I've been watching NYPD Blue on Amazon. Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) was my favorite character. I didn't really watch it after they killed him off.
I loved the Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) character also, but there was something special about Bobby.
It's not that Rick Schroder didn't do a good job with the Danny Sorenson character. I liked his character. It's just that Bobby Simone was a hard act to follow and things weren't the same without him.
It is normal to get attached to your favorite characters. I survived when George Clooney left ER even though I liked the Doug Ross character a lot. I couldn't keep watching it after they killed off Mark Greene (Tony Edwards).
It was the same when William Petersen left CSI and Vincent D'Onofrio left Law & Order Criminal Intent. The shows just weren't the same without them.
And when Chris Meloni left Law & Order SVU.
The only show I really paid attention to through the character changes was the original Law & Order. I loved the characters, especially Lennie Briscoe.
However, the storylines in Law & Order focused more on the cases the characters were working on rather than the characters. I think that's why it held my interest; I wanted to see whether they convicted the suspects.
Whatever the case, the characters on these shows have meant a lot to me and I missed them after they left.
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