Oh, I'm so glad you wrote about this! Because I was highly annoyed at the "oh no you don't want to be LIKE LARRY, do you?!?" thing on Numb3rs. One thing I loved about the show was its celebration of the eccentric as a valid way of living, and I'm afraid they're moving away from that. Larry seems just fine the way he is. In fact, he's the least neurotic character on the show.
My hope is that this is the beginning of an arc that leads Charlie to the conclusion that being "like Larry" isn't such a bad thing, and also that he and Larry aren't the same person just because they're both incredibly smart. Because you're quite right about Charlie and Larry being really different. Larry doesn't seem to have Charlie's insecurities and general prickliness about his situation in life, for one thing.
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Date: 2006-10-10 06:54 am (UTC)My hope is that this is the beginning of an arc that leads Charlie to the conclusion that being "like Larry" isn't such a bad thing, and also that he and Larry aren't the same person just because they're both incredibly smart. Because you're quite right about Charlie and Larry being really different. Larry doesn't seem to have Charlie's insecurities and general prickliness about his situation in life, for one thing.