"October Surprise".... new SVU episode tonight.....

"October Surprise" shows a whole another side of ADA Barba and some of Amaro's as well, seeing where they come from. Mayor election going the wrong way, idols not being who they once were, intense moments flaring up.... rocky roads ahead I think....   Tonight's episode is written by Peter Blauner...

Here's tonights miniposter as well a special one further down and link to episode information....

This poster was also tricky to do, with all that is going on.... I choose these two, as it sounded like something is up between them....for info, it is both my own laptop as well camera used in this poster. the backgrounds on them are not though, those are found on internet....

Episode informations can be found here: Allthingslawandorder October Surprise episode information


Miniposter special.....

I wouldn't be surprised if the wardrobe department had a mini book with all the clothes Raul wears on SVU.... otherwise it would be a great memory book to have... I could have looked for the shirts and ties on internet, but I went out there instead and visited two stores. One was totally fine by me taking photos of the shirts, the other one was not too keen yet let me do a few as well the ties... there was so many and too little time to pick which one to use without going overboard.... It'd be cool to see the selection the SVU wardrobe have for Raul (and the rest of the cast too).....  :-)

Feedback on "Internal Affairs", Bensidycity episode......

Bear over with me and I hope I make sense.....

Sigh.... another episode, which needs more than 140 character or does it???

I've seen the episode, but didn't have the subtitles as "backup" so I had a bit difficult time hearing/read lips what Benson and Cassidy talked about at the end of the episode.(whispering people is not the best options for deaf/hard of hearing people, SVU guys....no offense....) that said, could someone please do something about IA Tucker? Ok, Tucker aka Robert John Burke does a great job getting on SVU squad nerves as well keep them on their toes. However the last "I need your help on this case putting Cassidy in jeopardy" had me, please could either SVU or ADA Barba just take him down a notch or two......(nice one Kevin....).

When I saw David Conrad was going to be in this episode as well, bad arse cop, I had to do a double take as I've only seen him on "Ghost Whisperer". Boy was he creepy and David Conrad pulled it off nicely.

As did his "partner" officer Ryan Quinn / actress Nadia Dajani, following his lead on whatever he was doing, because he was "covering/taking" care of her.

Which brings me to the "ouch that hurts Olivia" moment, where Benson interrogates officer Ryan Quinn, about her "relationship" with her partner. What Ryan was hoping for or would she be happy to stick with him for the next 10 years. It was something that never would happen. Did someone say double confession here? Ryan finally getting the hint, she never could have what she so longed for with her partner and Olivia - in my eyes - finally voicing her thoughts on the Stabler subject. Yes, she may have wanted to be with Stabler, he left and so she choose to be with Cassidy, hopefully falling in love with Cassidy in a different way, you do when you reconnect/know someone like this. Even if Stabler returned (not gonna happen any day soon), I would think Benson have, well, matured about those feelings towards him. (one thing... I wonder if Cragen listened on the other side hearing this....?)

Before I move along, I want to say I liked Stabler, yes I've read a few EO (Elliot/Olivia) fanfics as well, yes I can see why some would want it to be Stabler and Benson together, however Stabler is a no go area now, which Benson in my eyes clearly stated, when she talked to officer Ryan Quinn, about what she was hoping for.  So for Benson to ever get together with Stabler, never would happen. Case closed. Period. End of story. There is a new man in Benson's life, like him or not..... sorrynotsorry, but I'm team Bensidy.
Sure ship EO away in fanfics, but as far as I am concerned on The show, it is Warren's (probably with Julie and Wolf Dick and a few others) call, who Benson is with .... although if Warren puts Benson with Tucker, I would have a hard time follow that line (I'm pretty sure he was pulling a late night joke with that one on twitter..... right Warren....). 

I happen to like Dean Winters as Brian Cassidy and it was great to see him have more play on SVU - hopefully we will see more to him for the rest of the season, I can see the layers in this character being pealed off, open and hopefully find his own corner of where he wants to be, as NYPD cop and be with Benson  - I am left pondering though, when he was undercover, at one point it clearly looks like he is not entirely comfortable about the situation (waiting in the car knowing what might be going on), why didn't he react to his guts... he is still a NYPD cop...

Could be because I don't know about the case the episode is about. I did find it disturbing, that there a few bad torns out there serving to protect the people and instead uses their "power" in this way. Ok, it is old news when it comes to politics and such, but within the forces?

And let's just take a moment to be "proud" of Captain Cragen..... it may not have been good politics to kick out IA Tucker from his office, but for once I enjoyed that moment, though not happy if it means Tucker takes away Cragen's shield later on....

Let's not forget the Amaro/Benson moment in the car, where he reminds her, she can talk with him whenever, where she brush him off as he treats her normally (that's how I heard it, correct me if I'm wrong....), love it....

By all means let's us have more Finollins undercover moments....  they pulled it off good there......

So like Mariska said in reply on Katie show about relationship on SVU, there is this arc Benson have to go through and I won't go there, but I do hope the SVU land will let Bensidy stay together from now on... through the good/bad times... let's show there is love out there for the victims too. That once you are ready, there is one you can trust. I'd like to see that too... (and if there is more, my Bensidy heart is more than happy... hey I am a fan too......)

Overall.... another "kick of the table on high notch well written episode well acted".... oh and Kevin (Warren, Julie, Peter, etc. etc. you know), by all means, tease as much as you want, if we get more like this... I don't mind.....

Ps. could I have my apartment redecorated by your set master? Love Bensidy's new place/home....


The photo belong to Entertainment Weekly/NBC

Editor editied 100 SVU episodes......

I learned a few weeks ago, one of the editors of SVU Karen S. would be editing her 100th episode and "Her Negotiation" would be the 100th.....

I had another idea, I just didn't have time to find all episodes still photos, so I opted for season 14 only.

I know this is like 2 days early and hope you will have a great evening watching this episode on Wednesday, just like the rest of us.....

Happy 100th episode Karen......

And yes all 100 titles are in there..... I hope they are correct as I found them on IMDB....  I've checked 4 times to be sure they were in there....  :-)

"Brief Interlude".... new SVU episode on NBC at 9pm....

New SVU episode tonight "Brief Interlude" is about a different life others didn't know about..... and probably the consequences about that..... (Remember Warren said a year ago this season was about consequences and secrets?)

I do have to admit my mind is set on getting the finale miniposter done - will be working on that the next few days as well this weekend... - so this one was a bit tricky for me to get into.....

On a sidenote, I did use one of my own photos from my trip in New York, it is the background photo which is overseeing part of Hudson River one evening.

See more info about the episode after the miniposter.

Find more information about the episode here:

http://allthingslawandorder.blogspot.dk/2013/04/law-order-svu-brief-interlude-episode.html

New SVU episode: "Born Psycophath" tonigth at 9pm on NBC

As I'm off on a vacation in a few hours, I am uploading the miniposter for tonights Law and Order: Special Victims Unit "Born Psycopath"...

This sounds like a scary and hard episode, about a mother realizing her son may be more than she imagined and detective Amaro bonding with his new found son... two parellel worlds and yet maybe not so far away, or rather too far away for it to happen... what caused a boy to be changeing so dramacially that the family don't see it at first....? And can Dr. Huang ( Guest star BD Wong) help in time...?

Tune in tonight and see what happens.... I am for once on the same timeline....  :-)

More can be seen on:

http://allthingslawandorder.blogspot.dk/2013/03/law-order-svu-born-psychopath-episode.html

where you also can see tonights promo video.....

Thank you again "Allthingslawandorder" for link and such....

New SVU episode tonight: "Beautiful Frame" ...

 New episode of SVU tonight on NBC at 9pm, "Beautiful Frame" sounds interesting....  I look forward to see how that is playing out, specially to see how Barba is going to handle another ADA who is just as ambitious as he is.... I wonder if she would go as far as Barba has in court earlier...( "Twenty-Five acts" , episode 3 in this seasom) I've come to like "Barba" played by Raúl.... we will see what happens in tonights episode.... and I do wonder if the good Warren, Michael and SVU gang will tell of their Christmas holidays in this episode as well... or go straigth to work... There seems to be some unanswered "only-arm-questions" that needs to be ahem.... well adressed in one way or another...... "justsaying"   When that is said, I do look forward to see Raúl in play....  :-)



The miniposter for tonight.... I like §9 .........  (all those § are some I made up myself... I know the law itself is a whole lot more lawish....)

More about the episode can be found here:

http://allthingslawandorder.blogspot.dk/2012/12/law-order-svu-beautiful-frame-episode.html

And the promo:

New SVU episode coming this Wednesday....

Remember there is a new episode of SVU coming up this Wednesday... like in 48 hours........

"Beautiful frame"


Also more can be seen on this blog:

http://allthingslawandorder.blogspot.dk/2012/12/law-order-svu-beautiful-frame-episode.html

No SVU..... what to do on a birthday....?

So... as a few knows, it is my birthday today and figures, no new SVU episode?? Hhhmm... oh well that wish didn't go as planned... Anndd I kinda think the other wish I have is well... a bit "still-plan-on-it-just-don't-know-when-it-will-happen-if-in-time-just-need-a-lottery-win-or-a-job-save-up-for-trip-too-long-to-mention- etc-etc...." and the other one might be a bit tad hard too, so what does a fan/birthday lady got to do....? Well in my case and since there is no new SVU episodes tonight, I just made myself a birthday card..... when that is said, hope you all have a great day out there, take care of each other and see you around, when the next episode of SVU is on screen in oh in 2 weeks... that would be on January 2nd, 2013... just saying....  :-)

Oh, to top it all...... I woke up to read a tweet Michael Smith wrote about the episode on January 2nd...(below is from twitter and no bad intent on putting it up here, just sharing..) :

" Michael Smith ‏@SmithSmitherrs

   replied to one on Twitter: only hint is that it involves Finns past. And an interesting twist for benson."

 Sure, sure... Thank you Michael..... great birthday reading and I'm still waiting on that DeLoren car to fast forward to January..... or you could mail me the episode??? :-)

Oh, I won't do any miniposter next week.... what? The SVU gang is on Christmas holidays next week... I may have plenty of time on my hands, I still have some books I need to catch up on.... like um 6-7 of them....  plus I do have ideas for the next miniposter - even more after that tweet from Michael (Thank you again for the twisting plot, rumbling my head for change of ideas etc etc - do writers/actors ect have the same experience I wonder when on set, when changes comes in....?).... So stay tuned and

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
see you in 2013...... 

”Manhattan Vigil” SVU’s 300th episode…

Having rewatched the episode ”Manhattan Vigil” a second time, I found it both sad as well annoying that there was so little time to get into a story – any story of SVU – that it is cut down to 40-45 minutes. I am not going to do an overall view of the episode, just giving my thoughts on it - just for informations, I had on the same day this episode aired in USA attended the gala opening of James Bond "Skyfall" in Copenhagen, Denmark at 10pm (around 5-6pmish Eastern Time) so I may have been clouded by this event as well staying up till 4am my time to read the twitter reactions on the episode...

I found the start of the episode well-chosen both music wise and photo/frame wise, - which ends in the same way – to me showing that not only are “Olivia Benson” and the squad ‘on guard’ but so are those left behind wondering what happened with the victims, which we see clearly portrayed by the mother of the old case as well the eager ‘want to be respected’ cop. It was well chosen later to see Munch looking back at the old case looking for clues to help on the future case – well edited/cut getting that clip of interview with Jenna Wolfe and cop, on the television that was taped in this year and not back then…- I have to admit I was also glad that there wasn’t used too many flashback otherwise it would have to mean they would need to find Hector alive and that showed part of the red line in the story for me. I will get back to that later. 

Meanwhile in the ‘now’ as Amaro correctly tells Benson, when she mentions the old case looking at the building and pointing it out to Cragen, it was a race against the clock before another fire would end another life. It was interesting though to see how it took a while before Cragen opened up to look back on the old case and I’m sure there will be more of those “carefully” looking back into old cases and it will give some tension with the squad, when the captain is so weary of digging too deep into links in a case. I wonder if that will be dealt with later on with Cragen’s reaction back to the first two episodes on digging deeper into the past.

It was a great move to bring in Tom Sizemore to play the delusional and “I want my share” character coming way too late in the episode, he played it so well that at first you feel like he is really the bad guy and then when the backside of the story is told, makes you think ok what just happened here.  Well played. 

This episode also gave an more and more a picture (for me anyways) on each members role of the squad is, like Rollins is good at pulling out those files on the computer that needs to be looked at, Amaro is showing more and more of the good contact with the victims – perhaps influenced by Benson when paired up (loved it when Cragen told them he didn’t care of their issues while he was away when he paired them back together) – I’m sure that will come to use later on as well. Finn is at times an underwritten character on SVU I think, I think there is so much more to him than his smart cool comments towards his squad members (my favorite is Benson just for info), I would like to see more of him (what happened with the dress code???  ;-) ) And see what lies beneath “Finn”, maybe together with Munch (how come he hasn’t influenced Finn with the dress code when they are paired so much together?? Just makes me ponder…) showing what they are and mean for SVU. Then there is Benson, who admitted to Harris in previous episodes, she wouldn’t want to supervise a SVU/cop like herself, if she was to move ranks upwards - that would sort of either push out Cragen or herself from the squad, maybe an idea for a undercover story?? – as much I “love” the character Benson there is a need to give room for the others of the squad to be on screen as well, otherwise it can be too much in the end and backfire, meaning you can get tired of the character which I really don’t want to see happen. 

On that note I do agree, Benson needs either some good times in her life outside SVU, if that will be dealt with later on like it was with Haden/Cassidy or it needs to be closed like she accepts her path in life and on SVU. (Before chopping my head off, remember I did mention Benson is my favorite character, I’m just airing my opinion, and yes I am like other who wants to see SVU last longer than a season a time…)

“Manhattan Vigil” with the red line in the story of looking into the past of previous cases in order to solve the here and now cases, the SVU squad are on guard for the people they help out there as well for themselves in order to be able to carry on their jobs, especially when the squad digs more into the old case hoping they will find Hector, but knowing the chance is too slim giving the years that has passed – like Amaro tells Benson: “This is the worst part of work” more than anything shows their prize as “guards” on SVU or any police force, it is also rewarding when they find the missing boy in the "present" alive. 

Overall I found the episode fitting for reaching 300 episode, a milestone indeed and one can hope for another…. 300 episodes might be a bit too many to asks for now, I still hope it will continue to tell the stories that more than now needs to be told…

I needed to see the episode an second time, since on the same day the episode aired 6 hours before it aired in ET time (I live in Denmark), I had attended an gala opening of the new James Bond movie “Skyfall”, I stayed up late night/morning to read reactions on twitter when I got back from the cinema, I found myself mixing these two into each other – never happened for me before – and surprisely found similarities to Benson and James Bond (ok way far reached I know) but they are both fighting for what they believe in and will go to great length to do so. So if my thoughts here is a bit off that would be the reason…

SVU 300th Episode: Manhattan Vigil is on tonight

YAY another new episode and tonight it is the 300th episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

So many years and still going strong, if not stronger, tonights episode looks parallel back on the first episode "Payback" as well on a case in present time.

Having read the synopsis as well interview with Warren Leight (I hope in his office, his chair is kinda the Iron Throne chair.....) I had a good visuelt idea of what I wanted to do for todays SVUminiposter. Only one could dream of getting a photoshot of some of the cast to make the shadow guard of them instead, different kind of headshot of the 3 main characther Mariska, Richard and Dann... one can dream....

So here it is, since the episode is full of the past/now and such tidbits, I took some freedom in doing the same, clues, names.... see if you can find it....  :-)

A big cudos to everyone at Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, have a great evening and thank you for what you do and continue to do.....

So tune in on NBC tonight at 9pm and make it the big party it should be and bring SVU forward on the top...

One more day till SVU300

So there is one more day till Law and order Special Victims Unit airs it 300th episode both looking back on an old case running parallel with a new case in here and now...

Watch the behind the scenes as well interviews and the clip from Todayshow this morning in NYC:

The SVU300 promo clip


Let's help make it a milestone more to come....

SVU300 episode interview Mariska Hargitay

SVU300 Dann Floreck

SVU300 episode interview Richard Belzer

SVU300 interview Danny Pino

SVU300 episode interview Dick Wolf

SVU300 party with cake

SVUcast on Today show October 23rd 2012

"Twenty-five acts"

Just to make it a bit easier, I'm posting the miniposter for tonights episode on NBC at 9pm, Season 14, episode 3, "Twenty-five acts"..... can't wait to see this one....