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Law & Order: LA Version 1.5 Discussion

Starbreaker said:
My little brother cancelled my recordings of LOLA, NCIS, and Body of Proof... moron.
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I stopped watching Body of Proof after the pilot, but if you care, last night had Christina Hendricks as a guest star. :p

Also, NCIS was a rerun.
 
Hollywood Chicago is reporting that while NBC has renewed Harry's Law, Los Angeles is toast. Unsurprising, as its viewership is only a little more than half of what got Vanilla canceled, but still unfortunate, since it's been really very good since the relaunch.
 
Because it got double the viewers of Law & Order: Los Angeles and was NBC's most-watched drama this spring?
 
Timby said:
Hollywood Chicago is reporting that while NBC has renewed Harry's Law, Los Angeles is toast. Unsurprising, as its viewership is only a little more than half of what got Vanilla canceled, but still unfortunate, since it's been really very good since the relaunch.
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It WAS really very good, wasn't it? They were even able to make Howard's character interesting.

*sigh*
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Don't they still have some Skeet Ulrich episodes that have yet to air? WILL they air?
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Skeet Ulrich episodes airing? No. The hiatus came after the airing of Episode 8, "Playa Vista." Reports had initially said that Ulrich had been shooting through episode 12 before he was fired. With the Molina / Stoll and Howard / De la Garza revamp, I really doubt there's any material that was repurposed. For all intents and purposes, Skeet Ulrich is gone.

And thank God.
 
There were 5 episodes. Might be on the inevitable DVD.

Unknown Law & Order: Los Angeles 01x09 Westwood
Unknown Law & Order: Los Angeles 01x10 Carthay Circle
Unknown Law & Order: Los Angeles 01x11 Plummer Park
Unknown Law & Order: Los Angeles 01x12 Granada Hills
Unknown Law & Order: Los Angeles 01x13 El Sereno
 
The episode they did about the "three strikes" law was an interesting departure from format, in that nobody died. They were investigating robberies, a fake kidnapping, and then a bomb scare, and the courtroom portion was about legal maneuvering pertaining to the "three strikes" law and the ethics of using petty charges to game the system. It was a nice departure from the usual corpse-of-the-week format. At first I was wondering why these cops were even investigating this case, but then I remembered Sgt. Friday on Dragnet saying things like "We were working the day watch out of Robbery-Homicide." The LAPD has a Robbery-Homicide Division, so I guess both murders and bank heists would fall under the same detectives' purview. (Not sure whether that's specific to LA or if it could happen in the NY shows too.)
 
Christopher said:
The episode they did about the three strikes law was an interesting departure from format, in that nobody died. They were investigating robberies, a fake kidnapping, and then a bomb scare, and the courtroom portion was about legal maneuvering pertaining to the three strikes law and the ethics of using petty charges to game the system. It was a nice departure from the usual corpse-of-the-week format. At first I was wondering why these cops were even investigating this case, but then I remembered Sgt. Friday on Dragnet saying things like "We were working the day watch out of Robbery-Homicide. The LAPD has a Robbery-Homicide Division, so I guess both murders and bank heists would fall under the same detectives' purview. (Not sure whether that's specific to LA or if it could happen in the NY shows too.)
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Robbery Homicide Division is sort of a mix of the Major Crimes Squad and Special Victims Unit of the New York Law And Order verse. They handle the high profile crimes. For example OJs wife gets killed so a Robbery Homicide detective takes the case over from the West Homicide detectives. Or bank robbers using machine guns and full body armor gets their attention where a meth head htiing a random liquor store doesn't. What I was asking was were was the FBI and the AUSA to jump in on the bank robbery charge?

Edit to add: While they are in the same Division the Special Homicide, Sex Crimes and Robbery Detectives are in seperate sections with their own Lieutenants. And Morales would have been in the Special Homicide Section. Of course Sgt Friday has partner and Captain served in every LAPD in the 50s and 60s at one time or another.
 
Star Wolf said:
While they are in the same Division the Special Homicide, Sex Crimes and Robbery Detectives are in seperate sections with their own Lieutenants. And Morales would have been in the Special Homicide Section.
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I suspected that might be the case. But I guess it's close enough for TV.

I just watched the latest episode, "Runyon Canyon." They sure do a lot of episodes here in which the DAs rush a case to trial while the investigation is still unfinished. That's something of a TV cliche, but at least this episode maybe provided something of a rationalization for it, suggesting that Dekker himself might be prone to rushing to judgment.
 
^ I wasn't happy about the plot twist...
the washed up former reality TV star pops up way the hell out of left field and just happens to be the guilty one
 
Wow, nobody saw this coming, no not at all. ;0)

Seriously, who thought this show was going to last? I told you, backlash alone could kill this show, and then it was crappy to boot. I weep not for LOLA!
 
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