Speaking of mixin’s, not only do I like to mix my cereals together, but sometimes I like to mix my TV shows together. I figured if I outlined my little vision here (no pun intended), you could help me fill in the gaps, and then we can go hit up NB[C]BS for a big advance so we could make the new hit TV show! Who’s with me!?!?!?
Two shows I really like to watch and are at the top of my list of shows to play back on DVR when I do actually have the time to watch are NUMB3RS and MEDIUM:
In “NUMB3RS”, Charlie Eppes is cute and is a mathematician (it’s rare to be both) whose brother heads an FBI squad in L.A. and his special skills help him to solve and prevent crime. In “Medium”, Allison DuBois is a psychic and a medium (it’s rare to be both) who works for the District Attorney’s office in Phoenix, AZ and her special skills help her to solve and prevent crime.
See the connection?
So I figured if the two shows merged, they could call it Median but then of course use the funky ghostly letters from Medium and use numbers in the word like NUMB3RS, so you’d end up with M3D1AN (somebody out there make a logo and submit it in the comments.) And since “median” is commonly used as a mathematical term meaning the midpoint, or average (in some cases), or middle value, it seems to work out nicely. Also, you might say Allison is a midpoint between our plane of existance and the beyond.
The show would have both Charlie and Allison work on crimes — get this – *together*. Isn’t that brilliant? I bet you didn’t see it coming. Allison could “sense” the dead and view potential futures, while Charlie could work out mathematically the odds of each vision being appropriate for that particular case. How many times does Charlie go wrong with one of his hunches, and then alter it right at the end? Well, Allison could help him know which algorithm might help him the most. Heck, maybe they could solve TWO crimes per episode!
Then we could have all sorts of small plot lines (submit your ideas in the comments)
- Joe DuBois (Allison’s husband) and Megan Reeves (FBI Agent) have a romantic past, and it keeps taking the front burner in different episodes, causing all sorts of troublesome visions for Allison.
- DA Manuel Devalos (Allison’s boss) and Don Eppes (Charlie’s brother) keep getting into pissing fights and arguing over jurisdiction and who calls the shots.
- Alan Eppes (the dad, played by Judd Hirsch) could babysit the three DuBois kids and teach them all sorts of life lessons.
- Don’t tell me Colby Granger and Detective Lee Scanlon wouldn’t get along real good.
- I bet Ridley Scott would have TONS of great ideas of how to use the paranormal in his storylines. They already had a psychic on once to help Charlie, and they did a good job with it I think.
Keep the idea alive and comment on what you think would work on the show.
Um, Wayne, you have way too much time on your hands.
Dude. I watch both those shows and your idea is…. EXCELLENT!!! At the very least, they should do a crossover episode (they do them with tons of other shows!).
You forget to mention how nobody believes them until they turn out to be right… EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE TOTALLY RIGHT ON THE MONEY EVERY WEEK!
By the way, there’s few things I like better than pushing Wayne’s buttons, but when I push the one in your sidebar it asks for login information. If you could forward this to me so that I can push another Wayne Button properly today, I’d appreciate it.
I used to like Numb3rs when it first started. After the second season, I just felt like it got stupid.
The bad math turned me off of Numb3rs early in the first season.
Medium held on for a while, but it just got too repetitive. The husband’s attitude also turned me off. I concur with the comment in the link that Dave2 posted that Ghost Whisperer is better in this regard, though I eventually gave up on that for its repetitiveness as well.
Of course, I expect others find some of the shows I do watch repetitive in their own right, so its probably more than just the repetitiveness that eventually led me to dropping these shows.
I’ve recently started watching Ghost Whisperer. I think the repetition will be something I can handle because I love JLH so much.
I like Numbers, but Medium is too hokey for me.
Of course my favorite is House. Love that sarcasm!
Kick butt tonight and see ya next week!
I’m dragging Durden to a musical tonight, don’t ya know he’s dying!?
Absurdist, you changed your gravatar, and you say *I* have too much time on my hands?
sourpuss, hey, crossover is a good idea. wait, no.. it’s EXCELLENT!
Dave, yes, we sit at listen to Joe’s “but don’t you think you might be overreacting if…” but I think it works well in the show. For example, once Ariel “saw” her friend hooked up to tubes and sick, but she was 16 instead of 13. Turned out it was a cousin and not her friend, so if she had gone with her initial reaction, it would’ve blown up. And I’ll see about one of those button logins for ya. Here, hold this wire while you wait… (bonus points if you get the reference)
aVITTTable, so now you have a problem with stupid?
Ren, I’m not familiar enough with GOOD math to know the difference. All I know is that it makes enough sense to me, most of the time, and I think Charlie’s explanations and the director’s visual assistance make it entertaining.
Raganator, We heard about Medium from a friend, and on that recommendation, we rented the first season and are almost done with the second. We haven’t seen any current episodes (3rd? 4th? dunno). Pretty much, if I watch a TV show, I want to be loyal and that admittedly cuts down on the number of shows I watch.