Yeah, they do know what geeks are like. They occasionally fall down over, eg, the details of how an academic journal functions, but the heart is there--for instance, in one episode they dedicate several minutes of screentime to the fact that if you fill a bathtub with cornstarch and water in the right proportions, you can run across it with shrieks of delight, and isn't that awesome? :)
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.
Aw, but Charlie's a sweetheart, if you don't mind cocky brilliance and a tendency to enthuse about maths almost constantly :) Physical resemblance or personality-wise? If it's only physical, I imagine that he's a strongly-written enough character to drown out the resemblance after a bit.
from the little I've seen of the Numb3rs brothers I don't get that vibe at all.
I don't really get the appeal of slash to start with, and the side of incest is enough to send me screaming for the back button. But, no, the Eppes boys really aren't that sort of broken-in-the-head to my eyes. Charlie in particular is preternaturally well-balanced considering the pressures of his upbringing, and most of his brother's issues are burnout from the FBI job. I suppose the thing is that they quite clearly love each other to pieces, with occasional resentment, and love + tension = sex in the collective mind of fandom. Or something.
I couldn't ever manage to forget that they're siblings. They're just such brothers sometimes, down to squabbling over whole gets to hold the Playstation controller. :) Ever since Charlie was three, the entire family has danced attendance on him and his special talent, including five-years-older Don, who's a bright, athletic overachiever, and in any other family would have been the star. Not unnaturally, Don never wants to hear the words 'genius' or 'maths' in his adult life, and goes off for a decade or so to make his career without baby brother around. Given the premise of the series, he's not able to keep that up, so you get a mix of you're such a pest, buddy and hurt my little brother and I will make sure you die in pain. Charlie, meanwhile, has been thoroughly loved and protected and babied, while at the same time going through the education system at a rate of knots, so that he acts young for his age (he gives me the impression sometimes of being a well-socialised Aspie), and IMO the first disaster that happens to him in his life is their mother dying just before the series starts. He is kind of overeager to impress Don whom he hero-worships, and get his attention in a way that's not tagalong-pain-in-the-neck. So I suppose you could add slightly needy little brother to the equation up there. But the main drive of the family subplot is that they're getting over the resentment and the neediness.
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Re: Long reply, sorry!
Date: 2008-08-06 10:30 pm (UTC)Yeah, they do know what geeks are like. They occasionally fall down over, eg, the details of how an academic journal functions, but the heart is there--for instance, in one episode they dedicate several minutes of screentime to the fact that if you fill a bathtub with cornstarch and water in the right proportions, you can run across it with shrieks of delight, and isn't that awesome? :)
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.
Aw, but Charlie's a sweetheart, if you don't mind cocky brilliance and a tendency to enthuse about maths almost constantly :) Physical resemblance or personality-wise? If it's only physical, I imagine that he's a strongly-written enough character to drown out the resemblance after a bit.
from the little I've seen of the Numb3rs brothers I don't get that vibe at all.
I don't really get the appeal of slash to start with, and the side of incest is enough to send me screaming for the back button. But, no, the Eppes boys really aren't that sort of broken-in-the-head to my eyes. Charlie in particular is preternaturally well-balanced considering the pressures of his upbringing, and most of his brother's issues are burnout from the FBI job. I suppose the thing is that they quite clearly love each other to pieces, with occasional resentment, and love + tension = sex in the collective mind of fandom. Or something.
I couldn't ever manage to forget that they're siblings. They're just such brothers sometimes, down to squabbling over whole gets to hold the Playstation controller. :) Ever since Charlie was three, the entire family has danced attendance on him and his special talent, including five-years-older Don, who's a bright, athletic overachiever, and in any other family would have been the star. Not unnaturally, Don never wants to hear the words 'genius' or 'maths' in his adult life, and goes off for a decade or so to make his career without baby brother around. Given the premise of the series, he's not able to keep that up, so you get a mix of you're such a pest, buddy and hurt my little brother and I will make sure you die in pain. Charlie, meanwhile, has been thoroughly loved and protected and babied, while at the same time going through the education system at a rate of knots, so that he acts young for his age (he gives me the impression sometimes of being a well-socialised Aspie), and IMO the first disaster that happens to him in his life is their mother dying just before the series starts. He is kind of overeager to impress Don whom he hero-worships, and get his attention in a way that's not tagalong-pain-in-the-neck. So I suppose you could add slightly needy little brother to the equation up there. But the main drive of the family subplot is that they're getting over the resentment and the neediness.