#i miss raúl esparza though. barba come back

[leonardcohenofficial]

been watching svu since it’s what i put on when i’m under the weather and it really is an exercise in getting jumpscared by actors i’ve worked with/am friends with and tracking how much peter scanavino has greyed in the past decade

[komraekenkru]

What were your thoughts on the SVU season finale?

Okay, very short story time.

My Father is a die hard Trump Supporter, is incapable of even acknowledging that he ever does anything wrong. For some unexplainable reason, he decided to stay downstairs and watch SVU with us. After a five or ten minute fight between him and me and my Mom, I kinda just zoned out for a bit and played cards on my laptop because the sheer stupidity of my father was making me too upset. So, that combined with him making comments throughout it and snorting, made me kinda miss about half of it. So, this is just from what I saw. And, if anyone wants to upload any Barba or Carisi scenes, it’d be much appreciated!

I actually really liked it! I didn’t like the constant closeups of Liv and lingering on her face for a lot longer than necessary. We get it, she’s pretty, move on. I also didn’t like that I began to think of Liv as a racist with her handling Hector’s Wife vs. her handling the other ones wife that was incredibly homophobic, transphobic, and racist. I didn’t like that they lost the brother and he had to be deported, but that was kinda necessary to the plot. It still makes me a little sad, though.

I absolutely adored Barba this episode, even more so than usual! He’s so passionate about this stuff and Raúl Esparza’s acting was just A+++++. He could have easily overplayed it, or underplayed it, for that matter, but he didn’t. The passion and the anger and the frustration, so much emotion but without making him overemotional, it was just amazing!

I also really liked Carisi and how hard he fought to get the brother back, how he was really observant in the house with the family, how he worked with Eddie the other cop. It’s not my favorite Sonny episode - that’s still Glasgowman’s Wrath and probably always will be - but he did good.

Rollins was pretty good, too, especially when she yelled at Hector’s wife to get her to cooperate. She definitely stepped up her game. I would have preferred her to have something to do with the main theme of the episode, maybe tell a short story about her grandfather being Irish and being treated terribly or just mentioning him, something like that, but overall I’m really impressed with her this episode.

My thoughts on Fin are always the same, he was really good and they’re should have been more of him. I watched last week’s episode right before the finale, so I’m not sure which one he told Carisi and Rollins to do something and then was like ‘I’m practicing delegating’ when they looked at him like he was a crazy man, but I loved that part and I loved the acknowledgement of him being a Sergeant.

Daddy Dodds is growing on me, but I’m afraid they’re gonna make him end up with Liv and then have her treat him terribly and come up with some bullshit excuse for them to break up all of a sudden when it makes literally 0 sense.

I think having Eddie the other cop from hate crimes on there was a good way to not detract from the show but have a backdoor pilot for another spinoff. I think a Hate Crimes spin off would be interesting, but I don’t think they’ll actually do it. They won’t even air the Trump episode, they’re not gonna do a whole series about Hate Crimes. Although, they did do this episode and explicitly called out Trump in it, so I might be wrong.

The overall story was really good, too. It showed a very big, very real problem without being too preachy. And the ending was a good way to end the season. Not the series, but the season. Not really a cliffhanger, but it makes you think and makes you realize that, you can do some good in one part of the world, but right now the whole world’s messed up and it’s gonna take a lot of work to fix it.

What did you think of it? Or anyone else, for that matter! Come and fangirl/boy/person with me!

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Angry Thoughts about Know It All (non-angry ones below, after)

NO continuity from previous episodes re: this serial rapist -- they could have easily done it like with the push-in rapist last season, with allusions to it in earlier episodes to set it up. except that would require episodes to be aired in order and apparently we can’t have that. 

as with heartfelt passages, this “barba-centric” episode only gave us about five minutes with him. and NO time with him away from liv except that two-second phone call. GIVE RAÚL ESPARZA MORE MATERIAL he’s such a good actor and needs Time To Shine

speaking of which, i would have killed for a scene with him and the little girl he’s helping out. that would have been so bittersweet, and so interesting to see that side of him.

so fucking mad they did ice t so wrong by cutting the scene where fin announces he made sergeant. fuck that.

was sad at the missed opportunity to mention kim / give rollins some kind of emotional reaction while dealing with an “untrustworthy” younger sister who has addiction problems :(

no one cares NYPD was hacked??? at all?? i didn’t necessarily want them to spend time on that but they should have at least acknowledged that it was a big fucking deal

too much time on witness interviews and exposition. we get it. give us character moments, i beg you.

wtf was with that carisi shit. is he googling bras on his work computer? is his girlfriend? why are these things happening. why are they doing this compulsory heterosexuality shit. (he could still be bi but lmao they’ll never give us that in canon)

the outside scenes didn’t read as reshoots -- the one in the snow was filmed in Feb; iirc kelli giddish tweeted about it -- so julie martin’s excuse about it being postponed due to weather was probably BS

Not Angry thoughts about Know It All

that final scene was so good. it was so good. olivia calling him “rafael” (!!!!), the hand touch to the heart, the emotion, all of it. my barson heart is thriving on that.

the secret was sweet and i’m really relieved that it was, like, something to do with ethics but he still was doing the right thing. wish they hadn’t built it up so much beforehand so it could have been more of a twist / not feel like a bit of a letdown though. (or spent more time on it so it didn’t feel like a letdown lmao)

ROPE GUY!! i’m sad because this probably means he’ll never come back, but the moments with him and fin were sweet. 

i know there were others but i can’t remember them right now

but i will say that if they start the next episode with a scene of barba talking to the DA, or immediately after with just him, i will forgive so much, i will be so happy (they’re not gonna do it)

oh and i do SO LOVE that barba was so honest and open, going to the DA immediately to disclose what happened and face the consequences :’) i mean i’d expect nothing less but still. smol brave barba. i love him.