my thoughts on SVU
Okay, so I've been watching SVU on netflix off and on for a few years... it's never been my favorite l&o, that was CI. But I liked it.
I like Olivia... I want to like Eliot... sometimes I do. ;) I certainly like looking at him.... =D And I have liked Munch since I watched Homicide, when it originally aired. When I was, like, 12 or 13. And my mother knew what I was watching. A lot of parental supervision there. I don't think my parents realize how lucky they are I was never a hellion, or even the slightest bit rebellious. Oh, wait... I did smoke... at 19.
Anyway... I've had some thoughts, especially after the last few I've watched. I've come to the conclusion that I like the show a lot, up to about season 5 or 6. Then it gets... I dunno... a bit too melodramatic and soap box-ish. Like, at first in season 6 I kind of felt like every other episode Craegan had his panties in a bunch and was threatening his detectives with taking a way badges and whatever. And then in season 7 it's all about "i read this story in the newspaper or on the internet and am now outraged, so I will use a criminal case to find a way to beat the viewers over the head with it." Or sometimes 'we're gonna put so many twists we'll keep you guessing' but all that really does is leave me... confused.
The episode where the girls who lost their family during Katrina were abducted, which on it's own would have been a great storyline, twisted and now is about anthrax and medical labs that were abandoned/raided/destroyed during the storm and now there's missing samples of deadly diseases. mmmmmmmm..... kay. Not that both the issues raised aren't interesting and important.... but what the hell??
And the kidnapped girl who of course had leukemia and was kidnapped by her older brother and then the show became about addiction and families.... I just watched and thought... either make it about a kidnapped girl with cancer, or about a family torn apart by addiction... you only have about 40 minutes!
And the latest episode I watched... obesity as a hate crime... I don't even know. I just... not that fat people aren't discriminated against or anything, but this episode? Crazy. And I don't hate Anthony Anderson or anything, but when his character is running his mouth at the school about what are they doing about the problem, and he's overweight himself? I just... roll my eyes. All the ranting in that episode about type 2 diabetes and low income/high income and childhood obesity just... annoyed me. And it's not that they weren't valid issues or anything, but when you're that obnoxious about them?? Good god.
Okay... I feel a little better. ;)
I like Olivia... I want to like Eliot... sometimes I do. ;) I certainly like looking at him.... =D And I have liked Munch since I watched Homicide, when it originally aired. When I was, like, 12 or 13. And my mother knew what I was watching. A lot of parental supervision there. I don't think my parents realize how lucky they are I was never a hellion, or even the slightest bit rebellious. Oh, wait... I did smoke... at 19.
Anyway... I've had some thoughts, especially after the last few I've watched. I've come to the conclusion that I like the show a lot, up to about season 5 or 6. Then it gets... I dunno... a bit too melodramatic and soap box-ish. Like, at first in season 6 I kind of felt like every other episode Craegan had his panties in a bunch and was threatening his detectives with taking a way badges and whatever. And then in season 7 it's all about "i read this story in the newspaper or on the internet and am now outraged, so I will use a criminal case to find a way to beat the viewers over the head with it." Or sometimes 'we're gonna put so many twists we'll keep you guessing' but all that really does is leave me... confused.
The episode where the girls who lost their family during Katrina were abducted, which on it's own would have been a great storyline, twisted and now is about anthrax and medical labs that were abandoned/raided/destroyed during the storm and now there's missing samples of deadly diseases. mmmmmmmm..... kay. Not that both the issues raised aren't interesting and important.... but what the hell??
And the kidnapped girl who of course had leukemia and was kidnapped by her older brother and then the show became about addiction and families.... I just watched and thought... either make it about a kidnapped girl with cancer, or about a family torn apart by addiction... you only have about 40 minutes!
And the latest episode I watched... obesity as a hate crime... I don't even know. I just... not that fat people aren't discriminated against or anything, but this episode? Crazy. And I don't hate Anthony Anderson or anything, but when his character is running his mouth at the school about what are they doing about the problem, and he's overweight himself? I just... roll my eyes. All the ranting in that episode about type 2 diabetes and low income/high income and childhood obesity just... annoyed me. And it's not that they weren't valid issues or anything, but when you're that obnoxious about them?? Good god.
Okay... I feel a little better. ;)