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And now, lots of some thoughts on Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
In my defense, it's Sunday. (Also, meet my new iTouch! It's AWESOME.)
(aj, this is somehow all your fault, FYI.)
un. you're starting to remind me of someone...
Rewatching CI: like visiting the grandparent that doesn't have dementia. I watched season eight sporadically, and then watched ( Read more... )
In my defense, it's Sunday. (Also, meet my new iTouch! It's AWESOME.)
(aj, this is somehow all your fault, FYI.)
un. you're starting to remind me of someone...
Rewatching CI: like visiting the grandparent that doesn't have dementia. I watched season eight sporadically, and then watched ( Read more... )
First: I've always felt that the key to watching CI - I mean, REALLY WATCHING IT, is the moment you realize that Eames is the senior in their partnership, and not Goren. Like, that fact is THERE. It has always been, and always will be, there. (I am recalling certain courtroom testimonies in "In the Wee Small Hours." Which: !!!!ajskfhakshfakjf!!!!?, yes?) I think it's so easy to watch and fall into this familiar male senior/female junior dynamic, but Goren and Eames are so not that at all, it's literally canon. She is the one stuck with him. (THEY ARE NOT LYNLEY AND HAVERS. Goren may turn out to be a hobo, but not in a professional, senior partner sort of way.)
First Point 2: I've been out of bounds with CI for so long, and watching "Lady's Man" actually made me feel like I had missed things characterization-wise. Which: hello! That is hardcore because this is L&O! Our character never change!
Second: I was thinking recently about L&O's subtle/lack of characterization (honestly it's either, in some cases). I think about Jack McCoy: dude's girlfriend, A REGULAR CAST MEMBER AT ONE POINT, dies in a car accident that is arguably his fault (sort of), in which case he becomes an alcoholic from grief for like two whole YEARS. Um? Other shows milk the living crap out of that. Like TO THE NTH DEGREE. This show? Fuck, if you didn't watch "Under the Influence," you might not even notice. FOR REAL. See: point First Point 2 for context.
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OH HEY REMEMBER WHEN ALEX HAD EMOTIONS? ABOUT BOBBY?
I think it's so easy to watch and fall into this familiar male senior/female junior dynamic, but Goren and Eames are so not that at all, it's literally canon. She is the one stuck with him.
YES. YES YES YES. CI: IT HAS A SECRET TRICK NARRATIVE. YOU ARE PROBABLY LOOKING AT THE WRONG COP. Like, once you realize this, then you are In On It, along with the writers, and until you realize that, the writers are basically punking you.
HOW COOL IS THAT.
(Oh, they're so not Lynley and Havers, and I totally did not grasp this until I started watching CI again. Barbara could be an Eames to someone eventually, but not to Tommy.)
Um? Other shows milk the living crap out of that. Like TO THE NTH DEGREE. This show? Fuck, if you didn't watch "Under the Influence," you might not even notice. FOR REAL.
SERIOUSLY.
In conclusion, Law and Order: the franchise that taught me how to close read a narrative. WHAT UP.
P.S.: Someday, I hope we get a random throwaway line about Logan and Barek being married or something.
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