Intimidation Game (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)

Intimidation Game is the 14th episode in season 16 of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. The plot is about a game developer woman being harassed and assaulted by cyber terrorists that are gamers, the episode also stars a few YouTubers as guest appearances such as Logan Paul, Toby Turner, Jack Vale and James Ciccone.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It's just a propaganda episode surrounding the GamerGate movement, which is sad since Law & Order was made to be based on real crimes and yet the crime in the episode isn't real at all.
 * 2) At the very start of the episode, we are presented with a show of unhealthy feminism, reminiscent of Anita Sarkeesian: a mother is talking with a therapist about her boy breaking stuff and the therapist claims that it is normal for boys to break things because "Boys run around. They break things. They hurt themselves. It’s in all their DNA.".
 * 3) Pointless guest appearances of YouTubers such as Logan Paul, Toby Turner, Jack Vale and James Ciccone, which feel rather forced in.
 * 4) The episode has an overall sense of cheesiness to it. For example, the video game played by the cyber terrorists is titled "Killed or Be Slaughtered", which seems more like a parody title made for the laughs. Also, the site where the cyber terrorists congregate is called "Redchannit", an embarrassing portmanteau of "Reddit" and "Chan", and Internet is referred to as "DarkNet".
 * 5) It is like the writers thought the audience is stupid. For example, one of the detectives explains that "Fps" means "First Person Shooter", despite one of them having been shown on screen a few minutes before.
 * 6) It promotes the stereotypes such as a gamer that only likes violent video games.
 * 7) The cyber terrorists are masked (pictured), in order to make them similar to ISIS militants. This is a questionable choice and the masks are also ridiculous to look at because the look like cheap grey-tinted lucha libre masks.
 * 8) Awful and cringeworhty lines that utilize terms of video game slang. For example, the slogan of the cyber terrorist organization is "It's time to level up" and a woman who was just sexual assaulted in a bathroom telling to the detective, who asked her what they did to her, "They leveled up". Other examples are "Rape is a mod in level 16 of KOBS" and one of the detective saying "Nice try. There's no reset button in the real world".
 * 9) Repetitive and boring dialogue. Throughout the whole episode, the gamers always refer to Raina, the game developer, using vulgar synonyms of "prostitute" or "bitch". This also contributes to render the antagonists of the episode very one-dimensional and uninteresting.
 * 10) The writers tried to scare the audience but they failed miserably. For example,  when the cyber terrorists eventually manage to abduct Raina, they leave a smartphone to the detectives to find where a video of one them ripping her shirt and punching her in the face is shown. At the end of the video, the phrase "LEVEL COMPLETED" appears in green letters.
 * 11) It promotes the stereotype that nearly all gamers are white males that hate gamer women.
 * 12) The resolution at the end is trying to be anti climatic but fails.
 * 13) It is overly dramatic, despite the show being dramatic in a realistic way.
 * 14) It promotes hatred against gamers.
 * 15) Overuse of cliches. The detectives eventually find out that one of the cyber terrorists lives and plays video games in the basement of his mother's house.
 * 16) The script consists in a messy unorganized mixture of internet phenomena that happened in the US.
 * 17) The episode was so bad that even Brianna Wu, Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn hate it. When you manage to successfully piss off three of the most notable victims of the GamerGate controversy, you know you screw up extremely bad!

Reception
This episode was met with mostly negative criticism for it poor scripts, cringeworthy delivery and oversimplification of actual events. Even websites like mh:rottenwebsites:Kotaku criticized the episode for "turning complicated conversations over misogyny in gaming into a cartoon caricature of good vs. evil."

Reviews

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