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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Cold (2008)
Worst SVU episode ever
I am a huge SVU fan, and this is my least favorite episode. The departure of Chester Lake was not a hard hit by any means, as the writers did not develop his character and enough to feel anything for him. He was merely another Dani Beck-like character, no major loss to the show. However, I hated how Casey Novak left the show. Casey Novak was the longest running ADA in L&O history, a very respectable, driven woman who fought hard for her cases but was never a major rule breaker. Her downward spiral in this episode was not welcome and was a very lazy way to write off a major L&O character, and as a result this damages her whole run as a character (as evidenced when Kim Greylek mentions her dishonorable actions in a later episode). But most of all, I hated how Stabler's character was written. Elliot Stabler is a favorite character of mine as he his a very real and flawed person but he is also very loyal and sticks to his morals. Yet more and more Stabler has been written as a presumptuous bastard. He turned on Lake right away, and then even more shockingly he turned on Fin. This appalled me especially as Fin has been a co- worker for many years and Stabler has defended him in the past! In "Haunted", Fin is accused of shooting an unarmed child, and Stabler defends Fin and refuses to believe he would do that. He also defended Olivia when she was accused of murder in "Perverted" and "Control". Yet he turns so fast on Fin in "Cold" that it made me feel contempt for his character, which angered me because Stabler started off as a great character that the writers could have expanded and grown with, but instead they decided to make him into an ass. For all these reasons and for it generally being an uninteresting episode, I give this a low rating.