I feel like I've watched thousands of hours cumulatively and haven't ever once paid attention ==> this strikes me as a testament to everything amazing about this program, actually
I'm still anti-SVU, though. It just always winds up gross. It's like they can't come up with actual plot twists, so instead the twist is always "and it gets even more depraved than you ever suspected." You spend 35 minutes figuring the father was molesting his daughter, and then they're all "but MOM was in on it, and they were actually trying to impregnate her at home using a turkey baster!"*
* = genuine half-remembered SVU episode
― nabisco, Friday, 31 August 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Another big difference is that the svu detectives (especially benson/stabler) take. each. crime. personally.
I feel when CI goes into 5-days-a-week syndication this fall on fox I'll have to force myself not to watch every day.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 31 August 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I've seen that SVU like five times! xpost.
I like SVU more because I like Benson and Belzer and Ice-T and B.D. MOTHERFUCKING WONG way more than anyone on regular L&O since Orbach went to the great precinct in the sky (RIP).
― jessie monster, Saturday, 1 September 2007 01:38 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^Yes
― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 1 September 2007 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
nabisco you better show respect to mariska hargitay right now or there will be beef
― J0hn D., Saturday, 1 September 2007 04:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i love that benson and stabler take it so personally and yeah rip orbach. he was an eye donor! hahahahaha. but yeah, nabisco otm as usual but i still love svu best.
― tehresa, Saturday, 1 September 2007 04:19 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa brad dourif! michael mckean!
― gff, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and the new cast and stuff
― gff, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
brad dourif is fucking awessssssommmmmee
― gff, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:51 (sixteen years ago) link
they've got s. epatha out in the field in ep2 here, i like it
― gff, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
If Fred Thompson agreed to appoint Sam Waterson as Attorney General, would you be more inclined to vote for him?
I say an empathic yes.
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I have never watched this. Obviously I am missing something, yes? -- jess, Monday, September 10 2001
haha 9/11 really DID change everything!
-- strongohulkington, Friday, August 31, 2007 1:35 PM
wau
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
haha. i don't usually watch l&o (unless i am in a hotel room), but i am watching it tonight!
― Jordan, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm watching it right now! I love Collins! (Tom Collins!)
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:30 (sixteen years ago) link
oh an honest to god twist! seems kind of old fashioned
― gff, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
ohhhh and it's the fucker from fall out boy!
― gff, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
!!!!!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
moral quandaries!! man this is the old stuff
― gff, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Was that really him? I thought it might be.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 January 2008 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i might not have spotted him had jess not talked about it on idolator a bunch
― gff, Thursday, 3 January 2008 04:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Which one was he?
― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 3 January 2008 04:28 (sixteen years ago) link
political candidate in this episode of Criminal Intent looks like Huckabee
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 3 January 2008 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
the kidnapper with the sideburns
― gff, Thursday, 3 January 2008 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
hay guise tonight's episode was partially filmed at my school!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
god bless my 9 for CI reruns at 11
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, I don't even like CI, and I'm still happy for that
― nabisco, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I've mostly solved the problem by just pretending D'Onofrio is supposed to be Columbo's nephew, which explains a lot of the speech patterns
― nabisco, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i think that goren is my only fictional crush
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
the 2005 season of CI only started here last night :(
― DG, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
ci kinda bugs me sometimes, but for someone w/out cable, those 11 pm reruns are totally classic. also on the weekends sometimes they do back to back svus!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
GRRR Regular Law & Orders are turning into Criminal Intent these days -- they even do the outside-POV opening with the live victim!
― nabisco, Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link
As if I would ever tire of the signature "so should we order out for-- OMG a random dead body" openings
― nabisco, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice 'don't forget to vote in the primary Tuesday' line at the end.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link
weeeellll it looks like dick wolf is an obama man
-- gff, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:58 PM (19 minutes ago)
lol
― gff, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
man that was a fakeout: all the promos pushed the larry craig thing and the dude disappears from the plot! it's all hillary all bad all the time
― gff, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:19 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man, the law & order tonight was so good. was it a rerun? i haven't seen any from this season.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 14 February 2008 05:58 (sixteen years ago) link
go to bed.
it was mostly just good cuz of the prospect park footage + the "lol fuck u cops" sentiment.
― ian, Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:00 (sixteen years ago) link
can we get perry mason on netflix??!
they kept calling jack a liberal hippie. who is the new detective that looks like a young elliot gould? and the ada who looks like olivia benson's hotter younger sister?
― bell_labs, Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i will go to bed now lol
sonned
that guy i couldn't place looks like the dude who works at forbidden planet!
― ian, Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish nbc would stream l&o online :( i always miss it!
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:07 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah esp bcuz they didn't renew their contract with itunes
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link
he looks like a young elliot gould. ie very handsome,
― bell_labs, Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link
ok you know what you know that dude from? he was brenda's brother on six feet under
― bell_labs, Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I QM GOING to sleep now tho
― bell_labs, Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
ohhhh he IS hot!
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I am liking this season way more than I expected. Yes, it can be a bit like CI at times (Rene Balcer is writing this season, and he ran the first five years of CI), but for the first time possibly this decade, I find all six leads really good and complementary to each other.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Jeremy Sisto and the new additions on the DA side are excellent. I was convinced the show had just about run its course (I had only been watching SVU for the last two seasons, really). But now it's good tv again!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 February 2008 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link