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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4163507" data-attributes="member: 8158">Law & Order was groundbreaking because it deviated away from what people expected from a cop show. It showed the viewer that the cop making bust and securing some evidence wasn't the final word in putting a bad guy away. It showed the viewer that cops were willing to clock out at 5:00 if they weren't getting paid overtime. It showed how bad guys could get off even if the cops did work overtime. Anyone remember the episode with the Columbians, where they killed all the witnesses in the coda? "What about the little girl?""She's fine. Her uncle picked her up."(ghastly pause)"....She doesn't have an uncle..."(fade)That was ambitious. And of course, at the time it was struggling to survive with low viewership. Now, there's one L&O for every day of the week and they're all just lame shows about two-dimensional supercops who put in countless man-hours and millions of tax dollars to make sure they get every single bad guy. Seriously, when was the last time a bad guy got off in L&O? That one with Leonardo DeNofrio [sic] is especially over-the-top. Sometimes I ponder why shows like Reaper and Chuck are suffiiciently disappointing that I feel the need to share it. I think the answers lie somewhere in the inversely proportionate decline in Law & Order's writing and increase in ratings   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> I'm a big fan of "to each their own", but it's kind of fitting to note that in discussing a show about an underachiever, you actually have folks defending the show itself because it's kind of an underachiever--actually expressing a preference for unambitious and predictable forms of entertainment, because they're nice and comfortable. Fitting and bizarre. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Who knows? Maybe Dukes of Hazard, A-Team, and Power Rangers will be seen as the pinnacle of the television medium in years to come.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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