{"id":2893,"date":"2012-08-29T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2012-08-29T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:41:00","slug":"gone-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/gone-soft\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone Soft"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Channel-surfing earlier in the month led to us tripping over a Law & Order<\/a> ep. Jack McCoy was now the District Attorney; reporting to him were new faces Cutter and Rubirosa. Anita van Buren was still the lieutenant down at the 27th Precinct – she had her own new faces in the form of Lupo and Bernard.<\/p>\n

Curious, we tuned in.<\/p>\n

The ep’s A story followed the detectives, soon augmented by the district attorney’s office, as they raced to track down an online blogger preparing for a big and messy shooting spree. Y’know: the usual L&O stuff that is so slick and smart and fast it still makes the majority of cop shows out there dumb and slow.<\/p>\n

The B story was more interesting in that it followed van Buren (S Epatha Merkerson<\/a>) as she underwent some scans for what we presumed was cancer. We learned more about her in this one ep than we had in the preceding decade and a half of (admittedly occasional) watching. Something was up – especially since the ep ended on her getting the results of her scan and showing us her reaction<\/i>.<\/p>\n

“That’s not right,” I said to my Goddess<\/b> as the credits rolled. “They’ve gone soft, they have.” She nodded and yawned and picked up her briefly forgotten horseriding book.<\/p>\n

A quick google to get to the bottom of this abberation revealed that the ep was the series’ finale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ah. Well.<\/p>\n

Just this once, then.<\/p>\n

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Channel-surfing earlier in the month led to us tripping over a Law & Order ep. Jack McCoy was now the District Attorney; reporting to him were new faces Cutter and Rubirosa. Anita van Buren was still the lieutenant down at the 27th Precinct – she had her own new faces in the form of Lupo … <\/p>\n

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