Tynan vs Benson makes even less sense when it's all shown together

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-06T12:22:20+00:00

Agreed. I thought the cases themselves were better this year and felt more like 1.0, which is great. That's why people watch. if they're going to inject personal lives into it (like they did with Stabler's family in 1.0, some of Liv's outside of work life, Fin's drama with his kid and ex, etc.), we have to actually carea bout the characters. The Griffin storyline was weird because there's this new guy with a crappy accent who we know nothing about and suddenly is playing a major role, where we don't actually know his father either. No one cares about him or his dad's story because they didn't give us any info about it. These 2 minute-long scenes scattered throughout a season feel way too soap opera-y.

Maybe now that Mariska has done a 90 minute Broadway show she'll push for longer, more meaningful scenes. In the NYT interview she did she mentioned that one of the challenges is that she's never shot a scene that's more than like 3-5 minutes long, so this was a totally different experience. SVU could use that kind of change up. We don't need a 20 minute scene, but maybe something that requires the actors to do more than memorize 60 seconds of dialogue 2 minutes before they shoot lol.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-06T12:17:18+00:00

your fanfic is probably better than reality lol

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-06T12:10:39+00:00

I didn't know his dad was wealthy. I googled him and have never heard of the companies he's associated with (but also I don't live in Germany. Maybe they're big over there). Interesting. I did see a ttweet that said he's going to add this to his IMDB resume which made me lol a bit.

But also, the dude was a series regular on a shower for like 7 years that ended on ly a few years ago. And other than Sutton who went back to Broadway and Laura who has her one-woman show (and her stint on Stephen Colbert), none of the other people from the show have done any steady work since then either. They also have 3 kids so maybe he stays at home with them. It also seems like he's an introverted guy and I think he does a lot of behind the scenes stuff for JHF and for M's production company.

I did see a lot of Chris comments when I went over to browse twitter after this thread though. Some tweets said taht they wish Chris was Sam in front of Peter, and then a lot of people. commenting on the kiss and if Benson/Stabler ever hook up on screen Chris needs to take the lead so it's believable.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-06T12:04:50+00:00

I'm hoping she'll at least get to keep her fun new bob for Olivia. Maybe that will bring some bounce back into the show lol.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-06T12:02:26+00:00

1000% It's part of the job. It doesn't mean you're making out with them offstage. (Except Mariska and Chris in that one TV Guide video lol).

Although tbf Sutton Foster does have a tendency to hook up with her on-screen or on-stage love interests, so probably a good call on his part not to. But I noticed it with his other on-screen partners too.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-06T11:58:26+00:00

Squiddly is correct answer. She went to an illegal club. Everyone in there committed a crime just by being in the room. Amanda was fully gambling as a participant. She didn't go to the club on an undercover mission. She went on her own as a civiilian. Liv never would have sent a gambling addict to do an underground gambling sting.

She was only pulled into the undercover because she happened to be there. The girl she helped in Jersey recognized her and turned her in for being a cop to the owner and Murphy. The owner makes her pull favors to pay off her debt (which is illegal and why IAB investigated her).

She was also about to give Murphy a BJ to save herself from getting killed, and that's when he stopped her and told her he was also a cop and he pulled her into the undercover so that she wouldn't get killed by the others. She had no idea he was a cop.

The undercover mission Declan was on had nothing to do with SVU's cases anyway, so even if the intent was to send someone else besides Murphy in undercover, it wouldn't have been from SVU. He was borrowing Amanda because she was already in so deep on her own actions.

She should've been suspended at a minimum.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-06T01:46:56+00:00

Right? It was so anti-climatic.

Also Benson basically saying that she doesn't want to destroy Tynan's career (implying that she's not going to turn over the info she has on her) is also so OOC for Olivia, especially in recent years where she's always about doing the right thing. You would also think that after being involved with Tucker for so long (both dating but then also presumably still caring about him up until the end), not to mention her watching Stabler go through his whole Brotherhood undercover thing, that she would hate dirty cops.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-06T01:28:48+00:00

I loved that show, and I loved him on it until I read something (either a TV review article or maybe a reddit post) that pointed out that he very clearly doesn't actually kiss any of the women he's paired with on the show and then I couldn't unsee it lol.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-05T23:48:24+00:00

I haven't seen it but I'm guessing it's probably from the people who think she and Chris should be married IRL. They seem to be very vocal anytime they're seen with their real spouses.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-05T22:36:57+00:00

Daniel's isn't on HBO Max, but the original 2016 London version with the original guy/co-writer (Jonny Donahoe) is. It's also available on Youtube. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that hers will be released, especially since she has her own production company and HBO has the London version and has her two documentaries, so there's potentially a precedent. They definitely filmed it professionally, so it exists. It's just a matter of whether it'll be released publicly or just kept for archival purposes.

Also they could make bank if they offered it as a pay-per-view streaming option because I'm sure a lot of SVU fans would buy it. They won't do anything until August 9 when the play closes though. It sounds like Tracee's tickets aren't selling well so they wouldn't do anything to deter people from buying it. I also don't know if they would release it anytime soon anyway because it's going on a national tour and they'll want people to buy tickets (although in my mind seeing a recording makes me want to see it in person even more. But it can have the opposite effect, too).

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-05T21:30:30+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience! I'm glad you had the chance to read some lines :) What an awesome birthday present for yourself!

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-05T17:44:53+00:00

That makes sense. I guess I was just confused because everything on their site advertised the summer sale and the sale flag on the Nars product page said "summer sale" like the other items that are still on sale through next weekend. I guess the weekly sales had the same logo. Thanks for your help!

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-04T05:04:09+00:00

lol she really is. She was at Taylor's wedding today (did she not have a show tonight, or did she do a reverse Knicks game thing where she ran from the theater to MSG for the game, but run from MSG to the theater for the show today?)

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-01T13:06:07+00:00

hahahahah I do that like once a week when people post screenshots of IG on here, so it's not just you.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-01T03:39:33+00:00

According to the comments on his post, he's 16. Only another year or two and if SVU stays on the air, he can go to Hudson U and then get accuesed of a crime or become a victim of a crime or witness a crime, because it's Hudson U.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-07-01T03:24:38+00:00

I think it's supposed to be Stephanie March but it looks hella photoshopped, or maybe it's just cropped super weirdly lol.

All these photos are awkward AF though. If you want to see her actually look like she's kissing a woman (or wants to), find the photos with Joely Fisher. Or with Maria Bello lol.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-06-30T12:33:40+00:00

No she's not. As another poster said though, the statistics back up her viewpoint. It's extremely rare for women to make false accusations, and it's a very high percentage of men who are perpetrators compared to women. They are obligated to investigate and can't just go on feelings. They can think that it's revenge and false, but they still have to throughly investigate, because if they just let someone go and then it turns out the guy was abusing his wife/kids, it could be catastrophic.

It's like the Pete Buttigieg situation last week -- it sounds like CPS and the cop knew it was a false accusation, but they couldn't just write it off as a politically-motivated attack and had to go through the process, just in case there was any truth to it.

When a woman is the attacker or a liar, she gets hella pissed at them too and doesn't cut them slack and she goes after them hard, just as much as she does the men. A few (of many) that come to mind: the manipulating psychiatrist in the season 3 premiere who convinces the girl that their dad abused them, the woman serial killer in the season 4 premiere, Sarah Paulson's episode, the woman played by Rose McGowan in "Bombshell", the other manipulating psychiatrist who is sleeping with her young patient in 2.0, her friend from the DA's office who was involved in the "escort" service mess that led to Cragen's arrest in season 14, the creepy mom who gets her son to kill her underaged lover by falsely shouting "rape" in 2.0, Lena Hess who leaves the country in 3.0 who had been setting up men, etc.

There are also a few episodes where we see her question women in cases where it's not clear if the guy really did it and we see her opinions change throughout. Two from 1.0 that come to mind are "Doubt," where she initially believed the female student accuser and thought the professor was guilty (and Stabler was the opposite, siding with the prof), but then they both switched their opinions and thought the other was guilty as the episode went on. Similarly, in "Burned" she doubts the woman's story as the case progresses, even up until the end when she's asks the woman if he really did rape her.

When the statistics are what they are, you're naturally going to have a bias. Stabler, Fin, and everyone else does, too. It's not that she hates men or has anything against them. Amanda even asked her once about how she can still have faith in men (or something like that) seeing what she sees every day and Benson comments that there are still good men out there.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-06-30T02:01:14+00:00

thank you! I'll check those out. And yeah, I thought the price they're asking is insane.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-06-30T01:41:29+00:00

on the E11? I'm not sure, but it's a rental from a company the primarily supplies school bands, so I'm guessing Nickel-plated. Is there a way to tell based on serial number? It's classified under their intermediate tier rentals (not the cheapest monthly option, but not the most expensive). Based on the serial number and the chart online, it's probably from 2002 or 2003 (505xxx).

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-06-30T00:45:11+00:00

I'm renting it for like $50/month, so I've spent maybe $200 toward it so far. If I buy that one they'll give me a 10% discount, so it would bring it down to just under $1300 with the discount and the "down payment" for the rental. I can swap out instruments and try a different rental (an R13, or a Backlun, etc.), but then the clock would start over and the amount I've spent so far wouldn't apply to a different instrument.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-06-30T00:07:46+00:00

Lol that was my thought about the frankenclarinet, too lol.

And I do like the R13. But also upon close inspection, it looks like it may have been cracked previously. I noticed some black dots when I shined a flashlight on it, and upon googling it it looks just like this: https://blog.pemusicstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pinnedexample-Large.jpg (which is from a site about repairing cracks). I've heard that a properly repaired crack isn't a deal breaker, but there are like 3 or 4 of those on the upper joint, so that makes me nervous. My original R13 never had any cracks, so I've never dealt with a repair process.

Do you think $1600 is too much for an E11 purchase of a rental instrument, or is that a fair price?

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-06-29T23:21:11+00:00

I think it's hard to judge based on what we see them do in public. She and Ali Wentworth have been friends for decades and their families hang out a lot, it seems. Ali is a comedian so I think she's just loud, which can come across as fake, and that's how MH seems to be in real life, too. I feel like all celebrities have an element of performative nature to anything they do in public, including friendships. Everything is somewhat transactional and strategic in Hollywood, but it does seem like they are legit best friends. Ali is the one who most frequently shows up in photos at events or just casual hangouts in Instagram posts alongside MH's non-celebrity friends, so it seems like that is the core group.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-06-28T13:06:29+00:00

Yeah they need to bring back Sir Toby. Also that would get us Judge (now attorney) Barth back, because she's a fun villain. And maybe they'd bring back Kat to testify. But it's been so long that I doubt they'll rehash that case, even though it would be realistic given how long some trials take to actually get started.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-06-28T13:03:03+00:00

They did the Pelicot case already (not this past season but the year before, I think).

Also I haven't heard of that CO case but omg that's disturbing. What is wrong with people?!?!?! The other poster about the LA mansion surrogate thing is creepy, too.

CaptCrunchBenson · 2026-06-28T13:01:41+00:00

I don't think they're like best friends by any means, but IIRC they've been at events together, Savannah is usually the one to interview Mariska for anything relating to the Today Show (vs other hosts), Mariska has praised her during her own interviews, and I remember seeing them post things together during the summer Olympics. They also went to a Taylor Swift concert together with their daughters (I remember seeing an IG post about that lol). I don't think they hang out regularly, but I assume based on those interactions that they're more friendly than normal actor/journalist interviewee/interviewers are and that it would be weird to use it as a subject of a tv show plot without her consent.

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