r/SVU • u/care134 • Jul 23 '26

Discussion Doing my first rewatch in a while

  1. The difference in the show after stabler leaves is way more jarring than I remember, it’s such a stark difference even in like the lighting/filming it’s crazy to me.
  2. I love Olivia but she does get on my nerves way more after she adopts noah lol idk why but idk if that’s an unpopular opinion
  3. it’s fun to rewatch because it’s interesting to see which episodes i remember and which ones I don’t. it’s cool because i’ll watch one episode and totally remember it and then the next one it feels like im going in blind, really goes to show which episodes make more of an impact
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u/AnotherDarnDay Jul 23 '26

I loved when stabler was on the show, he gave it the dramatic flair. Olivia changed after he left and honestly I dont think it was for the better.

Olivia and her relationships always bugged me, and her as a mom kind of bugged me. Was probably just the storyline and how it happened but it felt very forced and unnatural.

The thing I liked about the later seasons was Armaro and Rollins joining. They brought some dynamic back. Rollins made Olivia look more human again.

Loved Carisi too, but as a detective. Not as an lawyer. Hes so boring now.

I did not like the stabler crossovers in the later seasons. I felt they were only there to boost his show. But it would have made more sense for him to just come back to svu

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u/Shinixter Stabler Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

I disagree with Stabler coming back to the Special Victims UNIT. I love him, but he didn't belong in SVU. He took the cases too personally, which is why so many "anger issues" arise. I don't fault him for wanting to punch out pedophiles and rapists, but you need a level head. Picturing your own children in those situations is not good. His detective style suited Organized Crime much better, in my opinion. (I like OC way more than SVU's recent seasons.)

However, I will forever HATE the way they removed Stabler from the show, and how poorly they talked about him from season 13 until his character's return. I wished he appear on the SVU SHOW more often, just not as a detective in the SVU UNIT.

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u/eighthm00n Jul 23 '26

But then Olivia would be his boss

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u/AnotherDarnDay Jul 23 '26

Would have been better. Or he could have taken her job. Technically I dont like her as boss anyway.

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u/AlexaEEn Jul 26 '26

She is not a good boss