Well, as much as I'm against it I don't feel compelled to fight over it. As long as it remains optional - and I can ask Mel to remove commas before the word 'and' when not used as serial commas - then I will survive.
/cue Gloria Gaynor music/
/grins/
Now, if you'd like a debate on whether it should be called the Oxford comma or the Harvard comma?
So, is the Numb3rs episode worth the download, you think? I've been feeling nostalgic, but not completely sure if I wan to get this episode. People seemed to like it,
I think if you go into it thinking it'll just be a relatively good episode of television rather than a return to the excellent form of S1, you'll be happy! I wouldn't want to talk it up too much, but this episode, and the one a couple of weeks ago (I've already forgotten which one it was, but I gave it a good review in my weekly roundup) were certainly better than they've done for a while, at least for me. I don't think I'm ever going to be able to love the show like I did that first year because the actors have settled into their roles in ways that I don't like (and they didn't even have the excuse of changing actors!), but it still has some moments and this one seemed a little less far-fetched than many (I'm looking at last year's finale).
It only now struck me how I was hoping that at least one or two episodes would get back to the feeling of season 1. This has the first time I seem to be mourning a series the way I mourn canceled ones.
This has the first time I seem to be mourning a series the way I mourn canceled ones.
I know. It's rare, and yet those seem to be the shows that suck me in and make me love them so much I get fannish about them. Some shows can get better when they change - M*A*S*H* and Babylon 5, even Star Trek: The Next Generation had their strongest episodes well into the run of the show. But Due South lasted two good years, and then limped home with a third, vastly inferior season (which, of course, has more fans than the "good" years, simply for slash reasons, even though it's shallow - they just think the new guy is cuter). NewWho had one fabulous series, then David Tennant arrived and the writing went to hell, and yet it became wildly popular for reasons I have yet to fathom (although I find it more perplexing that there are people who think DT can act than that there are people who just find him "cute"). But yeah, Numb3rs is the only show to keep all its major players and still have a dramatic drop in quality after the first 13 episodes. Even
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And oh the irony of me noticing the Oxford comma in that sentence...
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Well, as much as I'm against it I don't feel compelled to fight over it. As long as it remains optional - and I can ask Mel to remove commas before the word 'and' when not used as serial commas - then I will survive.
/cue Gloria Gaynor music/
/grins/
Now, if you'd like a debate on whether it should be called the Oxford comma or the Harvard comma?
(Just kidding.)
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It only now struck me how I was hoping that at least one or two episodes would get back to the feeling of season 1. This has the first time I seem to be mourning a series the way I mourn canceled ones.
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I know. It's rare, and yet those seem to be the shows that suck me in and make me love them so much I get fannish about them. Some shows can get better when they change - M*A*S*H* and Babylon 5, even Star Trek: The Next Generation had their strongest episodes well into the run of the show. But Due South lasted two good years, and then limped home with a third, vastly inferior season (which, of course, has more fans than the "good" years, simply for slash reasons, even though it's shallow - they just think the new guy is cuter). NewWho had one fabulous series, then David Tennant arrived and the writing went to hell, and yet it became wildly popular for reasons I have yet to fathom (although I find it more perplexing that there are people who think DT can act than that there are people who just find him "cute"). But yeah, Numb3rs is the only show to keep all its major players and still have a dramatic drop in quality after the first 13 episodes. Even ( ... )
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