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I get that cult figures are inexplicable, but I'm supposed to believe some skinny, blank-eyed, dirty, middle-aged, balding kidnapping tweaker can just stare at young women and transfix them into wanting to run away with him? Really? Messianic complex, my ass. This show used to try. Remember when there were psychiatrists who'd take some time to actually talk to the perp and diagnose them?

I swear to the Hallmark gods, if Kat spends 8 episodes chasing after a man in the 1800s next season, and stringing Elliott along... Also, it'd be nice if the showrunners dribble a little more of the action out into the middle episodes next season, so they don't have to jam it all into the finale.

I'm so not like Jacob, because if I found out I could go back to refrigerated foods, electricity and toilets? I'm there.

Knock knock "Hi! Remember that time you were buried alive by the guy who raped you and pimped you out to others? And you were hoping you'd be rescued and finally were? That was me! Yeah, in the picture under the headline about how awesome I was that day! Good times, right? Can I come in?" Jesus, Olivia.

Sooooo nothing happened, again. Except for Elliott being Kat’s chump. Again.

I actually like this year's crew of strays, but an episode without Fin, Carisi or Rollins and just Olivia and newbies and kind-of newbies is giving real "Saved By the Bell: The New Class" vibes. But thank God for no Maddie and her parents.

This show has a lot of promise, but JEEEEEEEEEEEZE, both seasons have felt like it was just treading water until we moved a half inch on the Jacob front. Every fight Kat and Elliott has feels manufactured as hell. I get where she's coming from, but Kat sounded like a crazy person, going on and on about the past to Elliott during their dance. I also don't get what's up with the Goodwin kid and Alice's new love interest who just sort of pops up every now and then.

I'm going to need them to move this show on just a liiiiiittle bit faster.

I've known and watched a lot of annoying people, but WOAH BOY, Remy is like the king of all annoying people. How he got one woman, let alone two, will never make sense to me. And what is UP with the run of Andrea episodes this season? Dateline has to have some freelancers who can pick up in Keith's absence, right?

I've been rewatching the old seasons, and it's STRIKING how different the first 12 seasons are. The episodes are like: Cold open, detectives assess the crime season, detective work, interrogation, back to some detective work, some personal BS for Olivia or Elliott usually, back to interrogation room, Huang/ADA stuff, courtroom stuff, detective stuff when a twist comes up, back out to Rikers, courtroom stuff. Now it's like, Maddie flashbacks, Olivia in therapy, credits, case stuff, Olivia distracted by more Maddie stuff... UGH.

I did like how when McGrath went storming into the interrogation, Bruno put his arm around the Math Tutor and lifted him up, then stood right next to him, and Fin got in front of both of them. Then Bruno got Math Tutor across the room and away from McGrath as he was distracted by Liv and Fin, and the next time you see them, Bruno is right in front of Math Tutor, ready in case McGrath tries to jump the kid on the way out. Now if they'd only put him in the damn credits already. It ain't like they don't have room, considering how there used to be practically a basketball team-size roster up in there for many years.

It would seem that Captain Curry is so taken with Liv that she's willing to demote herself to join the SVU team.

Mrs. McGrath: "Look, I talked to Tommy, and he'll be good now, and I know you're just doing this to get his job, you cow." Cut to McGrath pulling a gun on his neighbor. And of course, IAB isn't there to see it, because after being shadowed by Curry for the majority of the episode, Liv is all "Eh, I don't want to make anyone mad during the arrest." Never change, Captain Benson.

I can't believe how New York's supposed elite sexual assault investigative unit contains only one female, highlighted in this episode by how she was the only one who even knew about the liners in swimsuits. So let me get this straight: Two cops are standing in front of a teenager making off with a laptop in a police station, and since he's a teenager, just ... let him go? Don't even cuff him, because: St. Olivia? Another thing I've never understood about SVU: While St. Olivia is off ministering to This Week's Waffling Vic in court ... is there really nothing happening back at the squadroom that the captain of a severely understaffed unit could be attending to?

It's so weird because you know what I was totally thinking before this week's ep? The thing this show really needs on top of St. Oliva is totally White Savior Guilt! Sigh.