After a couple of thought-provoking episodes, Special Victims Unit has fallen back on dialling in the script as we are given a girl who is murdered, possibly raped, but turns out she wasn't. Apparently breaking all the rules they don't bother to hand the case over to homicide (and this from Stabler who bitched last week when homicide wouldn't give information about his rape/murder case), but as events transpire the case ends up back in their hands when a little girl is murdered. Lucky they kept on investigating then.
I don't really have a lot to say about the episode - it was doing it's job and it provided us with a bit of entertainment, so thumbs up to that. However, I've noticed that since Adam Beach has joined the cast this year, virtually every episode has given Fin and Lake something to do, unlike previous years where Munch and Fin were often just not in episodes and when they were it was to answer the phone. Richard Belzer is still essentially sidelined this season, and yet Fin and Lake are out investigating every episode now, supporting Stabler and Benson. The question that then occurs is, was this part of the deal with Beach?
"Yeah, I'll join your show if I've got something to do. I ain't Belzer, you understand. I'm not just sitting around behind a desk."
"No problem, Adam, you'll have something to do, trust me."
And now we find out that Adam Beach is out next year. Curious that.
As is Diane Neal, which sucks balls, a) because she's a great actress and cuts up the courtroom, and b) because she's hot. Rumour has it that they are in talks with Stephanie March to get her to reprise Alex Cabot. Well, Rayfield will be happy, but I'm not.
I'm hoping that next week I have something more interesting to talk about, because at the end of the day, rich girls pretending they were raped by the boyfriends of their non-existant crack-whore mothers and becoming the mother of a street gang...must have sounded great on paper, but really...
"C"
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