Yes, it was specifically established in an episode that Fontana had family money in large amounts.
I never saw the namby-pammby thing with Van Buren, so I can’t comment on t. But I liked Fontana. He was amusing, and he was clearly just killing time till retirement and no longer cared about anything but the job in front of hinm.
That’s true, and among the things he no longer cared about, or perhaps never cared about, were the constitutional rights of suspects.
WEll, I didn’t say I’d hire him: just that he was amusing to watch. If I drank beer, I’d share one with him.
Stabler always comes on too strong…Benson tends to make promises on behalf of her squad or the Department–promises she or they really can’t keep. Other than that she would be an asset in any police department.
Fin and Munch would be a good pair of partners–closest thing to humor on SUV. Like Flynn and Provenza on The Closer; Friday and Gannon on Dragnet; or even Toody and Muldoon on Car 54, Where Are You?
Captain Cragen seems too close to being burned out. I think on the program as it still is on the network he has retired. He has earned it, and then some.
The medical examiner would be an asset in any hospital or DA-police-hospital alliance.
Some of the judges with recurring roles are a little cantankerous. I guess a lot of real judges are like that, but I never saw any as a prospective juror–out here in the Los Angeles area. Maybe that’s just how they are in New York.
The prosecutors–Alex and Casey–are OK with me. I rarely see them overstep their bounds, even with the judges.
Most of the defense attorneys they show are loathsome–especially that short balding guy.
I need Logan and Rey Curtis for the eye candy.
I need Elaine Stritch as Lanie Stieglitz to scold me and serve me tea.
I need Stabler to read me a bedtime story.
I need Abby and Anita to go have drinks with.
I do NOT need Serena Southerlyn or whatever chick briefly played the detective opposite Det Green.
I do not need any SVU characters post Stabler’s retirement from the force.
It struck me the other day how tremendously unlikable most of the SVU characters are. But I like Benson much better as squad leader than as a detective. I can see her thinking, “Damn, Cragen should never have let me and Ell get away with all the shit we did.”
It wasn’t logic it was a joke.
No love for Max Greevey? Yeah I don’t remember him much either. (Yes I know JAQ gave him a resounding ‘eh,OK’).
I much preferred Phil Ceretta to Max, whose main contribution to the franchise was establishing that there was no central character (something McCoy, Benson,and Goren would put the lie to over time).
Does this mean you admire the rapists and pedophiles?
Of course not. It means that Rollins, the Danny Pino character, the dude with the porn stache, and the new sergeant are not likeable protagonists. I don’t care what happens to any of them and if they were real would not wan tot spend time with them.
I like Van Buren (though she’s often written as incompetent). I like almost all the original series detectives; the exception is Nina, who was, I think, deliberately written and played to be annoying. I liked most every character on CI. But the current crop of SVU detectives are not pleasant.
I thought it came out during a trial that she slept with a detective while he was her patient. She got angry with Jack because he told Cutter about it so he could discredit her on the stand.
ADA - McCoy, even though he sometimes went too far. I’d pair him with Jaime.
Detectives - Munch and Brisco. Although I might swap in Green, since the former two are on the upper end of the age range, and as someone else said, a suspect might need to get chased.
DA - Schiff is the best of a not particularly great group.
Randolph J. ‘Randy’ Dworkin, Esq, just because McCoy loathes him.
Briscoe and Munch? Put them in an interrogation room with a suspect and they’ll get a confession out of him through snark alone.
I would hire Donald Cragen. Tough, no-nonsense, get-the-job-done kind of guy.
I would not hire Phil Ceretta. He sometimes was more interested in pasta than justice.
And he wasn’t incompetent. Still, I’m not sure I could stand to listen to him prattle on.
For the defense, I’d take Danielle Mellnick, or even Shambala Green. From back when Dick Wolf didn’t hate defense lawyers!
I always thought that Logan and Green would have been a kick-ass combo.
Agreed. Apparently she went on at least one date with Brisco (and she also showed up on “Community” to autopsy a yam).
I’d like to find a job for Adam Schiff - surely there’s some opening for a gruff and cynical fellow like that who can growl about “making it go away,” or make Brisco-esque one-liner.
Lenny hit on Rogers several times, and she seemed to respond. Given how cagey L&O was about relationships, they may have had an affair. Hell, even VAN BUREN acknowledged that Lenny had some game with the ladies. He just had more princicples than Jack.
This is such far of a stretch that I don’t know how any poster could come to such a conclusion. It’s my opinion, therefore, that you know exactly what you’re doing and posting in this manner to get a rise out of people. Either that or you need to seriously dial back how you address others on here and the tone or questions or hijacks you sometimes create on here, otherwise your stay on here will be cut short.
This is a note, not a warning, but knock off posts like this. It’s extremely out of bounds and it tends to cause hijacks with you where you seem to get only more insulting.
I asked this question specifically because the critics seem to be consistent in their condemnation of the characters such as police, prosecutors, and judges; I can only come to the conclusion that their sympathies are with the other side.