Yes, I will - I have a soft spot the size of the Sahara Desert for shows about geeks, as long as they're written by people who actually know what geeks are like, and it sounds like Numb3rs is. Thinking about it, I think the actual reason I was avoiding it was that the curly-haired brother kind of reminds me of an ex, and I haven't seen the ex in at least eighteen years and it's about time I got over it.
(in what universe is the reaction to the concept of sleeping with your brother not a resounding 'Uuuuugh!', and why do so many people appear to inhabit it?)
Well, yes. I don't so much mind stories about siblings who are kind of broken in the head, and manifest the broken-in-the-headness by having been sleeping together since childhood - George R. R. Martin's Cersei and Jaime, for example, and I can see how you could see the Supernatural boys that way if you really squint, but from the little I've seen of the Numb3rs brothers I don't get that vibe at all.
What I really don't understand - though it clearly floats some people's boats, and good luck to them - is fic where adult siblings suddenly start ripping each others' clothes off at moments of tension. It just seems so psychologically unlikely, and makes me think 'You know, I understand being squicked by RPF - I'm squicked by RPF - but how is writing fic full of the Random Surprise Incest supposed to be any better?'
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Date: 2008-08-06 09:53 pm (UTC)(in what universe is the reaction to the concept of sleeping with your brother not a resounding 'Uuuuugh!', and why do so many people appear to inhabit it?)
Well, yes. I don't so much mind stories about siblings who are kind of broken in the head, and manifest the broken-in-the-headness by having been sleeping together since childhood - George R. R. Martin's Cersei and Jaime, for example, and I can see how you could see the Supernatural boys that way if you really squint, but from the little I've seen of the Numb3rs brothers I don't get that vibe at all.
What I really don't understand - though it clearly floats some people's boats, and good luck to them - is fic where adult siblings suddenly start ripping each others' clothes off at moments of tension. It just seems so psychologically unlikely, and makes me think 'You know, I understand being squicked by RPF - I'm squicked by RPF - but how is writing fic full of the Random Surprise Incest supposed to be any better?'