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Huh. Maybe I should start watching NUMB3RS again?

Numb3rs is good. It's one of the two or three crime shows I watch regularly; I can't quite figure out if I like it better than CSI:NY or not. Last night's ep's ending was really, really good, though.

I watch it whenever I happen to be watching TV on Friday nights (rare), but I used to watch it all the time.

I am still amazed that Numb3rs did Larry/Megan. That takes guts. I can almost forgive it the Eppes romantic involvements for that.

Yeah, I saw the episode where Megan kissed Larry, and I had a "OMG YOU'RE JOKING WTF" moment before I decided that they're uber cute together and poor Larry deserves some love.

(everyone knows that Charlie/Don is the OTP of the show.... *innocent*)

The show's treatment of Megan/Larry has me amazed and wondering and really, really gratified, because seriously? That's, like, the least likely ship a mainstream TV show will ever do and they did it. And it works.

And I like Megan, and I, as a rule, do not tend to like female characters. *facepalm* So I suck as a girl.

(...no. I can buy Wincest -- um, really, really easily -- but I have never seen a conceivable way to put Charlie and Don together. Colby and Charlie, though...)

Yeah, when the pairing happened, I didn't think it would work at ALL, because wow, least expected pairing of all times, but they're good together. I didn't originally like Megan, but I started to after the first season.

(plz, charlie/don is totally plausable... and I've read some beautiful fic with them together. however yes, yes yes, wincest = totally believable and practically (actually!) canon).

...Megan wasn't in the first season. Terri was in the first season. This show, though, it's, like...not my baby, because CSI:NY is my baby, but I really like it, even if I occasionally want to throw things at the various Eppes love interests that should not be there.

(No, I think the Charlie/Don relationship functions better without the sex or the implication thereof -- I usually only get incest when it's in a case of extreme fucked-up-edness. Like Wincest, or Peter/Susan, or occasionally Ron/Ginny.)

Really, she wasn't? Huh. I don't know what I'm thinking of, then. I watch the show once every couple of months, because I rarely turn on my TV on Fridays, so I know just enough to follow the characters and teh general plot, but that's about it.

And Charlie/Don isn't fucked up at all? I haven't read NUMB3RS fic (incest or not) in a long time, I should go track some down.

No, Megan came in in the first ep of the second season and she's been there ever since, but her predecessor, Terri, was equally cool. It makes me happy. I like the Numb3rs women more than I like the CSI:NY women, which should probably make me ashamed but doesn't, really.

No, I mean...where the situation the characters are in is fucked up? Like Supernatural or Narnia. Don and Charlie are normal, all things are considered.

I can't figure out if Danny makes the best or worst pathologist ever.

Maybe it was Terri that I remember... did she sleep with Don at some point? Or am I thinking of someone else.

The CSI: NY women are pretty awesome, though.

Charlie =/= normal, sorry.

Danny as a pathologist?

Yep. Although it's hard to tell, nine-tenths of the women Don knows have either slept with him in the past or are going to sleep with him. And I'm pretty sure -- Edgerton? Don's ex-hunter, the sniper, or the one who hunts people down, I don't remember if they're the same guy or two different people -- anyway, yay, subtext.

Stella and Aiden yay. Lindsay? Not so much. I don't care as much about the CSI:NY women as I do about some of the other female character in some shows, though. *ashamed*

Compared to some geniuses? Very normal. And Don is fairly normal, even if he is a workaholic.

And Stella is a homicide detective. *zips lips*

Don's just a big ho, but we love him anyways. He's like the John Sheppard of the LA FBI office.

Stella and Aiden are definitely awesome. Lindsay, yeah, I agree on the not-so-much bit, though she's getting better, slowly. I really liked Aiden when she was on, though, and I still pop in my S1 DVDs to watch her sometimes.

Charlie is so far from normal that it hurts. The ball of angst that follows him around, and his P/NP thing and man, seriously, not normal, at least compared to the rest of society.

Wait, wait wait WAIT. Stella is a homicide dick and Danny's a pathologist? ARE YOU WRITING ANOTHER AU?!

Oh my God, have you ever read the AU where John Sheppard is an FBI agent? One of my favorite SGA fics ever. (I am very much looking forward to the eminent arrival of my SGA S1 DVDs. Because I need something to do while I mope around next weekend)

Lindsay was pretty decent in the first couple eps of S2. Lately, not so much. It took me a while to realize that the show on Wednesday was better because she wasn't there. At least in my opinion.

I don't know. Aside from the "not in an alien galaxy thing", is he more or less normal than Rodney? Besides, he's a genius; they're not supposed to be normal.

...yes?

No, no I haven't read this fic. Who is it by and where might I find it?

Have you read crimsonquill's CSI:NY/NUMB3RS crossover AU? It's based in Gila's "Horses of a Different Color" (http://gila.faking-sanity.net/horses.html) universe, and it's really entertaining... it's here, called The New York Connection (http://www.crimsonquills.com/fic/numb3rs/index.shtml), if you're interested.

I liked the Holly Golightly episode with Lindsay, honestly, but I didn't like her at first... too naive and annoying.

Yes, yes, compared to other geniuses he's rather normal, but compared to non-geniuses he is totally weird... and he and Don are totally sleeping together in my opinion ;).

And yes yes YAYE! This is good news.

>Hindsight (http://glitterati.illuminatedtext.com/fiction/hindsight.html), by

rageprufrock, the queen of SGA AUs, and the parts in between are More Than (http://glitterati.illuminatedtext.com/vday/morethan.html) and Personal Iteam (http://glitterati.talkoncorners.net/fiction/personalitem.html), which I'm going to rec again in my "Improbable SGA Recs" post...yeah, Hindsight is basically one of my top two stories in the SGA fandom, and I reread it more than I do Freedom because it's a lot lighter.

No! I'll have to check those out.

I liked Lindsay for approximately twenty-four hours, and then it passed. I think it probably comes from not liking the actress.

*shakes head* I think we'll have to agree to disagree here. Charlie and Colby, on the other hand...I always have trouble finding good Numb3rs fic.

It's actually quite depressing. *nods* Because you haven't asked where Flack is yet.

The first time I saw Lindsay, my reaction was pretty much the same as the first time I saw Peyton... it involved me yelling a lot and throwing things at the TV while shouting "NO OH GEEZE COME ON FOR THE LOVE OF GOD", or something along those lines.

"Call him sir, he likes that..." *cough*

Colby? COLBY? Eugh. I'll pass, kthx. But yeah, there's not enough good Numb3rs fic out there... the only stuff I know of was recced to me by others.

WHERE IS FLACK, BTW! AND MAC. AND HAWKES. ~~AND SID, WITH HIS CREEPY PLACE~~.

My reaction when I first saw Lindsay was, "Oh, maybe this'll work after all." It soon passed. "CHRIST NO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD" was my reaction to Peyton.

Colby is one of my favorite characters on Numb3rs. *nods firmly* I have read good Colby/Charlie fic. I have no idea what or where it is, however. *facepalm*

I CANNOT TELL YOU. Sid is in the morgue. Mac is basically the same as he is in canon.

The fact that Peyton's in the next episode seriously makes me contemplate watching it with the remote in-hand, ready to mute the TV, because ugh, geeze, most horrible character ever, except for maybe Detective Angel or whatever.

Colby/Charlie? The thought makes my brain die a little. :D Of course, I can't talk, seeing as how my friend is writing Mac/Reed for me.

YOU MUST TELL ME, YOU TEASE. You can't just tease someone like that, not without expecting DIVINE RETRIBUTION.

I have no opinion on Detective Angell. I do, however, miss Detective Maka. She was fun.

*sad sigh* But they're very cute together. I shall have to dig up the fics, although I really have no idea where to find them.

But you could just read the fic! It's up now, you see.

Man, there is nothing like realizing at ten o'clock on a Sunday night that you forgot to do homework due the next day. *types frantically*

Maka was fantastic, and she and Danny got along really well.

Try searching through LJ interests for NUMB3RS, and go from there in the communities? I'm sure there are comms with that pairing as the central focus.

Omg you temptress. I cannot read the fic because my mother is yelling because I am late and must get to my appointment (emergency dental surgery =/= fun. at all.). If I had a printer, I'd print it off to read in the waiting room. I'm seriously bookmarking it, though, to read as soon as I get back home :D!!

Oh, I know that feeling. It's worse when it's Friday night and you want to go out with your friends to a movie or whatever, but realize you have an essay due Monday that hasn't been started on...

*crosses arms* Angell keeps screwing me up because she looks slightly like Aiden. When I first saw her, I had one of those moments when I'm like, "Hey, did you just invalidate your own canon?" I want Maka back.

Oh, there are. I just hate most of the writers -- I'm one of the pickiest readers you'll ever meet.

Gleh. Have fun with that!

Oh, Friday night's not bad because I almost never do homework till Sunday anyway -- especially papers. Unless they're big, major papers...no, I mostly still do them on Sunday, depending how long they are.

Yeah, she does sorta look like Aiden, though she definitely doesn't have Aiden's attitude. Where did Maka go? I don't remember her leaving the show... she just stopped showing up suddenly.

I'm usually picky, but in limited fandoms, like CSI: NY (where there are maybe a dozen decent writers total), I'll read almost anything I can get my hands on.

I just don't watch TV on Fridays. No real reason, just nothing on that I'm eager to watch, I guess. But I usually end up doing frantic homework over the weekends because I always put essays off until the last minute.

*shrugs* Just randomly disappeared. I wish they'd have a bit more consistency with the detectives -- either more of them, or have the recurring ones...well, recur. Same with the lab personnel; I miss a lot of the S1 labtechs.

I'm just picky. Especailly in a fandom I write in. With most fandoms, I'll browse for maybe a few weeks at most, then settle in to lurk in the LJs of the writers who produce the most and best 'fic. Usually I get lucky and fandoms overlap. I'm just...I'm seriously picky.

Fridays I tend to do some hardcore lazing about -- either that, or frantically trying to write lots of fic, which I've done at least twice in the past month. *sneaky look* Not often before that. I watch Numb3rs, and occasionally I'll catch Close to Home and Ghost Whisperer, although I don't care too much for those two.

NY has Flack as a recurring detective, but it's like Vegas with the rest of the cops, having them randomly come and go. I like the techs this season, though, especially Adam (who makes me want to hug him because omg adorable). I miss Marty, though... another randomly vanishing character.

I go through fic too quickly to be picky. Usually I re-read over and over again the ones that I really like (like the Bardverse, which I've read a gazillion times, or like various SGA fics, which I bookmark to read again and again).

I write a lot of fic when I should be working on other things. Like right now, I have a random Danny-centric fic open to work on, and a random Eric-fic based on tonight's CSI:M, when I SHOULD be studying for my midterm on Wednesday.

Oh, but Flack doesn't really count. He's more a part of the crime lab than he is homicide, which is part of his fun psychosis.

I reread. And reread. And reread some more. Then I go see what else those authors have written.

I...don't write a lot of fic, not usually. This past couple months is kind of unusual for me. Oh, I'm so not going to have time to write that V-Day AU with Danny as a chem grad student TA and Flack as a sullenly returning to New York math major. Usually I do original fic.

Flack is part of the Crime Lab, but every so often he really jumps out as a homicide detective, as though just to remind us that he is a cop, like the episode with the dirty cops and the drugs.

And I hit [enter] before I finished that, oops!

There's just not enough good novel-length fic in the CSI universe, especially in Miami and NY.

I used to write a lot more fic, and sorta stopped writing for a while, though I'm starting to get back into it now. Why don't you usually write a lot of fic?

Oh, I'm so not going to have time to write that V-Day AU with Danny as a chem grad student TA and Flack as a sullenly returning to New York math major.

Arg, you tease ;D

I write a lot of original work, novels and short stories, but I enjoy working with fic so much sometimes.

I will admit that I almost never read CSI:NY fic. I read

stellaluna_; that's it. Which is something that's weird about me.

It's only really recently that I started being able to write short pieces of fic; usually I think in novel arcs (like the bardverse), and I don't have the energy or the time to commit to writing something like that if it's fic. At this point in my career I'd really rather concentrate on original fic for various reasons, one of which is that I don't really like what's going on in the CSI:NY verse right now. As for non-CSI:NY fic, it's one of those -- well, I do think in novel arcs, and I actually would really like to write a "season three" for Dark Angel, but it's not going to happen because I don't have the time or the energy. And I always feel like someone else knows the characters better, or just...I write a lot of AU, so it's relatively easy to transpose into originals (see: spaceforce).

Arg, you tease ;D

I know. I'm evil. I don't know enough about college to write it, anyway.

I'm a giant fic ho, I'll admit it. I adore reading fic, plain and simple. I like original stuff more, mind you, but fic has a totally different purpose behind it, which is why I like it so much.

I always want to write longer stuff, but I usually lose interest in whatever I'm writing after a couple of days, so it's usually best for me to write a 5k word fic in a day or two, or something shorter. I do the NaNoWriMo for the same reason (www.nanowrimo.org).

Hey, hey, I KNOW ABOUT COLLEGE. *hint hint?*

:)

Yeah, it's always nice when you can write fic and then shift it over to OC if you decide to.

The interesting thing is that with a lot of fic, I don't know the original canon too well, and with originals, I tend to read series, so they kind of blur together in my head. Er, yes, I'm aware I probably have issues.

I do NaNo! This year was my fourth one, I think -- I wrote my original, Dangerous Heroes, which I need to make less of a rip-off of the fic I'd like to write.

Er. But I don't know what I need to know!

I try not to read fic unless I know the canon that it's based on well enough to understand the entire thing.

I adore NaNo... I'm the ML here in Ottawa. Someday, I'll get something good enough to publish out of it, I hope.

I was kidding... you have school and stuff to focus on :D.

So I'm just weird then. *nods* I have actually read whole fandoms where I've never seen the source material at all (Buffy). Yay for the Internet! Usually I just doublecheck the characters, enough of the canon to figure out what's happening -- the basics of what you need to know.

If a fic is going to be good enough to make me want to read it without knowing the canon behind it, I'll download some of the eps to watch, so I can understand :)