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Alfred Molina joins Law & Order: Los Angeles

^Well, yeah. L&O is in the vein of classic episodic TV where there's no real continuity between episodes. I daresay if you compared all the date references in the different episodes, there'd be impossible overlaps or too many cases crammed into a single year. In a way, a show like that (or the original Mission: Impossible, most of the time) can be treated as something where every episode is in a separate parallel reality.
 
Christopher said:
^Yeah... it always got me on the original show that every single homicide was committed in the same precinct, investigated by the same two detectives (in any given season), and prosecuted by the same ADA.
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Not every single one, but the show was only about the ones that were. :p
 
Yeah, but how many ADAs prosecute two dozen homicide cases per year? There wouldn't have been room on Jack McCoy's slate to handle any other homicide cases than the ones we saw.
 
Even if we were to assume every episode overlaps with other episodes, there still would likely be an impossible amount of cases in a year (if we assumed a season was longer than a year, that would lead to other problems, however). In the end, I'm willing to accept that as necessary for television (the continuity elements happen from character development, not chronology, which is how it should be).

But it isn't timeline/schedule issues that bugged me about it, just the fact that, short of the cool Season 6ish episode with the corrupt ADA and the trial by jury crossover, they practically implied that the District Attorney's office consisted of 3 people.
 
Like I said, it works best if you treat each episode as being in its own independent reality and not try to look at it as a larger continuity. Every episode is about a particular instance in its own reality where these two cops investigated a certain crime that was then prosecuted by these two ADAs. It may have been one of a very few times in that particular universe where that convergence of individuals occurred, but the series has chosen to focus on that set of individuals and depicts all their collaborations across the multiverse. In those occasional instances where there are continuing character arcs, it could be that the various episodes featuring them are in the same universe or that the various parallel universes have parallel character interactions going on.

Or, you could just accept that it's a series of make-believe stories created as an excuse to let actors we like act out the kind of scenes and situations we like.
 
Eh, I won't be expecting much adherence to reality. I read something about one of those cop shows once - NYPD Blue maybe - that said that they depicted more murders in one season than actually occurred in NY in a whole year. :rommie:

And of course, those murders weren't like in real life, mostly drug turf disputes with some random domestic squabbles thrown in.
 
^ Any TV show set in a professional field will see EVERYTHING POSSIBLE that ever happens at that one particular workplace. That's just how it works. A show set at a school wouldn't have a school shooting taking place at an unrelated school, it'd be at their school.
 
Temis the Vorta said:
Eh, I won't be expecting much adherence to reality. I read something about one of those cop shows once - NYPD Blue maybe - that said that they depicted more murders in one season than actually occurred in NY in a whole year. :rommie:

And of course, those murders weren't like in real life, mostly drug turf disputes with some random domestic squabbles thrown in.
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Even when they have a mass spree murder episodes I don't if any single New York show can hit that particular threshold. Maybe something like CSI:Miami where Horatio will kill more people then the entire Miami Dade PD actually shoot at in one year.
 
Temis the Vorta said:
Eh, I won't be expecting much adherence to reality. I read something about one of those cop shows once - NYPD Blue maybe - that said that they depicted more murders in one season than actually occurred in NY in a whole year. :rommie:
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Actually that was recently said by someone talking about Law & Order, pointing out that the combined annual homicide rate across all three L&O series is greater than the current annual homicide rate in New York City (though only because NYC has successfully lowered its crime rate in recent years). I'm not sure whether it was an L&O producer or an NYC official who said that.

And of course series TV is always far more eventful than reality. Plenty of real cops go through their entire careers without ever firing their guns outside the practice range, but TV cops tend to fire them on a regular basis.
 
Aragorn said:
Terrence Howard has joined the show on the DA side, but it looks like he and Molina will rotate episodes like Goren/Logan on CI rather than being partners.
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I predict Howard quits halfway through the season and is replaced with Don Cheadle.
 
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