somehow or other, I never end up watching what my friends tell me to

[yati]

Here's the thing with me and TV fandoms: we're never really in sync episode-wise. On TV here, most shows are about half a season to whole seasons behind. Sure, I can probably download and watch a few days behind the rest of the fandom, but I, uh, mostly can't be bothered, really. So when I finally get into a show (usually because I get the whole season on DVD or downloaded it or someone passes me something and goes "you must watch this!") it's ages after the other people watching it have moved along, and I'm left squeeing by myself. :( It also leaves me not knowing much about the fandom itself -- I tend to avoid spoilers, so I don't join the relevant communities.

Here's another thing: I never seem to dislike the characters everyone else seems not to like. Again, I'm not really sure how accurate my perception of this is, since I don't really go searching for discussions about episodes, etc, and usually just stumble upon these things when I go looking for fic.

That long prologue comes to this: I'm watching Numb3rs, somewhere in mid-season 3, and I rather like Amita, honestly. She's smart, she's pretty, and while she doesn't go around literally kicking ass and taking names, she does work on a lot of maths that help solve crimes. Yeah, she was a bit clingy to Charlie, especially in the first season, and at times I do get frustrated watching her always doing some sort of work for Charlie (doesn't she have classes, research, papers to write?), but despite that I still like her. One argument I read against her was that she was too pretty and I was baffled by it.

I also think Megan is pretty awesome.

Anyway. A weird thing about the show: while the maths seems valid (note: not a mathematician) the snippets of code you sometimes see around is somewhat iffy (note: not a programmer, either). I swear I saw bits of HTML when they were running an algorithm on a computer -- I can't remember what it was for, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have done what Charlie said it was doing, XD.

Also, I totally ship David/Colby now. Totally.

Comments

[afuna]

The programs are definitely funky, ahaha. And I think that the theory behind the maths is solid, but the way they go about turning it into practical use isn't as solid (figuring out what inputs to put into the program, the algorithms to convert the data into something that fits the equations).

Mostly, I go *twitch* when Amita finishes a program in two hours, that I know would take days or months to complete (ehehehehehehehehe), but suspension of disbelief for TV time! So I understand why they do it (but it still makes me twitch :D)

I'm pretty sure I've seen snippets that look like completely unrelated JavaScript code, or something, and that just made me crack up.

[yati]

Mostly, I go *twitch* when Amita finishes a program in two hours, that I know would take days or months to complete (ehehehehehehehehe), but suspension of disbelief for TV time!

Yes! That! I think the first episode ever I saw on TV was one I watched with my mother, and I was mumbling to myself on how you can't do that, and how sometimes it takes forever to run a program that already exists through that large a dataset, never mind writing something from scratch, until she told me to keep quiet and just watch the show. XD

Still, I think it's less magical than the way CSI does things. That show makes me twitch even worse.

[afuna]

Heeheeheee CSI. Oh CSI. I used to be able to watch it, but once I started watching Numb3rs and Criminal Minds, I stopped being able to suspend my disbelief to the level required by CSI.