Last night’s Law and Order sucked. A lot. When I first started watching the show a few years ago, I found the show interesting. At the very least, they tried to do a good job bringing up issues, they chose interesting angles to challenge the viewer, and were generally well written. Though they had a somewhat liberal tilt, they generally ended up in the middle of things. Then they brought in Fred Thompson as the DA. Former Die Hard II star and former Republican Senator from Tennessee Fred Thompson, that is. To say that he’s “a little more to the right than former D.A.s on the show” is like saying that Karl Marx was a bit more to the left than, say, a fascist. I kid, but you get my point.

Anywho, last night was the last show for Elisabeth Rohm, who played the assistant D.A. on the show. Her final episode was uneventful, except that she got fired because she was too emotional for the job. (I thought this was unfair, but that’s something to discuss over dinner) All of this is not really important except that at the very, very, very end of the show, they ended with Rohm’s character asking if she was getting fired because she was a lesbian. You gotta understand this show to get why that’s almost a ridiculous line… we didn’t know she was a lesbian. Hell, we barely knew she was a woman, that’s how thin the character development is in Law and Order (by design, I believe). So, I searched around the blogosphere for reaction to the episode and found that most people agreed with me. It just didn’t make any sense. And because it came as the last few lines of the episode, it just was hanging out there with no resolution, no explanation, and no freaking purpose at all…

Oh well. The show is going to pot anyway. The detective character that replaced Orbach’s Briscoe drives a Benz. I’m having Miami Vice flashbacks every time his car is on the screen.