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Hello, new fandom!
I 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?"
I'm also slightly creeped out by everyone pressuring Charlie to ask Amita out. Charlie seems aware of the fact that, as her thesis advisor, that is a Bad Idea that could get him fired. But no one else does. And even though they're the same age...I will never not find professors marrying their grad students creepy. I've known many who did, and it's...creepy. Sorry. So to have the show treat it like an average love interest and ignore the HE IS HER ADVISOR and THERE IS A CODE OF ETHICS thing is really weird.
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?"
I'm also slightly creeped out by everyone pressuring Charlie to ask Amita out. Charlie seems aware of the fact that, as her thesis advisor, that is a Bad Idea that could get him fired. But no one else does. And even though they're the same age...I will never not find professors marrying their grad students creepy. I've known many who did, and it's...creepy. Sorry. So to have the show treat it like an average love interest and ignore the HE IS HER ADVISOR and THERE IS A CODE OF ETHICS thing is really weird.