{"id":217581,"date":"2021-04-02T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-svu-organized-crime-shouldnt-do-the-obvious-benson-stabler-romance\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T14:50:08","slug":"why-svu-organized-crime-shouldnt-do-the-obvious-benson-stabler-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-svu-organized-crime-shouldnt-do-the-obvious-benson-stabler-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why ‘SVU’ & ‘Organized Crime’ Shouldn’t Do the Obvious Benson-Stabler Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why ‘SVU’ & ‘Organized Crime’ Shouldn’t Do the Obvious Benson-Stabler Romance<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Law & Order: SVU<\/em><\/a> Season 22 Episode 9 \u201cReturn of the Prodigal Son\u201d and the Law & Order: Organized Crime<\/em><\/a> series<\/a> premiere \u201cWhat Happ<\/a>ens in Puglia.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did SVU<\/em> just reunite former partners Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay<\/a>) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni<\/a>) and<\/em> tease that the Law & Order<\/em> franchise might put them together (something some fans have wanted for 22 years now) \u2026 in the span of two hours? It seems possible. And it would be the wrong move right now.<\/p>\n

Elliot, still a detective, and Olivia, now the SVU captain, cross paths again when he and his wife Kathy (Isabel Gillies<\/a>) come to town for his work and to see his former partner, who played a significant role in both their lives (she helped deliver their fifth child), get an award. But things quickly take a dark turn when the Stablers\u2019 rental car is bombed and Kathy ends up in the hospital. She dies from her injuries (specifically a ruptured spleen), and yes, her husband and their kids grieve, but even before then and as she\u2019s very clearly dying in the hospital \u2014 we know going into the crossover that Stabler suffers a significant personal before his spinoff \u2014 the focus is entirely on Olivia and Elliot\u2019s bond. (And let\u2019s make one thing clear: We love seeing the two together again. Their relationship was a significant part of SVU<\/em>\u2018s history.)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like the old days,\u201d Kathy comments even as Elliot strokes her hair. \u201cThe two of you together, always so in sync. You really didn\u2019t for 10 years?\u201d It\u2019s gotten to the point that she was just assuming her husband had lied about being in contact with Olivia all this time. And it\u2019s shrugged away. Olivia\u2019s \u201cit\u2019s true\u201d even comes across a bit like her assuring Kathy before she dies that Elliot hadn\u2019t lied to her because the writing is on the wall the moment his wife is loaded into the ambulance at the crime scene that she\u2019s not going to survive the episode.<\/p>\n

Elliot doesn\u2019t spend much time with Kathy; Olivia probably spends more time telling him to be with his wife than he does in that hospital room. And yes, of course, SVU<\/em> needs to have Benson and Stabler sharing the screen as much as possible after fans have waited a decade to see them together again, but the fact that it happens as Kathy is dying doesn\u2019t come across that great, due to the nature of the case and her injuries and the short period of time it all must take place in. The franchise might as well be screaming that Kathy\u2019s in the past before she even is, which reads wrong especially when we see a photo of the spouses happy together in Italy on Elliot\u2019s phone on Organized Crime<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Law<\/p>\n

Virginia Sherwood\/NBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We don\u2019t even see Elliot share loving scenes with his wife (other than from a distance as Olivia watches from the hospital hall). Instead, his most emotional scenes, other than grieving with his kids, come from his conversations with Olivia. If a romance is indeed coming between the two of them, how can we separate that from the way Law & Order<\/em> tossed aside his marriage as easily as it seems to in this crossover?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were the single most important person in my life, and you just disappeared,\u201d Olivia tells Elliot after he (finally) apologizes for not telling her he was quitting the NYPD when he left.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I heard your voice, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to leave,\u201d he admits.<\/p>\n

Then, when we pick up on Organized Crime<\/em>, barely any time has passed since Kathy\u2019s death and Elliot\u2019s already talking about how much Olivia would have loved where the Stablers had been living in Italy. \u201cI can\u2019t,\u201d she tells him.<\/p>\n

\"Mariska<\/p>\n

Virginia Sherwood\/NBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Then he gives her a letter he\u2019d written her in lieu of a speech at her awards ceremony. The contents of that letter are significant enough that she turns up at his apartment building to talk about it late at night. (He\u2019s too distracted to talk to her at the moment \u2014 by work, by finding a mobster\u2019s body on a Ferris wheel and stealing his phone, you know how it goes when you\u2019re working organized crime.)<\/p>\n

So the problem isn\u2019t if, after all these years and it not being a possibility due to things like his marriage when they were partners, Olivia and Elliot get together and end up each other\u2019s \u201cones.\u201d It\u2019s that too little weight was put on his marriage to Kathy in the episode she died because 40 minutes needed to cover quite a bit: the partners\u2019 reunion, him leaving like he did, Kathy dying, the case, and setting up his spinoff.<\/p>\n

Now, this isn\u2019t to say that putting Olivia and Elliot together in the future is a bad idea. But to start setting it up so soon is.<\/p>\n

Law & Order: SVU<\/em>, Thursdays, 9\/8c, NBC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Law & Order: Organized Crime<\/em>, Thursdays, 10\/9c, NBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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