Oh, My God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Return Of Elliot Stabler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                        Long overdue, the reunion was no fall into each other's arms,"Wuthering Heights," "Spelendor In The Grass" type.  The mood was prickly between Stabler and Benson,  and  Mariska, as the latter clearly looks upstaged by it all.  Well, it is about time.

                                          A number of iconic locales were used, like Brooklyn Bay, by the Verazano  Bridge; actually not too far from where I reside.  And then there was Wonder Wheel Park, at Coney Island,  with a ride along with Chris Meloni, and Dylan McDermott, who appears to be set up as  the show's regular villain.  Could get repetitious.  As to the new staff members, no sparks there.   Nothing  to  compare with Kelli Giddish, and Peter Scanavino.  But, time will tell.

                               But, oh my God, girls, without question, the dramatic highlight was the return of  the Stabler family.  Isabel Gillies came back, as Kathy Stabler, but no sooner was she back on  screen, when  a car she stepped into exploded, rushing her to the hospital, where the scriptwriters had her rushed  to the hospital, where  she lingered for a bit, then went into cardiac arrest, and died.

                                  This was the most abomiinable thing done on this show since the killing off of  Sister Peg.  Fortunately, all the actors playing  Elliot's kids--Maureen, Kathleen, Elizabeth, Dickie, and  Eli--were on hand, and their scenes were heart rending, and the funeral scene, pictured above,  had me  slumped to the floor, crying and sobbing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The rest of the show hardly mattered.

                                     Chris Meloni still looks great, as do the actors portraying the kids, who  by now must be on their own, or, at least, enrolled at Hudson University, the official school of the "SVU' universe.

                                         How things will work  out is too early to tell.  But keep the focus on  Elliot and the kids.  They are who viewers care about.

                                           And thank God Elliot,  not Olivia, got the last shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!