For me the problem of the action sequences in Numb3rs is deeper than that they feel tacked on for demographic reasons. It's that the Numb3rs people are really bad at them somehow.
I'm not a film critic so it's hard for me to pin down why I find them so boring, but it's more than that they aren't the kind of really cool action sequences that advance characterization and make sense for the plot, they just aren't engaging or "pretty" in themselves either (the latter in quotes because it is somewhat weird to describe violence as pretty, but that's the effect a lot of it evokes when I watch, just something cool to look at).
I think in a way action sequences are a lot like sex scenes (in slash stories and elsewhere) in that they feel easily tacked on and unnecessary, and very few are truly essential, however they work as candy for a significant part of the audience. And unlike most sex scenes which I skim action usually does work like that for me. So unlike you I don't tend to have that "not made for me" reaction.
I mean there's a reason why my brother asked me to watch Blade II with him when his then girlfriend refused to go to that (and I hadn't even seen the first one, and I thought the movie was kind of awful, but I enjoyed the constant killing and gore well enough). I'll sit happily through two hours with no real plot or characterization for action, killing and violence as long as it works as eye candy. Shootings have a harder time to grab me than some other kinds of action, but the couple of minutes in a tv show rarely *bore* me, you know? I usually *like* looking at gratuitous fictional violence.
And apparently Charlie needs at least Amita (and I really hope the FBI at least pays her well for all the hours she helps Charlie out, and that she doesn't just hang around unofficially because she's supposed to have a crush or whatever...)
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I'm not a film critic so it's hard for me to pin down why I find them so boring, but it's more than that they aren't the kind of really cool action sequences that advance characterization and make sense for the plot, they just aren't engaging or "pretty" in themselves either (the latter in quotes because it is somewhat weird to describe violence as pretty, but that's the effect a lot of it evokes when I watch, just something cool to look at).
I think in a way action sequences are a lot like sex scenes (in slash stories and elsewhere) in that they feel easily tacked on and unnecessary, and very few are truly essential, however they work as candy for a significant part of the audience. And unlike most sex scenes which I skim action usually does work like that for me. So unlike you I don't tend to have that "not made for me" reaction.
I mean there's a reason why my brother asked me to watch Blade II with him when his then girlfriend refused to go to that (and I hadn't even seen the first one, and I thought the movie was kind of awful, but I enjoyed the constant killing and gore well enough). I'll sit happily through two hours with no real plot or characterization for action, killing and violence as long as it works as eye candy. Shootings have a harder time to grab me than some other kinds of action, but the couple of minutes in a tv show rarely *bore* me, you know? I usually *like* looking at gratuitous fictional violence.
And apparently Charlie needs at least Amita (and I really hope the FBI at least pays her well for all the hours she helps Charlie out, and that she doesn't just hang around unofficially because she's supposed to have a crush or whatever...)