Tuesday, May 02, 2006

The Left Hand and the Right Hand--Do They Know What The Other is Doing?

With my appropriately camouflaged thinking hat donned, I can now see how it all ties together.

Item 1. Dateline NBC for the last few months has been teaming up with www.perverted-justice.com to do sting operations posing as 12-year-olds on the internet to lure child molesters to a house where Dateline's cameras are waiting. This has had the side effects of increasing their ratings and creating fear in the hearts of parents over where their children go online.

Item 2. Mariska Hargitay is pregnant, but her character Detective Olivia Benson is not, and the season is not yet over. Therefore, Det. Benson gets a transfer (She can't work with Stabler any more. They're too close. Is it because of unspoken romantic feelings, which will be crushed when Stabler reunites with his wife? We'll see.) to "computer crimes," with its ability to have her sit with a computer monitor in between her and the camera.

Both Law & Order: No Subtitle and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit have upcoming episodes that deal with kids on the internet and the people they meet. So, I put it to you, were the "To Catch a Predator" shows created in order to a) create headlines from which their series could rip stories? And b) create a logical reason to only show Mariska Hargitay from the neck up? If only some black helicopters could show up....

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