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Serena McClain

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  1. Muncy is starting to grow to me. I like her better than Kat. I feel like she is the retool of that character and we should have saw HER instead three seasons ago. Still find it a bummer how they wrote Kat out. Things just got so difficult for her and she just leaves the force, unbelievable. Not with the way they built her. I am also sick of this Maxwell woman. I do not get this character and what her position really adds as far as leadership in these legal cases. Why are we not seeing Jack McCoy in these guest roles. One thing I hated about SVU is we always saw these substitute DA office leaders like a bureau chief and now a trial division chief, when we should have been seeing the DA themselves. Still no word on where Vanessa Hadid is who we often saw SVU and Carisi report to recently a few seasons ago. She is just fallen into the same vortex Novak, Cabot (until Season 19), and Cutter all fell into.
  2. See, I guess the writers forgot this detail and I'm sure she is the seventeen-year-old Frank was referencing you claimed was to another daughter, when Lily was said to be fifteen in the Organized Crime crossover episode. This is what you get when the show does not dwell on the personal lives of these characters. Any small details we do get just told out of the blue on certain occasions just get forgotten later on when they do decide to give something a bit of focus. I don't really see this as an issue. The cop was the prosecutions witness, the defense did the cross and I'm guessing the lawyer had no other witnesses to call so they would rest. This episode was an odd one. Jerry came off too finnicky when it came to the evidence and what they needed to find, he clearly showed signs of being guilty here. I figured he would have gotten busted by the end, but he did not and lives to see another episode and do the same thing. So, I expect to see him play more of an antagonistic role this season which will be a nice change of format for this show. I do hope they don't just forget about him the rest of the season like they did with Jamie Ross the last season. That arc sort of just was never resolved from the revival premiere. I expected to see her again by the Season 1 finale. She would have been the fitting third ADA for this show if we were to add another of those to the bunch. We better see her again this season. They might as well add that female detective to the credits who is always doing research because we see her every damn episode with a great amount of screentime. Also, a nice change to have THREE detectives credited. Of course, to even this out they would need to add another ADA, which is why Jamie Ross coming back and on a regular basis would be good. I'm sure they could squeeze her in. Glad to see they added the STARRING above Jeffrey Donovan's name, which was missing for three episodes now. I also think they should do away with the title card scene transitions entirely because dates overlap with other episodes and events just do not make a lick of sense if they are to be out of order. Why are we in April? Shaw was not even there at the precinct at the time and the events of the crossover where we first meet him took place in JULY. Again, the writers are incompetent!
  3. Amanda has been shot for the 15th time and is undergoing some serious mental withdrawal. She is also a mother and comes from a family with a wacky sister and mother that is also coming to mind, certainly with this case and even referenced such to Olivia after they talked to the victim's mother for the first time. The way they are showing this is absolutely reasonable. The father being there made sense because it shows why Austin was the way he was and to give him a bit of conflict to uncover his own demons. And the father was there also to give Austin a bit of hope of him being able to change his own life since he was able to do so. As underutilized as he was, him being there made sense and was not confusing. Olivia was tame this time around, something you guys should be satisfied for since she is always getting hate for being too righteous and commanding, though she is a captain. The case was also find, it was laid back and simple and the format was a bit different which was a nice touch.
  4. Yeah, and Anthony could have renewed that contract. Sam Waterson also signed for a year and he came back. Signing for a year does not mean they had to stay on for a year. Technically, he did not stay for a year only a few months so Anthony should still be on this show until NEXT year. Yeah, it took two years for the show to get picked up but everyone else came back. Why couldn't Roy Thinnes as well! The casting changes are a plague since you get use to these people and want them to be around long and they leave as quickly as they come on. Like what was the point. My hat goes off to Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach, Steven Hill, S. Epatha Merkerson, Fred Thompson, and Jesse L. Martin who knew how to stay on a show.
  5. I am aware of all of this. My point is I did not want this to be the case IN THE REVIVAL. I wanted the cast to be stable this time and we could maintain that for a few seasons. Anthony of course had to ruin that. Casting changes has plagued this show since the first production episode. The original DA before Adam did not come back when the show was picked up for a series, so there was a change even THAT early before Season 2.
  6. Well if he thought that was going to be the case given he only had a two-year stint in the franchise in general, he is delusional, whereas Mariska and Chris have set their marks far longer than he has to warrant their executive producer momentum. He should have waited longer. What a shame. Reminds me of when Michelle Hurd left SVU because she felt underutilized when it was only the FIRST DAMN SEASON she was on the show and interesting enough, given main billing halfway through the season which was not even the case with Dean Winters, whom she was taking over the mantle from. What did she expect so early on when she had four other cast members with higher ranks than her. If this was Season 4 and 5 where this was the case, fine, but she got too greedy and lost her longevity with this series. UGH, when will these actors learn!
  7. Never heard of Anthony being involved in this sort of thing. Gee. News to me. Well if they said that about Cosgrove having more daughters, then I stand corrected and this is not an error then. This just better be the case then or these writers need to be fired for not paying attention to their own detail. Still, Anthony was quick was jump on the revival as soon as it was announced so you would have thought he was desperate for a gig as soon as he can get one and then after that he decides to leave. I really don't see him doing much at this point so he made the wrong choice and wasted everyone's time. And now they are going back to the Season 18 angle which is still a fresh season and luckily we see more of it this time around in Season 22, which should really be 32 had we had this show on for the last dozen years. Grrr....
  8. Or NBC could just limit commercial time or the makers could cut out some other unimportant scene.
  9. I also like to give congrats on this show on making it to three seasons. By last year, it managed to break the curse every spinoff after Criminal Intent failed to do, not even being able to make beyond ONE season and there's been FOUR since, Trial By Jury, Conviction, Los Angeles, and True Crime. Like geez. The last two on that list just did not need to be made at all and Conviction could have just been TBJ Season 2 since they used the same sets and even had the ORDER side as the main focus once again. I have faith to see this show lasting for quite a while now that it's made it to season number three. But it tickles me how long it even took them to do a show like this given watching many of the episodes from the original shows first ten seasons where organized crime and or the unit is mentioned many times, but we don't get an actual show on it until twenty something years later.
  10. Well we have had those CI like intros since Season 18. I do not see that changing anytime soon. I frankly like it as we get to see and know the victim a bit before they bite the dust. Why this would affect ADA Maroun's work I am not quite following since from her perspective, she does not know what went down and even we as the audience do not see everything leading to the death. Yeah, no mention of Bernard either. Shame given this should have been addressed in the first episode of the season. I should not have to wait multiple episodes down the road to know where such and such is. Bernard was a big character too so to NOT address his absence is like silly. Trial By Jury replaced Lennie Briscoe and did not even allude to the fact that he was gone or ever even there at the DA's Office at all when his replacement came in. It was just so weird they did that. We had to find out on the OTHER SHOWS years down the line that he had died. Lame. Like we had to find out three seasons what Claire Kincaid's fate was which was never a confirmed death by Season 7 or 8. LAME.
  11. I found his acting a bit bland at times, but given this is his first gig shortly after a long running show JUST ended, he was a fool to make this decision this quickly. It was a waste of him even coming back and like I said, he BETTER have something grand happening very shortly within the next few months or him leaving a good gig like this is the biggest mistake he will make in his career now. If we don't see anything from him in the next few years, I will not feel bad for him. This is what you get for jumping the gun so quickly. Reminds me of when Jake T. Austin did this when he was on The Fosters on ABC Family. His character was written off for half a season and he wanted to do other things in the meantime. But he left the show as his contract would not allow him to do other things during the time if he remained tied to the show. So when his character came back, the role was recast, and THAT actor continued it for the next four years while Jake did absolutely nothing special since. So, him leaving that show was pathetic, all because he could not be patient and still could have been working had he stayed and just took his break. But he left thinking he was going to land something else and didn't and the actor who took over, while I did not like the fact he was too tall, made the role his own and basically overshadowed Jake at least when it came to the fans who took a liking to him. The second actor would continue the role well into the sequel series, Good Trouble for some guest spots. Like I said, this acting thing is not easy to do as roles are offered and snatched like cookies every day whether it be the same character or a replacement character. If you think you are going to land something greater, then you better make sure the seeds for that is ALREADY in motion or you are going to fall down big time.
  12. Noticed an error. Cosgrove stated that the victim was the same age as his daughter, who was seventeen. Now unless he has ANOTHER daughter, which I highly doubt, this is not right as in the Organized Crime crossover LITERALLY A WEEK AGO he told the one and only daughter we see that she was FIFTEEN. I recall him saying that and went back to the OC show to review that scene if that was the case AND IT WAS. Like, how do they screw this so quickly. Also a funny moment, while the governor was talking in front of the courthouse, there was a bird walking on the steps in the background just chilling and minding its own business, haha.
  13. I just made a rant on the L&O twitter page for whoever does the show's editing to add STARRING above Jeffrey Donovan's name during the intro credits. I do not see why and how was this even overlooked given he was to take over Anthony Anderson's spot when he had the STARRING title above HIS name. Talk about lazy editing to just use the image and credit of him when he was not starring at the time and leave it at that. I still find it a shame Anthony left. When this show came back, I was craving they could go a season without any casting changes which seems to have plagued the original run so much except for those last two seasons when the cast remained stable. But for TWO seasons really!!! They just could not keep a good cast together, something I like SVU for doing for the most part and CI to an extent. Anthony had to go and ruin that. I get Kevin Bernard been around the 27th precinct for a dozen years and from a timeline sense, it seems reasonable he would leave now, but we only got to have a little over two years with the character in regard to the actual onscreen run, so Anthony should have stayed. He wanted to do other things, but why even come back for such a short stint and this was a blessing given Blackish ended. Now what is he doing, nothing, so he better have a new gig soon that makes him leaving even reasonable or else he is going to look so dumb. These actors want to leave a good gig for them and most of the time not be able to find anything else for the longest time or something that is just as good. This acting thing is quite the challenge. So many actors out there with very little available roles, so they ought to manage what they got and make it stick for the long run or they will be at ground zero for God knows how long. I do not think Jeffrey should have been given lead billing given his character was still fresh to the department. Mehcad Brooks should have taken that spot even though he is a newcomer but that does not mean an existing character has to automatically be the lead like when Jesse L. Martin left and Jeremy Sisto was given the lead as opposed to Anthony Anderson. After all, Chris Noth was never given lead on this show even when his top costars before him left during his run. Newcomers Paul Sorvino and Jerry Orbach took that mantle immediately.
  14. Joe clearly needs to dye his hair. It kills me how old he was just letting himself age by the last two seasons like he just did not care about his youth anymore. The Giver he is definitely turning into.
  15. I know what the thread is, but I was referring to SVU as the topic of discussion since I was talking about just that show. Yeah, I know about Alex and do not care since that was how long ago and clearly she did not die by the very ending of that episode so....it means nothing. But thanks for the info anyway.
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