This was actually late 1980s. I agree that this just feels gritty.

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@@jaytimmerman992 The show premiered in September 1990, which, only technically, is part of the 80s, but most people would call it the 90s.

I much rather the way this was filmed, now days sometimes too clear🤷

@@richardvinsen2385 premiered doesn’t mean filmed in the 90s could have been filmed in the late 80s

it is as though we are there and the cameras are our eyes. It is amazing.

@@paulsmallriver6066 Perspective?

nihar2009 nostalgia maybe

IIRC, this was before they started using steadicams on the show, so it has a more documentary feel to it I think.

I like the 90s grain, look of the picture or whatever you call it on cop shows more. Bit darker and less in focus. Not on everything, but on this it fits.

Lmao

Yes. The production style really stands out today. No laugh tracks either!

Part of that may be due to the zoomed shots at the beginning. The original filmed inserts may no longer exist so they used the master copy. It wouldn't have mattered to the original audience watching on standard-definition television.

@@icemachine79 Pan scans?

@@seanwebb605 Similar idea, but that's for fitting 16:9 widescreen film (rectangular) on a 4:3 (more squarish) TV screen. In this case, they probably zoomed in on a working copy of the raw developed film while editing the master version which accounts for the slight blurriness and reduced detail in high definition. To fix it, somebody would have to dig up the original negatives used to film those scenes. But chances are those negatives and/or working copies don't exist anymore.

@@icemachine79 I know. I work in TV.

This was the orginal pilot

Oh yes sweat shops were sure wonderful weren't they? Working people to the bone and paying them pennies.

@@RexTheDinosaur1 Ha ha ha. There are people will complain about these small businesses in one breath than complain about big corporations in the next breath.

Sean Webb but the person didn’t complain about small companies?

@@ghr8036 They have, they do they will continue to

Just 30 years ago.

Also unrealistic. No high end store would allow you to stink up their merch or their store with a stogie.

Bruce Karaus maybe he was just breaking balls

I'm pretty sure this was actually the pilot episode, so yeah really early days

Bruce Karaus New York , early 90’z late 80’z ...seems highly likely to me

Brisco was too iconic

Admittedly it was character development I didn’t care for, as by the time he became a defence attorney, everything became about race to him and he used that to get a lot of bad people acquitted for truly heinous crimes.

Richard and Stone are my two favorite ADAs! Both have amazing voices in both have no nonsense approach when it comes to the law! I think the only other one that even meets close them would be of course Barba!

​@@t-rexcellentreviews1663You're right, and the original poster is reading too much into it. Robinette coming back as a defense attorney obsessed with racial issues doesn't match his character from the early seasons when he stood for justice in any situation. It's lazy, sensationalism from the writers. Richard Brooks is a terrific actor, and deserved to have that same level of depth to his character when he portrayed a defense attorney in a later episode.

Treblaine ADR?

@@jacobsaccount9353 ADR = dubbing over an actor's lines after you've filmed the scene.

Treblaine im confused because i could hear his voice perfectly? I dont get it

@@jacobsaccount9353 When they filmed it in the noisy restaurant the sound recordings on the set were useless as microphones can't single out voices like human ears can. So they had to call back the actors to a sound booth to speak their lines again and try to sync up their voices with the footage filmed then also add back the background noises at a lower level. This is called ADR (Auto Dialogue Replacement) and it's why some dialogue sounds strangely off. You can't put your finger on it, your mind is really good at recognising "hey, that doesn't sound right" but you don't necessarily logically know why. It's far easier to book a restaurant and fill it with extras who are all trained to "act normal" but be ABSOLUTELY SILENT. It's spooky to see, you'll have a whole restaurant full of extras who look like they're talking, eating and laughing but none of them make a sound. Because no one wants the director to yell cut because something your fake conversation said momentarily drowned out the main actor's dialogue. In the final editing process the editor carefully adds just a tiny bit of background noise of people chattering and laughing at a level where it never detracts from the performance of the named actors unless the director specifically wants certain sounds to be heard in the background.

Treblaine ohhhh i see, i noticed their voices sounded louder at some parts and softer at others but tjats only because im using earphones so with out them i wouldn't of noticed. Also years ago i used to watch Fraser and i noticed when ever he was in a cafe with someone the people in the background looked like they were miming. lmao😂. Thanks for telling me bro 👍👍👍

I was looking for this comment. Was this actress of the size 12 coat character the same women who played the severely abused mother who severely and horribly abused (burning them in hot water comes to mind) children in her care?

@@melanierosalez6989 yes

You're not wrong! Just 3 eps later she was playing the utterly brutalized wife, so abused and broken she was completely in thrall to her sadistic husband...and appeared twice more in the show. Kudos Marcia Jean Kurtz.

The way they put a single actor into several roles is odd. It makes me take it less seriously, like vaudeville or sketch com.

What episode was that? The one with the abused mother?

I don't get it

@@zarachastellaris9016 Apparently he is a mind reader from back in the day

@@Zak6959 thanks

​@@zarachastellaris9016On the old Tonight Show, Johnny Carson did a recurring bit, where he wears a turban and robe, as Karnak the mind reader.

Yeah, I could never get into any of the spin offs. The original series was fantastic. Particularly the first few seasons.

@@seanwebb605 SVU is the worst.

@@terrylejones1340 I know, right? Who wants to drive a Sports Vehicle Utility? Not me!

@@seanwebb605 😅🤣😂

Law and order stopped being great when Lenny and Claire weren't part of the show.

When I tore my meniscus, I discovered Law and Order basically on tap. I GORGED on it. Loved it.

I agree it was more raw!

Me too 🥺

RCLJ Kane yup

That's was her.

Indeed! She is a brilliant actress.

This is the pilot filmed in 1988.

@@MrPolicekarim Literally filmed, too. Visible grain and everything, not to mention a big helping of ADR right there in the middle.

@@NiceTryLaoChe They were all filmed, but some of the first episodes were shot in 16mm film (which doesn't help with the quality) and in a 4:3 aspect ratio. For their remasters, the licensing company decided to crop it to a 16:9 aspect ratio. That's why everything seems so "close up" to the camera, and why there's such visible grain.

@@irixperson Thank you. However, I've noticed that they are all in HD which makes it feel like it's a modern show rather your typical 90s show. So, like season 1 through 4, they seemed like the early 2000s and the intro fonts and head shots are a little different rather than when it was the 90s back then. Of course I was born in 2000s, but these shows seem really realistic and look real, I wish they bring the show back. However, they should bring it back the original way where it's dark, intense and it fits the theme of the story. Sadly, SVU is really all about politics and Olivia and has ran out of fresh ideas in terms of storytelling. It's good that the show lives on through syndication, but it can brought back. And Robert Goren should be on that show too.

@@princewilliams1298 I completely agree. I used to watch SVU until about the tenth season, and I checked out when it became absolutely political. Part of the problem with Special Victims Unit is that every case is the same or centers around the same subject (molestation) and after twenty seasons that'll become boring.

April Mayday yes I noticed too!

Yes, shes a good actress in my opinion

Yes it is!!!!

Yes Miss Carla

Yes. The L&O verse is chock full of dopplegangers.

I don't think they were naive. See Paul's eyes roll when she says "Black boy"...?

Considering how racial motivated Robinette becomes in much later seasons of Law and Order, he ultimately chose to be a black man first and a lawyer second when he became a defence attorney, which is exactly what Stone was trying to teach him not to become during their time together.

No idea what his name is but he has been in so many shows and movies.

Mike Starr

He was also in "Dumb and Dumber," with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.

But he redeemed himself. Steven Seagal knocked some sense into him at a bar and he just needed time to be a better man.

He was in Goodfellas?

Meaghan Larsen she played the one that abused the kids in another episode

Vidalia Smallwood yes, she did a good job acting to two totally different rolls

LoL

TeaAtTwo at the time wasn’ti don’t believe

Whoopi Goldberg is a regular guess star in the Law & Order world. the writers are always dropping her name in episodes.

EGOT, for short.

At this point Golberg was a stand up comedian known for loud and trashy outfits.

@@hollaback5935 Whoopi had won a Grammy, Golden Globe and been nominated for an Oscar by this point.

phan2187 - holland oh my gosh! Lol how did you catch that! I wonder what the original dialogue was !

OsayaPapaya i heard something off with the audio so i replayed it again to see if i was right and lo and behold, it was dubbed over 😂 and same here! i wonder what was actually said haha

@edraythecrazy I never knew that! Cool. He'd have been a bad fit for that, I think. He's Lenny , I mean, he just *IS.*

@edraythecrazy Thank you for sharing such interesting information! Did not know any of that. Mr. Orbach is one of my all time favorite stars, for sure.

Why yes. Yes he did. He also played lits of different aliens on the show too.

I keep forgetting that the actor is NOT British. Also, he was Lorien as well on B5.

Yes she does. That is one beautiful woman. Plus the uniform kinda helps too. Who is she?

@@Chase0420 i am curious too

Yes, I loved the gritty look and feel of the first few years. Then it got a more polish and clean look. But still one of my favorite shows.

The show was first broadcast in 1990, so probably 1989.

@@RonJohn63 it was broadcast in Late-1988.

Oh yes.

Yep! It started all the way back in 1990 :)

I wasn’t even born yet when this came out and I love it

Same here

Everybody’s thinner too, by 2022 standards

Lamento ter que incentivar a pirataria, mas é o jeito aqui

Because it's the sixth episode of the first season even though it's the first episode of the series