So, about Person of Interest - I did a search in thread, and as far as I can tell, we have spent more time talking about whether we should talk about it here or in Boxed Set than we have spent actually talking about the show. I want to talk burble about The Machine as a character, and I feel shy about doing so in Procedurals, because that tells against it being here. But then again, if I get out my pom-poms and enthuse about moving the discussion to Boxed Set but only have a couple of posts of burbling in me, I'd feel silly. Should I go to Boxed Set, get my burbling over with, and let everyone else carry on without me?

I liked this week's elementary. Last week lacked whatever makes the show for me. Not enough of Joan I think, Lestrade uninteresting and unpleasant (and not in a "love to to be annoyed by way".) Mycroft uninteresting. The mystery boring. Sherlock phoning it in.

The week, nothing special, and I'm not sure they have laid the ground well enough for Sherlock's intervention in Joan's personal life being for the best - though at least he only brought to the forefront a problem she already knew about but was not admitting to herself, and she came up with a better solution than he did. But the Sherlock/Joan relationship remained interesting. The crime, though highly implausible (as is the custom on his show) kept my attention throughout. It waa decent, highly entertaining Elementary. Nothing outstanding, but well worth the time to watch, and miles better than last weeks.

A further comment on last week: the actor who played Mycroft seems quite good. I blame the writing. I'm pretty sure making him primarily the owner of a chain of restaurants is a mistake. Cause if Mycroft is not smarter and more powerful than Sherlock, (though preferring to act from behind the scenes - from laziness or from some other cause) what is the point of him?

And I seem to have misused the slash in the above post, but will let in stand.

Windsparrow,

talk about that issue in Boxed Set. That's what I say.

Here is my post about Ironside. [link] now I'm wondering why reading that didn't bug me that much about Ironside, but I read a recent story about Lincoln Rhyme(from the movie The Bone Collector") and there was a section about how his recent surgery had improved his arms and hands that made me feel like I was going to strain my eyes rolling them. I guess because Jeffrey Deaver is really trying to be gritty and real and then there's, like, this experimental surgery like in a soap opera(Maybe he even got it done in Moldavia) I usually give shows a few episodes before deciding if I like them.

Elementary: I've never seen a TV show explain graduate-school level math, and get it pretty much correct like that before.

Since my math is not at that level I was wondering about that. Quite surprised to hear they got it mostly right, given the simpler stuff they get wrong.

I was wondering, too (Actually, about the math actually on the walls, but still). I enjoyed it enough to not regret staying up past my bedtime to watch it live

I was impressed by the simplicity of how they stated real world implications. I have very few plotlines batting around in my head, but the "this abstract sounding maths that pros wank to will have this impact on your life" seems to get pulled off so poorly so often.

Well, if you can prove that P = NP, it would mean that most existing encryption could be broken, but it doesn't necessarily follow that you could instantly crack any arbitrary computer. Also, it is far more likely that P ≠ NP, but that hasn't been proven, either.