18:14 "Burn Card" 2008-04-23

[NikkiGreen]

"We thought you were worth saving" ... We? You sure did a quick turn around, Cutter. I don't believe I cared for your attitude in the least bit. Lupo and Connie were good... "I have my own office".

I've only seen this episode once, and except for the great scene between Ed and the Lt, I thought it was just an okay one.

I guess it was a better sendoff than "is this because I'm a lesbian"? ;D

Bye, JLM. Sure am going to miss seeing you on the Mothership.

[DonnaJo]

Nikki..Thank God someone else agrees with me about Cutter!

I've posted on a few boards today about his taking credit for helping Green at the end. Meanwhile, how bad was his attitude? Even McCoy told him to open his mind about Green, that this was a man who wasn't a murderer. All he cared about was not looking biased towards a cop. So much so, that he went in the reverse & didn't even try to learn more about what really happened.

I like Cutter, but he is going to have to redeem himself to me. Show that he has a heart. I hope his Mom doesn't commit a crime in his jurisdiction.

I didn't buy exactly why Green quit? He was cleared of everything, so why give up a 20 year career? Just because you're bummed out about what happened? That didn't ring true to me.

Looking forward to next week, seeing how Lupo & Bernard make out together.

[diablodeblanco]

Goodbye to one of the best actors to ever star on LO. He was a joy to watch and I will miss him terribly.

I think Green quit because even though he had been cleared of the murder of Bunny, he had broken many department rules concerning officer behavior. He also didn't tell the truth about the shooting incident. He kept hidden so much of that incident and the things that led up to it. Even if he had stayed and fought to keep his job, it would have been one hell of a fight and at this point in his life Green just didn't have it in him.

I'm glad they didn't kill off the character. It leaves the door open just a crack. I know it is wishful thinking but it doesn't hurt to hope....

[Sirenna]

I enjoyed it. I think goodbye episodes have high viewer expecations. In order to make a good actor's last scenes memorable, the writiers try too hard and it gets in the way of telling the story. I liked that Jesse's ending was not too melodramatic or too maudlin. The story had enough pace to keep my attention without dwelling on Jesse's impending exit so that when he did tell the captain his reasons I felt his exhaustion and self-disillusionment and understood while still feeling the loss of him.

Jesse Martin may yet play his burn card and return to fight another day. I know I'd like to see him on L&O again.

One thing, I hope the writers were not setting us up to accept Lupo partnering with the guest detective. I didn't really feel that chemistry was working.


Good luck, Mr. Green. I'll miss your sweet face on L&O but perhaps I'll be lucky enough to see something you're in on Broadway.

[NikkiGreen]

Sirenna, the guest detective (Bernard) is the one who will be partnering with Lupo, starting next week.

[Sirenna]

Yes, I didn't know that until you told me, Nikki but I got strong hints of it all throughout this episode.

I don't know if the producers timed it this way but I also saw the same guy on Friday's syndicated SUV episode where a girl is raped but it turns out that a fat boy in a wheelchair who she bullied unmercifully orchestrated it. He was a guest detective temporarily partnering with Stabler in that one too. I don't know if it was the same detective, Bernard's character again though.

I liked him better in 'Burn Card but I thought he got his character's backstory half right and half wrong in SUV. The cowboy detective; the brash rushing in now, asking questions later part didn't ring true for me. His face and body language seem more long-suffering. I'd believe him more as a detective who had always had to proove himself, unfairly, harder than others. His character probably wasn't one of the cool kids. Also in SUV anyway, he came from a tough home life. Yet he looks like a kind man, not a rough one. By playing his character as if he was a rambo-cop, doesn't give Bernard much depth and, no depth means no longevity to that character.

I'll wait and see the rest of the episodes...