So . . . Yet another SVU storyline reheated for Law and Order. In this case, a transgender issue.
Now, understand the distinction. There's absolutely nothing inherently SVU about having a transgender character. That's certainly possible in any iteration of Law and Order.
But this is an episode where being transgender is integral to the nature of the crime. That is SVU territory. And all the didactic speeches characters give about what being transgender is, the debates over it, and so on - that's much like the preachy, virtue signaling "we're here to teach you a lesson" approach of SVU.
The rest of the dialogue follows suit like you'd expect, which is to say, like some writers looked at a Wikipedia entry on being transgender and said, how can they work the seminal issues into dialogue that sounds phony as real speech?
The weirdest part about all this is the Garden Gnome is the one troubled by young people making the decision. If there was one character on the show who I'd think had that debate when they were young, it would be the Garden Gnome.
If someone was going to get all frosty about it, I'd expect it to be Derp, though with each episode, they seem to be unconcerned anymore about how the characters were originally established.
Remember, Derp was the cro-magnon who had a lot of bigoted views.
Anyway, the rest is the usual. The too-severe computer tech is too severe, Lurch lurches, Manhands handles the men, AOC is reduced to a cameo, etc.
If Sam, the Eagle, was in there, I missed it, but then I got up to do something interesting for a few moments.
Now, understand the distinction. There's absolutely nothing inherently SVU about having a transgender character. That's certainly possible in any iteration of Law and Order.
But this is an episode where being transgender is integral to the nature of the crime. That is SVU territory. And all the didactic speeches characters give about what being transgender is, the debates over it, and so on - that's much like the preachy, virtue signaling "we're here to teach you a lesson" approach of SVU.
The rest of the dialogue follows suit like you'd expect, which is to say, like some writers looked at a Wikipedia entry on being transgender and said, how can they work the seminal issues into dialogue that sounds phony as real speech?
The weirdest part about all this is the Garden Gnome is the one troubled by young people making the decision. If there was one character on the show who I'd think had that debate when they were young, it would be the Garden Gnome.
If someone was going to get all frosty about it, I'd expect it to be Derp, though with each episode, they seem to be unconcerned anymore about how the characters were originally established.
Remember, Derp was the cro-magnon who had a lot of bigoted views.
Anyway, the rest is the usual. The too-severe computer tech is too severe, Lurch lurches, Manhands handles the men, AOC is reduced to a cameo, etc.
If Sam, the Eagle, was in there, I missed it, but then I got up to do something interesting for a few moments.