Correct me if I’m wrong folks, but when a network decides to air a 24 hour marathon of a particular tv show of which there are 171 episodes to choose from, you would think that the network would air 24 *different* episodes during the course of the day, right? Doesn’t that seem like a reasonable thing to expect? Well, apparently it’s not. My efforts to watch the entire 24 hours of SVU have at last ended because even though the marathon purported to go from 6am to 6am, the episodes aired after midnight were actually repeats of episodes shown earlier. And I’m not talking about the episodes aired early this morning, but repeats of the last five episodes shown. And as dedicated as I was to a full 24 hours of gratuitous tv watching to ring in the new year, I really couldn’t bring myself to watch shows that I’d seen only hours earlier, especially since they were episodes from later seasons and therefore significantly less entertaining (did anyone really like Dani Beck? I think not). So after about 19 hours of SVU goodness, I’m calling it quits. Goodnight folks and happy new year!