NUMB3RS! For real this time!
Sep. 24th, 2005 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castalieOkay, SO! Woke up early this morning and first on my To Do List was to download Numb3rs, which I did - then had to leave the house so I did that as well, petting Clark and encouraging him because I didn't want anything bad to happen to the download. But I needn't worry and when I came back, it was there... waiting for me and just - that was a beautiful moment *happy sigh*
Okay I'll start with the... I don't want to say Bad but let's say the Not So Cool so that it's out of the way and we can concentrate on the good stuff.
The Not So Cool
Somehow... there were something that felt off to me, as painful as it is for me to say - I say painful because I love Numb3rs so much I feel bad thinking that way, but yeah, that's what I felt. I can't exactly say what but there was something wrong... or missing, I don't know. It felt like the pace was a bit different and - well okay I'll admit, it felt like there wasn't enough Don-Charlie scenes. There I said it. And alright, I always believed that as close those two work together, there has to be moments when they have to work separately because their partnership has limits and all - they each have a job to do, even when working on a case, and they can't always be together, I get that. But truth is, the writers themselves got us used to seeing Don and Charlie together a lot - like dude, it's kinda the reason why so many of us watch the show - so when they suddenly cut off those scenes - though to be honest, I'm not saying they did exactly, just that I would have loved to see more, which actually is different - well there's just something not right. Because it's not Charlie working for the FBI that I love so much but Charlie working with Don. And see, I'm torn because I also have the feeling that when I'll watch the episode a second time - haven't had time yet - I might change my mind and feel that everything was like it has always been... so I'm back to square one and wondering what exactly felt off.
Though wait, there's something I sure would have lived without - all the David and New Guy scenes. I like David a lot but I couldn't wait for his scenes with NG to be over so that we could go back to Don or Charlie or something. Then again, it might have to do with the fact that my reaction to NG? Is meh. I don't dislike him per se, he's just the kind of character I don't care about. At all. His type doesn't do it for me so seeing him so much bored me a bit. Though I'll admit that he seems smart enough to a) listen to David - who rocked, as usual - and b) even put to practice what he'd learnt with him, so he could have been much worse. I guess.
Oh and what was with the whole Don-questioning-Charlie's work thing? I mean, Charlie had to insist on how accurate his analysis was, how Don could trust it and take action not just once but twice in the course of the episode and... well okay, from a certain point of view I can understand Don's reluctance but seriously! Isn't he usually the one who's pushing Charlie and backing him up even when others are skeptical or need more proof? But Charlie didn't back down, good boy. I liked his "what's the difference between my math and partial fingerprints" moment.
The Really Cool
Though I'll be honest and admit that Don's secondbetrayal bout of questioning gave me one of my favourite scenes in the episode, namely the Pi speech. That was Charlie to the core - and also? I think I'm falling in love with everything having to do with Pi - and I cheered because YES! That's the kind of scene I fell in love with when falling in love with Numb3rs! And something else, I thought the whole math thing was... lacking a bit in that episode. And believe me, I'm still laughing at the thought that I of all people would notice the eventual lack of good math and actually miss it. Maybe they didn't want to scare away potential new viewers and they decided to go slow with the math? But then, they should have avoided the David Crockett scene because that was scarily bad.
But anyway, I loved that scene and cheered even louder when Don did the Pi = Bad Guy thing on the board, because that was totally an apology to Charlie for ever doubting the whole thing - and really wasn't that a great moment?
I think it was.Also? I bet it turned Charlie on to see Don write math.
As was - I bet everyone saw it coming - the dinner scene at la casa del Eppes. From a slasher's POV, that scene is awesome because you just know Charlie is being a fucking brat in putting Don in that situation and it also gives you a lot of angst potential because of what Don is saying and Charlie's reaction to it. But the angst and awesomeness of the scene are there even from a normal point of view - I mean, there's everything Don is saying, the way he's saying and then there's Charlie silence and looks and just - boy did I love that scene! It starts out light and teasing and it ends up being a tad more intense - and yeah, Charlie's behaviour in particular spoke to me *g* Well no, I did feel bad for Don because he's basically saying he's forbidding himself from falling in love - or not falling in love per se, but from committing to someone and that's pretty sad. And he's apparently not ready to listen to daddy!Eppes who's awesome and wise as always - so I did feel for Don but I was really intrigued by Charlie's own silence and the looks he gave Don... and I'm talking about the last one in particular:
See what I'm talking about?
Oh and speaking of the eppes!family - how much did I love that the episode ended up with the three men going out together? That much, yeah. Also loved the little bit about Charlie driving and Don teasing him about it.
Another moment I enjoyed was when we got to see the Geeky Trio at the Eppes' with daddy!Eppes and them gossiping about Don and talking about childhood crushes and everything. That was very sweet.
Speaking of geeky - New Girl? Is really cool - I like Megan, she can stay. She's smart and competent but not arrogant at all and she had a good start with Charlie and the whole Geeky Trio and it counts for a lot. I shall miss Terry but Megan is cool so it's all right.
Hey know what? The more I write about the season premier, the more I'm liking it lol Fancy that.
Also, on different notes:
I had a pleasant surprise - Charlie's hair! Characters' hair is an obsession so I couldn't help it. From the promo I watched, it was way longer and the curls weren't so cute but it was still okay here. Seeing the scene I saw didn't belong to "Judgment Call" - I thought it did when I watched the promo but in the end, it didn't - it means that sometime in the near future it'll become unruly and all, but for now it's okay. And that pleased me [/shallow]
They changed the opening theme a bit and even added to Charlie's speech and yay, I liked it!
I STILL LOVE CHARLIE BEYOND THE TELLING OF IT! Oh the joy of having a new Charlie fix on a weekly basis! *happy sigh*
And finally, two pics that I adored:
Charlie is good with his hands - and it can also be useful for origami!
Charlie is never cuter in my eyes than when he does the whole tilt-to-the-head thing. This is so Charlie-like!
Is it next week yet, is it?? I want moooooooooooore.
Wait! To keep with the theme,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
audrarose wrote a sequel to her Absolution story, namely Resolution and it's so fucking good and hot that you need to go and read it! Warnings: it's Don/Charlie. Note that when I say "warning", I might as well say "incentive" so use it whenever you want to - but don't say I didn't warn you.
Okay I'll start with the... I don't want to say Bad but let's say the Not So Cool so that it's out of the way and we can concentrate on the good stuff.
The Not So Cool
Somehow... there were something that felt off to me, as painful as it is for me to say - I say painful because I love Numb3rs so much I feel bad thinking that way, but yeah, that's what I felt. I can't exactly say what but there was something wrong... or missing, I don't know. It felt like the pace was a bit different and - well okay I'll admit, it felt like there wasn't enough Don-Charlie scenes. There I said it. And alright, I always believed that as close those two work together, there has to be moments when they have to work separately because their partnership has limits and all - they each have a job to do, even when working on a case, and they can't always be together, I get that. But truth is, the writers themselves got us used to seeing Don and Charlie together a lot - like dude, it's kinda the reason why so many of us watch the show - so when they suddenly cut off those scenes - though to be honest, I'm not saying they did exactly, just that I would have loved to see more, which actually is different - well there's just something not right. Because it's not Charlie working for the FBI that I love so much but Charlie working with Don. And see, I'm torn because I also have the feeling that when I'll watch the episode a second time - haven't had time yet - I might change my mind and feel that everything was like it has always been... so I'm back to square one and wondering what exactly felt off.
Though wait, there's something I sure would have lived without - all the David and New Guy scenes. I like David a lot but I couldn't wait for his scenes with NG to be over so that we could go back to Don or Charlie or something. Then again, it might have to do with the fact that my reaction to NG? Is meh. I don't dislike him per se, he's just the kind of character I don't care about. At all. His type doesn't do it for me so seeing him so much bored me a bit. Though I'll admit that he seems smart enough to a) listen to David - who rocked, as usual - and b) even put to practice what he'd learnt with him, so he could have been much worse. I guess.
Oh and what was with the whole Don-questioning-Charlie's work thing? I mean, Charlie had to insist on how accurate his analysis was, how Don could trust it and take action not just once but twice in the course of the episode and... well okay, from a certain point of view I can understand Don's reluctance but seriously! Isn't he usually the one who's pushing Charlie and backing him up even when others are skeptical or need more proof? But Charlie didn't back down, good boy. I liked his "what's the difference between my math and partial fingerprints" moment.
The Really Cool
Though I'll be honest and admit that Don's second
But anyway, I loved that scene and cheered even louder when Don did the Pi = Bad Guy thing on the board, because that was totally an apology to Charlie for ever doubting the whole thing - and really wasn't that a great moment?
I think it was.
As was - I bet everyone saw it coming - the dinner scene at la casa del Eppes. From a slasher's POV, that scene is awesome because you just know Charlie is being a fucking brat in putting Don in that situation and it also gives you a lot of angst potential because of what Don is saying and Charlie's reaction to it. But the angst and awesomeness of the scene are there even from a normal point of view - I mean, there's everything Don is saying, the way he's saying and then there's Charlie silence and looks and just - boy did I love that scene! It starts out light and teasing and it ends up being a tad more intense - and yeah, Charlie's behaviour in particular spoke to me *g* Well no, I did feel bad for Don because he's basically saying he's forbidding himself from falling in love - or not falling in love per se, but from committing to someone and that's pretty sad. And he's apparently not ready to listen to daddy!Eppes who's awesome and wise as always - so I did feel for Don but I was really intrigued by Charlie's own silence and the looks he gave Don... and I'm talking about the last one in particular:
See what I'm talking about?
Oh and speaking of the eppes!family - how much did I love that the episode ended up with the three men going out together? That much, yeah. Also loved the little bit about Charlie driving and Don teasing him about it.
Another moment I enjoyed was when we got to see the Geeky Trio at the Eppes' with daddy!Eppes and them gossiping about Don and talking about childhood crushes and everything. That was very sweet.
Speaking of geeky - New Girl? Is really cool - I like Megan, she can stay. She's smart and competent but not arrogant at all and she had a good start with Charlie and the whole Geeky Trio and it counts for a lot. I shall miss Terry but Megan is cool so it's all right.
Hey know what? The more I write about the season premier, the more I'm liking it lol Fancy that.
Also, on different notes:
And finally, two pics that I adored:
Charlie is good with his hands - and it can also be useful for origami!
Charlie is never cuter in my eyes than when he does the whole tilt-to-the-head thing. This is so Charlie-like!
Is it next week yet, is it?? I want moooooooooooore.
Wait! To keep with the theme,
audrarose wrote a sequel to her Absolution story, namely Resolution and it's so fucking good and hot that you need to go and read it! Warnings: it's Don/Charlie. Note that when I say "warning", I might as well say "incentive" so use it whenever you want to - but don't say I didn't warn you.
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Date: 2005-09-24 10:38 pm (UTC)Agree with you on the not enough D/C moments, although, there really couldn't be enough even if they were together all ep, lol! I also heard that this was not supposed to be the first ep, so they had to add in a lot of stuff about the new characters that we would have gotten in the ep that was supposed to air first, Assassins. That may be why the pacing seemed off. They had to fit it in, and probably take other stuff out to make room for it that they kinda needed, lol. Stupid networks. If I write a show and A comes before B, damnit, don't make me air B first and put A somewhere in the middle!
Also, I loved Megan!! I mean, not enough to want to write fic about her, lol, but I thought she was great with Charlie. I liked that she seemed to respect Charlie and want to learn what he was trying to explain to her. Both Terri and David were like, just give us the end result, we don't care how you got it, sometimes. And while I liked Terri, I wasn't invested in her because I already knew she was leaving before I started watching the eps.
Wish the prosecutor chick would
diediedie!leave, but I'm biased against anyone who tries to take Don away from Charlie...and sounds so stupid and NEEDY doing it. Yeesh! Don might want to stay away from her, I think she might have stalker tendencies. *g*The family dinner at the Eppes' house! Loved. Charlie was so jealous. *bg* And he so interrupted them at the courthouse. And I loved the talk about his learner permit and radar methodology, lol!!
I thought it was a great ep, but that might be because I've been waiting so long to see it. Though, as you say, it could have been made better by Don and Charlie having
sexmore scenes together. *vbg*no subject
Date: 2005-09-25 09:52 am (UTC)You know, if this were a seventies show, we could count on her dying as soon as they get together. Violently and tragically. And then Charlie could comfort Don. *sigh*
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Date: 2005-09-26 03:29 pm (UTC)I'd rather have her die BEFORE she and Don get together, though, so he's not as invested in her. Now that they've had one
dateworking dinner, she should be hit by a bus crossing the street. Something that has nothing to do with Don's work, since he was worried about that. We don't want him to have issues about getting together with Charlie. Well, other than the obvious ones. *vbg*no subject
Date: 2005-09-25 10:04 am (UTC)I'm pretty keen on Megan and was delighted to find out she was actually a great character. Now though I wish the prosecutor chick would fucking leave too because I think I dislike her type of character even more than NG - who I think is called Colby, btw? So Megan can stay, but Prosecutor Chick can't! We all voted, sorry, you've been evicted!
The family dinner at the Eppes' house! Loved. Charlie was so jealous. *bg* And he so interrupted them at the courthouse. And I loved the talk about his learner permit and radar methodology, lol!!
Oh yeah, loved all those moments *loves*