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Post by finaddict on Nov 14, 2011 17:06:00 GMT -5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sorry this wasnt posted last week..what did everyone think??
"LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT"
"RUSSIAN BRIDES"
11/09/2011 (10:00PM - 11:00PM) (Wednesday) : CAPTAIN CRAGEN GOES UNDERCOVER WHEN A MURDER IN BRIGHTON BEACH REVEALS A THRIVING BUT DEADLY FOREIGN BRIDE BUSINESS
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Post by oowsvu on Nov 15, 2011 9:44:56 GMT -5
i thought of it as a combination of a few eps and that was rather disappointing but Don going undercover was incredible ..."I want to tell you a Russian Love Poem"
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Post by finaddict on Nov 15, 2011 17:34:09 GMT -5
I really liked the episode but I agree with Nikki. We have seen Russian brides covered before. Don undercover was awesome. It kept me guessing as I did not know till the end Irene was not a victim. Again the whole cast working together like at the beginning.,
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Post by benstabler on Nov 16, 2011 2:01:00 GMT -5
Patti I am sorry for not posting the epi in your absence. I wasn't on the boards for a few days.
I liked the episode, I know we've done the russian thing many times in the past however I still enjoyed it and def liked Cragen undercover
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Post by finaddict on Nov 16, 2011 19:07:53 GMT -5
no worries benstabler....
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Post by Gambi1986 on Nov 18, 2011 5:16:54 GMT -5
I really loved that episode.. Don was awesome!!! I was so worried for him during the episode.. and when he said to the other victim that he new how he felt it just hit me..
I think their main concern in this ep was to show how lonely, older men are volnerable to women like that. I believe they used russian women only because they're the most common who "perform this kind of job", I am not excluding the fact that there are others who are sincere.
In my opinion, they should film an ep with Thai women as well.. I know it will be hard to pull this one since there isn't any mafia surrounding them so it won't be so dramatic.. but it will be good to see what Thai women are after too.. even though I believe that most of them are just trying to avoid poverty.
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Post by finaddict on Nov 18, 2011 18:28:12 GMT -5
Great post Gambi. You raised some points I had not thought of.
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Post by benstabler on Nov 19, 2011 1:59:40 GMT -5
that is a good point and so true. Older men as well as men who just aren't as sociable as others.
I could see them doing en api like that with Thai, they have touched upon the issues in Thailad before on the show, but I agree it could be a similar situation there.
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Post by Gambi1986 on Nov 19, 2011 4:57:10 GMT -5
See?! These are the benefits of a classical education.. you find meanings behind the words.. lol
Actually I've seen this thing happening a lot.. older men, also the ones who aren't as sociable as Kerry stated i.e. my cousin, who they are so eager for affection and love instead of looking at the right places, they search in the wrong ones.
I don't mean to say that Thai women or Russian women are all after to deciept and take advantage.. my point is that our times promote this kind of bahaviour.. men are scared to approach a woman from their country because they are feared of regection. These women, for their own agentas, are eager to push their "affection" onto them so they fall..
Some of this fear must have been caused by the woman's emancipation. Nowdays women aren't scared to say no and regect a man, that probably castrates the man. In nature, he is the one who is suppose to be in control (hence rape which is an action of control) and this actions probably makes him lose his game.
Well this is all just philosophically speaking.. I was just thinking about this last night. P and I were at a chinese restaurant and at the table next to us sat two couples, two greek guys, really handsome I should say, accompanied by two eastern women who looked like prostitutes. You know this guys probably don't have any trouble getting a girl than why having to socialize with them, it's just crazy...
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Post by finaddict on Nov 20, 2011 14:08:53 GMT -5
good analysis Gambi.
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Post by benstabler on Nov 20, 2011 16:09:01 GMT -5
there are a lot of men who don't have the social skills that others do and those are the kind that seek out women like this.
It happens in many different ways here too, always some rich old man with some young hot chick because he is a rich old man. It's really no different except I think like Gambi said, some from the other countries are taught to be controlled to some degree. I guess this is expected when you "buy" a spouse!
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