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timepiececlockI love L&O: SVU. I thik SVU doesn't get enough appreciation on my journal, so here you go:
Until this year (1st year at dorm), I never watched Law & Order very often. It held no interest. But since coming to live here, I tend to have procrastination time during the same hours that USA network shows SVU reruns.
I've taken to watching them. Out of order, usually, and with no sense of continuity. I think I've pinned down the reason I like this show: Benson and Stabler. And their chief/boss-person. I like these characters. A lot. And I feel like we know more about them, especially Stabler, than you know about the characters of regular L&O. It has the same sort of appeal that Homicide: Life On The Street had, though with less visually gritty camera work.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, you rock. Nail those evil bastards and look good doing it.
EDIT: Admittedly, I don't watch it every week. It is kind of disturing for that, as far as the crimes go. In fact, I've never even watched a new episode in its first airing.
EDIT2: most of the time, I don't like cop shows. They just don't work for me. I've never like NYPDblue, and L&O and The Shield don't appeal to me, and I don't like hospital/cop shows like Third Watch or ER. I've watched two episodes of Numb3rs for the hot Santa's elf, but even that show I'm not really into. But these are the cop or cop-like shows that have appealed to me:
The X Files
Homicide: LOTS
Rescue Me
L&O: SVU
I know I loved XF for the sci-fi factor, not the cop factor. So that explains that. But what about the other three? Why do I like them, and not other cop/hospital shows? What sets them apart?
And...am I the only person watching VM who looks at Jake Kane and thinks "He couldn't be a killer, cause before he owned a software company and married an evil woman and had kids he was a noble, sweet, decent-hearted detective!" ?
Until this year (1st year at dorm), I never watched Law & Order very often. It held no interest. But since coming to live here, I tend to have procrastination time during the same hours that USA network shows SVU reruns.
I've taken to watching them. Out of order, usually, and with no sense of continuity. I think I've pinned down the reason I like this show: Benson and Stabler. And their chief/boss-person. I like these characters. A lot. And I feel like we know more about them, especially Stabler, than you know about the characters of regular L&O. It has the same sort of appeal that Homicide: Life On The Street had, though with less visually gritty camera work.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, you rock. Nail those evil bastards and look good doing it.
EDIT: Admittedly, I don't watch it every week. It is kind of disturing for that, as far as the crimes go. In fact, I've never even watched a new episode in its first airing.
EDIT2: most of the time, I don't like cop shows. They just don't work for me. I've never like NYPDblue, and L&O and The Shield don't appeal to me, and I don't like hospital/cop shows like Third Watch or ER. I've watched two episodes of Numb3rs for the hot Santa's elf, but even that show I'm not really into. But these are the cop or cop-like shows that have appealed to me:
The X Files
Homicide: LOTS
Rescue Me
L&O: SVU
I know I loved XF for the sci-fi factor, not the cop factor. So that explains that. But what about the other three? Why do I like them, and not other cop/hospital shows? What sets them apart?
And...am I the only person watching VM who looks at Jake Kane and thinks "He couldn't be a killer, cause before he owned a software company and married an evil woman and had kids he was a noble, sweet, decent-hearted detective!" ?
