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wow feels very true to how the show is right now and like it really could have happened

I liked that episode too and van buren in it this might be an unpopular opinion but i always preferred van buren over lennie tbh, shocking but here's why with here she always had great lines and chemistry(with the exception of nina but that was more the poor writing of the season and nina's character) and was a very principled person, i always enjoyed episodes where she had a bigger focus even the seasons where they did personal plots for characters that a fair amount of fans disliked, i enjoyed her personal plots for example, the competence episode was a good one or her filing a lawsuit because she didn't get promoted I like how her plots generally involved the police or even the case of the episode, they generally weren't home life based, the lawsuit one was important as well and with blm in recent years it still holds up and is even more important(would be curious if the show was on how she would handle the blm and if she did the lawsuit then) I also even found her cancer plot to be a good one though it was personal based, it was also very telling how even a decorated officer like her struggles with the money problems of cancer and it also showcased the major issues in america's health care system without going over the top like svu does in recent years

amusing episode, best part of the episode was them trashing olivia, worth watching the episode if nothing else for that the attempt at having blm and trying to be woke made me roll my eyes, svu came off as being an annoying poser with the terrible attempt at incorporating blm, the different people mentioning karens, the terrible attempt at putting covid in the story https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WereStillRelevantDammit this tv tropes article sums up svu's pathetic attempt to try include real world issues did like the fin and Garland's chat though

based off jack's line You thought all that without ever actually speaking to him? just for fun, what would you have thought if say the lady in hubris never met the murderer or went on a date or even talked to him but she still thought they had a connection and caused the jury to be deadlocked

agreed, randall did not go off, also seemed really out of character for kate not to make a big fit about it or making it about herself that being said it would have been nice to see beth's or deja's or tess or annie's or even malik and his parents pov instead of just randall's with the blm movement

randall's biomom being alive is a bit cliché but here's one possible way it could work, what if she did survive but has severe permanent brain damage from the overdose, she could have suffered from lack of oxygen and it really messed her up and she has been living in a special care facility for all that time

huh interesting, thanks for the answers

on reddit someone mentioned this episode on ci there was an incapacitated 10yr old boy who was smothered by his older teen sister who was fed up and desperate to get her family life back together. I think he had a brain injury in a skiing accident, and his health issues and CP and TBI took oved the entire family dynamic and changed everything, the parents refused to hire a nurse or home health aide and put the older teen sister in charge.....it was abuse to her to ask her to parent while the parents were at work, and she just snapped one day what episode was that, fairly new to the series

was watching snatched and this line made me laugh Mr. Bregman, in all my years of porsecution, you are possibly the stupidest criminal I have ever met" which brings me to this question what are some of the dumbest perps or stupidest reasons for a crime a perp did you recall on the show?

1. mccoy i guess 2 adam 3mccoy

number 5 is the kid in smoked when he finds out what the parents did 1. compassion? 2. dwb 3. virtue 4. no idea

heh with the different amusing comments and lines it lead me to an idea for a fun game sorry in advance if this isn't allowed, if l&o still had its own section i would post it as it's own thread here's the game idea, we post lines or quotes from different episodes and people here try to guess what episode it was from, for extra fun if you wish, say the line but don't post who said it in the show here's a few of my choice lines 1. He jumped into the car and took off like a bat out of H. E. double hockey sticks. What precinct are you from? Sesame Street? 2.If I don't leave here with a guilty plea, Mr. Corley, I promise you'll do 45 years hard time. They'll wheel me out of my retirement home to be at your parole hearings. 3.: A lot of effort to wind up right back where you started. And in polite society, sir, you don't call people by their first name unless they ask you to. I didn't do that. You're not a friend, and you're certainly not a colleague. 4. The kid's a done deal. She's a textbook serial killer. You just got her early. 5. you sold me?

interesting thing i read on tv tropes about the hubris episode "Hubris": a warrant is issued to search the suspect's apartment but the courier hasn't brought it yet. Knowing the suspect will get there before the warrant, Det. Green sticks a toothpick in his lock to keep him from entering. The courier arrives a few seconds later and the police bust in and seize a videotape of the murders. The judge tosses the tape since the police secured the area before they had the warrant (even though they had reason to believe he'd destroy the evidence and were well aware the warrant had been issued). Then the judge allows the defendant to do two things he shouldn't have: call an alibi witness to perjure herself and take the stand to testify on his own behalf. Not only were the tapes admissible to cross-examine both of them but the defendant was clearly guilty of perjury considering he was representing himself and had personal knowledge he was suborning perjury. It is also totally legal to secure a scene if there's a concrete possibility that the evidence will be removed, destroyed, or otherwise endangered before the search warrant arrives. What the police can't do is start poking around, looking in drawers and such, before the warrant arrives. note As an example, if the police had strong reason to suspect that a criminal had evidence on his computer, they could secure the location and prevent the criminals from touching it. They couldn't actually fire it up and look at the contents until the warrant arrived, though.

been meaning to ask this but keep forgetting to, with the hate crimes and organized crime spinoffs and the ideas being somewhat divisive here, here's a fun question if you could make your own spin off for the franchise what would you want to see done for an idea or location? also what ideas for interesting good characters would you put in the show, since characters like nora, cassidy and fontana weren't really liked i liked the uk version and i always thought a canada version might be interesting, another idea is one set in San Diego or Detroit, basically it would be like the mothership but set there hopefully the franchise could still have good ideas for a spin off and this doesn't become this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1TV9uh2L7w also here's an idea for a character for any spinoff Silvia- a female detective, she is overly sympathetic to female perps and even if they did horrific things and it is 100% their fault, she will go and whisper "it's not your fault" in fact spends 90% of the time whispering and making it nearly impossible to hear her, she also does not use a gun in the field and uses a katana instead of a gun and somehow always avoids getting fired or killed or proven wrong

i think locomotion and fluency beat gunshow with 16 or more deaths, i think at least

that guy was a loser, even when he stabbed himself in the neck, when the duo is trying to stop the bleeding, lupo gives kevin a look and kevin says don't think that didn't cross my mind, he was referring to just pulling the pen out and letting the guy bleed to death while we are on the topic, does anyone know what the highest death toll in the show was for an episode? i think it was season 2 haven with the fire at the night club that had the highest death toll from a perp/perps

and this is different from his regular characterization how? 😛 anyway maybe he does find out who did it in the first episode or something and later decides to stay in the unit to help prevent more issues

maybe the thing that happens is someone murders stablers entire family and that's why he goes back to the police, to avenge in a way the family

think i read somewhere that the actor and chris didn't get along and also the actor thought the show would be more focused on him instead of an ensemble show

maybe it's just as well it was cancelled, so we can still remember it fondly and it didn't become trash like svu is now

huh if the coronavirus causes it and svu to be cancelled, that would most likely be the only good thing to come from this

you sure you're not confusing fontana with stabler? 😛 with what is happening irl right now, i always wondered if the reason was with different racial tensions like the rodney king riots and other hate crimes against blacks if it left him jaded at the system and that's why he was so different

i also wonder if the coronavirus might affect it

unless they are planning do like his father is shown and is a complete sociopath who makes jacks dad look like a saint and you wonder how mark didn't end up exactly like him and kate and rebecca witness this, then mark does has some empathy and realizes what he did was wrong and is guilt ridden, apologizes to kate and kills himself out of guilt and shame

well mark was fairly nasty to begin with, so fans might instead be delighted in his death disturbingly