Why does everyone idolize Skeet Ulrich?

As a rather huge fan of Skeet's work in Jericho, Scream, Miracles, etc, I was only drawn to this show in the first place because of him. He was the draw that pulled me towards the franchise at all. Sort of like a magnet. Once he was given the boot, it was like taking away the magnet. The source of my draw to this show was gone, so I stopped watching. I didn't exactly boycott the show, nor did I encourage other people to do so. I just lost all interest. So why should I watch a show that no longer holds any interest for me? The ratings would seem to indicate that there are a ton of other people who are like me in this regard.

Don't get me wrong. Molina's a great actor. I like him. But not enough to be drawn to a show in which I otherwise have no interest.

I do, however, feel inclined to say that prior to the announcement that Skeet (and the two actresses who were also kicked from the show) was going to be dropped, these message boards were already flooded by people saying they were boycotting the show because the mothership had been cancelled, and they assumed the mothership was being cancelled in favor of LOLA. Perhaps somewhere in their strange heads, they assumed that if they gave LOLA poor enough ratings, the network would cancel it and bring back their beloved mothership. Instead, the ratings just compelled Wolf to make decisions that alienated a large number of people who actually were watching the show and didn't bring back the people who were already boycotting it. The natural result was ratings plummeted even more, and the show was axed. So yes. Skeet fans are partially responsible because, horrors, we didn't want to bother watching a show that had dropped the biggest reason we were watching it to start with. But a HUGE portion of the responsibility lies with the petty folks who boycotted the show from the start because they were bitter about the death of their beloved mothership.

Do you want to blame someone? Blame them first. We only left because of the avalanche of bad decisions their ranting started.

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I was disappointed when they killed his character off, esp. since scheduling conflicts actually showed the aftermath of his death before his actual murder (at least NBC7 in San Diego showed it that way) but I kept watching till the end. I was more disappointed in it being cancelled than in him being fired. I didn't understand why they let him go since he was an obvious draw for many fans - they could've gone a different direction w/out killing him off & that would've kept his fans happy & watching.

I'm clearly late to the party in discussing this but I had no idea his fans were so up in arms about it. If you want to see a rapid L&O fan, go to the L&O:SVU page - there's some broad who will attack anyone who doesn't like that POS actor who plays cassidy. She's been banned several times so she's always making new profiles but it's totally obvious who she is, lol. I can't recall her name but trust me, go on any thread & post something bad about "bensidy" (the stupid name some fans have named Olivia & cassidy's relationship) & she'll sic herself on you in no time, lol.

But I digress. I agree w/the fans who say Skeet is very good looking (he truly is) & he was a good part of the show. I don't think he was too angry to be on there - he was his own character - Stabler on L&O:SVU was WAY angrier. It's a shame Dick Wolf made such a bad casting decision because in the end, the entire series paid for it.

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I can't believe how many of these posters are crying over the loss of Skeet Ulrich like he is the greatest actor of our generation.
Dude this ain't nothing new whenever a popular character is killed or written fans will be disappointed

What are his top credits? Scream? The Craft? Jericho

Yeah those are his top credits but that does not mean he does not have any talent

Why so much hate for Molina? I think Molina is much more believable as the weathered/expert cop and he partners with Stoll's character much better than Ulrich did. Winters was always pounding his chest and snarling, while Morales seems like more of a professi
I have been watching LOLA since episode 1, and I enjoyed the chemistry between Winters and TJ.

I liked that Molina was on this show but I liked Winter and TJ more as partners.
It was unnecessary to kill off Winters they could have still made Morales a Detective without killing winters. I thought the first several eps were amazing and when it returned that ep was great too,but it got boring not because Winters was dead the eps were just not exciting except for the Finale. Even If Winters was alive the show would have been axed anyway. Skeet does have talent and deserves good roles



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Here it is, 4 years later, and people are still replying! like me!

I wish I could comment in some effective capacity, but i'm not
able to see it, because the only channel that airs it, is Univision, the Spanish channel, which I don't get!

But I just wanted to add, that I apologize to Skeet fans, but I never can get past the fact that he will always look 13 yr old to me! I have the same problem with Josh Hartnet and Ethan Hawke. Whenever they use facial hair, it looks like peach fuzz to me! Some actors get clear of this; Rob Lowe aged a little; Jon Cryer and Frank Whaley went the character route, doing well; poor little Anthony Michael Hall beefed up and squared up his jaw (naturally) and gosh, I barely recognized him by the time he was in Sixteen Degrees, totally did not by the time he was the bodyguard in Foxcatcher.

Also, Alfred Molina is definitely world class. I sat next to him on a plane last year. Guess what he was watching on his computer? An episode of Law and Order! Don't know which one (not his own, which I loved -- shoot, who played his mom, angela Lansbury...? Eileen ryan? or helen Mirren, you know, one of The Ladies of Theater... but anyway, the episode he was watching had Richard Thomas in it, and I remarked to him that they'd covered up his birthmark. Mr. Molina agreed, and wasn't rude about covering up his computer, and turned it so I could watch a little, too. He ordered just a diet cola on ice from the stewardess. Very very polite and nice. Very hard to notice if you were not a huge Molina fan. I never said anything to him until we landed. I got my coat and said, really quietly, "you know, "Coffee & Cigarettes" was my favorite!!" and he got this big grin, and said, oh, you know me, quietly, and I nodded, and just got right out of there. I didn't want to bother him or out him to the crowd. what a gentleman!

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