It's Official - RIP Criminal Intent

Well, the final word came down this week.  I suppose you don't have a final season if you're not going to make it a final one.  However, there was some hope that the show would come back if it did well.  Saw this yesterday in my Google Alerts. 

So it just confirms that the bottom line is money.  I'm not surprised nor should anyone else be.  And yes, it was nice of them to go ahead and try to make amends to fans who were pissed at the loss of our Goren an Eames.  I'll give them that much I suppose.  But if the ratings don't justify the costs then I understand completely - even if I HATE the idea of no more Goren and Eames.

I do like the ending.  It wasn't a gut-wrenching horrible ending finale where someone dies, quits, gets fired or the department blows up.  But that's okay.  Those are all cliched endings unless done cleverly like the ending of Oz.  In a way it was ambiguous, too.  Just because they had to evacuate the prison indefinitely didn't mean they couldn't go back after a period of time.  But the show knew how to move on.  It was really one of the two excellent series endings ever.  Oz an Six Feet Under.  At least as far as dramas go.  M*A*S*H* did okay, too but not that good.  Bob Newhart is still the king of best endings to a sitcom ever.

LOCI ended fittingly.  No hysteria, no tearing out of hair, beating of chest or any other kind of over-the-top apparently everyday occurrence at the only remaining L&O show SVU.  Just a quiet ending with little dialog but lots of emotion from Goren and Eames.

I am very grateful for the last eight episodes.   I've already praised all involved to the high heavens so I'll just say thank you one more time to all involved including USA & NBC/Universal.  Now if your parent company GE would just pay it's fair share of taxes I might actually like you again some day.

Yep, it's really dead.

(Strange Visitor Photo)

I think I'm kind of glad it's over in the sense that this show or more accurately Goren and Eames are like crack to me.  I'm so addicted I can't stop watching if they're on.   I have to visit sites for information an while this show has a fantastic fan base, there are some who are just plain annoying and act as if people who don't see things the way they do are imbeciles or crazy.  It will be a relief to not see them any more. 

Specifically, one particular annoyance who couldn't understand why people didn't understand that final means final. Well maybe because the people who were holding out hope for another season went by what Dick Wolf said.  So saying you don't see how they could have thought after all the final season promo stuff that they still had hope makes you the stupid one.  This is not to anyone who reads this blog, btw.  I'm just venting and I doubt this person will ever see this. I have no idea if it's a him or a her as it throws out insults regularly and only has a blogger account to do so apparently.

I still say in a couple of years maybe they could do a 2 hour television movie ala Columbo.  Then again I don't know how things may have changed in the entertainment industry and the cost of doing that might be unreasonable. 

Goodbye for real Goren and Eames.

 (NBC/Universal Photo)

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