Posted on 05/14/2010 6:56:11 PM PDT by Braak
I liked L&O for the first several years but it got tired.
Make it 3. I never watched it either.
The new show will pit Hispanic American prosecutors against the Mexican gangbangers and their pregnant mamas who are here to birth anchor babies. They will work unemployed blacks into the mix and wonder what to do about the charges of racial discrimination by Korean shopkeepers repeatedly robbed and beaten with no justice from the city courts.
Hearsay. Which is why I say that’s what I heard. A few posters here seem to confirm it, FWIW.
This sentence makes sense to you?
Just wondering.
I liked this show early on. Then they started to get rid of people I really liked like Michael Moriarty, Richard Brooks, and Dann Florek. Brooks replacement in Jill Hennessy was more than adequate. ;) And for a while Sam Waterston was somewhat tolerable. But I really disliked Merkerson’s character. Then they got rid of Chris Noth. Grrrr..... Only stuck around for Jill Hennessy. Then they killed her off!
Over the rest of the Benjamin Bratt era I watched less and less. When Jesse L. Martin was inserted I could care less about this series. One can only take so much Waterston. The only people on the show I really had positive thoughts about was Jerry Orbach and one of Jack McCoy’s ADA’s. Oh yeah, by the time Fred Thompson was in the show I could care less. Also the show got more and more political. I just didn’t want to watch this show at all anymore. And why anyone would want to watch this show after Orbach’s departure is beyond me.
Disregarding all the political stuff I think this show should have been ended years ago.
Of those 4, I have literally turned off several episodes of Bones, when the main character went off on a Liberal or Politically Correct rant. Switched channels without a second thought. That leaves 3 0ut of 36 that are consistent entertainment for me.
That kinda explains the 'bread and circuses' attitude I have about television 'entertainment' generally, and also explains the average citizen's sense of engagement and involvement in politics (or lack of it), which makes possible the abominable state of our society, our economy and our politics. Did I mention Obamanation?
The brazen state of our current national propaganda machine, including the entire entertainment industry, is frightening beyond belief.
The image of politicians, including the president, daily denying statements of fact or their own statements documented visually and soundwise, with casual impunity, is breathtaking.
It would make Josef Goebbels feel totally inadequate...
Ironically, the best of the franchise, ‘L&O: Criminal Intent’ starred a terrific actor but true liberal goofball (Vincent D’Onofrio) for most of its run and yet was essentially devoid of liberal preaching. It was odd. The one show you would figure to be a liberal cesspool was anything but. My antennae for liberal garbage is keen. I’ve seen every episiode of Criminal Intent and never once did I roll my eyes. D’Onofrio was excellent in his role as Goren.
‘SVU’ swerves into liberal eye-rollers from time to time but mostly avoids political posturing (plus, there’s always Christopher Meloni’s conservative character as a counterpoint).
L&O was enjoyable when Jerry Orbach and Jesse L. Martin starred, and palatable with Fred Thompson providing a shade of balance. Even Sam Watterson often showed a healthy skepticism. Lately, however, the show has just gone off the deep end. It’s at least as liberal now as it was ten or so years ago when the show had that woman DA and the blonde Assistant DA. It’s just too much to stomach. For some reason, the original series has turned into a playground for lefty goofball writers. The blame for that rests with Dick Wolfe.
Well, actually, I would see that statement as diverging into two likely meanings.
a) The speaker implies that he THINKS it was fairly good on the basis of hearsay evidence from various friends and relations back then, and current opinion now, but not having seen it himself, cannot speak with certitude. So he employs the word "thought" to indicate possible doubt.
b) The speaker is confused.
Your choice.
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