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Goodbye to L&O

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories." 

It's official.  After 20 seasons, NBC has cancelled Law and Order (the original series).  All I can say is that I'm stunned.  I'm sorry, but I just have to have a moment right now.  

I'm a relative newcomer to the series - I started watching in 1993, during Sam Waterston's first season as ADA Jack McCoy.  My youngest sister and I would plan our Wednesday evenings and stay up late to watch it.  During the last 16 years, I've been through a host of different assistants (and for the record, Angie Harmon was my favorite), a whole slew of different detectives (R.I.P. Lennie Briscoe), three District Attorney's, two Assistant District Attorneys, two court psychiarists, one Police Lieutenant, and one medical examiner.  I've seen McCoy and whatever assistant win countless cases and felt that all was right with the world.  On the rare occasion they lost a case, I was equally devastated.

I've tried the spin-off series.  But they're nowhere near the same.  I do like Criminal Intent, but it's a totally different format (why it's even associated with L&O, I've no idea).  And SVU is too creepy for me. 

In recent years, I stopped watching the first run episodes, and watching the old episodes on TNT instead.  But I've felt safer just knowing that Jack McCoy and Lieutenant Van Buren were still there and on the case.  Things will be weird for awhile as I try to adjust to the idea of them being gone for good.  Thank goodness they'll live forever in reruns.

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