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Apr. 15th, 2004

9:55 PM

If I were Michael Jackson, I would sue the producers of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" for episode 5x19 ("Sick"). "Not depicting real events/persons" -- hah! Whether he's guilty or not is for a jury to decide, and this kind of pre-conviction by means of a successful, nationwide tv series is unfair.

Reminds me of that dreadful "Dead Zone" episode in which Johnny Smith was sought after by the US government to help "hunt for Osama bin Laden". Argh.

Both episodes were extremely tasteless, but perhaps I only see it that way because I'm not from the US.

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gwendolen.livejournal.com wrote:

Apr. 15th, 2004 01:08 pm (UTC)

Hm, I felt the same way when I saw the ep. It's so extremely obvious, it can't be more obvious.

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allaire.livejournal.com wrote:

Apr. 15th, 2004 01:31 pm (UTC)

Exactly! But then, I thought SVU quite lost its glamour for me with the previous episodes, most noticably 5x14 ("Ritual"), 5x15 ("Families") and 5x17 ("Mean").

In "Ritual", the so-called "Nigerians" were so light-skinned they were definitely not from Africa, and the whole oh-lets-just-crack-a-trafficking-in-human-beings-ring-in-40-minutes spiel made as if solving such a case were - forgive the pun - child's play. Plus, how dumb is it to crawl into a truck with children supposedly fresh from Africa and expect them to understand and speak English?

In "Families", I couldn't get over the plot hole that dear Shannon and her brother must have seen their neighbors' father several times, and never figured out it was the same person as their father. Sure.

In "Mean", I could not understand why they had to interrogate the three bottle blondes to figure out eventually whose hair got caught in the victim's duct tape. Huh? Why not take samples and make a DNA test?

I can't take series seriously that do not take their viewers seriously.

/rant.

Sorry, Gwen. :-)

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