3/2/2023 0 Comments The long arm of the witness![]() ![]() Miller’s Isaiah Holmes heard about Gallagher, then known as “Chip” because he wasn’t loathsome enough, raping a fellow undergrad and campus security doing nothing about it. ![]() It’s like the writers wanted to create an NYU where most students major in rape. After all the scandals and crimes that have occurred at that place, it may be a good idea to burn the place down and salt the earth. It starts with seeing if he made his case dismissal decision because of a bribe, but it quickly turns to something else.Īs mentioned before, Wentworth Miller makes a return appearance, and he has a connection to Gallagher: they were contemporaries at Hudson University. It’s at this point SVU decides they need to take him down. To make the Kavanaugh parallel clearer, he’s running for political office, NY attorney general, and he’s saying all the right dog whistles: suburbs, “our way of life”, protecting our boys from #MeToo, etc. From there we’ve left a patina of realism and entered toon town, as SVU takes pains to make Gallagher such a transparently one-dimensional scumbag that his appearances may as well be accompanied by sinister music, with the audience encouraged to boo and hiss. Still, though, it’s unexpected and puzzling that Gallagher grants defense’s motion to dismiss. This, coupled with the defendant’s stellar white reputation contrasted against the plaintiff being a Latina of no means makes the case less than a slam dunk. The episode opens with Charles Gallagher (Josh Stamberg, making his fifth appearance in the Law & Order universe) as judge before a case of a woman who was raped but filed charges 2 months after the fact. “The Long Arm of the Witness” from the outset looks to be a mash-up of two flashpoint moments in our justice system: the slap on the wrist received by Brock Turner and the controversial nomination and confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. ![]() Well, whatever it is, it goes to show how shitty this episode is that I can spend a paragraph talking about titles. Wait, no, that can’t be it–I hate that show and don’t watch it. Maybe I just miss his snarky nature on Legends of Tomorrow. I was hoping maybe in the third act he’d reveal himself as having Plastic Man powers and some terrible CW-level CGI would occur. Obviously a play on “the long arm of the law” phrase, it seems to be saying Wentworth Miller’s character has a long arm because he’s an assistant district attorney. “The Long Arm of the Witness” may not be as obtuse as “We Dream of Machine Elves” or “She Paints for Vengeance”, but it’s still a mouthful and raises more questions than answers. By Season 15 every title was 15 characters long because someone thought it was cute, and now, in Season 22, these fucking things are out of control. With Season 13 the titles changed so they were two words–perhaps the new showrunner’s attempt to make a concrete break from the Stabler years. “Retro”, “Totem”, “Trials”, those sorts of titles. Can we start off by discussing what the hell is with these titles? Back in the glory days, SVU episodes would have evocative one word titles. ![]()
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