Comments on: Chicks Dig Sam Waterston, Ct’d.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:12:05 +0000

oops - “and what did Sam Waterston do to get. . .”

I’ll leave now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:11:16 +0000

Oh yeah, at what did Sam Waterston do do get that string of steaming dark-haired temptresses to work with him? And why did they always leave?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:08:58 +0000

People tend to be convicted of crimes because they’re stupid, and they talk. Very rarely are crimes solved because some brilliant cops connect all the dots. But this is a time-honored TV narrative so I guess it’s not going away.

(Old people love this show too, although they love any show where some fogy tosses young punks in the slammer. See: Matlock, Murder She Wrote, etc.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 01:00:21 +0000

That’s a picture of Jerry Orbach, not Sam Waterston.

By: DougB

DougB — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:48:47 +0000

I realize we live in a Tivo world now, but I stopped watching Law and Order about the time South Park came on.

By: Joe Sims

Joe Sims — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 06:19:46 +0000

Brendan –

That was good!!! Now, do “Three’s Company”…

By: whatever

whatever — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 05:08:22 +0000

You know five smart, urban, professional women? Come on.

By: brendan

brendan — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 01:33:33 +0000

In the criminal justice system the people are represented by two seperately equal and important groups: the police who investigate crimes, and the district attorneys whos prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

Opening scene: two colorful New Yorkers engaging in trivial banter discover body.

Lenny shows up drinking coffee and chastises stupid beat cop.

Identify victim.

Chase obvious perp (OP): boyfriend, business partner, angry neighbor, etc.

Half-hour: OP turns out to have alibi. Time for half-hour plot twist.

Find new less-obvious perp (LOP).

Spend the next half-hour convicting LOP.

By: Enobarbus

Enobarbus — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:29:41 +0000

My wife dug Law & Order in a big way, though I had never seen it until she finally talked me into watching an episode. I was stunned at how horrifyingly bad the writing was. Really awful, people-don’t-talk-like-this dialogue smeared over the same old story arc.

And Sam Waterston, I’m convinced, is animatronic.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:32:19 +0000

As a libertarian/market-liberal, I enjoyed the early episodes with dist. atty. Ben Stone–watching him put the screws to innocent folks, one-after-another, on his righteous quest to nail the guilty.

It was a weekly frightening display of a gov’t worker wielding enourmous power in hopes of collaring the correct individual(s).

By: Brian Hawkins

Brian Hawkins — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:39:43 +0000

After reading your first entry on this from back in ‘02, I realized that it was my (scary smart) girlfriend that got me hooked on L&O, too. Since I didn’t start watching until about this time last year, not only do the new ones grab me, but there’s like a decade worth of reruns on cable I’ve never seen either. Not to mention the spin-offs. SVU is especially good.

Someone’s doctoral thesis is waiting.

Yeah. That pretty much nails it.

By: Micha Ghertner

Micha Ghertner — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:59:00 +0000

Ten bucks says there is tons of Law & Order slash fiction floating around the Internet…

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:14:19 +0000

The “Brandon Bird art” theme continues as well.

Thanks you theagitator.com, I have “Brave Cone Dog” hanging in my office.