No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DavidS - Feb 15, 2005 12:50:58 pm PST #7940 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Bet I don't.

Well, the only time I met you was right after you finished your all-day krav testing. I can't take an ita bounciness baseline off that.

Jesse's fairly unflappable though. Okay, that time I ran up to her unannonced on the street in Manhattan? She flapped a little. But that's just because I'd broken just about every covenant of proper behavior in NYC.


Betsy HP - Feb 15, 2005 12:51:33 pm PST #7941 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

ita, it varies depending on house style. Usually immediately after the TOC.


§ ita § - Feb 15, 2005 12:52:31 pm PST #7942 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think they have a math consultant on hand for Numb3rs, Erin. There are some things I don't buy, but they're mostly innate mastery of computer programs that work in a domain other than math of physics. I don't know from higher math anyway.

Having watched all 4 eps, I agree with DX and disagree with Beverly -- the body language in #2 was part of the episode itself, and not indicative of consistent hugely awkward socialisation on the geek's part.

am I seriously supposed to remember quantifiable improvements that were part of a job 5 years ago?!

No, you lie.


DavidS - Feb 15, 2005 12:53:08 pm PST #7943 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

She flapped a little.

And by this I mean she raised one eyebrow.


§ ita § - Feb 15, 2005 12:55:05 pm PST #7944 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Usually immediately after the TOC.

Ta! I might just get this finished after all.

I admit, I do startle. In a big boom-and-cursing way. But it's very erratic -- it tends to not be a reflex of the spine, but a process in the brain. If a stranger pops up out of nowhere without presenting a physical threat, my heart rate is untouched, and there's a good chance I'll not even notice. If it's someone in context, also good. But if people are crossing their appropriately designated lines, I'm wont to flap.


aurelia - Feb 15, 2005 12:55:06 pm PST #7945 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I wonder about the math in Numbers, though. I take it on faith, cause, so not mathy, but I found myself wondering what would all the math-oriented B'tas think? Is this all accurate, or TV bullshit?

Somewhere I saw a claim that the formulas were real. I had to laugh at the pendulum experiment in the last ep, though. That so would not work. I suspect there is a combination of actual math/science and lots of hand-waving.


Liese S. - Feb 15, 2005 12:55:16 pm PST #7946 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I'm watching NumbThreeRs and liking it, Erin. But I am not sufficiently mathy to critique. Or rather, I'm lazy. I could look at the equations, but I keep thinking, isn't this why I have Buffistas? To look at tv equations for me, so I can be righteously indignant without actually having to check?

But until someone tells me they're heinous tv numbers, I'm liking it. I meant to watch Medium, too, but I never did.


Strix - Feb 15, 2005 12:56:19 pm PST #7947 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

There are some things I don't buy, but they're mostly innate mastery of computer programs that work in a domain other than math of physics

Like the building structural swaying computer-thing? That was one of the things I wondered about -- it made me think, "Huh, is he a Mary Sue?"

But it was still fairly entertaining.


Scrappy - Feb 15, 2005 12:58:02 pm PST #7948 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I am finding David Krumholtz kinda hot in Numbers. I met him at a party a couple of years ago and thought he was okay but he's grown into his face a bit. Great eyes, and I think he's a good actor--actually I think the show has a terrific all round cast.

Also, I consider myself incredibly bossy, but either folks around me don't mind, or I am wrong about my McBosserpants quotient.


§ ita § - Feb 15, 2005 1:01:15 pm PST #7949 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Like the building structural swaying computer-thing?

For me it was the DNA software -- it's so much less math at that point (or my mother wouldn't be able to hack it) -- I can fuzz more of the physics stuff, what with the applied math quotient.

I think bossiness requires an ability to follow through which I just don't have.

Which is for the best. I'd be so much more annoying that way.