Does Anyone Else Get Upset (Law & Order)

[maciec]

I am sitting here watching Law & Order and just watched as they showed a room full of children that had just been shot. Everytime that I watch a show where a child is harmed I get really upset and cannot watch the show any longer.

Does this happen to anyone else or am I just an oddball?

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Nope I have to change the channel and I can't get it out of my head. It gives me nightmares.

 

[maciec]

I can't stand it. My dh thinks it's really weird, but just the images haunt me for quite some time. Makes me run right to my kids everytime to check on them.

 

[Lachesis00]

Anything to do with children bothers me. I will fast forward the icko parts.

I do not watch L&O anymore, except old reruns. Lennie is gone Anything w/Dennis Farina is a no-go. It just isn't the same.

 

[Blondy876]

For show like that I always read the synopsis and if it says anything that involves children I don't watch. Even some commercials bother me. I remember seeing a commercial for the HBO show Oz that involved a baby and it still bothers me when I think of it, I saw the commercial over 6 years ago.

 

[ALyankee]

The same thing happened to me. I had to shut it off. My husband and I were just discussing the fact that the could have told the story without showing the room full of children. What kind of entertainment is that?

 

[mking624]

I don't like how visually graphic these shows are becoming. Showing things like that seem so unnecessary, IMO.

 

[kayeandjim00]

I find the news sadder than L&O honestly. It is sad when it involves children but the sad fact is that a lot of this is "ripped from the headlines". So to answer your question it is sad but I still watch them and have never had one I couldn't watch.
Oh and to the poster who didn't like Dennis there's a new character this year. It's a woman and she was on the Dick Wolf show "Conviction" last year. She's ok, not great but ok.

 

[KristinBelle]

Anything to do with children bothers me. I will fast forward the icko parts.

We hit the FF for that part tonight.

 

[mking624]

I find the news sadder than L&O honestly. It is sad when it involves children but the sad fact is that a lot of this is "ripped from the headlines".

Truth is always more sad than fiction when it involves things like this, and I always knew they typically did "ripped from the headlines" stuff, but I think what bothers me about it is that we were already sad when we saw it really happen, and now we have to relive it...and then have a visual of it. And that's the hard part...for me at least.

 

[alliecats]

In books and movies, I am generally pretty tough. Generally.
I can handle the grown-ups, but they better leave the kids and animals alone.

 

[Mkrop]

I watched it too and it always upsets me when kids are involved. For the longest time I could not get myself to watch Without a Trace becasue I thought all the shoes were about kids being kidnapped. Well I finally watched a rerun and I found it wsa more adults disappearing then kids, although they do have a kid one and they always freak me out. I guess it just puts all these ideas in my head about the dangers out there for my kids. Gosh things have chnaged so much from when i was a kid, I wandered all over the place!

 

[ALyankee]

For the longest time I could not get myself to watch Without a Trace becasue I thought all the shoes were about kids being kidnapped.

I like Law and Order but Without a Trace is definetely my favorite. I guess it is because 75% of the time the people are found alive. It gives me hope and helps me deal with the tragedy.