Garden Path Storylines

[4thofeleven]

Watching the season 10 opener for SVU - Is it just me, or is the show increasingly reliant on overly convoluted plots? It's like they've got two or three decent ideas, can't work out how to stretch any of them out for more than twenty minutes, so tie them together in an unlikely fashion. Rather than actually investigating the crime, the show seems to be more about trying to work out just what the hell the crime is. The Simpsons does the same thing, but there it's meant to be absurd that the starting storyline leads to a completely unrelated one... Here, it just makes things difficult to follow.

I do like that the show is recognising that Stabler's a horrible person who nobody wants anything to do with... Still, I am increasingly wondering why I keep watching.

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[sunnyskywalker]

I've pretty much given up on SVU for that reason and switched to Criminal Minds and Cold Case instead. Not that they don't have problems, but they're in earlier seasons, so they haven't had as much time to go downhill. (Gah, I'm so cynical about TV series these days!)

Yeah, I pretty much want to punch Stabler lately... he used to be a tightly-wound guy with problems and a basically decent core, but those days are long, long gone.