Interesting. Seems whenever a well-loved character leaves, the replacement will be despised. To wit, everyone here seems to have loved Steven Hill (as do I, and all right thinking people) and dislike the Wiest character. Ditto for Angie harmon and her Stepford replacement droid. Some sort of over-compensated comparison-effect, perhaps?
Kinda like when you buy an album because you love one particular song, and you end up especially hating the song that immediately follows it. But maybe that’s just me…Timmy
Yeah, I remember that old blond girlfriend of his…quite a piece of work, she was.
I think everyone agrees something fishy’s going on at the DA’s office, but isn’t this the sort of thing that should be made an issue of at some point, for realism’s sake? I always liked it when outside concerns (elections, diciplinary committees, ex-husbands, etc.) interfered with the case at hand.
Anyway, yeah, the male-female assistant dynamic has worked for some time, but we’ve hit the expiration date. Time for something new.
Timmy - your theory might work 'cept that Benjamin Bratt (as far as I’ve seen) was well liked and well respected, coming after the well liked character of Mike Logan. Ditto for Jack McCOy. And Lenny Briscoe. And (ceptin for me) Jessie.
So far as I can see, while some folks may prefer one DA/Cop to another, the only ones that have elicited whole sale ‘yech’ response are the current little blond piece of fluff Assistant DA, and Diane Wiest. (who was merely ‘not liked as much’, in many cases)
No, he lost a woman he loved in a car crash. There were all kinds of hints that Claire and McCoy were together, but nothing with any of the others. And in one episode, Ross set Jack up on a blind date that went fairly well. Never did hear any more about that.
While those are both pretty good ideas, the rookie cop with Lenny is not too likely. It takes a bit of time for a cop to make it to detective.
She’s also quite dull. She’s pretty, but I can never believe she’s a lawyer.
Abby was a pistol. A DP advocate, and damn fine too. Ross had some fire to her. Claire was beautiful when she let her down. She was more liberal, but still she exuded confidence and competence.
