Autism and Good TV
Ok so its been a while since I posted anything I thought I'd post about something I saw this weekend.
I caught an episode of Law and Order: CI in the episode there was a cameo by Mary McCormick of In Plain Sight on it playing her character from that show (which Ive never seen but am told its not bad)
Anyway this is interesting to me because I like to think that the Law and Order universe has just expanded a little and now includes the characters of this show.
But there's more
All the Law and Orders are obviously in the same world. They share characters Corners, Cops, Lawyers, psychiatrists and so on. They Also include Richard Belzer "Detective Munch" who was originally from Homicide Life on the streets and came to New York to work the Special Victims Unit after that show was canceled.
Now Homicide was created by Tom Fontana who also created St Elsewhere. Now in one episode of Homicide Alfre Woodard guest stared as Dr. Roxanne Turner her character on St Elsewhere. The interesting thing about that is that the end of St. Elsewhere was it was reveled that everything was all in the imagination of a Autistic boy named Tommy. So that means that this boy Tommy who is likely 30 something at this point if not older has been creating years of television for years in his head.
I'm not the creator of this theory or anything I remember hearing about this years ago with that first Alfre Woodard cameo, its an actual theory out there in the ether that has exsisted for years, I was just reminded of this with this most recent crossover bringing yet another character into this universe.
for more information you can check out...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall#The_Tommy_Westphall_Universe_Hypothesis
P.S.
Yes I realize I am a GIANT DORK!
I caught an episode of Law and Order: CI in the episode there was a cameo by Mary McCormick of In Plain Sight on it playing her character from that show (which Ive never seen but am told its not bad)
Anyway this is interesting to me because I like to think that the Law and Order universe has just expanded a little and now includes the characters of this show.
But there's more
All the Law and Orders are obviously in the same world. They share characters Corners, Cops, Lawyers, psychiatrists and so on. They Also include Richard Belzer "Detective Munch" who was originally from Homicide Life on the streets and came to New York to work the Special Victims Unit after that show was canceled.
Now Homicide was created by Tom Fontana who also created St Elsewhere. Now in one episode of Homicide Alfre Woodard guest stared as Dr. Roxanne Turner her character on St Elsewhere. The interesting thing about that is that the end of St. Elsewhere was it was reveled that everything was all in the imagination of a Autistic boy named Tommy. So that means that this boy Tommy who is likely 30 something at this point if not older has been creating years of television for years in his head.
I'm not the creator of this theory or anything I remember hearing about this years ago with that first Alfre Woodard cameo, its an actual theory out there in the ether that has exsisted for years, I was just reminded of this with this most recent crossover bringing yet another character into this universe.
for more information you can check out...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall#The_Tommy_Westphall_Universe_Hypothesis
P.S.
Yes I realize I am a GIANT DORK!