#adarafaelbarbas

Honestly, I don’t know. Literally every single thing I read about it on Tumblr and from people I talk to are sick of it being about Benson so much and completely forgetting the rest of the characters.

It used to be SO good! Every character got at least one episode centered around them each season and it was so much more of a team than it is now. Once Elliot left it started going down and by the time Nick left, it was basically The Olivia Show with a few exceptions.

Most long-running characters leave whatever show they’re on because the actor’s think their characters have run their course and don’t want to keep going on just for the sake of going on. That happened with one character in Homicide: Life On The Streets - the show Munch was on before SVU, it even got a little shout out by Munch answering the phone for the last time saying Homicide at first - I forget which character, but one of them thought the character had run his course and wanted to be written off because he wanted the character to be remembered as the character, not a character that didn’t know when to leave. But the production/producers/fans/everyone else didn’t want him to leave, so they wrote it in that the character got a Stroke and the actor decided that was a good enough reason to stay, it brought something new to the character. Julian McMahon wanted to leave Charmed because he thought Cole had come to the end of his story, so they changed it up to make him evil again, make Phoebe go with him for a bit, make him evil and try to get Phoebe to become evil with him, all this stuff, but they still let him leave when that ended.

They don’t do that with Benson. They think they do, because they keep putting her through all this stuff, but it’s the same stuff. I think it was  @adarafaelbarbas who has a post about how it would have been amazing if Nick had the Lewis storyline and Benson had shot the boy. It would have put them both through something new. The post goes into it a lot more, but it was a really good idea and made me internally sing ‘We could have had it alllllllll’ and, let me tell you, I sound EXACTLY like Adele in my head! And that could have led to a really good, really fulfilling exit for Benson.

There’s only so much you can do with one character and making her act OOC or having her continually sexually assaulted doesn’t count as changing it up or making it interesting.

I love Mariska Hargitay and have so much respect for her. She’s an amazing actress and an amazing person. I’m not sure if it’s her or someone behind the scenes or a lot of people behind the scenes that won’t let Benson go, but it’s time. She’s an amazing character played by an amazing woman, but everything must come to end eventually and I think it’s time for Benson as a main character to end.

I wouldn’t even mind if she stayed on longer, if it went on for more five more seasons and she was in all of them, if they would just let other characters have some storylines. I shouldn’t have to play ‘guess which main character isn’t gonna be in it tonight’ for every episode, I shouldn’t have to rely solely on the fandom to get any sort of information about my favorite characters because the only thing we get is headcanons and fics made by us, I shouldn’t feel blessed every time a character besides Benson is on screen, the fandom shouldn’t be better writers than the actual, paid, professional writers.

Negative.

Fellow SVU addicts, help

No, never stated in canon. I believe one episode somewhat implies she is a nurse but it was never proven.

Yeah, that was the only thing I sort of got as hinted in “Popular” in season 3 (where she mentions a woman “at work” and it seemed to imply that was at a hospital). I guess she could have had another job there as well besides nursing, administrative or office/billing, too.

rockonjenny replied to your post:

I always thought she was just a stay at home mom

That was what I was waffling over (at least later on in the timeline) because, despite that one mention in “Popular” above, she seemed to be home a lot when things would happen (like “Alternate” when Dori had her at knifepoint.) 

13. Are there any things that might have happened in any of your stories, but you changed them at the last minute? (So-and-so dies, they don't actually kiss, main character has long extended ballet-based dream sequence, etc.)

I usually know where things are going when I start writing (because I do a lot of “pre-draft” work in my head), but occasionally I’ve had characters surprise me. Like where I was literally writing and a character suddenly seemed to pop into my head and say, “No, I’m doing THIS instead.” And it ended up working beautifully. One specific instance I can think of was back in my Xena/Herc fandom days when I was writing my Moments of Transition series. Vaguely, I originally planned on having Character A kill the villain in the final big battle, but then Character B came up and insisted he should do it instead. And I think it made for a much more satisfying arc/development for all characters involved, even though that was not at all what I’d planned on.

19. Do you make up scenes at work/on the bus/at the gym? Who are the characters that pop up the most? Do you write them down?

character: hate them | don’t really care | like them | LOVE them | THEY ARE MY PRECIOUS

ship with:  Ryan O’Halloran! I know there’s no basis in canon (nor even on-screen subtext) but ever since I wrote them once I really dig the idea of them in a happy, well-balanced relationship. (And I really want to write more about them some day.) In my head-canon Ryan never died, he just was injured and took a long time off to recuperate, and eventually George proposed before he was transferred to Oklahoma City and they lived happily ever after together. The end.

friendship them with:  I liked the prickly relationship between him and Elliot. In a way they sort of challenged each other intellectually with their differing points of view and backgrounds, much like I’ve always enjoyed about Munch & Fin. I can’t say I shipped it much (though I have written it in a very fucked up/unhappy way, which is the only way I can see it really happening.) Given the chance I think George would have been good friends with Barba as well as I think they’d have an emotional compatibility that would have been fun to see explored.