Law and Order: Search and Destroy

i remember back in the old old days when the innovation was how dry and legalistic the show actually was -- anti-pretty mason but still hella exciting! now it's very perry mason; this is the second episode of the new season that's involved the DA getting and on-the-stand breakdown out of a witness.

xp no doubt! "alana de la garza" is her name, if you can believe it. odd that they found someone who looks so much like annie parisse.

xxp rip

the only ada i really didn't like was elizabeth rohm.

She is the Anti-Kincaid.

homophobes

heh

was there ever ANY hint she was gay until that last episode? it was awkward.

kind of a "poochie has decided to return to his home planet now" moment

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I love how they used to do that, though! Dry and legalistic and then suddenly some bit of personal life peeks in for a second. Best one = wasn't there some offhand suggestion that McCoy was always getting on his ADAs? Which doubles as a handy excuse for why they all look like that.

Also the time Bratt was like "hold on, phone call ... oh, my wife has M.S. Well, better go interview that other suspect..."

mccoy got with every ADA up to serena right?

In the beginning, he is also a notorious womanizer, having had sexual relationships with four of his female assistants.[1]
However, this has often blown up in his face: one such assistant, Diana Hawthorne, is found to have suppressed evidence so they could win a case (L&O: "Trophy"); another, Claire Kincaid, is killed in a car accident (L&O: "Aftershock"). Defense attorneys have used this against him (L&O: "Missing").
In 2007, the Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" segment humorously described the relationship of Jack McCoy with whoever is the current A.D.A. as "teaching cynicism to a supermodel." Since Kincaid's death, McCoy has kept his relationships with assistants professional, although he nurtures friendships with all of them.

'nurture' is a pretty gross word imo

TS: nature vs nurture

when did he ever get with Claire? Claire had a relationship with one of the judges that she clerked for before she became an ADA but I don't think she hooked up with McCoy

wow I'm past help huh

Haha not at all, I totally remember that one. She then resigned in the course of proving that he had harassed Jane Kazmarek's children after a failed affair

SHIT

Jesse Martin's leaving: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080221/tv_nm/law_dc

But he's being replaced by Anthony Anderson? I'd call that an upgrade.

u crazy

o damn i didn't know that!! so long ed green! anthony anderson tho, so it should be fine.

aaaanyway i came to post this, which is some o_O type shit

http://allthingslawandorder.blogspot.com/

uh "i like anthony anderson, tho"

"Claire had a relationship with one of the judges that she clerked for before she became an ADA but I don't think she hooked up with McCoy"

There are a few references to her sleeping with Jack, one of which came in the episode about one of Jack's previous assistants, Diana Hawthorne, with whom he was also sleeping. I thought that Claire was the last one he slept with, what with Jamie being too smart and sensible (plus being totally out-of-his-league gorgeous) and Angie Harmon (I forget her character's name at the moment) abstaining for the same reasons :). I may be wrong--it's hard to remember all 8243 episodes.

I also agree with whoever upthread said that he loved getting just the smallest offhand nugget about their personal lives. That was always so exciting when it happened!

WTF happened to Lara Flynn Boyle's face?

i couldn't really see it cause my reception is bad. this ep was DUD. rly god ci rerun on right now - the OTHER "the practice" chick was mr. big's neighbor and jumped/was pushed off roof!

bah the orig is like ci now, do not want

I'm kind of addicted to this show now all of a sudden (especially CI w/ Goren & Eeams, and the original with Jesse Martin and S Epetha...).Is there anywhere I can watch it online?

I dunno about online, but TNT shows about 10 L&O episodes a day, and USA Network does the same with L&O-CI. I can't remember who shows all the L&O-SVU reruns...maybe Bravo or A&E? SVU's still my favorite.

USA is your home for SVU reruns

i have to say i may be slowly losing my taste for this stuff (perish the thought).

i remember back in the michael moriarty and early waterston days when it was a pretty realistic crime procedural -- the innovation being a heavy emphasis on lawyering w/o a lot of matlock or perry mason style courtroom theatrics. + the politics were left-liberal but pretty sly and restrained. that's all pretty much gone.

I think you might have lost your taste for it even faster if they didn't monkey around with the formula a little. After all, this is L&O's 18th or 19th season...can you imagine the show still being like it was when Noth and Sorvino were the detectives?

yeah maybe yr right. but the ep last night was about a 'christian madrassa' that made a kid stone his mom to death. the mom, incidentally, was on a terror watch list entirely because the fbi is a bunch of illiterate, politicized morons. the head pastor, of course, flips out on the stand about needing to train warriors to destroy islam. it's a bit much.

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Law & Order is highly preferable to most true crime shows when it was far more gritty and realistic and I've sort of been in love with Vincent D'Onofrio for a while now plus L&O:CI is far more 'intellectually intense' when you're drunk and its a lazy Friday arvo. SVU has gotten silly and the repeats are erratic. I really miss the days of Orbach, he was pretty decent and straight. I love Munch and the utter hypocrisy that is Ice Cube...Also what happened to Homicide Life On The Streets that was otm.
New UK epis are hard to get here, Jeremy Sisto is on there? I loves him. I really, really liked Kidnapped but it got cancelled.

I saw Sam Wasterson in Great Barrington eating sushi.

I thought about getting his autograph while reciting the "Inthe criminal justice system the people are.." but I just let him eat sushi.

It's weird, though, how much I THINK I know him. I felt like I could discuss a case with him.

it's like being a soap opera fan.

I really felt like I could discuss a case - but, without my L&O battery of factoids at hand...I thought it best to let him eat sushi.

Sam Wasterson is famous for his depictions of Abraham Lincoln. he does regional theater stuff playing Abe.

I think that's the coolest career ever. Jack but also Abe.

I always thought of Sam Waterson as "my" Dad, because Waterson was in a Canadian CBC movie, Jane of Lantern Hill, which I really identified with as a kid. Heh.

i think homicide life on the street is on hiatus.

HOLY SHIT CHRISTOPHER MELONI PUT ME IN HIS TOP FRIENDS ON MYSPACE

chaki got man 2 10-15

I get excited when the L&O spin-offs refer to McCoy as a general public figure.

OR DO I?

Psych, I totally do.

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Waterson WTF!

"McCoy, have you been asked to join the Obama adminstration?"

WHAT??

I didn't watch tonight, but all of the Law and Orders have gone so far off the rails that I can barely stand to watch them anymore. SVU is especially terrible, CI was at least always kitschy a bit. SVU has been a joke of late. I'm a total hater now.

our 'new' SVU's are from 2004/5 and are still ok. ice-t saves the child of a dead informer from a meth lab that had been set up in a day school (of all places), that was good. last night munch pleaded with a deaf woman to quit her euthanasia web site...

Stabler's family issues are so stupid, but when Ellen Burstyn as his mom was talking about the time in Wildwood when she was aiming a gun at the family, my first thought was "Is Stabler's dad Bruce Dern??"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166893/

"Law & Order: London"

Featuring Apollo and Martha from Doctor Who. I'll probably download an episode out of curiosity just for that...

i don't know which law and order this was but i saw an ad for a new episode starring sherry stringfield (of 'ER'!) and ned beatty and the entire ad went something like this:

v.o.: "how is SHE controlling this judge?"

stringfield (witness): "tell him he's badgering the witness!"
beatty (judge): "uh, you're badgering the witness!"
D.A. (looks confused)