the good, the bad, and the oh-so-fucking ugly

[kellinator]

The good: One of my Homicide fan lists informs me that tonight TNT will be broadcasting both parts of one of the Law and Order/Homicide crossovers. Yaay, Homicide back on TV, even if only for one night!

The bad: The crossover is the sixth-season "Baby It's You", IMNSHO one of the worst episodes of Homicide ever, in large part because of the overpresence and overacting of Det. Paul "You Dunno Janine" Falsone, as played by Jon Seda (who was frankly more sympathetic playing a dirtbag Mob killer on Oz). Last time I saw this episode, I sat down anticipating enjoying a nice glass of wine with my all-time favorite TV show and ended up swilling the entire bottle just to dull the pain.

The ugly: Falsone's greasy hair. Ugggggggghhh.

BTW, I am not alone in my distaste for Falsone. There's also the We Hate Paul Falsone webpage, an entire subgenre of Homicide fanfic dedicated to rewriting the infamous "peach" scene with various lovely painful results, and this gem.

Comments

[gmslegion.livejournal.com]

Well, my problem with Falsone has less to do with Seda's inexperience and delivery and more with the really bizarre decision by TPTB to put him at odds with Kellerman, Stivers and Lewis. All that "There's more to the Mahoney shooting than you're telling me" stuff which opened season six really got in the way of that great storyline with James Earl Jones. I remember thinking "Okay, the Mahoney shooting is none of Falsone's business, and this is wasting valuable time we could be spending watching Jones and Braugher circle each other like hawks."

Wasn't the L&O crossover just a couple of weeks after that? I really felt the network's greasy hand in that, as if saying "Hey, America, look at our moody dark-haired new teevee star. All the ladies think he's groovy; People magazine says so." For such a potentially important ratings episode as that, the spotlight should have been on Homicide's established cast, with Falsone and Ballard in the background until they'd earned a Big Story.

[renaissancekat.livejournal.com]

Woo! Thanks for the head's up!

And hopefully my season one Homicide discs from Netflix will be arriving soon!

[chicating.livejournal.com]

There must be something to the hate...the "We Hate Falsone" page guy is up to like volume 4. I only have seen him in the Movie, (Oh, and frigging Subway, which I, like a heretic, hate. Maybe cause the critics loved it so. Is my natural perversity and malcontentedness that severe? It would appear so.) But in between, I was like "Who's the oily guy with Meldrick? Dude, that must be the one everyone hates." But he didn't do much so I, personally, have no opinion, yet. But I also didn't buy them as partners.

damn

[libidoergosum.livejournal.com]

I thought we might get together to watch the homicide/L&O double-header.

I guess not then.

[chicating.livejournal.com]

I now hate Falsone..it only took 3 episodes.
-he's not as good an actor as well...anybody on there. Or definitely not Sam Waterston. (and I DONT think he's hot, although I have been known to think that type is hot, cf both Christopher and Ade on the Sopranos...but from the way the camera lingered on his face I got we were supposed to)
-FranknTim got cameos and we heard every thought out of Falsone's mouth, even if he is Felton Sue.
I know creators can't give the fans what they want exactly...because they'd be shagging us instead of solving cases, but there has to be better answer to "Falsone is a putz." than the producers/network going "No, he's not. People magazine said."
I can't decide if he or Megan is the bigger Poochie...probably Falsone though since he was supposed to revive a flagging series.(That's uh...obviously a Simpsons reference, huh? Not bad for a beautiful woman with a library card.)
Even if Kellerman was completely dirty(and I'm new but smart enough to stay out of that till my opinion is informed...and maybe even then) he is probably still a better cop than that knockoff Blue refugee.
And that case didn't make sense...the mother raped her? WTF? What about the bleeding when she was eleven? Was that mom too? What exactly did the guy with the shrine see? At first it sounded like he saw everything, but later, nsm. Why would Jack McCoy give a shit about Falsone's custody problems? I didn't and I'm more patient than Jack.