Yeah, this is a journal exclusively dedicated to my Law & Order: SVU obsession. If you don't watch the show, you might get a bit lost. And it's long. Just a friendly heads-up there.
Also: If my fangirl musings are too dull for you, you might be interested in the most hilarious SVU fanfic ever (though it won't make a lot of sense unless you've at least browsed some other SVU fics before).
Another Tuesday night gone by with only SVU reruns to keep me company. No new episode; this is what, the third week in a row? And next week is a rerun too. I hate December. Stupid holidays messing with the TV schedules. Grr. My only consolation is that next week's rerun at least is an episode I somehow managed to miss the first time around, so that's something anyway. And it focuses a lot on Det. Munch, which is rare and should be cool. But it's still a Dani Beck ep, and I want Mariska, dammit!
So I'm left pining away for a new episode that won't air until January 2, with only a one paragraph summary from tvguide.com and the wild speculations of the USA Network Message Boards to hold me over. And I'm impatient. The new episode is called "Scheherezade," and the summary is thus:
Stabler agrees to hear the dying confession of a cancer patient named Judson Tierney (Brian Dennehy), but first he and Benson do some digging into what possible crime Tierney's guilty of and come up with an unsolved case that goes back 47 years. However, according to Tierney, that is merely the “tip of the iceberg.”
Now, of course, this is intentionally vague, and it only makes me all the more impatient, because I'm waiting (as are true fans everywhere) for THE REVELATION. The talented (and incredibly attractive) Mariska Hargitay revealed in an interview last summer that this season holds a major revelation for her character Det. Benson. There are many theories about this, some more credible than others. The one that's flying about most frequently at the moment is that it will involve her past, and more specifically, that the identity of her rapist father will be uncovered while digging through this Tierney guy's sordid past---47-year-old unsolved crime, anyone?
This certainly fits in with the "revelation" idea. My major question here though, is exactly how old is Liv supposed to be? Certainly not 47; that's just....old. More concretely, I seem to remember (though I wish to god I could find some proof) that M.H. said the big episode for Benson would be "Burned," which (if I'm not mistaken) is the ep after this one. So perhaps "Scheherezade" will turn out to be not so huge after all.
The revelation I personally am waiting for is for it to come out that Benson is a lesbian, preferably with some reference to a relationship between her and former ADA Alex Cabot. I want my HoYay! musings to be justified. However, while the first part I could possibly see happening, the latter, not so much. It could be implied though! Subtext is everything, people. Anyway, even if they didn't explicitly mention a torrid affair between her and Alex, I'd be satisfied with Liv's coming out. Correction: I'd be downright gleeful. That would merit a full-on squeeeeee on my part, and anyone who knows me knows that squee-ing is not something of which I make a habit.
However, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense that the "revelation" would be about Liv's father, and not her sexuality. While the L&O franchise doesn't seem too shy around non-straight characters (see the original Law & Order's Serena Southerlyn, for one), it would still be an awfully big step for a main character to come out like that and remain on the show (Southerlyn came out near the end of her run on the show, if not her final episode or two, and her coming out had a lot to do with her leaving, if I'm not mistaken---sorry I'm so vague here; my obsession obviously doesn't extend beyond SVU).
And besides that, I'm almost certain that the powers that be on this show highly enjoy messing with our heads on the subtext front. As it is, there is enough vagueness that any dedicated E/O shipper can steadfastly maintain that Elliot and Olivia are secretly getting it on under everybody's noses, while the A/O fans can imagine Olivia going home every night and pining away for her lost love Alex.
And I firmly believe that the writers get their kicks by giving us tantalizing hints that always fall just short of implying something, be it a more-than-platonic relationship between Elliot and Liv (see last season's tear-jerker "Fault") or a bittersweet tragedy between our favorite detective and the absent ADA Cabot (season 5's HoYay!-tastic "Loss"). If they were to come right out and say Liv was a lesbian, there would probably be a violent outcry from the E/O fanbase, and of course everyone knows that Liv and El can't hook up, because that would signal the end of the show, or at least its jump-the-shark episode. And so we are left with naught but subtext and fanfiction. *sigh*
But anyway, back to the revelation; yes, much as I'd like some hot girl-on-girl action, my more practical side tells me that it will indeed involve Liv's father, because they just couldn't afford to change the show's dynamic that much. And come on, the poor girl's gone her whole life not knowing; it would be nice to give her some closure.
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