QUOTE (Mad4SVU @ Jul 4 2008, 05:39 PM)

Okay I was away on vacation so I'm somewhat behind on some posts...sorry to bring back previous topics but I really want to get my two cents in.
About Elliot and Kathy: in Sin, which was the episode after Dependent (Elliot said "I wanna come home"), while at the hospital with Olivia disguising as nurses, Elliot was on the phone and later told Olivia that he was talking to Kathy, cancelling their plans to go out for drinks to discuss about Elliot coming home. Now I can see what there were some time that Elliot didn't move in immediately. If he had moved in that day or that week, it would probably not worked out as well since a lot has happened in the 2 years that Elliot and Kathy had been apart. There had been some sort of growth with independence, new habits, new interests, whatever, not just between Elliot and Kathy but for the kids too. In Clock, on the stand, Mrs. Walsh said to Elliot 'you hardly see your kids' so perhaps in that fact in mind, he was taking the time to spend with his kids, together and individually, like, for example Responsible where Elliot was trying to spend some time with Kathleen, especially for the pizza lunch and then in Pretend playing poker with his kids, he asked "since when did you all become sharks" or something like that. Plus then there is time in order to be with his family while still working as a detective: we all know about that one, it's been said many times, even before the separation about Elliot hardly ever being home.
About Lunacy: well, I know Irish isn't too crazy about speculations but I don't think the EO thing is very much exciting. The way I see it is more disappointment that Elliot feels for Dick Oswald- someone who has been in many infedilities and divorces and he was someone who Elliot had looked up to as a young adult as a hero and now he sees Dick as a sleezebag, for a person who he really is.
It was already brought up about Ripped, how Elliot wanted to be a cop all his life and I have to agree with that remark- the writers are now changing their backgrounds? Ugh I hate that- it's bad enough that soaps do that but on a tv show? Please. However maybe perhaps there was a brief period where Elliot did want to be an astronaunt after having a tiff with his father to be something else other then a cop but once Kathy got pregnant, Elliot realized that he wanted to be closer to her rather then flying all over the world and space that would take months, maybe even years to come home. Perhaps he wanted to see Maureen to grow up rather then coming home to find a baby that had turned into a 5 year old and then to a 20 year old all of the sudden with barely no relationship base as father-daughter.
As for the divorce thing...isn't the new A.D.A. the one going through a divorce herself? Neal Baer said that she is so that could be the result, nothing to do with Elliot's marriage.
thats a whole lot of 2-cents

im not suprised if the EO wont be big, and i probably wont be angry either, cuz they always dissapoint, oh well, move on, im sure we've gotten us to that already, but as for changeing the background for el's past intrests, we do have alot of them, im sure everyone goes through a dozen work choices or just has dreams about becoming something, those change all the time