OK, I think that was just the weirdest SVU I've ever seen.

Wow...cause I used to watch it a lot, but I found: a. it got too weird. 2."Oh, God, Benson's gonna cry again!" and 3. Where's Munch? So I quit.

Actually, I'm not sure if this one or the Katrina kids ripped-from-every-headline (Katrina! Pedophile! Anthrax!) one was was weirder. Not only was the story totally implausible, but it had three plot twists in the last five minutes or so, and was paced really weirdly -- like, lots of stuff happened, then nothing happened, then more nothing happened, and then a bunch of stuff happened off-screen, and then a whole ton of things happened at once.

And, we're expected to believe that a girl who'd been away from human contact for six years was able to figure out how to use a computer to pull off an identity theft, and Benson and Stabler did the most obvious good cop-bad cop ever.

Yeah...Katrina, Pedophile, Anthrax must have been one of the last ones I watched.

There was one a few weeks ago that I couldn't watch all the way through. Graphic scenes of animal abuse. A guy who ran an exotic animal smuggling ring was killing people who might go to the police by locking them in a cage with a tiger or hyena. And the animal scenes were way more graphic than anything I can remember them using before. I turned it off halfway through.

Also, I really hope that whoever filmed and directed and acted in those scenes got combat pay. I don't care how well trained it is, no way I'm getting in the same room as a hyena.

I saw that one! I felt the same way except I couldn't not watch it. Do you want to know what happened to the tiger?

Java, the scary smuggler guy served it to Eliot on a plate!

I keep watching SVU, but I don't know why. For the last couple of years, it's been Elliot angst (Kicked out of the house. Makeup sex. Wife in labor in a car accident in a patently Very Special Episode. Crazy daughter. Crazy mother. Shot.)and Olivia angst (I was almost raped. My mother was raped. My mother was raped. My mother was raped. I have a half-brother by my mother's rapist.)interspersed with unlikely disjointed plot elements.

Meloni loves playing Bad, Crazy cop. I kind of liked watching it too, till the WTF? got all out of hand and stuff. Sometimes I wish they could do it more like H:LOTS. But then, I think that of many programs, up to and including "Hardball"so, YMMV. Bwah...I'm just picturing Matthews saying "This job's got nothing to do with life," Which would be startlingly self-aware of him, actually, but, never mind.

I'm just picturing Matthews saying "This job's got nothing to do with life," Which would be startlingly self-aware of him

Which is why it will never happen.