WARNING: Graphic intensive post ahead!
Last week Mike Cutter made an appearance on Law & Order: SVU (13×06 True Believers) so it’s time we do another one of these! Since Linus Roache mentioned he will be in at least four episodes of SVU this season, I’m hoping to do a picspam (of Mike only, of course) for all of his appearances.
You can find the picspam for Linus/Mike’s first appearance on SVU on this post. All of my (unedited) screencaps used in this post are here – feel free to use them for graphics or whatever, just credit!
This week’s challenge is “inspired by a book” 
Title: Halloween
Flavor: L&O: UK
Rating: G
Characters: Matt Devlin / Alesha Phillips
Words: 100
Notes: I’m *guessing* Halloween isn’t so big in England….? (If it’s anything like Australia.) But hey, any excuse for a fancy dress party isn’t so bad?“I can’t believe you’re making me wear this.”
Alesha couldn’t help but laugh at Matt’s Halloween “costume”.
“I wanted Elizabeth and Darcy, but you insisted on modern!”
“When I said modern, I meant Posh and Becks.”
“Tacky. You just want me to wear killer heels and a short skirt!”
He couldn’t stop fiddling with his jumper. “This wool is itchy!”
“Stop it! You wanted to win best costume!”
“If guv and her husband are Benson and Stabler…Ron is Sherlock Holmes….we’ll win.”
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“Nice reindeer jumper Matty.” Ron chuckled as Ange took a photo…
“We’re putting this on the MPS website!”
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Notes: OK… so this was more inspired by the movie Bridget Jones’s Diary (since I’ve never read the book!) but it also mentions Pride & Prejudice
It’s been a while (many many years) since I’ve written any fanfic, but when I saw the “Gadget” challenge from Law & Order 100, I had to put this plot bunny to rest. Then I thought it would be a good idea to start writing again – even if it’s just 100 word drabbles. So these are the two I wrote over the past week or so.
Title: Words
Flavor: Mothership (But Connie is in LA…)
Rating: G
Characters: Connie Rubirosa / Mike Cutter
Words: 100
Notes: I know ‘Words with friends’ is not available on the blackberry, but let’s just pretend they have iPhones for a moment? And if anyone hasn’t played it, it’s like Scrabble but you can chat with your friends while playing. It’s on Facebook as well.******************************************
Sunshine still feels foreign to Connie, even after three months in LA. She prefers her weekends indoors, or…*dingding*
Another notification on her phone. Third in the last hour.
They’re on their 90th game of “Words with Friends”. Connie narrowly leads 46-43. It all started months before she left NY, when Mike refused to accept he lost the first ten games, because… she already forgot. Sore loser?
“First to 100 wins dinner. Expensive & French.”
She checked their current game – nothing new. It was an instant message.
“ARGH. What am I supposed to do with “V” “Q” and no vowels?”
It’s difficult to imagine Law & Order as “ground breaking” drama. Yet it was considered so when it first appeared on TV screens back in 1990. Before other procedural dramas like “CSI”, “Criminal Minds”, “NCIS” etc etc, Dick Wolf’s vision of police who investigate crimes and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders was considered a risky venture for television networks.
I don’t remember the exact time when I first watched an episode of Law & Order. Maybe it was the mid-90s, when I was still in high school. It was never considered to be a “cool” show, most of my peers would be talking about shows like “90210″ or “Melrose Place”. Law & Order was rather nerdy – since it’s one of the few shows that my Dad and I could watch together.
However, I remember there were a couple of my classmates who also watched it. One of them was rather fond of the relationship between Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessey). Coincidence or not we eventually went on to study at the same law school, graduating at the same time. We didn’t end up being prosecutors (actually, I never ended up in the legal profession either) but I think there’s a part of us which hopes that there are others like Jack McCoy out there, fighting for justice, fighting for us.
I guess Law & Order is one of those shows we took for granted. The beauty of it is that you don’t have to religiously follow it every week to know what’s going on. It is a mini-movie each episode, in one hour we normally see someone getting killed, the police investigating and finding a suspect, then the lawyers would try to put him/her behind bars. For 20 years the formula remained the same. Its history (and the brand) would also eventually become its downfall.
Since the show requires no “long-term commitment” viewers would come and go, plus there’re always repeats – although this is not necessary the case in Australia – L&O (original) repeats are only on Foxtel channels 111 hits (seasons 1-5) or Channel W (seasons 6-18). People don’t associate L&O with “excitement” or “new”, but rather it’s seen as a tired old show which remained stagnated.
This is far from the truth.
WARNING: Graphic intensive post ahead!
This is the first time I’m doing a babble/picspam like this, so I hope it makes sense! All of my (unedited) screencaps are here – feel free to use them for graphics or whatever, just credit!
My Ramble
One Friday night back in June there wasn’t much on TV and I managed to catch an episode of Law & Order. That was 20×09: For the Defense. And it wasn’t a repeat btw, in Australia they’re just stuffing L&O around and haven’t even finished showing the final season yet. (It’s currently off the schedule, with an unknown return date.) Anyway, I totally fell in love with it all over again (on-and-off watcher since probably the mid-90s!) especially the chemistry between Mike Cutter (Linus Roache) & Connie Rubirosa (Alana de la Garza). So I just *had* to go back and watched seasons 18-20. So 3 months and 60+ episodes later I’ve been eagerly waiting for the ‘return’ of Mike Cutter, this time to SVU.
I’ve watched a few eps of SVU before but never really liked it because I’ve always preferred the “Order” side. After the premiere I’ll probably just watch the eps with Mike, and spend my time watching “L&O:UK” instead.
I’m hoping to write more about the mothership & the UK flavour in future posts, will see how that goes….so without further ado, I present:
