Now, lady, you have many fine points here. I guess I often get distracted by the fact they did, basically, ignore her for five seasons and now they're moving into "soap territory" (thanx, VDO), it all seems like too much too soon and makes my poor little noggin get confused and I forget that it is L&O after all and I'm bloody lucky to be getting any Eames Pain at all.

I'm happy Katie's been given something to do (it always made me sad when, in interviews on the DVDs, she'd make comments about how she just moves out of VDO's way and seems so happy when she's actually given something other than exposition to say), and it is considerably better than before, but I hope it balances out more in the later eps of this season. My main concern with "Siren Call" was that last scene - it says so much about their relationship (in that Eames is the vocal one, Goren just hovers about like he did in the first ep back from having her baby), but I just wish we got some signs of life from ol' Goren-face.

That said, I'm worried about Goren's spiral down into the depths of Crazy. I'm not saying we should get all SVU or anything, but am I wrong to think that Eames would at least try to save him from it? I know he's an emotional wasteland, very self-serving for the most part (because of his childhood, or a survival reflex), but I doubt she'd let another oh-so-romantic man in her life (oh, taser guns for anniversaries! JOE FTW) go down in flames.

THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY: With VDO, NOTHING is accidental in his portrayal, and I think Katie follows him there. It's so evident this season, and I just love it.

Er...yeah. What's with us being all meta all of a sudden, man?

I reckon Annabella couldn't handle Noth, but that's just because he's a douche, man. God, I love that woman, too.