Quote: Jim Jackson said: L&O has been conceptually faltering since even before Jerry Orbach retired. But yeah, watch the show now and you see just how much Jerry meant to that show.
It was moved to Wednesdays at 9 in an attempt to bring in viewers who didn't want to stay up til 10, but it got beat by LOST in the new timeslot (many of us L&O fans predicted it would).
The mothership, as the Wednesday show gets called in the Web vernacular, skews too old, with 4 of the 6 cast members over 50. The recent female additions to the DA's office--Elisabeth Rohm and Annie Parisse--have been widely criticized for being more eyecandy than actor.
I'm an L&O veteran, since 1996. I don't watch SVU because the subject matter is just too distasteful. CRIMINAL INTENT, especially with the return of Chris Noth as Det. Mike Logan, is the best of the three shows (L&O: TRIAL BY JURY was awful and deserved its cancellation last spring).
Criminal Intent (for those that don't know) is a L&O show as well. What I don't get though is how Alex is on there when she's supposed to be in witness protection.
Granted I've only seen the first episode but still.
As for L&O as a whole, as much as I enjoy the show, having been around for 16 years they can cancle it, it had a great run. What I wash TNT would do is not show the same episodes so often. They need to either start from the first episode and run them through to the end, or shuffle them better. I tuned in the other day to an episode I had seen about a week or two ago. I like to watch the old episodes, but not on repeat like that. Give me something to look forward to by showing me something different for a change. They have more than enough episodes that they can do that with.
It's a rented tux ok? I'm not going comando in another man's fatigues.
