First new monk episode!

[conuly]

Well, not very spoilery. Sorry. But a few notes:

1. Right, who plays three-card monte and actually leaves the queen on the table?

2. Hm. I'm starting to agree with the people who say Monk might be more aspie than OCD. MAYBE. He's still a fictional character.

3. *giggles* The whole scene where they arrest the murderer is too funny. (To the urinater) "Where were you raised???" Um, in a city where there aren't enough public bathrooms?

4. Okay, okay, okay. That part about Monk's wife's assassin? The hand thing? Did anybody else scream OHDEARGODNO! when he said "he has six fingers on his right hand"? Because I did. It is, like, SOOOOO cliched!

5. I actually saw somebody with 12 fingers once. The extra two (one on each hand) didn't look like fingers, they looked like growths sprouting from the pinky. Kinda freakish. Do all extra fingers look like this?

So, don't click if 1. you haven't seen this episode of Monk and 2. you want to.

In other news, the first season is out on DVD! Now, who do I know with a DVD pla- OH RIGHT! I have one! *does the cool laptop dance*

And, finally, I'm using the Daniel icon because I don't have a Monk one.

Comments

[meteorie.livejournal.com]

Noo! I didn't even know Monk was starting already. I don't think everyone with extra fingers has strange fingers like that. Having six fingers is actually a dominant gene, so I'd think that the original people with six fingers would be able to use all of them properly.

[conuly]

Having six fingers is actually a dominant gene, so I'd think that the original people with six fingers would be able to use all of them properly.

Um, what? That's not what dominant gene means... For example, myopia (nearsightedness) is a dominant trait, as is Parkinson's disease.

[meteorie.livejournal.com]

I meant, if a person with five fingers and a person with six fingers had a baby, the baby would probably have six fingers. Dominant allele? I swear, I learned this last year in biology. I thought it was so strange, and that's why I remembered it. I'm saying since it's natural, and not an abnormality to begin with, the sixth finger should be of some use instead of a stump like it would be if there was a genetic defect.

[conuly]

I meant, if a person with five fingers and a person with six fingers had a baby, the baby would probably have six fingers.

Not true. There's only a 50% chance of that happening, unless the six-fingered person had two genes for six-fingeredness.

I'm saying since it's natural, and not an abnormality to begin with, the sixth finger should be of some use instead of a stump like it would be if there was a genetic defect.

Lots of things are natural, like Downs Syndrome. They are still abnormalities. Unless you know that most people with extra fingers have working fingers instead of stumps, you don't know that it is not a genetic defect.

[meteorie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's why I said "probably". I should have said "50/50" chance, but I don't remember all that much from biology ;)

People with the actual gene seem to have working fingers. The people with the stumps could have had a spontaneous genetic mutation, and didn't inherit it at all. Although, there would be some instances where there wouldn't be the case, and a person could inherit six fingers from a parent but have defects in some of them when the parent had working fingers.

If I don't make much sense, I'm sorry, I've only had one semester of biology and that's all I'm working from. I do remember this, though. I'm just trying to say there's an actual gene, it's not just a spontaneous mutation. Actually I don't know what I'm trying to say, I don't know why I started this conversation in the first place ^_^ I'm sorry!