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yeah, i think that's a bit less than halfway through the 24 episodes. it's not the only one after that point, either. but once they get back to episodes that were presumably produced after september, you can occasionally see less heavy-handed signs, like the presence of military guards in front of the courthouse, or (this is probably getting into the next season iirc) just security checkpoints out on the steps. and there are more natural offhand references to 9/11 from, like, witnesses or beat cops talking about changed circumstances in ways that make sense (not just a general, 'privacy sure is less important now!').
but even considering that it's law and order (all business) i would expect 'catching up' from such a place-centric 'realism'-heavy show to involve something like having people talking about it a LOT more. i wasn't really watching much tv at the time, so i'm not even sure i can remember whether it was possible for a tv show to pull anything like a response in 'real time' off.
(the west wing is a weird case, since it rushed a didactic episode outside normal continuity to air before the season started, but otherwise had kind of a built-in excuse for not being that in touch with reality, since they could hardly have the fake president there and let in much actual reality.)
― j., Wednesday, 1 May 2013 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
one month passes...
whew i finally got to serena's firing
i think that one scene is longer than all of lennie retirement scenes put together
'is it because i'm a lesbian' still out of nowhere
― j., Wednesday, 12 June 2013 07:36 (ten years ago) link
one year passes...
Connie Rubirosa (Alana de la Garza) 1
so painfully inhumanly gorgeous, god bless dick wolf
i still can't believe how good the last three seasons get again
― j., Friday, 30 January 2015 06:40 (nine years ago) link