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I've been watching Law & Order: SVU all day long, and as expected, I've pretty much lost all hope for humanity. It happens when I watch REGULAR L&O, so it's ten zillion times worse when I watch SVU, with its focus on sex...and violence...and "Sexual violence, the lovely combination of the two" ~Jody Ollenquist, Ph.D
But I did see a really awesome episode of SVU. It was about a David Koresh like cult leader who was having sex with girls, and he'd gotten this 12 year old girl pregnant. She's messed up, of course, talking about how the guy loves her, how he's her husband, how he's sent from God, etc. This girl is the best actress I've seen in a LONG time, I'm not kidding. She portrayed the emotions just perfectly, s eriously, she did ten times better than most actresses playing in well-known films today. Anyway, the perp ends up kidnapping her and taking her to a warehouse and at the end of the show, the main cop Olivia is trying to apprehend him, but the girl has a gun and she shoots Olivia's partner and she's holding the gun and wavering, a nd both the perp and Olivia are yelling, trying to get her to do what they say. Olivia is saying "He's a liar, he hurt you and made you do things you didn't want to do," and the girl said "He gave me a baby..." with tears streaming down her cheeks, and I almost DIED, and then the perp is yelling "They're lying to you, you know you have to do what God wants you to do, she's a liar, you must kill her, listen to both of us and then you know you must kill the liar, do God's will..." and the girl is rocking back and forth, looking from him to Olivia, and you can SEE the turmoil in her face (I'm telling you, give this kid best actress of the year) and then the perp says to her, "They want me dead, they want me dead because they know who I am, they know I'm the messenger, they know how great I am, I'm greater than them, I'm greater than God." Suddenly we hear a gunshot, time freezes, and then the perp falls dead, and the girl collapses in sobs. Olivia runs to her, hugs her, says it's going to be ok, and the girl says "That was a lie." Olivia asks, "What was a lie?" And the girl says...
"He said he was greater than God. No one is greater than God."
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is the reason I LOVE Law & Order.
I'm going to go contemplate the meaning of life now, rocking back and forth in my room.
But I did see a really awesome episode of SVU. It was about a David Koresh like cult leader who was having sex with girls, and he'd gotten this 12 year old girl pregnant. She's messed up, of course, talking about how the guy loves her, how he's her husband, how he's sent from God, etc. This girl is the best actress I've seen in a LONG time, I'm not kidding. She portrayed the emotions just perfectly, s eriously, she did ten times better than most actresses playing in well-known films today. Anyway, the perp ends up kidnapping her and taking her to a warehouse and at the end of the show, the main cop Olivia is trying to apprehend him, but the girl has a gun and she shoots Olivia's partner and she's holding the gun and wavering, a nd both the perp and Olivia are yelling, trying to get her to do what they say. Olivia is saying "He's a liar, he hurt you and made you do things you didn't want to do," and the girl said "He gave me a baby..." with tears streaming down her cheeks, and I almost DIED, and then the perp is yelling "They're lying to you, you know you have to do what God wants you to do, she's a liar, you must kill her, listen to both of us and then you know you must kill the liar, do God's will..." and the girl is rocking back and forth, looking from him to Olivia, and you can SEE the turmoil in her face (I'm telling you, give this kid best actress of the year) and then the perp says to her, "They want me dead, they want me dead because they know who I am, they know I'm the messenger, they know how great I am, I'm greater than them, I'm greater than God." Suddenly we hear a gunshot, time freezes, and then the perp falls dead, and the girl collapses in sobs. Olivia runs to her, hugs her, says it's going to be ok, and the girl says "That was a lie." Olivia asks, "What was a lie?" And the girl says...
"He said he was greater than God. No one is greater than God."
...
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the reason I LOVE Law & Order.
I'm going to go contemplate the meaning of life now, rocking back and forth in my room.