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[foxxcub]

ZOMG "DEMONS" IS ON AND I'M FINALLY WATCHING IT.

I will be staring at my Meloni-being-Stabler-channeling-Keller sex for the next hour.

Comments

[between-names.livejournal.com]

Ooh, awesome episode! Thanks for the head's up!!

[halfdutch.livejournal.com]

YAAY! And we were just talking about it! Awesomeness! ;)

[rhymephile.livejournal.com]

Okay, yes, but...

I have to say that Meloni makes that shit look so easy because if you really watch his performance, you really can't see any Keller in Elliot McEvoy at all. There is something...else...for lack of a better term, that propels the way he moves, and speaks, and behaves in that ep. I think that's why I'm such a huge fan of "Demons" in particular, because Meloni brings something that's not quite Stabler, yet not quite Keller, to his acting in those scenes. It's pretty damn amazing to me.

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

Yesyesyes, I totally agree. I mostly make that generalization because his yell at Fin is very Kellerish. :)

Do you notice that he pitches his voice differently? I can't even explain it...it's amazing. There's this...vulnerability he brings to him that's completely different from anything else he's done. I was thinking whether he should've gotten his Emmy nod for this or "Ripped", and I know "Demons" is probably waaaaay too dark for Emmy voters, but still. Guh. I could seriously fangirl him for days and days.

[rhymephile.livejournal.com]

I actually saw "Demons" for the first time not too long ago, because last season my heart belonged to Nip/Tuck first. Of course now that my life is consumed with Meloni I DVR Nip/Tuck ;-)

After watching it I couldn't get over how emotionally raw he was during the group therapy scenes -- but there was a kind of unsettling, creepy, disturbing way to Meloni playing Stabler playing McEvoy that was more scary than Keller was in some aspects.

Also, those scenes had me questioning why the hell they would have Stabler choosing the rape of his step-daughter as the cover story. Knowing his pure hatred for anyone who hurts kids, I found that interesting. Perhaps there were a lot more parallels to the way he felt about child molesters and to the way he felt about himself. I could ramble all day about that ep, but suffice it to say, his performance was just so full of subtlety that I could watch it again and again and never tire of it.

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

but there was a kind of unsettling, creepy, disturbing way to Meloni playing Stabler playing McEvoy that was more scary than Keller was in some aspects.

So true. I found several moments almost too difficult to watch, for several reasons. But I think part of it how seamlessly he plays McEvoy, and then at the end when Robert Patrick is telling him he's not so different from real child molestors. Gah. The look of devastation on Stabler's face, the sorrow...yeah. Kinda makes his meltdown later in "Ripped" seem completely warranted, you know?

[viggofest.livejournal.com]

Just another on the awesome episodes of last season that I wish had been Meloni's nominating ep.
I'm not sure anyone "chose" his cover story. I assumed he picked one from his case histories that he knew all the angles for. And yet, one wonders why that history.
There was so much more they could've done with that storyline over the next few episodes. You would think that Stabler would be rolling the other guy's words around in his head, how they aren't that different. What is he saying, that just because he acts on his impulses and Stabler doesn't, doesn't mean Stabler doesn't think these things?
Or that Stabler's desire to kill pedophiles is still wrong, and yet he thinks about it all the time?
And here, he had his chance, and he didn't do it.
Gah, indeed! So much angst. (Can a person have angst all by themselves?)

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

Again, I want to think that they at least touched on the Stabler!angst from this ep with the breakdown in "Ripped". I tend to agree with what rhymephile said about Stabler transferring his hatred of pedophiles to himself. We learn in "Ripped" that he's always, deep down, viewed himself as a failure, and that by staying in Special Victims and trying to hunt down the bad guys, he's fighting that image of himself, if that makes any sense at all.