Lately I've been watching a lot of Law and Order: SVU and there's something that's been bothering me about it. The two leads, Stabler and Benson suck at their jobs. Every week the ADA comes to them and says some variation of, "You idiots! Your inability to follow basic procedure has gotten the main evidence against the defendant thrown out by the judge of the week. Now you've got a day to get me something I can use against him/her. Don't fuck it up this time." They generally do, but it wouldn't be a problem if they didn't suck at being cops.
Stabler generally gets in trouble for roughing up a suspect. Because he's got some serious anger management problems. Get it? Because he's the least stable member of the team. Way to go writers. You've made a very good ironic pun right there.
Benson, I don't even know what her problem is. She gets all up in the victim's business, and then they become best buddies forever, and then the victim always ends up doing something to jeopardize the case or their own life. Then she somehow ends up blaming herself, or getting in trouble with the higher ups, and the rest of the episode is spent on her agonizing over how to fix it.
As I already said, they suck at following police procedure. Every week they end up getting confessions thrown out because they were talking to the defendant before his lawyer showed up after s/he asked for one. Or my personal favorite, they weren't able to use DNA evidence because Benson stole the underwear of a rape victim from the victim's apartment.
Honestly, if I were their captain those two would have been shipped off to traffic violations so fast their heads would spin. I mean it's every week the ADA has to come in and give them that speech. Munch and Finn never have to get that talk. Maybe because they're almost never the focus characters. Come to think of it, whenever those two are they generally fuck something up too.
Perhaps it's a curse on whoever is the main character of the episode.
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