Summing It All Up...

So I'm reading all the farewell articles about the last ever LOCI episode.  I'm sad and excited all at the same time. Found this particular article by Ken Tucker for Entertainment Weekly, which kind of reflects my feelings on the matter.  It really reflects how I feel about SVU.  What a horrible show it is and it's the only one left.  It is creepy and while I know Warren Leight will be taking over as show runner, he can only do so much with an already established mess. 

Here's the best part of the article:

L&O:CI is certainly going out on a high note. Last week’s superbly typical yet nutty hour was a classic L&O ripped-from-the-headlines entry, a satire of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark complete with a delightful cameo by rock-poet-memoirist Patti Smith, and Cynthia Nixon soaring higher than any super-hero as a hightened version of director Julie Taymor (“Spectacular! Brighter! Dazzle me!”).

As I said, you’ll still be able to get a fresh, if impure, stepped-on L&O fix with SVU in the fall, and heaven knows we’ll be able to watch all forms of the franchise in reruns until this rock called Earth disintegrates to a pebble. But to me, once Goren asks his final interrogation question, the whole history of Law & Order will pretty much come to a jail-cell-clang close.

I'm so sad this show is ending.  You'd think with my liking all these excellent shows that not a lot of other people seem to like - the most recent being Detroit 1-8-7 - being routinely canceled that I'd be used to it.  But this one is different.  It's been around for 10 years and it's given me two very compelling characters to obsess over.  Maybe it's the amount of time they've been around - with breaks as Goren described the years he and Eames have been partners - or perhaps it's the way Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe skillfully portray their characters.  I have a feeling it's a little of both and the fact that Chris Brancato and the writers for this final season have given us marvelous episodes to end the show with.  I think if the shows were as weak as season 8 were, it would be easier to let go.

Homicide: Life on the Streets ended pretty weakly.  Then the 2 hour movie that was supposed to give us closure ended  even more sadly.  I was sad to see it go but relieved as well.  With Criminal Intent, it's leaving on a high note.  I suppose that makes me happy on some level but mostly I'm sad because I think I could use 8 more. 

(USA - NBC/Universal photo)

I feel like that glass.  Like someone threw a rock at me and I'm shattered. 

[NP:  Mary Chapin Carpenter - Almost Home]