this week's Numb3rs...

[ratcreature]

Is it just me or are the action scenes in Numb3rs exceptionally boring and are getting actually worse as time goes on?

I usually like action. I mean, I like well choreographed fight scenes better than shootings, and space battles better than car chases, but normally I enjoy all kinds of action scenes and don't have the urge to fast forward through them or to play Tetris, not even during somewhat gratuitous or lengthy action sequences. Case in point, I actually liked the car and helicopter chases in The Sentinel, though I seemed to be somewhat in the minority in the fandom. But the action scenes in this week's Numb3rs episode bored me silly.

Also shouldn't the FBI have computer crime specialists and technicians handling traces and such? Why did they employ an outside mathematician consultant and a grad student to do that kind of work? That didn't really made sense to me.

Comments

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

I have to agree about the action sequences. I'm not a major fan of them generally, but sometimes, they work.

Part of what's bugging me about the action sequences on Numb3rs lately is that, as I'm watching them, I feel a lot like I'm sitting through something designed for someone else's enjoyment. Like... it feels like a "demographic moment" to me, like a ploy designed to pull in the crucial male audience. And, um, I think that's what it's for. I think that these last few eps have been about, "We've been renewed, we have our first year DVD out, and now we're bummed we only have a 40% male audience and we want more boys."

So we get ridiculously long and loud gunfests and proof-positive that the guys are all Real Men who fuck women, and... gah, y'know?

As for the specialists, Charlie is Superman. Does Superman have assistants?

Yeah.