It's so weird that you would say that since a lot of SVU fans tune in exclusively for the B/S sexual tension. It's a good thing you don't watch the show anymore though because Munch has been pretty much been MIA for season 12. I honestly thought he died...:lol:
I've never been one to ship a show or it's characters, so that part I just stayed oblivious to. :lol: Munch has always been MIA for a while and then brought back, then MIA, then brought back. LOL yeah they do this to Munch alot he would call it a
conspiracy 
.. But seriously when the interactions between the other characters, started just to be about B/S it was like wth even have the others on there, other then time fillers. When it becomes more a soap opera (which apparently aren't lasting anymore) more then the drama that they started out, and that promised to be, and that got lost for the reason its there and losing ratings, maybe they should re-evaluate, or take the new season to bring it back to the orginial format if possible, or sadly end it before they jump 30 sharks.
I think that has to be one of the main reasons why SVU's audience ratings are so low. The crimes are starting to get more and more shock value-ish. I honestly don't have a problem with it because I'm interested in that sort of thing but I can understand your issues with how graphic SVU has gotten over the years.
It was just how graphic they were getting with not only the victims telling their stories, which while serves a purpose and comes with there mantra "ripped from the headlines, (but these characters and events do not reflect blah blah blah yeah sure)" there is delving into the world and there is an obsessed need to document every bit of it.
I love the fact that people get interest in sex crimes some even wants to find ways of helping because they realize even though its a tv show, real life people are going through/have gone through alot of this. My issue is that of those real life people, and I don't say that lightly.
When the show first came out they were more umm lets say sensitive on the subject, and how they had the characters approach the victims, etc. the last time I watched it they were showing scenes of the rapes and etc taking place.
I know alot of victims that though they could watch this show, it was suppost to be about the victims, and what they were going through, and how justice can prevail, even when it doesn't. But as they went along it because more graphic...
I loved the aspect of occassionally bringing in family members or just mentioning them, even giving the characters pasts as to how they got to where they are at svu. But they lingered a little IMO to long on Olivia's mother being a drunk, then Stablers kid who (all seemed normal) needing psych help, then Finch whose son was gay/is (is he still alive or they kill him off to, meh anyway). They lingered on them only in the negative aspect more then the positive. I get it's entertainment, but seriously was anyone of them from or have a family that is happy healthy and not seriously screwed up? Even to the point of the characters showing more anger then really needed. Sure the job gets to you, it takes its toll on your mental/physical and even spiritual self, seeing what they see day in and out. But notice that with as much anger they have seething then blowing alot of RL would be in anger management (maybe munch is taking their classes) getting psych help and so on.
But again all thats just my opinion.
