Numb3rs 2x01 "Judgement Call"

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The cuttag-name had nothing to do with the episode, I just needed a catchy slogan to get you to read this.
It's all part of my evil plan to take over the world and make it mandatory for TV shows to featureat least one wet, naked man per episode. You'll know when I've succeeded.

Ah, there's Don!
Don is sexy.
*looks at Don*
*licks Don*

And Charlie!
Who is so not my type and yet I cannot resist his geeky charms.
Just like the woman he so rudely corrected in front of Don. And there she stands, chewing her fingernails, picturing him naked while he talks about viagra. Or whatever he was talking about, I had trouble concentrating on the actual content while I pictured him naked.

So now I don't know what's going on. "Just for money?"
Oh, I guess that guy ordered the judge's wife killed.

But who needs a plot, when we have all these handsome men in suits running around. Like David, who looks mysteriously older this season. Wat happened? Did he and Don break up?
Oh no!
But he should have known that it wasn't as serious for Don as it was for him, especially after Don "ran off" with his ex-partner.
Poor David. And now he is stuck with the new partner, who makes jokes about boobs and fags and talks about football without ever mentioning the players' well-trained asses.

It's rather inevitable that David will one day, when they are going out for drinks together, to "check out some hot chicks, dude, you need to get laid", come out to him, make a pass at him, and end up in an abusive non-relationship, waiting to be saved by Don.
Yes, this will be a sad season for David.

Elevator scene:
I am trying so very very hard not to see the Don/Charlie slash. Really, I'm, uhm, closing my eyes now, see, not seeing the love, not seeing it.

Note to self:
Elevator on TV = gay sex


Look, Charlie has Larry over for tea! How cute, he brings his boyfriend home. And his boyfriend is a total geek, who labels girls "dark matter". In fifth grade.
*loves Larry*

Did anyone else think it was a bit strange that Charlie was all over Amita instead of making out with his boyfriend on the kitchen table?

I loved that Charlie couldn't follow when they were talking about girls in fifth grade, because he never was in fifth grade. That's what makes Larry so perfect for him: he is capable of understanding Charlie's work, and he has the life experience that Charlie lacks, while still being excentric enough not too be boring to our genius. Plus, Don will never suspect a thing, and thus cannot get jealous and knock him out, like the way he did that one time, when they were working with a special agent called Fox or something like that on a case presumably involving aliens and killer ants.

More UST between Charlie and whatever her name is. Charlie, wearing a hilarious shirt btw (clearly it was a gift from Larry), folds her a flower. Awe, how cute he is. ;-)


Okay, all that "FBI!" yelling? Isn't once enough? I mean, they have FBI plastered all over themselves, do they really need to scream it at the perps?

Don is not really nice to David at the moment. I'm just saying...

How sweet, Larry comes to bring his boyfriend lunch at work. And he wears the shirt he got when he bought the one he gave to Charlie; it was a two-in-one get a free gift certificate deal at the mall. But it was given with love. ;-)

Wait, it was her?
I was thinking that it could have been her when Don first visited her, but thought that her appearance was too short for her to be important. There goes my instinct.

And now Don is dating the blond girl, yay.
Not.

Not that there is something wrong with her, she seems to be really nice, but honestly? I don't think she is smart enough for him. She is a prosecutor, so she can't be dumb, but she looks like the kind of girl who'd be interested in shoes and handbags and expensive dinners, and I just don't think Don could be satisfied with that. I won't go into the whole Don/Charlie thing again, I decided that it is just not for me (I make exceptions, of course, if need be), but I do think that secretly, Don is looking for someone like his brother. You cannot be around smart people like that all your life and then be staisfied with someone who is nice and fairly intelligent, but compared to Charlie, superficial.

Now that I think about it: is there any Don/Larry slash?

I did, btw, think that the ep was a bit weak on the math. My inner geek is not really satisfied with almost no math and then the pseudo explanation that pi is responsible for everything, and hey, we just don't know. I'm familiar with the concept of mathematicians working with things they don't understand, and don't have to in order to work with them, but it's TV show, it's not like most people can follow the actual math anyway, so "This is the result, but we don't know why", doesn't really do it for me. Especially when it transfers to the case the way it did here.

This is the killer, but we don't really know why, so we had to give her a short monologue at her arrest to explain things.

I'm happy to have Numb3rs back, and I'm very excited about the new season, but I really hope they won't forget that the crime/math connection is what makes this show so different. Otherwise it's just another crime show with pretty men in suits.
*licks Don*



And just for the record:
I still don't predict weather. Especially not on a daily basis.
Unless you count "look, the frog is on the top opf the ladder, it'll be sunny " as math.
Not that I have a frog.