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As much as I love Briscoe-era re-runs, for some baffling reason, when Five USA shows old Law and Order in the evenings, they only ever show Carmichael-era episodes. Whenever the main Channel Five shows re-runs, its always Fontana episodes, and FX only ever shows seasons 1-9. I guess that Law and Order re-runs are just wierd like that in the UK. The most recent series Channel 5 showed as "new" was Season 17 last year.
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Robin Williams on SVU has been ridiculous, but reminds me how great he is at playing weirdos/villains.
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Mar 30, 2012 22:59
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Is there any news on LOLA? I miss seeing Snydley K. Whiplash and Roadie as homicide detective and DA! 
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Mar 31, 2012 00:36
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cyberpunksurvivor posted:Is there any news on LOLA? I miss seeing Snydley K. Whiplash and Roadie as homicide detective and DA! Looks like it's still cancelled. If you want a good police show similar to the original Law and Order, try Blue Bloods. Sure, it hardly ever shows trials, but it does have a similar, if slightly more modernised feel to the forumla. Plus Donny Walhberg is great as the lead dectective, and Tom Selleck gives a consistently excellent perfomance as the police commisioner. To be honest, Blue Bloods feels more like a successor to Law and Order than SVU seasons 7-12 ever did.
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Parachute posted:Robin Williams on SVU has been ridiculous, but reminds me how great he is at playing weirdos/villains. You ever seen One Hour Photo? He could play creepy weirdos for the rest of his life and I'd be just fine with that.
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McSpanky posted:You ever seen One Hour Photo? He could play creepy weirdos for the rest of his life and I'd be just fine with that. I saw it in theaters, and this episode makes me want to watch it again!
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What's up, "high school" aged Jim? Hard to believe but after this run of CI I can claim I've seen every (domestic) episode of every Law and Order ever. Edit: Also hard to believe that in this episode, the fact that two high school kids have iPods is a lead. got dat wmd fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Apr 1, 2012 |
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OldMemes posted:Looks like it's still cancelled. If you want a good police show similar to the original Law and Order, try Blue Bloods. Sure, it hardly ever shows trials, but it does have a similar, if slightly more modernised feel to the forumla. 
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Parachute posted:Robin Williams on SVU has been ridiculous, but reminds me how great he is at playing weirdos/villains. I didn't Williams, I just hated his character. I think that was the first time SVU tried to write a character as a straight up comic book villain.
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Apr 2, 2012 01:32
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Have they ever given an in-story reason why Munch is absent so often? I understand that they have some scheduling issues with filming with Belzer, but the way that the show protrays it, it seems that Munch just doesn't show up to work for weeks at a time, and no-one ever questions it for some reason.
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OldMemes posted:Have they ever given an in-story reason why Munch is absent so often? I understand that they have some scheduling issues with filming with Belzer, but the way that the show protrays it, it seems that Munch just doesn't show up to work for weeks at a time, and no-one ever questions it for some reason. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oftN-SlHOlk
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Remember that time that Munch went undercover as a crazy homeless person? Or when he went undercover to bust a sex offender running a travel agent, and his diguise was him not wearing his glasses? Undercover Munch is great. Now that all the episodes of Law and Order: Legacies are out, did anyone play it all? What did you think of it?
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Apr 2, 2012 18:40
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I haven't played the last one yet, but they're pretty hit-or-miss. They're just thoroughly average detective games where you have to figure out if people are lying and whatnot. The voice acting isn't that great, and some of the soundalikes are awful (Jack and Van Buren mostly), but it's actually sorta fun. The Order part is much more fun than the Law part, since you actually have a barometer that shows you how you're doing in the trial as you successfully object for the right reasons and link testimony to evidence, etc.
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Yaos posted:Munch goes undercover as a giant yellow dinosaur to catch perps in the act. He spends those weeks visiting and pissing off Stanley Bolander
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So is SVU ever coming back to my TV, or what? There hasn't been a new episode since February, has there?
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HookShot posted:So is SVU ever coming back to my TV, or what? There hasn't been a new episode since February, has there? This Wednesday night, actually. It'll run uninterrupted through the season finale next month.
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I'm going through Criminal Intent and every interrogation ends in a screaming confession. Another weird one is they are looking for evidence, and them somehow they figure out where the crime really took place, but the whole figuring it out part takes about 5 seconds on screen so if you sneeze or cough you'll have no idea how they managed to find some guy's torture lair. Goren: I'm all out of leads. Eames: *I sneeze* *Suddenly they are in a room filled with bodies*
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Yaos posted:I'm going through Criminal Intent and every interrogation ends in a screaming confession. Another weird one is they are looking for evidence, and them somehow they figure out where the crime really took place, but the whole figuring it out part takes about 5 seconds on screen so if you sneeze or cough you'll have no idea how they managed to find some guy's torture lair. Speaking of CI, since the last time I checked they added the tenth season to Netflix Instant. That's nice to see - I didn't want to end things on a weird Goldblum note.
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Ratatozsk posted:Speaking of CI, since the last time I checked they added the tenth season to Netflix Instant. That's nice to see - I didn't want to end things on a weird Goldblum note. Worth it for the Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark 'ripped from the headlines' episode alone. (With Cynthia Nixon as not-Julie Taymor.)
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Apr 10, 2012 01:09
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It is a bit disappointing that CI changed their theme music. The original one was so much better.
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Especially since the new theme (which was Trial by Jury's theme, right) has that awful/awesome MIDI brass section playing the melody - I felt like I was about to play a Windows 95 game.
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Basically all of the 10th season of CI was amazing. D'Onofrio totally brought his A-game in making Goren as Goren-y as possible.Timby posted:This Wednesday night, actually. It'll run uninterrupted through the season finale next month.
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Apr 10, 2012 07:18
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Ratatozsk posted:It is a bit disappointing that CI changed their theme music. The original one was so much better. For some reason, when Channel Five shows classic vanilla, they re-edit the opening, and replace the theme song with techno music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybYDgClD5Js Briscoe, McCoy and a song from The Matrix soundtrack is a very  combination.
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Just started watching the new SVU episode. Overturning a conviction thanks to SCIENCE and new DNA technology? This might be a good one!!
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I'm a bit confused about the scene in Warren's office. Is it implied that he has feelings for Benson or is she just vain like that? Also this episode gave me Damien Echols vibes. (probably the glasses) What if I'm just really bad at watching SVU, you guys. I'm a failure as a woman. 
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Another amazing casting decision: on the DC sniper inspired episode of vanilla the man who brainwashed the teenager was Phil Dunphy.
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Last episode was so very stupid. Was waiting for the twist with the lying woman that never happened, then it's implied that whatshisname's wife is cheating on him or something? Just cancel already. Between this and the "relationship" this season has been stomach-churningly bad in comparison to every other incarnation of L&O. I knew when that survey came out a while back with audiences looking for more drama with the detectives and less court scenes that we were in for a serious downturn.
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NBCUniversal announced today that Mariska Hargitay has officially signed for a fourteenth season of SVU ... but the show itself is still on the bubble (it's been having all-time series low ratings for most of the season). We probably won't know anything until NBC announces its schedule around this time next month.Frot Lesnar posted:Another amazing casting decision: on the DC sniper inspired episode of vanilla the man who brainwashed the teenager was Phil Dunphy. And the teenager was Sebastian Stan, most recently seen playing Bucky in Captain America.
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"Burned," the episode that started the whole rival DA candidate story arc, had a very young Sam Huntington (Jimmy Olsen in Superman Returns and Josh the werewolf on the US version of Being Human) as the schizo kid of killed his sister.
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muscles like this? posted:"Burned," the episode that started the whole rival DA candidate story arc, had a very young Sam Huntington (Jimmy Olsen in Superman Returns and Josh the werewolf on the US version of Being Human) as the schizo kid of killed his sister. That episode was a treasure trove of stars: Michael O'Hare (who originated the role of Col. Jessup in the Broadway production of A Few Good Men, and starred as Sinclair in the first season of Babylon 5) as the divorced father of the kids, and then there was Robert "Napoleon Solo" Vaughn as the grandfather.
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There's nothing more awesome than watching Law & Order and playing "Name That Future Star". Rooney Mara played a sociopathic teenager, in what was probably great practice for playing Lisbeth.
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I watch In Plain Sight religously and seeing Frank Weller in a 90's episode of Vanilla made me sad (because he was the killer)
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It's nice to see that they've started giving Rollins a bit more character development - it's just a shame that they waited so long in the season to do it though. If season 14 can keep up the quality of this season (but with more court scenes and more Munch), it'll be pretty good. That, and it doesn't seem right for a franchise with over twenty years under its belt to just quietly fizzle out. Rubber Room did the "life goes on" thing well, but if the last US-based series is going, they should do something special for the last season/episode.
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OldMemes posted:Rubber Room did the "life goes on" thing well That will always be one of television's happiest accidents, since the episode was already in the can and Wolf had been promised Season 21 before NBC changed its mind at the last minute.
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I still hold out hope that NBC will continue to crash and burn until they bring back Vanilla just because they know it will always have steady viewership. It is guaranteed to pull at least a 1.something, which is good numbers for NBC It doesn't matter the cast, it's the formula that works. It'd be nice to see Sam Waterston return, but he can't live forever and will retire at some point (or, more likely, die acting), but really, the show managed to last through 9 changes of the cast on the "law" side and 9 changes of the cast on the "order" side, with 2 captains, and 4 DA's...cast means nothing, it's all about the formula. \/\/\/ off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure that the Kincaid/McCoy/Briscoe/Curtis cast was the longest lasting with like 3 seasons. Cause even though Briscoe and Green were partners for forever, they did go through Carmichael and Southerlyn as ADAs. (Possibly going back as far as Jamie Ross? Not 100% sure since Ross is my least favorite ADA and I tend to skip a lot of her episodes). Dr Jankenstein fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Apr 24, 2012 |
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AA is for Quitters posted:I still hold out hope that NBC will continue to crash and burn until they bring back Vanilla just because they know it will always have steady viewership. It is guaranteed to pull at least a 1.something, which is good numbers for NBC The cast changes are some of the most refreshing things about the show, since it allowed very few people to get stale (though I suppose some might have, though that was just usually given who they were paired with, like Green/Lupo). Weren't there only about three or four seasons that didn't have a cast change? Hewlett fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Apr 23, 2012 |
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USA is on the early season rotation now in it's mini marathons and it's kinda sad how far they got off the rails. Plots are still grounded in reality, Stabler is aggressive but still sympathetic, and the sub plots have consequences later on. Mariska is going through the motions. * sigh *
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Tonight's SVU episode: With 100% more absurd plot devices and also 100% more Munch than the last few episodes.
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Gonz posted:Tonight's SVU episode: With 100% more absurd plot devices and also 100% more Munch than the last few episodes. Then tomorrows Community is a law and order spoof.
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Tonight's episode is only 5 minutes in but I think this might just be the best episode ever. SVU vs. JLA (or Law and Order vs. "Superheroes").
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