'll tell you what."

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, duh. Anyways, I like the current young cop. He's got a good incredulous expression.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I like it when he speaks "jive."

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

strongo/stence otm. Adam Schiff 4ever.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link

the young cops have always been good. they're the only part where the changeups didnt evidence a noticable drop off.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't really see the drop-off in the assistant DA's either...they're all generically pretty young women with somewhat average acting skills. There were two of them that looked exactly the same (the one on Crossing Jordan and the one I had a brief TV crush on but is married to some dickhead football player).

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

The best line of dialogue from any "Law & Order" ever is "Oh girl, you are as dumb as a bag of hair."

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Adam Schiff's phone = portal of death.

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm a big fan of the old guy in the wheelchair when asked about a rape or something; "I ain't getting wit' no downtown bitch"

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe we like mcCoy to have brunette assistants - the feisty one (who dies and is the star of Crossing Jordan), the husky voiced one (Who was from texas in the show and married the football player) and the single mom (who is married to Richard Gere).
Elisabeth umglot Rohm is simply a bad actress, and she has met her match with the big ex-senator.
Where in the world is Adam Schiff? And our lovely brunettes?
Briscoe should arrest them and McCoy should put them on trial for bad acting. Then they can go to Guantanamo, and trade jello with the entire cast of....(fill in the blanks).

― aimurchie, Friday, 28 May 2004 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link

KNOW YOUR LAWYERS:

Feisty = Jill Hennessey
Husky = Angie Harmon
Single Mom = Carrie Lowell

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

BTW, did Crossing Jordan ever get any better, or does the show still suck as badly as it did in the beginning? I remember the pilot/first episode...the 'so empathic about killers and victims that she herself experiences the crime scene' cliches had me convulsing on the floor. Why not just have a blinking neon sign over her head saying "Character ideas wanted: Apply within"?

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link

my fave schiff line:
"quick,
somebody lock the door
before somebody walks through
with a case we can win."

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 28 May 2004 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link

"KNOW YOUR LAWYERS"
I am suitably admonished and ashamed. I guess I'm an L&O charlatan.

'my fave schiff line:
"quick,
somebody lock the door
before somebody walks through
with a case we can win." '
That makes me so happy. I can picture it - and McCoy turning his stiff neck to react. And then everyone has a glass of scotch.

― aimurchie, Friday, 28 May 2004 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I watched Crossing Jordan once, it BLEW. And the episode I saw didn't even have Jill Hennessy in it. She was like on vacation or something.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Aimurchie, I'm the one fronting - I haven't seen an episode of L&O since the Hennessey era. Dianne Weist (sic) as the DA? Mrs. Jason Sehorn litigating? No Michael Moriarty or Paul Sorvino? The Ally McBeal guy as a cop? Funk that, son.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Favorite Episode Endings?

- Greevey [smiling impishly]: "So, how did you know?"
Stone: "My father. Every day, at lunch."
[Greevey's smile dissolves]

- "She doesn't have an uncle!"

- The one where Stone convicts the cult leader, gets The Phone Call, turns ashen pale and croaks a feeble "Oh my God"; cuts to a scene with Briscoe & Logan surveying the teenage disciples strewn across the floor in mass suicide.

- The one with Logan/pedophile ex-priest. "We called you 'Father'...how could you do that to us? You even did it to your own son. How could you do that." The ex-priest gets taken away; shot of Logan superimposed on the bars of the cell.

- The one where Adam takes his wife off life-support, with the prolonged, haunting shot of him (proof that Steven Hill is one of the great actors).

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

- "She doesn't have an uncle!"
Schiff's reaction to that is THE BEST THING EVER

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 29 May 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link

What is the Greevey/Stone exchange about?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 29 May 2004 03:53 (nineteen years ago) link

his dad being an alcoholic.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 29 May 2004 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i used the word "hornswoggled" twice during my final exams, and "hoodwinked" once, and i got this sudden PC flash that somehow "hoodwink" was a slur of some kind.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 29 May 2004 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

REVIVE FOR BEST NEWS OF THE PAST TWO YEARS:

STEPPING DOWN: Elisabeth Rohm planning to exit NBC's Law & Order sometime in the middle of next season. The actress has made her character the longest-running assistant district attorney on the show since replacing Angie Harmon in 2001.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't get why everybody hates her.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't either. All the assistant DA's since the first dude kind of blend together into a melange of bland prettiness.

― St. Nicholas Ridiculous (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Please note that the inquisitors become especially irate when confonted with the anti-Hennessy heresy.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

See, I can't even remember who that is. Is she Claire Kincaid, the single mother with the shorter hair? Because she was probably the best actress of them all. But in that role, acting skill doesn't particularly matter. Or in any of the L&O roles for that matter.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't understand the hate either. She does seem a little more brittle than, say, Jill Hennessy -- but a little less so than Angie Harmon. And I think they're all fine, really. I don't have much of a strong opinion about any of them much like I don't have a strong opinion about Joel vs. Mike on MST3K.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Nick I am filling our your card

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude, I love Law & Order, but who watches it for skillfull acting? It's like appreciating coloring books for the expressive artwork.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Also: dude.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Elisabeth Rohm is much better now than she originally was; I suspect that she has overthrown her programming and manifested self will.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

she has improved since she was on Angel

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I do fear who her replacement will be.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.grudge-match.com/Images/johnny5.gif

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

That would be cool. The robot could extract quick confessions from the baddies by grabbing them with his pincers.

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't get why everybody hates her.

The completely flat voice and blank expression (yes, moreso than Hennessy, Harmon, or Lowell). Maybe she's gotten better over the years, I don't really watch the regular series that much in general any more, but when it comes on I still can't watch her without cringing before too long...

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

You know who I hate? The (assistant?) D.A. on L&O:SVU. Her who always fucks everything up in court so that the cops have to go back out and find more evidence. Her only purpose is to mess things up and whine about lack of evidence. GRRRR. Ice-T should beat her up like he did that kiddie-slave trader in last night's rerun.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

white girls be havin' flat voices

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

and asses.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

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