Amanda Rollins: Georgia Peach in the Big Apple

[galaxychaser]

Who is the father of her kids?

Carisi is her live interest?

[TVMovieBuff]

9 hours ago, galaxychaser said:

Who is the father of her kids?

Carisi is her live interest?

No, Carisi isn't her love interest. They have flirted more than once but it didn't happen. Almost but not quite. 

Her first daughter's father is a cop who was assigned with them for awhile, played by Donal Logue. Her second daughter was fathered by a boyfriend, played by George Newbern. I think he is a doctor and he asked Amanda to marry him but she didn't want to.

[peacheslatour]

Ugh, watching Maternal Instinct right now. Rollins horrible sister and idiot mother should both be locked up for felony working my last nerve.

[Joe Hellandback]

On 5/10/2020 at 9:41 PM, peacheslatour said:

Ugh, watching Maternal Instinct right now. Rollins horrible sister and idiot mother should both be locked up for felony working my last nerve.

Are you sure you're allowed to use that avatar these days? 

[CrystalBlue]

3 hours ago, Joe Hellandback said:

Are you sure you're allowed to use that avatar these days? 

I thought the same thing a few days ago!  Doesn't peacheslatour have you-know-who from the movie you-know-what as her avatar?  Shhh, don't let anyone know.  If peaches changes her avatar I'm a gonna be pissed.

[dttruman]

How many different times has Rollins broken protocol and gotten away with it? Associating with known felons (sister and father) Lying to a superior officer when she said she didn't take that psychedelic drug when they were going after that professor last season. Anymore?

[Xeliou66]

54 minutes ago, dttruman said:

How many different times has Rollins broken protocol and gotten away with it? Associating with known felons (sister and father) Lying to a superior officer when she said she didn't take that psychedelic drug when they were going after that professor last season. Anymore?

I just watched the end of Gambler’s Fallacy and it’s completely absurd that Rollins kept her job after this episode, she should’ve been fired and possibly gone to prison for her actions, Rollins was basically an accomplice to a rape and Murphy should never have helped her out, she’s a terrible detective who isn’t worth it. And I don’t care how short staffed SVU was, Benson should’ve fired her, I think had it been Cragen in charge she would’ve been gone. What Rollins did in that episode was the most egregious behavior of any SVU member ever. And this wasn’t the only time, look at her actions protecting her sister and dragging Fin into her mess in Maternal Instincts, she should’ve been fired after that as well. I really hate the character, she’s the worst main character in SVU history by far, and it’s ridiculous that the writers want us to like Rollins and think she’s good, she’s a pathetic excuse for a police officer and a trailer trash whore. 

It’s obvious Rollins is a writers pet, given the amount of screentime she gets, the writers can’t get enough of her and her soapy drama. I really hate Rollins, and now they try to make it where her and Benson are BFF’s (at least they did in seasons 19-20, it was dialed back some last year) after Benson blatantly not trusting Rollins after what happened in season 15 and Rollins has given her no reason to trust her since then. I know we talk a lot about the over focus on St Olivia, but the focus on Rollins last year was just as bad IMO. If Rollins has to stick around, they need to make the character a lot more tolerable, I really can’t stand her, and I will be furious if they ruin Carisi by dragging him into Rollins disaster of a life. 

[WendyCR72]

To think - as this topic says - Jeffries got escorted out for consorting with a suspect. And I liked her a hell of a lot more than I do Rollins.

[Xeliou66]

12 minutes ago, WendyCR72 said:

To think - as this topic says - Jeffries got escorted out for consorting with a suspect. And I liked her a hell of a lot more than I do Rollins.

Agreed, what Jeffries did was nowhere near as bad as what Rollins has done in multiple episodes, and yet Rollins keeps her job and we are supposed to think she’s a good detective. And yeah Jeffries was a lot more likable - Rollins can be downright nasty, like she was to the victim in Service, she’s been that way in other episodes and she was somewhat rude to Kat several times last season for no reason. Rollins is a terrible character who really drags down the show.

[illdoc]

13 hours ago, Xeliou66 said:

what Jeffries did was nowhere near as bad as what Rollins has done in multiple episodes, and yet Rollins keeps her job

Maybe Jeffries should bring a racial discrimination suit against the department. Her & Van Buren (who was passed over in favor of a white cop for captain) should team up.

[dttruman]

1 hour ago, illdoc said:

Maybe Jeffries should bring a racial discrimination suit against the department. Her & Van Buren (who was passed over in favor of a white cop for captain) should team up.

I sure as hell don't want to take anything a way from Van Buren and maybe you can correct me on this, but was Van Buren passed over because she had cancer and was using some pot? I remember that incident with the chemotherapy or something like that.

15 hours ago, Xeliou66 said:

If Rollins has to stick around, they need to make the character a lot more tolerable, I really can’t stand her, and I will be furious if they ruin Carisi by dragging him into Rollins disaster of a life. 

They definitely need to make Carisi a stronger character, that is priority one if you ask me

[illdoc]

Van Buren's cancer was during the final season (#20). The promotion ado was during season...I think 9 or 10.

[Xeliou66]

2 hours ago, dttruman said:

I sure as hell don't want to take anything a way from Van Buren and maybe you can correct me on this, but was Van Buren passed over because she had cancer and was using some pot? I remember that incident with the chemotherapy or something like that.

They definitely need to make Carisi a stronger character, that is priority one if you ask me

No Van Buren was passed over for promotion in season 8, she didn’t get cancer until season 20. 

As for Carisi - he’s already a good character, but now that he’s an ADA and not a detective they need to find ways to use him better, he’s not a part of the squad anymore so stop shoehorning him into scenes where he doesn’t belong and stop acting like he’s still a squad member, and please stop with the whole unresolved feelings thing between him and Rollins, Carisi can do a lot better than Rollins and we don’t need that shit between an ADA and a detective. Unfortunately this show now chooses soapy melodrama over compelling stories, they don’t want to put the time and effort into writing good storylines so they instead go for cheap drama and soapy dreck. This show has become a shitfest for the most part. 

[dttruman]

On 8/9/2020 at 5:07 PM, illdoc said:

Van Buren's cancer was during the final season (#20). The promotion ado was during season...I think 9 or 10.

Damn, I was 10 years off on that one!

On 8/9/2020 at 5:25 PM, Xeliou66 said:

he’s already a good character, but now that he’s an ADA and not a detective they need to find ways to use him better, he’s not a part of the squad anymore so stop shoehorning him into scenes where he doesn’t belong and stop acting like he’s still a squad member, and please stop with the whole unresolved feelings thing between him and Rollins, Carisi can do a lot better than Rollins and we don’t need that shit between an ADA and a detective. Unfortunately this show now chooses soapy melodrama over compelling stories, they don’t want to put the time and effort into writing good storylines so they instead go for cheap drama and soapy dreck. This show has become a shitfest for the most part. 

I agree, but what I meant by a "strong character" is that he shouldn't bend to Benson's or Rollins' will all the time when they badger him to prosecute. It just seem like that was SOP after a superficial investigation. They did it to Barba, Stone, and now Carisi. Luckily near the end of the season, Carisi was developing a backbone. I wonder if there was some pressure coming in from the Carisi Fan Club to have Benson back off a little, because it was getting a little too unrealistic.

Edited August 13, 2020 by dttruman

[Xeliou66]

58 minutes ago, dttruman said:

I agree, but what I meant by a "strong character" is that he shouldn't bend to Benson's or Rollins' will all the time when they badger him to prosecute. It just seem like that was SOP after a superficial investigation. They did it to Barba, Stone, and now Carisi. Luckily near the end of the season, Carisi was developing a backbone. I wonder if there was some pressure coming in from the Carisi Fan Club to have Benson back off a little, because it was getting a little to unrealistic.

Agreed, it was nauseating how the turned Barba and Stone into nothing more than puppets for Benson, and one of my main concerns about Carisi shifting to the prosecutors role was that he would blindly follow Benson’s lead because he was used to taking orders from Benson - but fortunately it wasn’t as bad as I expected, but yeah I still worry that they will have Carisi do whatever Benson or Rollins wants instead of acting as a prosecutor, I really hope that doesn’t happen because Carisi is a good character and I hate seeing the show destroy their prosecutors. And at times Benson still acted like she was Carisi’s boss, like I’ve said before I would love for a big argument to happen between Benson and Carisi with Carisi telling Benson he doesn’t work for her anymore, but no one is allowed to speak to the holy St Olivia that way. They did say they were planning to explore the changes in the Benson/Carisi relationship more in the final 4 episodes that were planned before the pandemic canceled them, so maybe next season we will see that and I hope they have Carisi operating independently of Benson, Rollins and their influence. 

[wknt3]

10 hours ago, Xeliou66 said:

And at times Benson still acted like she was Carisi’s boss,

To be fair, why should she treat him differently than Barba, Stone, and Jack McCoy?

[dttruman]

1 hour ago, wknt3 said:

To be fair, why should she treat him differently than Barba, Stone, and Jack McCoy?

Let's take it a little farther. It always seem to be a battle between SVU and the ADAs. What made it good as in the mothership, the detectives would run it by Cragen (or Van Buren) or they would take it to the ADAs together. I liked it when the guys (i.e. Briscoe and Curtis) would run it by Van Buren. She was black and a women and there was nothing but respect there, no animosity at all. Here, they almost make it a routine event, where the detectives and the ADAs are adversarial, where one side thinks they know more than the other. IMO, this has become SOP to make Benson (or Rollins) look all the more caring for victims.

[wknt3]

On 8/10/2020 at 8:19 AM, dttruman said:

Let's take it a little farther. It always seem to be a battle between SVU and the ADAs. What made it good as in the mothership, the detectives would run it by Cragen (or Van Buren) or they would take it to the ADAs together. I liked it when the guys (i.e. Briscoe and Curtis) would run it by Van Buren. She was black and a women and there was nothing but respect there, no animosity at all. Here, they almost make it a routine event, where the detectives and the ADAs are adversarial, where one side thinks they know more than the other. IMO, this has become SOP to make Benson (or Rollins) look all the more caring for victims.

Conflict between the squad and ADAs as well as ADAs taking direction from the cops instead of from the law and their bosses has been SOP long before they decided that making Benson the savior of all victims was the most important thing in the world. Like so much else that we criticize about current SVU I think the fact that it's done so clumsily makes us forget that they used to do pretty much the same thing, but better. I think it's really become SOP as a sort of reset button to try to course correct and bring the show back to some sort of reality - having the ADA try to insist on the detectives doing some actual police work instead of just becoming too emotionally involved with the victims and shouting at suspects until they breakdown. Of course where it used to take several years before the ADAs went from adult supervision to part of the family willing to forget about trivia like the law now it takes a year at most. I think where there has been change in the conflict is the way they try to make any man who isn't part of the squad completely in love with Benson and constantly shove clumsy UST down our throats. I think part of the floundering with Carisi is that they can't plug Carisi into those formulas. I mean what do you expect them to do - write good courtroom scenes and legal drama? Have the police and prosecutors be separate, yet equally important? That sort of thing would never work!

[Xeliou66]

19 minutes ago, wknt3 said:

Conflict between the squad and ADAs as well as ADAs taking direction from the cops instead of from the law and their bosses has been SOP long before they decided that making Benson the savior of all victims was the most important thing in the world. Like so much else that we criticize about current SVU I think the fact that it's done so clumsily makes us forget that they used to do pretty much the same thing, but better. I think it's really become SOP as a sort of reset button to try to course correct and bring the show back to some sort of reality - having the ADA try to insist on the detectives doing some actual police work instead of just becoming too emotionally involved with the victims and shouting at suspects until they breakdown. Of course where it used to take several years before the ADAs went from adult supervision to part of the family willing to forget about trivia like the law now it takes a year at most. I think where there has been change in the conflict is the way they try to make any man who isn't part of the squad completely in love with Benson and constantly shove clumsy UST down our throats. I think part of the floundering with Carisi is that they can't plug Carisi into those formulas. I mean what do you expect them to do - write good courtroom scenes and legal drama? Have the police and prosecutors be separate, yet equally important? That sort of thing would never work!

The Mothership did the relationship between the police and the prosecutors very well IMO - they treated them as separate and equally important and their interactions were well done, there would naturally be some conflict but overall they had the same goal and that was to see justice served, I thought the Mothership was great at dealing with the interactions between the police and prosecutors. Just another thing that the Mothership did so well.

SVU has never been as good at handling that part, mainly because SVU has a much greater focus on the police than on the prosecutors, but used to it was handled much better than it was now. And now they truly seem to have no clue as to what to do with Carisi/the legal stuff - if the writing was good they could write good legal stuff and show Carisi navigating the role of ADA, sometimes clashing with his former squad. But the writing sucks for the most part now, and they do not want any conflict between Carisi and the squad for some reason, it’s like they want Carisi to still be part of the SVU squad while acting as an ADA. So they bring in a cardboard character in Hadid, and shit on the whole DA’s office in the process, which is a disgrace to the franchise and is spitting in the face of the fans, all because it’s a cheap, easy way to create conflict. They are too goddamn lazy and lousy at their jobs to come up with better writing for the legal stuff. I can hope that they will start writing better legal stuff, ditch Hadid, stop the trashing of the DA’s office, and give Carisi some focus where he sometimes clashes with the squad. I know it will likely never happen, but I can dream right? Rant complete. 

[dttruman]

14 hours ago, Xeliou66 said:

if the writing was good they could write good legal stuff and show Carisi navigating the role of ADA, sometimes clashing with his former squad. But the writing sucks for the most part now, and they do not want any conflict between Carisi and the squad for some reason, it’s like they want Carisi to still be part of the SVU squad while acting as an ADA. So they bring in a cardboard character in Hadid, and shit on the whole DA’s office in the process, which is a disgrace to the franchise and is spitting in the face of the fans, all because it’s a cheap, easy way to create conflict. They are too goddamn lazy and lousy at their jobs to come up with better writing for the legal stuff. I can hope that they will start writing better legal stuff, ditch Hadid, stop the trashing of the DA’s office, and give Carisi some focus where he sometimes clashes with the squad. I know it will likely never happen, but I can dream right? Rant complete. 

Have they ever thought about crunching the numbers to figure out the best way to spend the money to get better ratings? It seems like they want to spend a lot of money on the guest stars hoping ratings would increase because of the guest star's name recognition and to hell with the story line and script development. IMO, they need to put more emphasis on the script and on the casting of characters. One of their own commercials gave me the idea. Have you seen it where they show a lot of the up and coming stars who "cut their teeth" appearing on the L&O shows? Those are some famous actors now. Why don't they give more of a chance to the new "up and coming" talented actors at a much more cheaper price than famous guest stars? Maybe even Hargitay will take a pay cut, so they can pay for more  talented writers.

Edited August 13, 2020 by dttruman

[Xeliou66]

1 hour ago, dttruman said:

Have they ever thought about crunching the numbers to figure out the best way to spend the money to get better ratings? It seems like they want to spend a lot of money on the guest stars hoping ratings would increase because of the guest star's name recognition and to hell with the story line and script development. IMO, they need to put more emphasis on the script and on the casting of characters. One of their own commercials gave me the idea. Have you seen it where they show a lot of the up and coming stars who "cut their teeth" appearing on the L&O shows? Those are some famous actors. Why don't they give more of a chance to the new "up and coming" talented actors at a much more cheaper price than famous guest stars? Maybe even Hargitay will take a pay cut, so they can pay for more  talented writers.

Agreed with all of this, they really need to focus more on coming up with better storylines and it would be better if they focused on doing that instead of on getting big name guest stars and letting them carry the show while ignoring the actual cases - but Mariska’s ego is out of control and cannot be stopped, it can only be contained so much, so the focus will always be on pushing her to the forefront, making her look great, and promoting her and her agenda.

It’s clear that the writers want this to be the Benson and Rollins show and those 2 characters will be pushed to the front and get a lot of screentime while everyone else gets left behind, the writers care more about writing material for those 2 characters and shoving their personal lives down our throats than they do about writing good cases. Carisi is probably the show’s most interesting character but they didn’t use him well last season and they don’t know how to write good legal stuff anymore and seem to be still trying to keep him as a part of the squad sometimes, it’s like they don’t know what to do with him : Fin is just kind of along for the ride and they don’t always give him a lot because Ice T probably has other projects going on, he gets about 1 episode per season where he takes the lead, and as for Kat, I honestly think she was added just to appease the people who wanted more minority “representation” on the show, I like her and hope they use her more but I think she will just get about 1 episode per season centered around her, just like Fin. Everything else is the super mommies Benson and Rollins show. 

[wknt3]

On 8/12/2020 at 10:29 PM, Xeliou66 said:

Fin is just kind of along for the ride and they don’t always give him a lot because Ice T probably has other projects going on, he gets about 1 episode per season where he takes the lead, and as for Kat, I honestly think she was added just to appease the people who wanted more minority “representation” on the show, I like her and hope they use her more but I think she will just get about 1 episode per season centered around her, just like Fin.

Agreed about Fin. Ice-T has obviously made the decision to stick around until the bitter bitter end in exchange for being allowed to do other projects and minimizing his time in NYC winters. (Sorvino has to be pissed that that's an option in the franchise now...) He is content to phone it in and only make an effort when the writers do and toe the company line. I think Kat was added for some more practical reasons - they need someone to run, especially when Giddish is pregnant again, since Carisi became an ADA and Fin is basically Provenza from The Closer/Major Crimes now who doesn't do that sort of thing anymore. Also given that they have decided to renew the show until network television completely collapses they had to face what was obvious to any observer who wasn't writing the checks and add another character - I mean we were talking about how claustrophobic and stale the reduced cast was feeling before they wrote off Stone. It is possible that the (justified) complaints about how the show had become very much unrepresentative of the diversity of NYC played a part, but there were much more practical reasons for adding another detective and Dick Wolf does not pay money for ideological concerns.

Edited August 15, 2020 by wknt3

[dttruman]

On 8/13/2020 at 3:21 PM, wknt3 said:

Agreed about Fin. Ice-T has obviously made the decision to stick around until the bitter bitter end in exchange for being allowed to do other projects and minimizing his time in NYC winters. (Sorvino has to be pissed that that's an option in the franchise now...) He is content to phone it in and only make an effort when the writers do and toe the company line. I think Kat was added for some more practical reasons - they need someone to run, especially when Giddish is pregnant again, since Carisi became an ADA and Fin is basically Provenza from The Closer/Major Crimes now who doesn't do that sort of thing anymore. Also given that they have decided to renew the show until network television completely collapses they had to face what was obvious to any observer who wasn't writing the checks and add another character - I mean we were talking about how claustrophobic and stale the reduced cast was feeling before they wrote off Stone. It is possible that the (justified) complaints about how the show had become very much unrepresentative of the diversity of NYC played a part, but there were much more practical reasons for adding another detective and Dick Wolf does not pay money for ideological concerns.

I wonder if Fin will last the next three seasons on SVU or will he finally just say, I am out because I can't do this with all the other projects I have coming up. Will Fin be on loan to say narcotics (or some other dept) and he disappears for the 1st half of the season or for as long as they don't need him?

[Xeliou66]

1 hour ago, dttruman said:

I wonder if Fin will last the next three seasons on SVU or will he finally just say, I am out because I can't do this with all the other projects I have coming up. Will Fin be on loan to say narcotics (or some other dept) and he disappears for the 1st half of the season or for as long as they don't need him?

I’m pretty sure Fin will be on until the end, he will just be absent for a couple of episodes each season with no explanation the way he has been for the last couple of seasons. 

[wknt3]

13 hours ago, Xeliou66 said:

I’m pretty sure Fin will be on until the end, he will just be absent for a couple of episodes each season with no explanation the way he has been for the last couple of seasons. 

Yeah the only way Ice-T leaves if is he has some sort of major health issue. He's too important to the SVU brand and SVU is too important to his brand for him to leave. He has said in various interviews that he plans on sticking around until the end and nothing in his actions contradicts that. The only question is how much he is present, both mentally and physically.

[SarahPrtr]

On 8/10/2020 at 7:25 AM, Xeliou66 said:

No Van Buren was passed over for promotion in season 8, she didn’t get cancer until season 20. 

As for Carisi - he’s already a good character, but now that he’s an ADA and not a detective they need to find ways to use him better, he’s not a part of the squad anymore so stop shoehorning him into scenes where he doesn’t belong and stop acting like he’s still a squad member, and please stop with the whole unresolved feelings thing between him and Rollins, Carisi can do a lot better than Rollins and we don’t need that shit between an ADA and a detective. Unfortunately this show now chooses soapy melodrama over compelling stories, they don’t want to put the time and effort into writing good storylines so they instead go for cheap drama and soapy dreck. This show has become a shitfest for the most part. 

Yeah, enough of the will-they-or-won't-they bullshit, it's been six freaking years!!!  They make it sound like NYC is so short of decent, kind and supportive women that, Carisi has no choice but to be with Rollins.  Rubbish!!! 

 

They have SUCH a great choice of storylines for Carisi and he's a versatile character who can be written in many different, interesting ways, but they keep wasting their chances!!  I doubt any of the actors on the show will leave willingly, because it's a steady paycheck and they have young kids, and I guess apart from Mariska and Ice, none of them have FU money yet.  Like Ellen Pompeo who has been on GA for how many years now??  It's income. 

 

The quality has been dwindling for years.  I don't know when they will be able to start shooting on a regular basis because New York is going through 'stuff', and if not for the show, they may have even moved to another state.

[dttruman]

4 hours ago, wknt3 said:

Yeah the only way Ice-T leaves if is he has some sort of major health issue. He's too important to the SVU brand and SVU is too important to his brand for him to leave. He has said in various interviews that he plans on sticking around until the end and nothing in his actions contradicts that. The only question is how much he is present, both mentally and physically.

If he is getting a lot of money for so little work, I can understand that. But how important is the "brand" to him?  The ratings have dropped significantly (most probably due to the poor quality), so why would he skydive with an anvil as his parachute?

IMO, bringing Stabler back is their attempt to boost the ratings. Since we haven't see anything about the cast for the new show "Organized Crime", I am assuming Stabler will be on the first few SVU episodes and then will get to see the new show and it's cast.

4 hours ago, SarahPrtr said:

Yeah, enough of the will-they-or-won't-they bullshit, it's been six freaking years!!!  They make it sound like NYC is so short of decent, kind and supportive women that, Carisi has no choice but to be with Rollins.  Rubbish!!! 

 

They have SUCH a great choice of storylines for Carisi and he's a versatile character who can be written in many different, interesting ways, but they keep wasting their chances!! 

The two I liked to see get together, where their doubts and uncertainties concerning others viewpoints leads to a better understanding, mutual respect, and a certain spark of desire.

Spoiler

Carisi and Tamin

 

[wknt3]

1 hour ago, dttruman said:

If he is getting a lot of money for so little work, I can understand that. But how important is the "brand" to him?  The ratings have dropped significantly (most probably due to the poor quality), so why would he skydive with an anvil as his parachute?

He is getting good money for his Co-Star Emeritus status. From everything we know he is making the same money he was making back when he was in every episode and more scenes per episodes plus a little more, but doing much less. He has taken more time off instead of big raises and both he and Dick Wolf seem happy with that arrangement. And while the ratings are not what they were the series still gets a good deal of attention - the relentless focus on wealthy single white women makes for boring bad television, but good demos, social media engagement, etc. And he is closely associated with the show by the general public that has drifted away and doesn't realize that he is hardly there anymore. He does a good amount of press for the show and whenever they do anything big he is the one who is there with Mariska (The Tonight Show, other interviews, SNL...) If he was just doing nostalgia concerts and disposable reality shows he doesn't get nearly the same media attention. So his association is quite beneficial. Plus he has a steady paycheck that is probably better than 1/2-2/3rds of TV actors for what is now a glorified recurring role which I'm sure plays a role in his desire to keep going.

[dttruman]

21 minutes ago, wknt3 said:

And he is closely associated with the show by the general public that has drifted away and doesn't realize that he is hardly there anymore. He does a good amount of press for the show and whenever they do anything big he is the one who is there with Mariska (The Tonight Show, other interviews, SNL...)

 

I can see where you are coming from now. Most of what he is getting paid for is PR work. The same way that Hargitay indirectly uses that Joyful Heart Foundation for publicity for SVU. It's not just a charity organization but a PR vehicle.

[WendyCR72]

Hey, all.

We have allowed some leeway. But this thread has gone from being about Rollins to Fin and whatever else. Fin has his own thread here. So please take any talk of Ice T/Fin there, and let's keep this to Rollins.

Thanks.

[dttruman]

Since Rollins has a tendency to skirt the law herself many times and yet still get away with it. Will the writers come up with a story line that segues from the norm, where Rollins supposedly commits a crime and that Carisi is ordered by Hadid to prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law?

[Xeliou66]

17 minutes ago, dttruman said:

Since Rollins has a tendency to skirt the law herself many times and yet still get away with it. Will the writers come up with a story line that segues from the norm, where Rollins supposedly commits a crime and that Carisi is ordered by Hadid to prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law?

No I don’t see that happening, if Rollins was being prosecuted for supposedly committing a crime, Carisi wouldn’t be the one trying the case, he would have a major conflict of interest given that he’s was her coworker and partner, the case would be assigned to a special prosecutor from outside - the way Derek Strauss was brought in as special prosecutor in Undercover Blue when Cassidy was accused of rape, in Amaro’s One Eighty when Amaro was faced with prosecution and in Post Mortem Blues when Benson was under investigation for Lewis’ death. They wouldn’t have the ADA who works with SVU prosecuting a member of SVU, especially when that ADA used to be a member of SVU himself. 

Besides, I don’t see them smearing Rollins worse than she’s already been smeared, I mean it’s already ridiculous that Rollins still has a job - her actions in Gambler’s Fallacy alone should’ve gotten her fired and arrested, and she’s done plenty of other unethical, unprofessional shit as well that should’ve gotten her canned, so I think if they had Rollins in the midst of another major controversy even these shitty SVU writers would realize it was too much and that it would be beyond belief if Rollins kept her job. The only way I could see them putting Rollins at the center of another major controversy is if she was leaving the show, and I doubt she’s going anywhere, as much as I wish she would. 

[dttruman]

9 minutes ago, Xeliou66 said:

No I don’t see that happening, if Rollins was being prosecuted for supposedly committing a crime, Carisi wouldn’t be the one trying the case, he would have a major conflict of interest given that he’s was her coworker and partner, the case would be assigned to a special prosecutor from outside - the way Derek Strauss was brought in as special prosecutor in Undercover Blue when Cassidy was accused of rape, in Amaro’s One Eighty when Amaro was faced with prosecution and in Post Mortem Blues when Benson was under investigation for Lewis’ death. They wouldn’t have the ADA who works with SVU prosecuting a member of SVU, especially when that ADA used to be a member of SVU himself. 

Besides, I don’t see them smearing Rollins worse than she’s already been smeared, I mean it’s already ridiculous that Rollins still has a job - her actions in Gambler’s Fallacy alone should’ve gotten her fired and arrested, and she’s done plenty of other unethical, unprofessional shit as well that should’ve gotten her canned, so I think if they had Rollins in the midst of another major controversy even these shitty SVU writers would realize it was too much and that it would be beyond belief if Rollins kept her job. The only way I could see them putting Rollins at the center of another major controversy is if she was leaving the show, and I doubt she’s going anywhere, as much as I wish she would. 

How many times have they totally ignored the "conflict of interest" premise. I am just trying to think up crazy scenarios and how close they may come to the actual episode story lines that are run this next season.

[Xeliou66]

1 hour ago, dttruman said:

How many times have they totally ignored the "conflict of interest" premise. I am just trying to think up crazy scenarios and how close they may come to the actual episode story lines that are run this next season.

With these writers who the hell knows? I’m just pointing out that in the past an outside prosecutor has always been brought in when an SVU member falls under suspicion of something, and generally they do bring in outsiders during a “conflict of interest” scenario, but they have SVU ignore warnings and get involved anyway - like when Cragen was arrested. 

Like I say I can’t predict anything the SVU writers do but nothing would shock me - I mean they had Barba mercy kill a baby and had Stone present false evidence in court, they have no qualms about shitting on their characters, that’s for sure.

[SarahPrtr]

Every time I see the title for this thread, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Jaded]

What happened to the old title of this thread that mentioned Jeffries? 

[WendyCR72]

36 minutes ago, Jaded said:

What happened to the old title of this thread that mentioned Jeffries? 

Changed to reflect it as a character thread [as it was intended] than inviting other talk.

[Mindy67]

Please will SVU do something about the crappy hair on Hargitay and Giddish. It is a hot mess on both of them. Between the constant scowl and hair I can’t hardly stand to watch. 

[lazylump]

On 11/12/2021 at 9:05 PM, Mindy67 said:

Please will SVU do something about the crappy hair on Hargitay and Giddish. It is a hot mess on both of them. Between the constant scowl and hair I can’t hardly stand to watch. 

Oh thank you!  Giddish’s hair is horrible.  It has been driving me crazy.  I am catching up on her older seasons and the contrast is staggering.  Her hair was so much nicer side parted and you know- brushed.  She too busy shagging Carisi to brush it in the mornings?

[CrystalBlue]

Even the prostitutes in Manhattan have nicely styled hair.

[dttruman]

On 5/10/2020 at 4:41 PM, peacheslatour said:

Ugh, watching Maternal Instinct right now. Rollins horrible sister and idiot mother should both be locked up for felony working my last nerve.

I never thought about this until now, but Rollins' very naive and oblivious mother, is she from a rich and well-to-do family? Because I don' think she actually works for a living, does she? Taking into consideration what her father is like, I can see him making a living, but nothing very prosperous with that drug and alcohol problems. So bottom line, where does the money come from for mom?