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Well, THAT was a disappointment.
Can you spell “Sopranos?”
I mean, really. I was expecting – not wanting, but expecting – some sort of resolution. And this was disappointing. Big letdown. Any other opinions?
Wasn’t that one of his older partners? What happened to the other red-head, the italian girl?
I haven’t been watching all of them, but I thought this was his most recent.
Fallaccci, the redhead, was last mentioned as attending the FBI academy in Quantico. Barek is apparently still in Major Case, as in “If you want, we can partner you with Barek again.” Wheeler has been his partner (again) this whole season.
I don’t dislike the Logan character, I just like Goren a whole lot more. If they need a backup team, I wish they’d recruit Andre Braugher.
Does anyone know why NBC is running new episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent during the summer and on USA Network? At least this episode appeared during prime time. Previous episodes this summer have been scheduled for 11pm on Thursdays. Now isn’t this one of their big shows? Why wouldn’t they want to broadcast it in prime time, on NBC itself during the regular television season? Or is the show basically dying and they’re burning off episodes? (I think ABC did the same thing for the last season of the Drew Carey Show.)
From Wiki:
I used to like Goren more. This season, it seems as if they’re bringing in a lot of extraneous stuff, and he’s being made out to simply be weird. The fact that he’s looking more and more like Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreua is a turnoff. Yes, I know that’s shallow.
Criminal Intent has been below the ratings cutoff for a couple of years now, but the show is really popular in France and Russia (Cite ), which rates keeping it around in some form.
According to Wikipedia, Noth’s replacement will be Jeff Goldblum! That’s, um. impressive.
So, I guess I’m never going to see them pair up Logan and Eames, so that we actually get two competent detectives working a case, instead of either a high-school girl or a nutjob … ?
Yeah, the episode seemed weak. Logan’s feud with Jack Bauer’s dead wife was cooked up just for this (it would have been much better if they’d worked Daniel Hugh Kelley’s councilman Crossley into this somehow). And if this is, as advertised, Logan’s last ep, then he should have at least had a resignation scene, I think.
Ah, well. Here’s hopin’ for a “Mike Logan, P.I.” spin-off.
I’m still waiting for “Exiled” to come out on video…
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I have a hunch that somebody wanted to have a “let’s make everybody talk about it” ending a la The Sopranos. Well, not everybody’s talking, just us.
Either that or they wanted to leave the door open for him to come back in some way if the other gig doesn’t make it.
Well, I have to disagree. I thought the episode was very powerful. I liked that Logan didn’t get kicked off the force again, that instead he’s going to be rethinking his life. I also like that they left it open so that he can reappear in some capacity on L&O classic when it finally breathes its last. Leaving Wheeler in a cliffhanger was also a big surprise.
About his partner – Julianne Nicholson, who plays Detective Megan Wheeler (red pixie haircut) had a baby in September 2007. While she was out on maternity leave, she was temporarily replaced by Alicia Witt (long straight red hair), playing Detective Nola Falacci. Wheeler was said to be on assignment in Europe, where she met her fiance. Logan’s original partner was Detective Carolyn Barek (I swear I had never, ever heard that name before this moment, even though I’ve watched every episode with her in it) played by Annabella Sciorra (long, thick, curly dark brown hair).
I’m one of those classic L&O fans who never really liked or watched Criminal Intent until Chris Noth joined. Originally I watched only his episodes, but I gradually got sucked into the Goren ones by the great writing. I might have quit now that Logan’s gone, until I heard that Jeff Goldblum will be joining the show. I loved his short-lived detective series Raines, and was really disappointed that it had such a short run. I look forward to seeing him on Criminal Intent.
One bizarre thing about this episode that I’m probably only the one who noticed – for the last two weeks, the show ran opposite the final two episodes of the Inspector Lynley Mysteries. The penultimate episode of that show, which ran last week, was extremely similar to this episode of Law & Order in many details (male partner has antagonistic relationship with politically connected female higher-up, gets involved in cold case with which he has a personal connection, is warned off the case but continues to investigate, reverberations affect his female partner, etc.) At several points while watching Criminal Intent last night I had a strong sense of deja vu.
Logan never was kicked off the force. He was just forced to transfer to a different precinct. And why advertise it as “Logan’s Last Episode” and then NOT actually have him definitively leave one way or the other? Weak.
And the story was weak, too. We’ve got a botched autopsy, unreliable eye-witnesses, a defendant who swears up and down he’s innocent and a con-man working in the vicitms business, and no one notices? Did Ms. D.A. work this entire case on her own? Weak.
And … ! If it was such a big deal that she had to keep this quiet, how did she manage to deflect it so easily? One little press conference saying she’s re-opening the investigation, and bang, everything’s fine and Logan’s screwed? Bleh. Weak.
And (again)… Captain Talk Radio is more concerned about political flak than catching a woman WHO APPARENTLY ORDERED A HIT? C’mon, I know they always have the Lts and Capts be politically aware, but Van Buren, or Cragen or even Deakins would never have let that slide. Need I say it? Weak.
The whole thing was contrived to give Noth an excuse to leave. They should have found a reason to have Logan leave instead.
And … !!! … no wait, I’m done now.
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