#sorry getting eo + motherhood wrong makes me wanna bark and growl

[humanveil]

thinking about the last l&o eps and tbh i don’t like how noah and elliot were introduced. i wasn’t really vibing with it when all the bts stuff was happening because something just seemed off & after watching the Mother’s Day scene i think i’ve realised what. aside from noah already knowing who he is (liv…. Girl….) i think they fucked it up. like it’s another example of (a) inconsistent characterisation across shows but also (b) writing from someone who clearly does not care for elliot or his history with liv or even, at minimum, his influence on olivia as a character in general (one of the many reasons i’m counting down the seconds til we don’t have to deal with warren’s writing. but lol). it has literally been established that olivia sees introducing noah to elliot as this like, definitive thing that’s representative of accepting him back into her life for real. it’s something to demonstrate that she trusts him again & clearly something she wanted to do on her own terms (and elliot knows this! he keeps offering lil family dates and when she says not yet, he listens. he gets it!) and they took that decision away from her by making it an accidental run-in, which takes away a lot of the weight the moment is meant to have. like idk it’s just left a bad taste in my mouth lmao

#terminal svu brainrot #otp: it will always be you and i #sorry getting eo + motherhood wrong makes me wanna bark and growl #like it’s anticlimactic when you consider 1) liv’s journey to being a mother. all the way from back in 1.0 & 2) Elliot’s involvement (or #lackthereof) in that. and the general messy lines of family between them #like it was meant to be a big deal and it should have been. and it wasn’t #l&o