In her last episode of Law and Order, Branch fires Serena (basically, because she was right and he was wrong), and she asks, "Is it because I'm a lesbian?" I'm pretty sure Dick Wolf stuck that in at the last moment in a desperate and transparent attempt to make Law and Order relevant again or controversial or something, without any risk of backlash from the right (and he seems to be getting increasingly right-wing, IMNSHO) because the character was being fired. There had never been anything at all to suggest the character was lesbian, thus the MY LEZBIAN IZ PASTEDE ON YAY because it struck me as so fake.
I think I actually ranted about it on LJ at the time!
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In her last episode of Law and Order, Branch fires Serena (basically, because she was right and he was wrong), and she asks, "Is it because I'm a lesbian?" I'm pretty sure Dick Wolf stuck that in at the last moment in a desperate and transparent attempt to make Law and Order relevant again or controversial or something, without any risk of backlash from the right (and he seems to be getting increasingly right-wing, IMNSHO) because the character was being fired. There had never been anything at all to suggest the character was lesbian, thus the MY LEZBIAN IZ PASTEDE ON YAY because it struck me as so fake.
I think I actually ranted about it on LJ at the time!