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sabotabbyI have started watching Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent. Should I blog my thoughts? Is this something you're interested in hearing about?
- What is with those accents? They're very odd. I looked it up and one of the actors is Australian, though it sounds kind of like he's trying to do Newfoundland-meets-hoser, and they pronounce the second T in Toronto, which no one here does.
- The location stuff is cool. I'm well familiar with almost all of the locations, except the rich person's house and the yacht club (I have no idea where there is a yacht club) but I like a show that doesn't disguise Toronto. Special props for a scene in Little India, albeit one that made no sense because how anyone with a shop on Gerrard or (who lives in Moss Park) is sinking significant monies into crypto is beyond me. As a middle class person I know tons of people from Little India and Moss Park and zero people in the kind of demographic that would have yachts and million dollar champagne. There's a lot of class and neighbourhood stratification so I spent the whole time wondering how any of these people knew each other.
- The cops have no personalities. I haven't watched Law & Order since SVU, which I mainly watched for Ice-T and the guy from Oz, so I don't know if that's normal for the show, but I would like some establishing character moments plz.
- There is nothing especially Toronto about it beyond that a bunch of real locations get name-dropped. It could be any city with made-up places.
- Except Filmores. WTF hahah. Like yeah I wouldn't go in there either but it's strange to have a real business described as the Worst. Hotel. Ever. By name. And they definitely filmed it in there so they had to get permission.
- NGL I don't care how bad it is, I'm going to keep watching at least until I see the Rob Ford episode, because that shit is hilarious to me.
- What is with those accents? They're very odd. I looked it up and one of the actors is Australian, though it sounds kind of like he's trying to do Newfoundland-meets-hoser, and they pronounce the second T in Toronto, which no one here does.
- The location stuff is cool. I'm well familiar with almost all of the locations, except the rich person's house and the yacht club (I have no idea where there is a yacht club) but I like a show that doesn't disguise Toronto. Special props for a scene in Little India, albeit one that made no sense because how anyone with a shop on Gerrard or (who lives in Moss Park) is sinking significant monies into crypto is beyond me. As a middle class person I know tons of people from Little India and Moss Park and zero people in the kind of demographic that would have yachts and million dollar champagne. There's a lot of class and neighbourhood stratification so I spent the whole time wondering how any of these people knew each other.
- The cops have no personalities. I haven't watched Law & Order since SVU, which I mainly watched for Ice-T and the guy from Oz, so I don't know if that's normal for the show, but I would like some establishing character moments plz.
- There is nothing especially Toronto about it beyond that a bunch of real locations get name-dropped. It could be any city with made-up places.
- Except Filmores. WTF hahah. Like yeah I wouldn't go in there either but it's strange to have a real business described as the Worst. Hotel. Ever. By name. And they definitely filmed it in there so they had to get permission.
- NGL I don't care how bad it is, I'm going to keep watching at least until I see the Rob Ford episode, because that shit is hilarious to me.
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Date: 2024-10-06 06:52 am (UTC)But, since he moved year at 10 I'm going to speculate he's internalised the hard T.
I pronounce it Tor-On-To.
The cops have no personalities. I haven't watched Law & Order since SVU, which I mainly watched for Ice-T and the guy from Oz, so I don't know if that's normal for the show, but I would like some establishing character moments plz.
Law and Order isn't great at character, ever. They are the jobs. Unless it's something OTT like Goran, what character there is seems to drip out over time.
I can't say I feel compelled to watch this (I know Toronto often plays other cities, so I might recognise a few locations), but I look forward to your thoughts.
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