Law and Order: SVU“Lunacy”
Original Air Date: Oct 21, 2008
Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com
This week, James Brolin and Chris Elliot stop by and succeed in being distracting. It’s not their fault thought. SVU has fallen back into the same old routine of shoving guest stars and predictable twists at us and I think we deserve a bit better, don’t you?
Four Thoughts on This Week’s Episode:
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Original Air Date: Oct 21, 2008
Kara – TwoCents Staff Writer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com
This week, James Brolin and Chris Elliot stop by and succeed in being distracting. It’s not their fault thought. SVU has fallen back into the same old routine of shoving guest stars and predictable twists at us and I think we deserve a bit better, don’t you?
Four Thoughts on This Week’s Episode:
1. Oh, dear. Guest stars. We’ve been on a good streak of great guest stars and ones that fit into the show quite nicely. This week, SVU fell back into old habits and decided to have James Brolin attempt to play an astronaut and Stabler’s hero. Let’s see, he’s a big guest star, he means so much to Stabler that he named his son after him and he’s absolutely desperate to get to the moon. I might have been less suspicious if it wasn’t James Brolin but come on. This whole episode was set up just so we could watch Stabler get upset and be disappointed again. I’m a bit bored of that now.
2. The ads for the episode fail us yet again. When the previews talk about astronauts, it makes you think the episode is going to be about (surprise) astronauts. I don’t know about you but for the first twenty minutes, every time they were confused about some aspect of the victim, I would just point up and say, “Space.” I guess the detectives and the ME don’t get the same tip off we do from NBC.
3. Conspiracy theories? Munch? Really? I loved Munch versus an astronaut on whether or not we went to the moon. This was the highlight of the episode for me. The only thing better than that would be Munch taking to Neil Armstrong about it.
4. Stabler. I don’t know how much farther he’s got to go before he just has a complete breakdown. He’s been on a downward spiral for some time now and he’s yet to hit rock bottom. On a related note, what Stabler kid will we see next week?
So, what did you think? Tell me your TwoCents in the comments! I’m hoping next week will be better. This season just doesn’t know where it wants to go with the characters and it seems like it’s trying everything. Big sigh.