Surely he'll at least be around to wrap up the storyline. Having him just leave would be a slap in the face.
Christopher Meloni Exits Law & Order: SVU
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If they don't give Elliot Stabler some real closure, it's really going to be a spit in the face to the audience. Stabler and Benson have *BEEN* this show for 12 years. To just lose one without explanation? Unacceptable!
This fucking sucks! *RAGE*!!!
PS: Jennifer Love Hewitt?! Seriously?!
Ugh...
Law & Order is DEAD. The whole franchise. It's dead now!
The original canceled one season shy of BREAKING the record, only able to tie it with dumbass Gunsmoke?
Law & Order LA sucked from page one.
Criminal Intent was always the "Vincent D'Onofrio plays a weird guy" showcase and stunk except the brief time Chris Noth was on.
Ugh. I'm fucking pissed now!
This fucking sucks! *RAGE*!!!
PS: Jennifer Love Hewitt?! Seriously?!
Ugh...
Law & Order is DEAD. The whole franchise. It's dead now!
The original canceled one season shy of BREAKING the record, only able to tie it with dumbass Gunsmoke?
Law & Order LA sucked from page one.
Criminal Intent was always the "Vincent D'Onofrio plays a weird guy" showcase and stunk except the brief time Chris Noth was on.
Ugh. I'm fucking pissed now!
Sorry, but I fuckin' hate Ray Romano, and it kills me that I have to see episodes that are 50% his character just for the 50% that Scott Bakula & Andre Braugher have to share.
They even have those characters workin' at the same place, to combine their storylines!
I agree with a lot of what you had to say here. I've been an off and on watcher of SVU (generally binge on the USA marathons), but it is my favorite of the L&O shows. It seems like the later shows focus too much on Benson and Stabler as opposed to focusing on the stories. Perhaps going back to that format might save this show. It sucks that Stabler is going and Benson will have a reduced role and likely will be exiting too.
However, it would be cool to see Ice-T and Munch take center stage. Though I doubt that will happen. I don't necessarily dislike Jennifer Love Hewitt, but I would hope they would get someone a little older, or with more gravitas. They need someone like Ellen Barkin, Rebecca DeMornay, Virgina Madsen, come to mind. Hey Jennifer Beals is free now, and she has some experience playing a cop.
Have you even watched a Law & Order show before? Writing people out without explanation is a Dick Wolf tradition!
should have happened 9 years ago, the first season set up the show as a revolving door for detectives with the whole "the average rate for an officer in the SVU is 2 years" deal, SVU would have been so much better if they would have rotated out their "A-team" every couple of seasons
Not on SVU though!
Not on SVU though!
That's right
Bobby Flay's wife had to go into witness protection when she was a target for gangsters.
And Brian Cassidy cried his way out of SVU and Monique Herd's character was insubordinate.
I agree with folks saying why have Munch if you aren't going to use him, and I'm saying the show, SVU was at its best when Munch and Fin were treated as equal in time and position to Benson and Stable. If you are part and losing the latter, well then you need to return the former to their cop glory.
It would be amazing if to help tied over the Meloni departure if Braugher made a guest appearance. I would just die if Bolander could appear. Melissa Leo is on Treme now. Even though that is another Simon show with the same crew and all, it would be tough to put a contemporary New Orleans based show in the same universe.
A Kellerman appearance would be fun, too, him and his big Irish cocoon per Munch. Diamond, however, always seems to be on shortlived shows now, or gets small parts, like Judging Amy or that two ep thing for The Shield. I loved loved Journeyman. I don't think another lawyer show on TNT is going to make it. They seem to turn over the concept every 2 years.
Maybe NBC should put HLOTS on 10 pm Tuesday and see what the ratings are like? Truly the moment they dropped the Homicide connections in SVU, even began directly contradicting it and its own earlier seasons, the show went to crap.
My sister isn't going to be happy with Stabler leaving, but I don't even know if she still watches the reruns, let alone new seasons. Maybe LO should just concentrate on reasonable dvd releases and streaming of the archive.
It would be amazing if to help tied over the Meloni departure if Braugher made a guest appearance. I would just die if Bolander could appear. Melissa Leo is on Treme now. Even though that is another Simon show with the same crew and all, it would be tough to put a contemporary New Orleans based show in the same universe.
A Kellerman appearance would be fun, too, him and his big Irish cocoon per Munch. Diamond, however, always seems to be on shortlived shows now, or gets small parts, like Judging Amy or that two ep thing for The Shield. I loved loved Journeyman. I don't think another lawyer show on TNT is going to make it. They seem to turn over the concept every 2 years.
Maybe NBC should put HLOTS on 10 pm Tuesday and see what the ratings are like? Truly the moment they dropped the Homicide connections in SVU, even began directly contradicting it and its own earlier seasons, the show went to crap.
My sister isn't going to be happy with Stabler leaving, but I don't even know if she still watches the reruns, let alone new seasons. Maybe LO should just concentrate on reasonable dvd releases and streaming of the archive.
Everyone on SVU who did a chunk of the show has gotten a reason and episode for their departure when first leaving. If they don't do that with Melloni, whose character has been the most prominent of them all for 12 years, the few remaining fans are going to revolt in droves.
I will be one of them.
I'm OCD about TV shows I like. I watch them all, straight through, for decades when applicable. Even as they go down the drain. I don't quit on shows I love(d). But I will quit and walk away cold turkey on SVU if they do not have some closure for Stabler.
And if I'm that pissed to do that, imagine how pissed "normal" viewers might be?
NBC needs to put on their big-boy pants, give Melloni whatever money he wants for a few episode stint, and write him off in acceptable fashion for the character.
It's that simple.
I will be one of them.
I'm OCD about TV shows I like. I watch them all, straight through, for decades when applicable. Even as they go down the drain. I don't quit on shows I love(d). But I will quit and walk away cold turkey on SVU if they do not have some closure for Stabler.
And if I'm that pissed to do that, imagine how pissed "normal" viewers might be?
NBC needs to put on their big-boy pants, give Melloni whatever money he wants for a few episode stint, and write him off in acceptable fashion for the character.
It's that simple.
I don't watch SVU on TV when it airs - I normally watch it via the can't-possibly-avoid-'em reruns on USA.
But I have no interest in that show without Benson, Stabler, and Munch. So I won't be watching after they exit (or make a 'near exit' as it appears Hargitay is doing).
Networks have a nasty habit of doing one of two things - cancelling a show too soon, before it can develop an audience....or cancelling a show too late just to get the last dime out of it, thus ruining the show's legacy. In SVU's case, it looks like it's headed for the latter.
There is no reason whatever to keep this show going once they split up Benson and Stabler. More than any of the other L&O shows, this show has been about THEIR partnership. Like it or not. And once that's done, there is nothing new for this show to do that hasn't been done on SVU or one of the other incarnations of L&O.
Pack it in - call it a day, is my vote.
But I have no interest in that show without Benson, Stabler, and Munch. So I won't be watching after they exit (or make a 'near exit' as it appears Hargitay is doing).
Networks have a nasty habit of doing one of two things - cancelling a show too soon, before it can develop an audience....or cancelling a show too late just to get the last dime out of it, thus ruining the show's legacy. In SVU's case, it looks like it's headed for the latter.
There is no reason whatever to keep this show going once they split up Benson and Stabler. More than any of the other L&O shows, this show has been about THEIR partnership. Like it or not. And once that's done, there is nothing new for this show to do that hasn't been done on SVU or one of the other incarnations of L&O.
Pack it in - call it a day, is my vote.
But then NBC's highest rated and longest running drama would be Chuck.
Well, hour long dramedy, I guess. It's not a sitcom.
My favourite character is leaving my favourite show. You can imagine how not-happy I am with this 
They'd better give a proper send off. I will be beyond pissed off if they don't. I can see what happened in the season 12 finale leading up to it. As soon as I watched that episode, I knew it would have a massive effect on him. Stabler's top two rules are that you punish bad guys and you protect kids. His shooting and killing a kid to protect a bad guy is bound to screw him up.
And, although I kinda like Jennifer Love Hewitt, I really cannot see her as a NY cop.
They'd better give a proper send off. I will be beyond pissed off if they don't. I can see what happened in the season 12 finale leading up to it. As soon as I watched that episode, I knew it would have a massive effect on him. Stabler's top two rules are that you punish bad guys and you protect kids. His shooting and killing a kid to protect a bad guy is bound to screw him up.
And, although I kinda like Jennifer Love Hewitt, I really cannot see her as a NY cop.
I stopped watching SVU with series 10, just seemed like they had done what they needed to do and like others I was a bit disappointed with Munch and Ice-T being sidelined.
Personally I'm content to have the show wrap. I probably should get the UK version, but seeing them just re-work scripts from the original show put me off a bit. I'd rather see brand-new stories.
Personally I'm content to have the show wrap. I probably should get the UK version, but seeing them just re-work scripts from the original show put me off a bit. I'd rather see brand-new stories.
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