I totally agree. I found it annoying and well, dirty.

Yeah, it didn’t make any sense. Unless she’s going on to do her own show with Ellen.

Even Branch making that decision didn’t fit into the show! He would have never done that.

And now there’s quite a bit of funny, angry, and just plain confused banter over at Television Without Pity about Serena’s swan song.

Man, that was a real “WHAT THE FUCK?” moment. The wife and I just busted up, because where in the hell did that come from? She might as well have said, “Is it because I’m actually carved out of soap?”

Writer 1: How can we mask the fact that Serena’s firing makes no sense and is totally out of character for Branch?

Writer 2: Good question. (thinks) I know — let’s distract everybody with the idea of hot, blonde lesbians!

Writer 1: Brilliant!

(Also, where did Serena’s righteous indignation go? First she’s all “IS THIS BECAUSE I’M A LESBIAN?!”, which Branch denies by saying nothing more than the word “no” a bunch of times and *poof!* — she’s all better. All that outrage dissipated mighty fast.)

I don’t watch Law & Order, but I would like to compliment you on your spoiler-hiding trick.

Couldn’t agree more. My wife and I just looked at each other when it was over. We tried to think of any previous episodes where this was even hinted at and didn’t find any.

They have hinted at Fontana being somewhat on the take with his expensive purchases but nothing about Serena’s personal life.

You would have thought they would have saved this for the sweeps.

I don’t care how Elizabeth Rohm goes, as long as she goes, her acting was wooden and annoying. I miss the ADA she replaced, Alexandra Cabot, she was a class act. I was sure the writers planned for her return, after she staged her own death and went into the witness protection program. But from the previews, looks like they have a new ADA.

Charles, you know that Serena Southerlyn (Rohm’s character) didn’t replace Alexandra Cabot’s character (Stephanie March) — Southerlyn was on Law & Order, and Cabot was on Law & Order SVU. Southerlyn replaced Abbie Carmichael (Angie Harmon).

When I saw that I wondered if they were setting up an on-going background legal battle. Remember when Lt. Van Buren sued the police department after being passed over for promotion? I’m wondering if Southerlyn is going to sue the DA for wrongful dismissal and that will kind of be in the background of the stories for a while.

Ah, it’s hard to keep track of the ADAs. I was never a big fan of Angie Harmon. But I do want Alexandra Cabot back.

Because there was no context preceding the comment, the follow-up storyline suggested by David is the only thing that could possibly make the remark make sense.

I liked the out-of-left-field nature of the revelation. Why should we have any clues she was a lesbian, considering how little time has been spent on the private lives of the heterosexuals? Any information about their outside lives is odd on those shows.

• Posted by: rcade on Jan 15, 2005, 4:28 PM

I laughed harder at that ending statement than any of Lenny’s jokes after finding the body! Non-sequitor anyone?

Agree with Shannon, but thought it was more of a “Oh, lesbians are hot. You know that L-Word show, Ellen, etc. Let’s do that.”

A group of us have been using this as a response to just about anything - not free for dinner on Friday night? Is it because I’m a lesbian?