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Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some  

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 12:53:08 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.


Strix - Feb 15, 2005 1:01:26 pm PST #7950 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I do like Medium; sometimes Arquette is a little to flat-emotioned for me, but I like that she has to work around a lot of RW issues, and it's not psychic-in-a-vaccuum.

Liese, that you even THINK about working out the equations is more mathy than I. I wonder where the Indian potential-GF from Ep 1 went. Did she get a new job or something, cause I thought she would be a regular.

And would that female FBI agent please COMB HER GODDAMN HAIR. She can tie her shirt in a fancy way, but her hair seriously looks like she's been on a three-day bender in Mexico and got gum in her hair.


aurelia - Feb 15, 2005 1:03:03 pm PST #7951 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Erin, were you as creeped out by the Hyatt Skywalk reference as I was?


Strix - Feb 15, 2005 1:03:23 pm PST #7952 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

YES!!