You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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.


§ 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!!


Scrappy - Feb 15, 2005 1:05:45 pm PST #7953 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I think Medium can be interesting, but I find her character very cranky and off-putting. What, did God give her psychic powers by removing her sense of humor?