Her Negotiation/Surrender Benson
I watched the first two William Lewis episodes! What the fuck! Why did I do that!
Her Negotiation was like one giant pacing issue? It was the kind of thing that should've been woven in as a subplot over several episodes. But "one giant pacing issue" is a good descriptor of almost every episode of SVU I have seen so far. The show constantly rushes things. I did enjoy the attempt to show everyone having a slow day off, though.
Surrender Benson was not an episode with a pacing issue. It was actually less graphic than I was expecting, and it's not like I was expecting it to be very graphic: it is, after all, a network show. You could probably almost put it in the psychological thriller category?
Anyway, a few days ago I watched an episode where Elliot found Olivia standing over a dead suspect who'd been stabbed or something and -- once he was done yelling at her about being impulsive or reckless or whatever word he used that was just extremely rich coming from him -- he said he never thought she killed the guy because he knew she would've shot him. I just think it's interesting that he was very wrong and she decided to go with -- oh. Oh, Jesus, I did not realize until I was typing this sentence.
She decided to go with beating the guy to death with a pipe, which is exactly the thing she fantasized about Elliot doing to the guy. Jesus. She put down her gun -- the gun with Elliot's mini badge on it -- and decided to beat the guy to death with a pipe, minutes after telling the guy her old partner would've used the pipe on him.
What the fuck, SVU writers. What. The. Fuck.
I am actually mad about how brilliant that was? Having Olivia subdue her torturer, then pace around and fantasize about having Elliot there to avenge her in specific, brutal ways, and then -- oh. Oh, again.
Even as he was cuffed to the bed, Lewis was taunting Olivia about not knowing what she wanted, but she did. She didn't want to burn him or shoot him; she wanted Elliot to beat the shit out of Lewis... but it was just her there. So she did it for herself.
Play whack-a-mole with my id, writers, it's fine.
Also, final note: hearing Olivia do that thing with her voice as she pleaded with Lewis to keep her around because she could get him off? Absolutely the hardest part to watch. The more I think about it, the more I am coming to the realization it was a calculated move, but it was still just horrible.
I'm not sure if I'll watch the rest. Trial stuff bores the hell out of me and Russian roulette is... not generally my favorite thing to watch on TV, actually. But I might skip the trial episode and do the Russian roulette one anyway; who knows! Dreamwidth: Comment | Read Comments
Her Negotiation was like one giant pacing issue? It was the kind of thing that should've been woven in as a subplot over several episodes. But "one giant pacing issue" is a good descriptor of almost every episode of SVU I have seen so far. The show constantly rushes things. I did enjoy the attempt to show everyone having a slow day off, though.
Surrender Benson was not an episode with a pacing issue. It was actually less graphic than I was expecting, and it's not like I was expecting it to be very graphic: it is, after all, a network show. You could probably almost put it in the psychological thriller category?
Anyway, a few days ago I watched an episode where Elliot found Olivia standing over a dead suspect who'd been stabbed or something and -- once he was done yelling at her about being impulsive or reckless or whatever word he used that was just extremely rich coming from him -- he said he never thought she killed the guy because he knew she would've shot him. I just think it's interesting that he was very wrong and she decided to go with -- oh. Oh, Jesus, I did not realize until I was typing this sentence.
She decided to go with beating the guy to death with a pipe, which is exactly the thing she fantasized about Elliot doing to the guy. Jesus. She put down her gun -- the gun with Elliot's mini badge on it -- and decided to beat the guy to death with a pipe, minutes after telling the guy her old partner would've used the pipe on him.
What the fuck, SVU writers. What. The. Fuck.
I am actually mad about how brilliant that was? Having Olivia subdue her torturer, then pace around and fantasize about having Elliot there to avenge her in specific, brutal ways, and then -- oh. Oh, again.
Even as he was cuffed to the bed, Lewis was taunting Olivia about not knowing what she wanted, but she did. She didn't want to burn him or shoot him; she wanted Elliot to beat the shit out of Lewis... but it was just her there. So she did it for herself.
Play whack-a-mole with my id, writers, it's fine.
Also, final note: hearing Olivia do that thing with her voice as she pleaded with Lewis to keep her around because she could get him off? Absolutely the hardest part to watch. The more I think about it, the more I am coming to the realization it was a calculated move, but it was still just horrible.
I'm not sure if I'll watch the rest. Trial stuff bores the hell out of me and Russian roulette is... not generally my favorite thing to watch on TV, actually. But I might skip the trial episode and do the Russian roulette one anyway; who knows! Dreamwidth: Comment | Read Comments