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Date Posted: 19:16:55 05/14/05 Sat
Author: Islandgirl
Subject: Question/Comment about "Numb3rs"

Now that the first season of "Numb3rs" is over. . .am I the only person who feels like I started watching a show based on one concept and am now watching a show based on a totally different concept??
If you'd asked me to describe "Numb3rs" after the first five or six eps, I basically would have said "It's kind of like "The X-Files" meets "A Beautiful Mind"; a pair of male-and-female FBI agents working with a pair of male-and-female mathematicians to solve crimes. And, oh yeah, the male FBI agent and the male mathematician are brothers." Since XF is my all-time favorite TV show and ABM is one of my fave movies, this concept was mighty appealing to me. The creators even alluded to ABM being one of their inspirations for the show. (I don't know that anybody connected with the show ever mentioned XF as an inspiration, but when you have a good-looking dark haired male FBI agent partnered with a petite female agent, I think the comparison is pretty much inevitable.) One thing I REALLY liked about the show was that it had two strong female characters in non-tradtional jobs. And, yeah, I also liked the fact that since all these extremely attractive people were unmarried and roughly the same age, there was a possibility of romance blooming between one or both couples.
Now I seem to be watching a show that, if I was asked to describe it, I'd have to say, "Umm. . .it's kind of like "Dragnet" meets "Bonanza"; it's a crime show set in Los Angeles and there's lots of father-son and brother-brother bonding. And, oh yeah, there's a lot of math involved." There's nothing *wrong* with this concept, it's just a radically different show from what I expected it would be based on the first half a dozen eps. And, quite frankly, it simply doesn't appeal to me nearly as much as the original concept did.
What I can't fathom is: why switch from "a show with two strong women characters and hints of possible romance" to "a show in which women characters are fairly insignificant" in the middle of a season?? I think a lot of people, like me, who were originally drawn to the show in large part because of Terry and Amita are now disgruntled and disappointed. On the other hand, I'm sure there are plenty of people (my father springs to mind) who have been waiting 20 years or more for somebody to come up with the idea of combining "Dragnet" and "Bonanza"; but those people would probably have been turned off by the Pilot and early eps and so aren't watching it.

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