On Salvation (TV series)

Here it is, a post just to begin this new year saying this blog is dead, but it isn't really!

I've just finished the second season of Salvation.

According to Wikipedia Salvation is an “American suspense drama television series”. One thing is undoubtful: it's American, and by “American” I don't mean Canada, Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or any of the South American (the continent) countries. I mean just this:

In fact it is full of all the classical USA rhetoric, stereotypes, characters, and so forth. Almost everything's already seen; abuse of (cheap) suspense and engaging techniques — like when a character acts in a so dumb way just to cause a problem to be fixed…¹

Nonetheless everything is also well packaged (as often it happens with this kind of show) and they keep a good pace; indeed I had to skip over filler moments or scenes, among which I include scenes that supposedly should give psychological complexity to the characters or spice conflicts up a bit, but to me they were boring commonplaces or annoying overloaded ideological speeches/“ruminations”.

Beware: there's a big SPOILER ALERT here… but in between there are other spoiler alerts (with details you can choose to reveal).

On few episodes of Numb3rs

I'm watching Numb3rs. As usual in this kind of shows, you can find things that look unsound and unrealistic.

You must never forget it is a TV show, after all, even if it pretends to portray the reality of math, how real smart guys are, or whatever.

I've taken notes on few episodes since season three. Now I dump them here (just to prove this blog isn't dead as Heaven on a Saturday night).

About errors in general, it's also funny/interesting to read others resources, e.g.

• Moviemistakes on Numb3rs
• Dr. Andrew Nestler's Analysis of Numb3rs

Despite these things, the mathematics and topics they hint at are real, and there are so many things — too many to be all known by a single man as Charlie Eppes — worth looking at. E.g. see the following link:

• Numb3rs math activities