mimi
Detective
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Post by mimi on Feb 21, 2008 9:10:12 GMT -5
I can't say it was my favorite episode.
Having MCCoy take-over a case and go into court for the second week in a row kinda irritated me. Pick a side, DA or ADA. Seems to me that McCoy wants to have his cake and eat it too.
I believe that the death penalty angle added to the characters because it gave them a strange blend of good and bad; but it also detracted from the story because the innocent victim fell into the background and I felt it was more the death penalty that was on trial instead of the killer.
Watching Lupo putting the moves on the Internet Cafe waitress was plain weird. I was completely stunned that it worked.
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Post by Patcat on Feb 21, 2008 9:19:09 GMT -5
I didn't see the episode. Did they address the fact the death penalty is (excuse the expression) essentially dead in New York State?
Patcat
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Post by trisha on Feb 21, 2008 10:09:05 GMT -5
Patcat, yes, the varied opinions on capital punishment were pretty much the star of this episode.
I agree with mimi that the victims got lost from time to time, which is usually something that really irritates me, but it wasn't for lack of caring for them, they were first victims of crime and then victims of politics, which seemed to be the point.
I do like seeing Jack work the courtroom, so no complaints from me there. So what if the others rarely if ever did it, Jack is not Schiff, and he's certainly not Branch. It was a very "Jack" move to make -- he gets his perp any way he can.
Cutter kind'a lost me on this one. One week he's a shark and the next week a puppy. Did *almost* selling his ethics to get his Nicole (sorry, I forget the woman's name) shake him up? Or did I miss something about his personal politics concerning capital punishment. He's not for it, is he?
The thing that killed me in this one was the hypocrisy of the defendant. What a smug bastard to sit there like HE was a victim after what he did. I didn't feel sorry for him at all. Then Connie wanted to cut him a deal and Cutter went along with it!!! Argh!
Really made me miss "hang 'em high" Abby.
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Post by DonnaJo on Feb 21, 2008 19:47:57 GMT -5
I guess every week can't be a winning episode. "Executioner" was OK, nothing special. Why do all the Law& Orders have such a hard on about the death penalty? As Patcat reminds us, we don't have it in New York (For all intents & purposes) yet it somehow always gets star billing.
And come on, would a twitching, drooling comatose man be wheeled into a courtroom & allowed as a "witness?" Give me a break.
Connie, the ADA, annoys me. She "almost" emotes, but there's always a wall there. I don't know if it's the actress herself or the way she chooses to play her character. There's low key & then there's blah.
Next week looks great - Connie is stalked by a creepy juror. Maybe in that ep she'll actually show some spontaneous emotions. Like real fear. I hope so.
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