I've been watching some of David's movies lately, and he does steal scenes, not just by
his looks but also by his talent. The one I watched today was 'How to Kill Your
Neighbor's Dog'. I laughed a lot at the movie, and not all of them were at
David's scenes. His scenes were just perfect for his character. I got teary eyed
at the end. Hey, I cry at some commercials
too. 

I've read some comments about 'Charlie' on Numbers, how some people think he's
emotionally stunted, his character is non dimensional, etc. My personal opinion is
that the characters were well thought out on paper, and the actors do a fantastic job of
putting life to them. All of the actors, not just a few. And Charlie is not David, although
I'm sure a bit of David is in Charlie and vice versa. I find those comments about
David or Charlie make me think that the person commenting may not understand
that David is acting, which is his job. I'm not an actor. The closest I ever got to a stage
was in high school when I worked behind the stage building sets, running spot lights, etc.,
for a couple years. [unless you count the short stint I did as a drummer in a rock band,
but I'm not counting that] But even with my limited exposure to acting, I still know
the difference between real life and characters on tv. It may be a sort of compliment to an
actor for people to think he's really the person he's playing on tv/in movies, but I can
well imagine it's frustrating, a double edged sword to be so good at what you do,
people cant accept you as anything else [typecasting], or they cant imagine you are a
real person with real opinions and real feelings, not the person that is on tv every week..
Don't think I'd like that at all, unless it's a nice character. And just my opinion, but
I think Charlie is supposed to be slightly stunted emotionally, considering his background,
how he grew up, his intelligence, his guilt for 'taking' his mother away from his brother just
because he needed an adult with him while in college. David does a really good job of
portraying that, which has to be a very complex set of emotions to keep on the surface
at all times. And if it gets on some people's nerves, it might just be close to the way some
people really are, who have grown up like Charlie has. There is someone in my family who
is similar to Charlie, but hasn't had the tragedy this character has lived thru. This relative is
just going into Jr. High, so it remains to be seen if his life will parallel that of young Charlie.
So far, he exhibits the angst, anger-under-the-surface, driven quality that Charlie has shown,
although Charlie is a bit calmer and not so.... 'manic'... as the person I know.

And, for what it's worth, the show is called Numbers, not FBI, not Family. I'm
grateful to the writers for adding the FBI crime fighting as well as the family time, especially
at the end. Helps the viewer relax after a hard hour of watching crime fighting and getting the
bad guy. We all like to know that family is where you can be yourself and relax, where you'll
be accepted for who you are. And I have to say, this is probably the first real action TV show
that I've ever enjoyed watching. Now I'm just waiting for the network suits to give some real
comedy a chance, not what they think people will like, but something that is really funny and
intelligent at the same time, something that the viewers want to watch. The first year of Max
Headroom was great, till the suits said it had to be dummied down, as mainstream
America couldn't understand it. I think it was more that the suits couldn't understand it, but
the rest of the country had no problem with it.