History YMMV / LawAndOrderCriminalIntent

* AwardSnub: Kathryn Erbe and Vincent D'Onofrio received nary an Emmy nomination in their eight years on the show's run, a [[IncrediblyLamePun criminal]] snub.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The newer theme song that was added somewhere around season 7.
** Which would have sounded awfully familiar to fans of ''LawAndOrderTrialByJury''.

* AmbiguouslyJewish-- Goren is a Russian-Jewish name. In the episode "A Murderer Among Us" he seems to take [[the attacks on Jewish men by the (secretly Jewish) victim's husband]] awfully personal. At the end of "Happy Family" he says "from your lips to God's ear, a Jewish proverb.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The news that the producers were bringing [[Series/LawAndOrder Mike Logan]] on as a regular was met with much {{Squee}}ing.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: When it was announced that Goren and Eames would be splitting the season with another pair of detectives, fans got upset. Then they announced that the new male detective would be Chris Noth (of the Mothership). When it was announced that Logan would be leaving the show, there was a fan uproar. Then it was announced that the replacement detective would be Detective Zach Nichols (aka JeffGoldblum), and there was an entirely different kind of fan uproar. And then in fall 2010, it was announced that D'Onofrio and Erbe would be returning for the final season. The resulting joyous explosion was deafening.

* Yoko Oh No: Discussed in "F.P.S."

** In the episode "Pas de Deux," the villain is a bank robber (played by Charles Rocket) who is suffering from a terminal illness and plans to kill himself along with his unwitting accomplice. The episode was Rocket's last film appearance; he committed suicide later that year/

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[{{Medium}} Jake Weber]], [[PrisonBreak Robert Knepper]], [[{{Lost}} Michael Emerson]], and [[{{Doubt}} Viola Davis]] were all villains in Season 1, before hitting it big with other shows or movies.

* TheWesley: The series was arguably the Wesley of the Law & Order franchise. Even though it always had the lowest ratings, Dick Wolf fought to keep it on the air. This is partially due to his liking the characters and also partially due to it being easier to sell overseas because the format was more of a straightforward detective show rather than a legal drama (which would be difficult to explain to an audeince unfamiliar with the American legal system).

* DeusAngstMachina: Goren qualifies, if anyone does. Let's see.... his schizophrenic mother hates him, even though he's the only one who takes care of her; his drug-addicted brother gets all the love from their mother; his father - who treated him like shit anyway - turned out not to be his real father; and his biological father turned out to be a murderer, who then gets executed, which on the show NEVER HAPPENS. He gets persecuted by the FBI, ends up in a mental hospital, gets fired, not to mention his health and good looks go to shit, too. This is only a partial list of all the shit that goes down. If anyone can be accused of provoking the wrath of the writer-deities, this character would be definitely be it. The unrelating, unceasing suffering that occurs was enough to make many fans stop watching the show, out of sheer disgust; quite literally, Goren's relationship with his partner (however you choose to interpret it) was the ''only'' thing he had going for him -- no wonder she became his BerserkButton! If anyone earned a happy ending they never got, it's Goren. ShootTheShaggyDog, already.

* DeusAngstMachina: Goren from ''LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' qualifies, if any one does. Let's see.... his schizophrenic mother hates him, even though he's the only one who takes care of her, his drug-addicted brother gets all the love from their mother, his father- who treated him like shit anyway- turned out not to be his real father, and his biological father turned out to be a murderer, who then gets executed in New York, which, on the show, NEVER HAPPENS. He gets persecuted by the FBI, ends up in a mental hospital, gets fired, not to his health and good looks go to shit, too. This is only a partial list of all the shit that goes down. If anyone can be accused of provoking the wrath of the writer-deities, this character would be definitely be it. The unrelating, unceasing suffering that occurs was enough to make many fans stop watching the show, out of sheer disgust. If anyone earned a happy ending they never got, it's Goren. ShootTheShaggyDog, already.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The newer theme song that was added somewhere around season 7.