I’m with you. This season, the show has really gotten a new lease on life. It’s my favorite L&O again, just like in the good old days.

I thought then, as I thought last night, that introducing the new character at the same time the established character is leaving, provides opportunities for character(s) comparison, and a reminder…that life goes on.

Absolutely, Morjana. It was also nice to see Ed and Bernard in some scenes together because it gave us fans the opportunity to get a sense of what Bernard is like in comparison to Ed. While he’s not an Ed clone, he seems to have a similar ability to get along with others when he has to.

Both cops also know how to throw out a timely wisecrack (I loved Bernard’s sarcastic line in the DA’s office about the lawyers having bigger brains than the cops). So far, I think Anderson will have a great run in the role, and he and Sisto are going to be partners we’ll get comfortable with very quickly.

I was crying by the end of the episode.

“Because we thought you worth saving.”

Read also love, respect, admiration, trust and loyalty in that statement.

Hopefully, the producers of Law and Order won’t get the same flack from fans that the producer of Stargate SG-1 received six years ago, when they had the gall [according to some fans] of introducing the character of Jonas Quinn during [at the time] Michael Shanks’ last episode, ‘Meridian.’

I thought then, as I thought last night, that introducing the new character at the same time the established character is leaving, provides opportunities for character(s) comparison, and a reminder…that life goes on.

Morjana