Who are your 1- 3 favorite TV cop characters
(be it a detective or a uniformed / undercover cop, but not a private detective or a lawyer) so far and please say why, for anyone named ?
I am going to say Cagney and Lacey (no longer on TV) 'cause I love the way they worked together, and their banter was really funny sometimes.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, a PBS Mystery series with Patricia Routledge. I love this actress, and her role on this series is excellent. She really has a quirky way of solving things.
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1: My favourite, I think Chief Wiggum from the Simpsons. They just make so much fun of him and it's funny beacsue he looks like a pig.
2: Detective Goran from Law and Order Criminal Intent. I just love him I think he is great. He is a bit up himself and thinks he know everything, but he is still the good guy and really likeable. Also it is just funny thinking of him in his "Edgar Suit" from Men in Black. I also saw him in a soft porn movie once, that was really wierd.
3: Grisham from CSI. I don't know if he counts as a real cop or not, but I like him for the same reasons as Goran. I just love how he knows so much. I dont really believe any one person can have that much information stored in their brain, but it makes for good TV.
schmiggens said this in post #3 : 1: My favourite, I think Chief Wiggum from the Simpsons. They just make so much fun of him and it's funny beacsue he looks like a pig.
2: Detective Goran from Law and Order Criminal Intent. I just love him I think he is great. He is a bit up himself and thinks he know everything, but he is still the good guy and really likeable. Also it is just funny thinking of him in his "Edgar Suit" from Men in Black. I also saw him in a soft porn movie once, that was really wierd.
3: Grisham from CSI. I don't know if he counts as a real cop or not, but I like him for the same reasons as Goran. I just love how he knows so much. I dont really believe any one person can have that much information stored in their brain, but it makes for good TV.
Bobby Goren on Law & Order: Criminal Intent is my favorite right now. He "observes and reasons" in the classic Sherlock Holmes style. That's why I like this character. He's at his best when his observations and logic are believable. Unfortunately, sometimes the things that the writers put into the script are just not plausible, even for a character of his talents. That's the only thing that bothers me about him.
BTW, Bobby's own "Professor Moriarity", the evil Elizabeth Hitchens from Oxford, is simply perfect. I love that character and the actress who plays the part is excellent. She really "butters my parsnips". I'll have to look up her name and try to remember it.
The Las Vegas CSI show has been my favorite since its first broadcast. It is certainly one of the best shows on broadcast television today.
The spinoff CSI: Miami, on the other hand, is awful in every measurable way -- writing, directing, casting, acting (especially David Caruso -- what a stiff!), set design, everything! Most times, whenever I try to watch it, I get disgusted and turn it off very quickly. It is sooooooooo stupid! I don't think I've watched more than three or four episodes all the way through since the show began.
God, I hope that CSI: New York will be better. Anyone know yet who will be on the cast of that one?
I watch Law & Order: Special Victims Unit sometimes and I generally like the show. Oddly enough, I like the secondary characters, Munch and Finn, as much or more than the main characters, Eliot and Olivia.
Munch, especially, is a well-developed character -- very intelligent and well-read but treated like something of a kook because of all his conspiracy theories. Ice-T really suprised me with how well he can act in the role of Finn. I'd like to see his character rounded out a little more.
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old_scout said this in post #4 :
BTW, Bobby's own "Professor Moriarity", the evil Elizabeth Hitchens from Oxford, is simply perfect. I love that character and the actress who plays the part is excellent. She really "butters my parsnips". I'll have to look up her name and try to remember it.
Do you mean the woman who runs that dominatrix house? That is Elizabeth Berkley from Saved by The Bell and Showgirls.
Do you mean the woman who runs that dominatrix house? That is Elizabeth Berkley from Saved by The Bell and Showgirls.
No, I think you are talking about the Mistress that Grissom is attracted to on the CSI (Las Vegas) show. Right? (She really is a beautiful woman, isn't she?)
The arch-enemy of Detective Bobby Goren on Law & Order: Criminal Intent is the Elizabeth Hitchens character. She is intent on destroying Bobby. Her last words to him were, "Don't for a moment think that this is all over between you and I", as she was being led off to jail. Look for her to reappear. Great chemistry between those two characters.
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"The moving finger writes, and having written moves on." (Omar Khayyam)
"Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are." (Henry David Thoreau)
"I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her." (Ernest Hemingway, speaking of Hadley Richardson, his first wife)
No, I think you are talking about the Mistress that Grissom is attracted to on the CSI (Las Vegas) show. Right? (She really is a beautiful woman, isn't she?)
The arch-enemy of Detective Bobby Goren on Law & Order: Criminal Intent is the Elizabeth Hitchens character. She is intent on destroying Bobby. Her last words to him were, "Don't for a moment think that this is all over between you and I", as she was being led off to jail. Look for her to reappear. Great chemistry between those two characters.
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OK I remember now, the Australian crazy lady who thinks she is two poeple right? Sorry I got my cop shows all mixed up LOL. She looks a lot like an actress that used to be on an Australian Day time soap, does anyone know the actress's name?
Yes, she was Kevin Arnold's sister. Cool, thanks gaboman. (I had a look at what else and she was also Princess Jehnna in Conan the Destroyer, interesting)
02-06-2004 06:50 AM
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