Week 3 of 'Law and Order: Criminal Intent'

[altariel]

Me: Oh look the woman detective's finally got some lines.

Mr A. [patient]: She's always had lines, you just don't hear them because you're always complaining she has no lines.

[watching of show]

Me: I really like this programme, but it does worry me that the criminals are always women.

[more watching of show]

Me: Except tonight.

[even more watching of show]

Me: OK, well, if the criminal is not a woman, then it's somebody insane. This show is prejudiced against women and the insane.

Mr A.: The leads are a woman and someone insane.

Me: That's even worse. That means that they're contributing to upholding the hegemony that marginalizes them.

[Mr A. gives chilly stare]

Me: I'm very sad about the Big Damn Movie.

[Stare gets chillier]

Me [pointing across room]: Look! Penguins!

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

LOL! Brilliant!

But I like the woman and the insane person.

Oh, wait. I'm a woman and an insane person. What does that say, I wonder?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-) I like them too. I think it's a really brilliant programme.

[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

That sounds eerily familiar.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think I had the argument won.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

*Giggles. A lot.*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

;-D

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan too. I used to watch it on C5 but it's not on any more - what are you seeing, a new series on Sky?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Can you get the Hallmark Channel? It's on every weeknight at 10pm. Just getting to the end of season 2.

(Hallmark also shows Law and Order at 8pm and Special Victims Unit at 9pm, but there really aren't enough hours in the day for that.)

[communicator.livejournal.com]

No, I'm just freeview. I used to watch all of these on a Saturday night, with H, in a row. That was my main weekly telly-fix.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

All three of them are hugely addictive. When we got snowed in visiting Boston last year, we spent much of our extra day watching variations on Law and Order.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

In your house, is "whoever mentions the penguins first" the equivalent of "whoever mentions the Nazis"?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a clincher in the debate.

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I'm scarily reminded of the HD Society mailing list, where there's recently been a heated debated about a Man Scholar who wrote that HD wasn't a Great Feminist Visionary OMG! Perhaps a post about penguins would break things up a bit? ;)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

OMG shcolar man SUX!!11!!

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

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LOL! And that's why I won the argument!