It’s a great franchise.
Most of the shows are very well written.
The actors are mostly believeable.
CI is my fave of the 3, followed by the original. SVU sometimes is a bit overdone.
The franchise must be popular, it’s been on for 10 yrs (iirc). I like it over the CSI shows.
Anyone else have comments?
They come and go. They only get started up when somebody has a major question (which is never). I remember that I started one for the season premiere. I guess because it is pretty consistent and there wouldn’t be much to comment on. The episodes are self-contained and there aren’t any storylines that we have to follow.
I guess that’s the reason.
I like Original, SVU, then CI. Actually, I kind of hate CI; D’Onofrio’s overacting bugs me.
Well, he was The Bug in M.I.B.
but, your answer works for me.
I think the last thread about L&O (the original) was mostly complaints about Diane Weist and Elisabeth Rohm, and relief that Fred Thompson had come aboard.
It’s my favourite TV drama.
Elisabeth Rohm has got to go. Terrible. Absolutely terrible.
What was with tonights buying of the extra Palm? All palm software is downloadable off of the net. No one would spend the money and then leave the box lying around when they could just go to www.palm.com…
I don’t worry about those things amarinth. Maybe they should have said that he needed the cradle fast and didn’t want to order one seperately. 
There aren’t any Law and Order threads because despite it being a good show it’s also one that doesn’t leave much to discuss. Are we supposed to talk about whether or not we felt that the person in the episode was guilty or innocent? Most people here aren’t really in a position to chat about the finer points of the law or police work as presented in the show. You don’t see weekly threads for CSI either for similar reasons.
The palm pilot software thing bugged me, too, but it occured to me that they needed the cradle and cables, too. I’ve been watching that show for about 12 years and I’ve noticed that every single computer plot point is wrong. I forgive them, though.
On a semi-related note, I just saw an USA Freedom Corps commercial (a national volunteer organization) in which Angie Harmon lists her experience as a New York Assistant DA and is told by the coordinator that she was in fact only an actor playing an ADA and her “badge” is SAG membership.
The final scene shows Harmon teaching schoolkids how to spell “habeas corpus”.
I’ll just say spoiler since the show aired already but…
Melnick got shot?? Nooooooooo. I hate her but still. She is a great sparring partner for Jack and you could tell they had some personal history going on. She’ll probably show up sometime soon.
What was up with Elisabeth Rohm in the white supremacist’s office? That was hilarious how they made her dress up like a little schoolgirl and made her go since she was hot. She is getting better but that scene was awful.
I guess it’s true - there really isn’t much to talk about. Last night’s was pretty good.
Not to argue with Just Some Guy (amusing as that is) I believe it’s because the show sucks.
Now I may get blasted for saying so, but I can’t stand this show, and I have tried to watch it.
I don’t like NYPD Blue either.
These series remind me of those “real life How-the-criminal-was caught -using-forensic-evidence” type shows. They are dull and stagnant. There are no surprises. While I know many of the actors are talented, the characters seem so terribly uninterested in whatever is going on it sucks life right out of it. And they don’t seems to have lives … just their jobs.
I’ve only recently started watching Law & Order in all it’s incarnations. I like the original best. I think they should just rename CI “The Vincent D’Ononfrio Show” and get it over with. The thing is, I like his character, but he’s just too much. Too smart, too compassionate, too perfect. And it’s too much about him and too little about the legal side of it. The lawyers exist only to be shown how much smart D’Onofrio is than them. Unlike L&O, CI isn’t really an ensemble show.
StG
I’d just like to see an episode of L&O:CI which climaxes with R. Lee Ermey shooting D’Onofrio before turning the gun on himself.
I got sick of D’Onofrio pulling obscure trivia out of his ass so I stopped watching CI a long time ago. I felt the same way about JAG when the lawyer-guy would wander into some operational area on a case and start advising the experts on how they could solve their problems. Oy.
Well, at least I’m amusing.
I think that the things that drive you away from Law and Order are exactly what draws me to it. I like the fact that it is essentially a workplace drama and I don’t have to put up with weak soap opera-ish garbage about their personal lives (I know they did for a few seasons; I hated those episodes). I like the fact that the show is so sharply focussed. I happen to like that kind of procedural story (though I hate CSI; I think it’s because I can’t buy 90% of what goes on in that series and the scripting really stinks).
Now if you’re talking about CI then I agree with you; that’s more of a standard crime drama and I don’t like that show. That one bores the hell out of me since it’s more about the characters and I don’t like them.
Seconded.
For the love of god, Dick, make it happen more sooner than later.
I thought she might grow on me but it ain’t happening!
dick wolf stole the idea for this show
many years ago there was a show called “arrest & trial” starring ben gazzarra and chuck conners (the rifleman)
same format: a crime, the arrest (law), the trial (order)…
and what is with people being questioned by the police but not stopping what they are doing to answer the questions but answering while they are moving around? yeah, that is realistic…
OK, I have a question that wasn’t worth starting a whole thread over, so I’m glad this one is already here.
I’m not a big fan of the show, but circumstances (namely, THC’s shifting around their scheduling of Perry Mason) have resulted in my seeing a few episodes here and there. The other day, there was one in which a young couple had a baby, baby turned up dead (buried in the father’s parent’s back yard IIRC), couple was split up, each appeared to be a suspect as I turned off the TV half-way through the episode.
On the off chance that I’ve given enough info for someone who really follows the show to identify it and remember it, what happened?
Thanks in advance.
Was this one where one of the suspects was the “Guy Standing in the Corner” at the end of “The Blair Witch Project”?
If so, I remember seeing it, but I can’t quite remember how it ended, but I think the mother ended up being the real bad person in that relationship.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it is. I looked up the principles from Blair Witch and found one of them turns up in an episode titled “Mother’s Milk.” The summary of that episode on this site sure looks like the right episode.
Now if I could just find a site that tells me the endings.
A few other episode guides says that McCoy ends up prosecuting the mother. As usual, Schiff complains that everyone will sympathize with the mother. Then there are experts who try to explain why the mother did it.
And then, I think, the father breaks down on the stand and gets the mother convicted.
I’m not sure on this, but it sort of follows the L&O formula.
Thanks, BobT. That’s good enough for me.
Oddly, the more I think about this episode, the more I think I might have seen the last 5-10 minutes of it several months ago while on vacation.