Goren Moments.

Brainstorm a "single representative example of something you are trying to think more carefully about (Rosenwasser 95)….

"Bobby Goren’s" ‘cracker’ moment on Law and Order: Criminal Intent….
His almost self-conscious leap of logic in analysing a crime scene turns a spotlight on both his character and the style of writing on the show.
It becomes almost surrealistic in his view of the world.
Is this deliberate or merely a lapse in the writing?
Why was this scene allowed to play with seeming seriousness when it seems somewhat jarring?
The Answer could be that the show is demonstrating a somewhat fantastical side.
Like the dual characters in "se7en", where the cop and the serial killer are two sides of the same coin, Goren strives to make order out of chaos, rather than submit to it.
The show echoes the sentiments of "CSI" with its almost Zen approach and the "Genius" set to work opposing randomness and disorder.
-Is this a response to post-9/11 angst, where order was smashed by outside forces?
Is it a reassurance that there is, at society’s core, an intrinsic sense of order that prevails?
Or, is it the other way around? Chaos is the primary force and People merely create pockets of Order within it; you carve order into the realm of randomness and disorder.
Somehow, I think the answer is in the middle. Life is potentially both ordered and chaotic or, at best, a tentative order, threatened by chaos.