Law & Order: "Strike" (spoilers)

[Alidar Jarok]

To be fair, in the double jeopardy case, McCoy said he would charge him (he implied it was difficult but doable, although real life it shouldn't be that difficult). Besides, that was a fairly light-hearted episode anyway.

Which episode was that?

I forget all the plots, but it was one of those episodes that focused on the detectives as they dealt with a bunch of cases. One of them was about a pregnant girl who was kidnapped, another was that one. In that case, it was actually his brother who committed the crime in the end, so the double jeopardy idea was moot.

 

[DanCPA]

I believe Jack was referring to himself.

Jack schmack...

It was all about Arthur!

 

[A beaker full of death]

^^Meh... there are plenty of women with bodies that nice. But not many with eyes as sleek and exotic and extraordinary as hers. Her lips are fantastic too.

I thought her looks were striking too... but if she's going to put herself out there as just another piece of ass, then that's the level at which I'll take her.

 

[Christopher]

^^Then you're a jerk. It's entirely possible to admire a woman physically and still respect her as a person, without resorting to misogynistic cheap shots.

 

[A beaker full of death]

^^Then you're a jerk. It's entirely possible to admire a woman physically and still respect her as a person, without resorting to misogynistic cheap shots.

Ah, right. This picture http://cdn.maximonline.com/girls/alana_delagarza/alana-delagarza-gm_l3.jpg engenders vast quantities of respect. Right up there with Golda Meir and Indira Ghandi.

 

[Zeppster]

This has been the best season of L&O in maybe a decade. And the Order side is better than it's been since Ross was the AADA. The Law side shows promise but still needs work.

 

[Christopher]

^^You remind me of one of my gripes with the show. In the opening credits, they equate "Law" with the police officer characters and "Order" with the DA characters, when really it should be the other way around. The DAs are responsible for upholding and executing the law, while the police are responsible for maintaining public order.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Law and Order sounds better than Order and law.

 

[Zeppster]

^^You remind me of one of my gripes with the show. In the opening credits, they equate "Law" with the police officer characters and "Order" with the DA characters, when really it should be the other way around. The DAs are responsible for upholding and executing the law, while the police are responsible for maintaining public order.

You're right. And I should correct myself on that post. I'll remember that from now on. But you got my point anyway.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Law and Order sounds better than Order and law.

That's probably it. The cops have the first half of the show, and the DAs the second. And since Law & Order sounds better than Order & Law, then by default 'Law' is linked with the cops and 'Order' with the DAs. It's basically a coincidence.

 

[A beaker full of death]

^^You remind me of one of my gripes with the show. In the opening credits, they equate "Law" with the police officer characters and "Order" with the DA characters, when really it should be the other way around. The DAs are responsible for upholding and executing the law, while the police are responsible for maintaining public order.

That's always bugged me, too. That and the outdated police pictures.

 

[Christopher]

That's probably it. The cops have the first half of the show, and the DAs the second. And since Law & Order sounds better than Order & Law, then by default 'Law' is linked with the cops and 'Order' with the DAs. It's basically a coincidence.

It's not just that it "sounds better" -- it's that "law and order" has been an established English expression since the late 1500s. So naturally that's what they'd use.

But in the opening titles, they make it explicit -- they show the word "LAW" followed by the cop actors' credits, then the word "ORDER" followed by the lawyer actors' credits. So it's not just a coincidence, it's an association they deliberately promoted.

(I remember reading an old Pogo comic-strip collection my father owned, in which one of the characters was running for office on a platform of "bringing law 'n' order to the swamp," and the other characters became convinced, through the dialectical misinterpretations that were common in the strip, that he had arranged for a female movie star named Lawn Norder to visit them, which generated plenty of excitement.)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That and the outdated police pictures.

Explain.

 

[Christopher]

^^I would assume he means that some of the police images in the current title sequence are left over from early in the series and are thus out of date.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

There's one shot of the courthouse which is features Paul Robinette and Benjamin Stone (albeit they're very small in the shot). I, for one, like having some of the shots from the original title.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I love the old pictures, they're awesome.

I just wish they returned to the full credits they had for the first couple of seasons, but that's not going to happen.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^^I would assume he means that some of the police images in the current title sequence are left over from early in the series and are thus out of date.

Must not be any of the main cast, as they've redone all of them. And I must say, the shot of Van Buren that they've been using lately, is really lame. She had a much better credits photo in the early years.

 

[A beaker full of death]

^^I would assume he means that some of the police images in the current title sequence are left over from early in the series and are thus out of date.

Right. Giuliani complained that the cops looked like janitors, so he changed the police patrol uniforms to matching dark blue shirts and pants. L&O never changed their credits sequence to match.

 

[A beaker full of death]

I love the old pictures, they're awesome.

Yeah, but I think photos like these are intended to be contemporary (they certainly were when they first put them in).

Personally, I miss the old double breasted uniforms from my youth.

 

[TGTheodore]

Actually, I've always seen them as a history of law enforcement, not just contemporary.

And these days we're lucky to have any opening credits at all.

--Ted