~laughs~ Yes!!! That was one of my biggest problems with the whole episode. Seeing her in that role on SVU last night was hard to swallow because she looked like Meg, sounded like Meg, was on Meg's channel, but she sure as hell wasn't Meg. I think it was a bad casting job there because she's not far enough removed from Meg Pryor to convincingly pull off a character like that.
Other problems I had involved it being too... trite. It was too cut and dry an episode for a season finale... although with some of the others shows I watch and some of the finale's they have had, I am still kinda okay with that. But I expect better out of them. I think that they blew the end of this season because they were trying to work around Hargitay's pregnancy. I think that there were episodes in the past month that would have been better done as the season finale. Hell, the episode with Anthony Anderson would have made better sense as the finale than the episode last night.
I think that they made some interesting points in the medication/mental illness/responsibility debate, but they didn't do it well. They could have handled this episode much better. First, they tried to tackle too many issues. You've got kids having sex will-he, nill-he. They have a girl who was on her meds and then off her meds and can't decide what the hell she wants. They have a rock star who wants everyone off meds because he had a bad experience after he tried to off himself... and as Casey ended up pointing out, he could look at *that* from a totally different perspective, too. Oh, and toss in just a bit of parental responsibility, and you get a whole lot of mess and not a lot of resolution for anything.
Second, you've got the fact that they tried to get everyone into the season finale. They would have been better off pulling a CI and making it two episodes which could showcase Liv and Stabler AND Munch and Finn. If you throw in the fact that the characters in the episode couldn't decide what the hell they felt, well... it was kind of stupid. And yes... in this episode even I got annoyed by Liv's attitude, and I am usually with her in most respects.
Third, and finally, the casting was bad all around. As I said earlier, using cute "Meg Pryor" as the vic was a poor mistake. I also think that the guy playing the rock star was... less than convincing in more ways than one. Oh and the parents. Cardboard cutouts who can't decide if they give a shit or not.
Okay, so all in all, I had a lot of issues with this episode and I think it's one of the worst ones of theirs I've seen in a long time.
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Date: 2006-05-18 02:02 am (UTC)Other problems I had involved it being too... trite. It was too cut and dry an episode for a season finale... although with some of the others shows I watch and some of the finale's they have had, I am still kinda okay with that. But I expect better out of them. I think that they blew the end of this season because they were trying to work around Hargitay's pregnancy. I think that there were episodes in the past month that would have been better done as the season finale. Hell, the episode with Anthony Anderson would have made better sense as the finale than the episode last night.
I think that they made some interesting points in the medication/mental illness/responsibility debate, but they didn't do it well. They could have handled this episode much better. First, they tried to tackle too many issues. You've got kids having sex will-he, nill-he. They have a girl who was on her meds and then off her meds and can't decide what the hell she wants. They have a rock star who wants everyone off meds because he had a bad experience after he tried to off himself... and as Casey ended up pointing out, he could look at *that* from a totally different perspective, too. Oh, and toss in just a bit of parental responsibility, and you get a whole lot of mess and not a lot of resolution for anything.
Second, you've got the fact that they tried to get everyone into the season finale. They would have been better off pulling a CI and making it two episodes which could showcase Liv and Stabler AND Munch and Finn. If you throw in the fact that the characters in the episode couldn't decide what the hell they felt, well... it was kind of stupid. And yes... in this episode even I got annoyed by Liv's attitude, and I am usually with her in most respects.
Third, and finally, the casting was bad all around. As I said earlier, using cute "Meg Pryor" as the vic was a poor mistake. I also think that the guy playing the rock star was... less than convincing in more ways than one. Oh and the parents. Cardboard cutouts who can't decide if they give a shit or not.
Okay, so all in all, I had a lot of issues with this episode and I think it's one of the worst ones of theirs I've seen in a long time.