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Posted By: Magus Sep 23, 2004 - 03:38 pm

Does anybody watch it? I do. I love it. I have to eat now, but I'll expand on it later.

What's your favorite episode? Why do you love(hate) the show? Did you see the season premier yesterday?

Posted By: Magus Sep 24, 2004 - 08:16 pm

I'm back from that brief haiatus.

WHat I really love about the show is its duality. It shows both aspects of what goes on, the investigation and the litigation.

It also is very plot driven. You won't hear me say this for many things, but here is one case when I say it and say it loud. I LOVE THAT IT IS PLOT DRIVEN!

You get the case and the facts; cold and hard and final. You don't get into a person's marital or sex life, you don't get into what mid-life crisis is eating away at them and you don't get into what's wrong with their kid or mother.

You do get SOME of that. But it's onlt when it pertains to the case. Like when that one older cynical/sarcastic cop's daughter became a drug dealer... that was important to the case. Or the time when McCoy had to decide how he felt fopr the repenting woman who finally broke down and confessed to the crime, or the author who's one condition for his confession was to get the death penalty. That was important to the case.

I saw the season premier. I miss the old cynical and wisecracking cop. The new one is the kind of cop you don't trust; the kind who's always trying the wriggle and writhe and sneak something past you unsuspectingly. But he's better then what they could have done with it.

I did enjoy the premise on prisoner abuse in Iraq and post traumatic stress from 9/11. Those where very interesting and very well done.

I don't care so much for Law and Order: Special Victem's Unit. It focusses almost entirely on the police aspect and hardly at all at the legal aspect. It is far too character driven, at that, because of the lack of focus on the case. I also feel that it isn't diverse enough in the kinds of cases and thus suffers from a writing aspect. The acting is also a bit sub-par.

The best Law and Order is, and will most likely always be, the original. It's fresh and shows a lot of bold merit as a show. It is well written and more then adaquetly acted. A wonderful show, one of the few good things worthy of watching on TV.