Posts Tagged ‘Law & Order’
This week’s challenge is “pack” 
Title: Missing
Flavor: Technically SVU, but I don’t think it makes sense if you haven’t watched Mike Cutter from the Mothership?
Rating: G
Characters: Mike Cutter / Jack McCoy
Words: 100
Notes: I was really happy to see Mike on SVU, but then his new office felt so….foreign (?). I guess they didn’t keep the props from the Mothership? So that was where this idea came from……“Congratulations Mike.” Jack commented as he entered the office of SVU’s new Bureau Chief.
“Thanks. They supposedly moved all the boxes here, but I can’t find one of them!”
Jack raised his trademarked eyebrows.
“You know…. that box I packed – staircase, concrete slab… ”
“Doesn’t look like they’re here.” Jack observed, “Not even the whiteboard?”
“I might have to use actual paper for a change.” Mike frowned. “How can they lose the box from moving down THREE LEVELS?”
“Probably just got mixed up.”
“Lucky I took my bat down personally.”
Title: A Mutual Understanding
Flavor: Law & Order (Mothership)
Rating: G
Characters: Mike Cutter / Cyrus Lupo
Words: 1386
Notes: This fic takes place during the episode “Knock off”, when Mike Cutter and Cyrus Lupo stayed overnight in Dargerville… (I totally love that scene of Mike lying on the bed watching TV while Lupo was doing the legal research! This is just a conversation between them about Connie.)
When I started writing this I had no idea where it was going, I hope it doesn’t suck since this is my first long-ish L&O fic! :O It’s more about Mike than Lupo, I can’t help it, being a M/C fangirl and all.
I’m just borrowing these characters – Dick Wolf /NBC owns them!
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.
From L&O 19×22: The Drowned and The Saved
“Don’t look so happy Jack.”
- ohhh Mike Cutter, the look when he said that…. *love*
