Posted on 03/19/2008 11:36:17 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
Did anyone else watch the LAW & ORDER episode on Wednesday night? I managed to catch last 30 minutes of it.
Jason is accused of stoning his mother to death because she was having an affair. He is a student of a pastor who runs a Christian camp for children. DA people play a videotape of the pastor's sermon...The pastor tells the children that we are in a "war" with Islamic fanatics. He speaks out against "hypocrites". Prosecutors shake their heads...The deputy prosecutor states that one doesn't have to go to Middle East to find a school for extremists.
Jason accepts the deal for 15 year jail sentence. The DA's office charges the pastor for inciting the murder of Jason's mother.
There is a trial. The pastor, on the stand, states that we are in a struggle against radical Islam...The prosecutor accuses the pastor of brainwashing kids. One woman stands up and tells the prosecutor that he will go to hell.
The jury goes into deliberation. A problem...One juror is busted with a bible. The prosecution asks for mistrial. The judge refuses. The jury refuses to convict the pastor...DA McCoy says that our "radicals" will go up against their radicals...McCoy wonders when the war would end.
This was a silly episode. The message seemed to be that "radical Christians" were just as dangerous as "radical Muslims". Moral equivalency? This episode portrayed Christians mostly as wackos...I guess that's not really new in Hollywood...
Do real officers wear slacks slung 6 inches below their navel with their shirt resting even with their belt? This is a government standard of dress for women? (Just wondering?)
I liked Law & order in the good ol’ days, when it was Max and Logan, later on, Phil and Lenny Brisco.
It had the great Ben Stone character and Paul Robinette’s ADA. Incredible plots. One time there was a Russian immigrant who Ben forced to testify against the mob, she was killed and Stone resigned in an amazing scene that should have gotten him an Emmy.
Then Max Greevey was killed in front of his wife...really good plots and good characters.
It fell apart after Michael Moriarty and George Dzunda left.
Ed
I thought she was cute, but she’s gone this year, replaced by a hot redhead.
yup....alicia witt is hot!!!!
Well the part about a juror bringing in the bible happened in Albany NY, otherwise that case was not like this one. There was a Fundamentalist Christian camp, where some interpreted it as producing fanatical Christians, but there was no crime involved. That's all I remember offhand.
McGreevey got killed at the end of Season 1!! Paul Robinette was only there for 3 seasons, and Moriarity for 5 or 6 seasons.
Thanks. I guess they took alot of liberties on the story. Kinda sad because the show could really be good.
God bless Lennie Brisco.
Thanks for providing the detailed rundown!
They don't do any other kind - if the Christian is a Protestant, he's a fanatic; if Catholic, a child molestor. I quit watching years ago. Any show that hates Christians that much (and that EXCLUSIVELY - I never saw those kinds of slams against Jews or Muslims) isn't for me.
The guy who plays McCoy(Waterston?) is a flaming SociaLib Elito-Correctivist. (AKA a Stalinist wanna-be)
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I turned it off, and I’ve been on the show a number of times.
I first got interested in the Law and Order series-es because I thought Donofrio’s character was intriguing in CI.
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Only once in a while. They run the disclaimer to give the show a sense of reality.
My seven year old grandson knows that no matter what the crime or who the original suspect the murderer is always eventually found to be the rich white guy.
Her holster looks canted the wrong way for cross draw.
I have recently finished viewing the first season of L&O. I like the DA played by Moriarty. The Chris North character seems to be the male version of the female cop in SVU - that same NYC attitude that he is never wrong when he constantly being showed up as wrong.
I was flipping channels and by accident saw about 30 seconds of the courtroom scene. It pegged my PC meter, and I flipped channels, disgusted. Typical anti-Christian HOllywierd crapola.
Jerry Orbach had a great career, from The Fantasticks to Chicago to Law and Order and finally to the spinoff Trial by Jury, which went on the air after he died. He held the stage as a lead actor for more nights in musicals than anyone in the history of Broadway.
If you like Munch, you should dig up reruns of “Homicide: Life in the Streets”. It was an infinitely better show!
You know, I had basically the same thought a few years back. I was flipping through the channels and came across an old Barbara Striesand movie - Up The Sand Box. In one scene she makes fun of a homosexual store clerk. I thought - my, how things have changed.
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