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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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