Post by wayfastyt on Nov 17, 2004 14:41:45 GMT -5
By the looks of the responses so far, I think I am the oldest person here ! So, please bear with me folks.
Way back when, just after the dinosaurs gave up the ghost, there was this EXCELLENT cop show called Homicide: Life on the Streets. It ran from the spring of 1993 until the spring of 1999, occupying SVU's original time slot, Fridays at 10PM.
Although there were sevearal crossovers with the original Law and Order, the shows were poles apart. The original Law and Order was so formulaic, just like Jack Webb playing Joe Friday in Dragnet or Jack Lord playing Steve McGarrit in Hawaii 5-0.
Homicide, on the other hand, showed the personal side of things, and the relationships, especially the love-hate ones, between the Detectives, as well as the Bosses (Captains and Colonels of the Baltimore PD, especially the notorious Barnfather and Gaffney.) They even had one cop commit suicide, and anothter get murdered after he left the force. One cop did a bad shoot, and the backlash from that occupied the whole following season.
One of the cops on Homicide was none other than SVU's own John Munch. This Munch was completely different from the caring, compassionate Munch-with-a-heart of the SVU ep "Painless." He was like the Munch of "Charisma," except magnified ten times, which is to say ten times as cynical, ten times as prone to see a conspiracy behind everything, ten times to as paranoid that the government was out to get him.
I started watching SVU because Munch, and Captain Cragen--from way, WAY back in the early 1990's eps of the original L&O--were on it. Stabler and Benson were cool and fun to watch. I wasn't too crazy about Fin at first, because Ice-T, the guy who plays him, wrote and sang this song called "Cop Killer", wherein he fantasizes about killing cops, in the early 1990's, so I didn't think it was appropriate to have him play a police officer. But Ice-T has shown on the show that he is no longer the same Ice T as wrote and sang "Cop Killer."
Cabot was OK as an ADA. I really respected her after Petrovsky threw her in the slammer for contempt, and in "Loss" for her willingness to go on fighting. I hated the way "Loss" ended, that was so painful. But on the bright side, Stephanie March abandoned showbiz in part because she wanted to spend more time with her fiance. How rare and how cool is that?
I was an irregular watcher until Diane Neal came on as Casey Novak. I don't know what it is, but there is just something about Ms. Neal and Casey Novak that is very magnetic, very appealing. Both just have the ability to reach out to me. Ever since, I have never missed an ep, except when the power was out.
And this is a great board too!
Way back when, just after the dinosaurs gave up the ghost, there was this EXCELLENT cop show called Homicide: Life on the Streets. It ran from the spring of 1993 until the spring of 1999, occupying SVU's original time slot, Fridays at 10PM.
Although there were sevearal crossovers with the original Law and Order, the shows were poles apart. The original Law and Order was so formulaic, just like Jack Webb playing Joe Friday in Dragnet or Jack Lord playing Steve McGarrit in Hawaii 5-0.
Homicide, on the other hand, showed the personal side of things, and the relationships, especially the love-hate ones, between the Detectives, as well as the Bosses (Captains and Colonels of the Baltimore PD, especially the notorious Barnfather and Gaffney.) They even had one cop commit suicide, and anothter get murdered after he left the force. One cop did a bad shoot, and the backlash from that occupied the whole following season.
One of the cops on Homicide was none other than SVU's own John Munch. This Munch was completely different from the caring, compassionate Munch-with-a-heart of the SVU ep "Painless." He was like the Munch of "Charisma," except magnified ten times, which is to say ten times as cynical, ten times as prone to see a conspiracy behind everything, ten times to as paranoid that the government was out to get him.
I started watching SVU because Munch, and Captain Cragen--from way, WAY back in the early 1990's eps of the original L&O--were on it. Stabler and Benson were cool and fun to watch. I wasn't too crazy about Fin at first, because Ice-T, the guy who plays him, wrote and sang this song called "Cop Killer", wherein he fantasizes about killing cops, in the early 1990's, so I didn't think it was appropriate to have him play a police officer. But Ice-T has shown on the show that he is no longer the same Ice T as wrote and sang "Cop Killer."
Cabot was OK as an ADA. I really respected her after Petrovsky threw her in the slammer for contempt, and in "Loss" for her willingness to go on fighting. I hated the way "Loss" ended, that was so painful. But on the bright side, Stephanie March abandoned showbiz in part because she wanted to spend more time with her fiance. How rare and how cool is that?
I was an irregular watcher until Diane Neal came on as Casey Novak. I don't know what it is, but there is just something about Ms. Neal and Casey Novak that is very magnetic, very appealing. Both just have the ability to reach out to me. Ever since, I have never missed an ep, except when the power was out.
And this is a great board too!