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Hello, new fandom!
Mar. 18th, 2011 12:38 pmI have started watching Numb3rs because my love for procedural TV shows, it is boundless. And the family dynamics are just as deliciously angsty as the presence of a small but devoted fandom would suggest.
But the plots--holy christ. The plots are ludicrous. There's believable procedural writing, then there's Criminal Intent, then there's NCIS, then there's NCIS:LA...then there's Numb3rs. Yes, I know, your conceit is math to solve crimes. But you expect me to believe there's a tipping point where average people just start killing people with rifles? Really? And for all that most of the time the math-position is accurate if banal, there's been at least one time where I was yelling at the screen, "What is your y-axis? What? You're plotting frequency--that's one dimensional! What's the other dimension?"
( Spoiler for season one arc )
But the plots--holy christ. The plots are ludicrous. There's believable procedural writing, then there's Criminal Intent, then there's NCIS, then there's NCIS:LA...then there's Numb3rs. Yes, I know, your conceit is math to solve crimes. But you expect me to believe there's a tipping point where average people just start killing people with rifles? Really? And for all that most of the time the math-position is accurate if banal, there's been at least one time where I was yelling at the screen, "What is your y-axis? What? You're plotting frequency--that's one dimensional! What's the other dimension?"
( Spoiler for season one arc )