Aesthetics: Arts: What is it about TV's character played by Vincent D'Onofrio, I don't like?

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Rather, what is about this character that I detest? Smart-alecky pop-Freudian analyst, Detective Robert Goren, head honcho of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, who is written up in the show's scripts on the assumption that he is always r+t, and because he's so blantantly smart, also always knows he's r+t. Thus, this copdick has the r+t to bully and badger and blackmail his victims (of course, they're always guilty, but in real life such a cop would not be jailing the guilty only). Could there really be any such copperdicker? Over all, L&O: CI totters on a poor script with black and white characterizations, not enuff grey, with the benefit of the doubt always going to D'Onofrio (yes, you guessed it, I'm prejudiced against the character but can't keep separate in this case, that the actor is actually someone else).

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There's an axe being ground thru-out the narrative structure of each episode, the entire series, and in the end I put it all at the feet Dick Wolf, the creator of the show. Not all his creations are this bad, by any means. But I think perhaps he gets to create too many and in D'Onofrio's incessantly insulting transcendent omnipotent Freud he's created a deeply amoral prime time TV show.

Immediately following the broadcast of today's episode (which is no different from the usual in this series), another episode series by the same Dick Wolf takes to the screen on the Omni2 channel seen here in Toronto. This second series is actually, with the D'Onofrio-starring offering, part of a set of four.

Dick Wolf, one of television's most respected drama series creator/producers, is the architect of one of the most successful brands in the history of television Law & Order. Wolf serves as creator and executive producer of the four Law & Order drama series from Wolf Films and NBC Universal Television [1.] Law & Order, [2.] Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, [3.] Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial By Jury [launched] in the 2004-05 season. In addition, he is creator and executive producer of NBC's courtroom reality series Crime & Punishment, which chronicles real-life cases prosecuted by the San Diego District Attorney's office. ...

Wolf's Law & Order [multi]series continue to re-write the annals of television history. With more than 320 episodes under its belt, Law & Order – now entering its 15th season on NBC – is the longest-running current drama series on television. It has received 11 consecutive Outstanding Drama Series Emmy nominations – the record for most consecutive series Emmy nominations in the history of television (tied with Cheers and M*A*S*H) – and won the coveted Emmy in that category in 1997. With NBC's most recent pick up (through 2005-06), Law & Order will become the longest-running police series and the second-longest running drama series in the history of television, behind only Gunsmoke. Law & Order's other accolades include: the highly coveted Peabody Award; multiple Emmys; the Crystal Apple Award from the New York City's Mayor's office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting; the Writer's Guild Award for Television and numerous other high ranking tributes.

Really? The Writer's Guild Award for Television? Oh, that doesn't include the D'Onofrio writing/acting debacle.

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