Numb3rs is going to KILL me!
Nov. 7th, 2005 02:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castalieSpent pretty much all day [from 11.30 am to 7.30 pm] with the French Posse today and had a blast - as per usual. I had my Starbucks fix at Bercy Village [Paris] then we wandered around [we had a crisp autumn day - I'm in love with that type of weather] and made up the best crack!movie you've ever seen [Sci-fi! Violence! Intensity! Druidism! Mysteries! Artefacts! Tattoos! Heroic Death! Het smut and hot gay sex! Evil Baker! Deadly baguettes!] and then off to Babe's to chat the day away. In the end, she forced GD and I to watch we watched the live stream of the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire World Premiere on her new pc. But seriously it was fun and exciting so I can only imagine how the fans felt ;-) I'm glad Babe got to see it because at one point it really looked as if it would be impossible and dude, I felt sorry for the girl. But in the end, everything worked out just fine.
Oh and btw? Choisy is calm again. I didn't expect a repeat of yesterday's activities and this time I was right. So all is well.
Changing the subject now. I watched Numb3rs 2x06 "Soft Target" last night and OMG I found my favouritest episode of the season! It was so good I thought I would burst!
Quick! A Cut tag so that I can squee in peace!
Numb3rs 2x06 - "Soft Target"
So. Yeah. BACKSTORY! We had backstory. Backstory of the best kind. And we had issues and brotherly talks! And issues and cuteness and backstory.
This episode? Was almost too good to be true. The family parts were so incredibly awesome I could watch them all day and it wouldn't be enough.
So first we have the cutest three stories ever told tomouse man:
Story #1: Thirteenyearold!Charlie having a crush on a girl, namely Val.
Story #2: Thirteenyearold!Charlie feeling vindictive when Big Brother invited Val to the prom.
Story #3: Thirteenyearold!Charlie wrestling on the lawn with Big Brother because Don had invited Val to the prom.
And okay, I think I need to say it again:
Thirteenyearold!Charlie Wrestling. On The Lawn. With Don!
This? KILLED ME DED!
And also, like, it's all in the delivery. So we have Larry innocently asking whether Charlie and Don both knew Val and daddy!Eppes practically literally jumping on the opportunity to tell everything about the crush his boy had on aforementioned Val - for he is a dad and thus entitled to tell embarrassing stories about his kids to said kids' friends. And when Charlie tries to be So Cool about it, daddy!Eppes shows his superiority and rattles on the whole Wrestling Match affair. And Charlie is trying to deny it all and he's feeling all embarrassed and he's doing the hand thing and stuttering and just - Numb3rs writers? WARN ME NEXT TIME YOU DO A SCENE LIKE THIS AGAIN, kthxbai!
So the cute backstory? Would have been enough. Honestly. But! The writers loveme us and deemed it necessary to bring Angst and Issues as well and I about died then and went to heaven because suddenly there was more to the funny little story we'd been told. Up that to that point we had normal sibling rivalry with a pretty normal solution for two kids "I'm gonna kick your ass cause you did something I didn't want you to / Oh yeah, I'm gonna kick your ass because I'm the big brother and I do whatever I want to and you're just a fucking kid" - which btw, from Charlie's side sounded so normal a reaction, like any other kid's, know what I mean? But then we're seeing it differently and there is a kid hurting involved and - wow, loved that.
Loved it even more that the revelation was given to us during a great moment between the brothers. That scene in Charlie's office is one of my brand new favourite Don-Charlie moment *nods solemnly* I loved the tension between Don and Charlie here. Charlie's revelation of how tough high school was for him, how hard it was being "Don Eppes's thirteen-year old brainiac brother" broke my heart. And I loved it when he explained why he loved Val so much back then and why he felt so upset when Don took her to the prom: because she was someone who didn't treat him like he was different. And seriously that rocked so much - Charlie did look really upset, as if it clearly was a subject that is still hurting him now. But he didn't exactly got the reaction he was hoping for, I'm sure, as Don got upset and brought up his own issue and the intensity was, like, brought up a notch and heee tension between the brothers!
I have to say I quite enjoyed the awkward ending of their conversation. Charlie had effectively closed the topic by coming back to the case but it was clear they needed to talk again, except at this point they just couldn't do it, and YAY!
Which, of course, brings us to my second brand new favourite Don-Charlie moment, namely the second conversation between the brothers, at home. I mean, they couldn't stay angry at each other - they had to clear up the issue and I loved it so much when Don started apologising. I mean, it was so thoughtful - so sweet. And then they admitted that neither of them understood the other when they were kids but hey, now they're doing good and oh yeah, loved that moment so fucking much! It also reminded me of that scene at the very end of "Counterfeit Reality" with the whole "two different worlds" conversation, and you have to wonder when exactly the brothers really started to understand each other. I mean, they didn't when they were kids, and they didn't when they were adults either - if they mother hadn't died, would they have ever find each other again?
But anyway, back to the scene: they stop angsting and since they both told the other what they wanted to say, they finally feel fine enough to come back to their - now - usual interaction and we're confronted once again with the Utter Perfection that is the Don-Charlie unit.
That whole scene flowed so wonderfully! And their - I don't know, togetherness felt so natural, so fucking awesome! I mean, they could be - and sound - cuter together, but would I survive it? I seriously doubt it. Also, I have a thing for characters who laugh. Characters don't laugh enough in series - or not naturally enough, at least. And that scene was beautiful - to me - because of that, too. When Charlie's goes "Just think how happy Dad would be if one of us married a doctor" and Don replies "I think he'd be happy if I married someone with a pulse" in that way and they start laughing - I had to rewind the scene, like, a gazillion times!
So those two scenes only would have sufficed to make of this episode my favourite ep in s2 - as it happens, there was also lots of other scenes:
Don finding Larry and Charlie in the yard - both almost bursting of excitement at the prospect of maybe finally winning the finals of the University game.
Larry and Charlie jumping up and down, talking at the same time, encouraging their little robot as it's towing Larry's big car - which btw, yay to continuity!
Charlie harassing the remote as their little bot stopped working.
Basically -> Larry and Charlie being two little kids in front of Don, who's being so nice with his "Sorry, guys" at the end lol
Larry asking whether something is bothering Charlie because he saw that Charlie wasn't so comfortable with Alan's anecdote - he's a really good friend, isn't he?
Alan harassing his boys with the wedding issue.
And lots and lots of other moments - like Charlie using applied mathematics to place people at the wedding. That cracked me up so much lol
Oh and still love Megan more than words can say. And I'm warming up to Colby. Case in point, I called him Colby and everything! David is still cool as well, of course. Something else I enjoy is all the looks they give each other all the time - when one is joking, or when Charlie is explaining things, come to think of it. I'm going for "fond looks" for everyone, which pleases me a lot *g*
Hmm what? The case? Sure there was one -> Everyone was super competent and they beat the bad guys at the end. but I mean, did you read my review? Who needs to talk about the case! Though wait, there was Cyril in there. Wouldn't mind seeing Toby or Keller one of these days, too.
So to make a long story short: I LOVED THAT EPISODE!
Oh and btw? Choisy is calm again. I didn't expect a repeat of yesterday's activities and this time I was right. So all is well.
Changing the subject now. I watched Numb3rs 2x06 "Soft Target" last night and OMG I found my favouritest episode of the season! It was so good I thought I would burst!
Quick! A Cut tag so that I can squee in peace!
Numb3rs 2x06 - "Soft Target"
So. Yeah. BACKSTORY! We had backstory. Backstory of the best kind. And we had issues and brotherly talks! And issues and cuteness and backstory.
This episode? Was almost too good to be true. The family parts were so incredibly awesome I could watch them all day and it wouldn't be enough.
So first we have the cutest three stories ever told to
Story #1: Thirteenyearold!Charlie having a crush on a girl, namely Val.
Story #2: Thirteenyearold!Charlie feeling vindictive when Big Brother invited Val to the prom.
Story #3: Thirteenyearold!Charlie wrestling on the lawn with Big Brother because Don had invited Val to the prom.
And okay, I think I need to say it again:
This? KILLED ME DED!
And also, like, it's all in the delivery. So we have Larry innocently asking whether Charlie and Don both knew Val and daddy!Eppes practically literally jumping on the opportunity to tell everything about the crush his boy had on aforementioned Val - for he is a dad and thus entitled to tell embarrassing stories about his kids to said kids' friends. And when Charlie tries to be So Cool about it, daddy!Eppes shows his superiority and rattles on the whole Wrestling Match affair. And Charlie is trying to deny it all and he's feeling all embarrassed and he's doing the hand thing and stuttering and just - Numb3rs writers? WARN ME NEXT TIME YOU DO A SCENE LIKE THIS AGAIN, kthxbai!
So the cute backstory? Would have been enough. Honestly. But! The writers love
Loved it even more that the revelation was given to us during a great moment between the brothers. That scene in Charlie's office is one of my brand new favourite Don-Charlie moment *nods solemnly* I loved the tension between Don and Charlie here. Charlie's revelation of how tough high school was for him, how hard it was being "Don Eppes's thirteen-year old brainiac brother" broke my heart. And I loved it when he explained why he loved Val so much back then and why he felt so upset when Don took her to the prom: because she was someone who didn't treat him like he was different. And seriously that rocked so much - Charlie did look really upset, as if it clearly was a subject that is still hurting him now. But he didn't exactly got the reaction he was hoping for, I'm sure, as Don got upset and brought up his own issue and the intensity was, like, brought up a notch and heee tension between the brothers!
I have to say I quite enjoyed the awkward ending of their conversation. Charlie had effectively closed the topic by coming back to the case but it was clear they needed to talk again, except at this point they just couldn't do it, and YAY!
Which, of course, brings us to my second brand new favourite Don-Charlie moment, namely the second conversation between the brothers, at home. I mean, they couldn't stay angry at each other - they had to clear up the issue and I loved it so much when Don started apologising. I mean, it was so thoughtful - so sweet. And then they admitted that neither of them understood the other when they were kids but hey, now they're doing good and oh yeah, loved that moment so fucking much! It also reminded me of that scene at the very end of "Counterfeit Reality" with the whole "two different worlds" conversation, and you have to wonder when exactly the brothers really started to understand each other. I mean, they didn't when they were kids, and they didn't when they were adults either - if they mother hadn't died, would they have ever find each other again?
But anyway, back to the scene: they stop angsting and since they both told the other what they wanted to say, they finally feel fine enough to come back to their - now - usual interaction and we're confronted once again with the Utter Perfection that is the Don-Charlie unit.
That whole scene flowed so wonderfully! And their - I don't know, togetherness felt so natural, so fucking awesome! I mean, they could be - and sound - cuter together, but would I survive it? I seriously doubt it. Also, I have a thing for characters who laugh. Characters don't laugh enough in series - or not naturally enough, at least. And that scene was beautiful - to me - because of that, too. When Charlie's goes "Just think how happy Dad would be if one of us married a doctor" and Don replies "I think he'd be happy if I married someone with a pulse" in that way and they start laughing - I had to rewind the scene, like, a gazillion times!
So those two scenes only would have sufficed to make of this episode my favourite ep in s2 - as it happens, there was also lots of other scenes:
Basically -> Larry and Charlie being two little kids in front of Don, who's being so nice with his "Sorry, guys" at the end lol
And lots and lots of other moments - like Charlie using applied mathematics to place people at the wedding. That cracked me up so much lol
Oh and still love Megan more than words can say. And I'm warming up to Colby. Case in point, I called him Colby and everything! David is still cool as well, of course. Something else I enjoy is all the looks they give each other all the time - when one is joking, or when Charlie is explaining things, come to think of it. I'm going for "fond looks" for everyone, which pleases me a lot *g*
Hmm what? The case? Sure there was one -> Everyone was super competent and they beat the bad guys at the end. but I mean, did you read my review? Who needs to talk about the case! Though wait, there was Cyril in there. Wouldn't mind seeing Toby or Keller one of these days, too.
So to make a long story short: I LOVED THAT EPISODE!
