When is it mentioned...?

[airam]

Does anyone out there know in what episode it is mentioned that Sam plays pool and happens to be good at it? The reason I ask is that alot of fics out there have her be a wicked pool player and I don't know from what episode that stems from.

[Bagpuss]

She plays a trick-shot in the bar scene in Season 4's "Upgrades".
Good enough to win money so.....

[Mr Prophet]

Of course, at the time she has superhuman motor control, so who knows if she's any good normally.

[Major Fischer]

There is a certain amount of logic to it, given her understanding of mathmatics and angles. Superhuman motor control doesn't help if you don't have the fundamental skills to start with.

*shrug*

[trinity1013]

AT is good at it - at least now that she had to practice so long to get that shot right (did it herself, I heard).

There is a certain amount of logic to it, given her understanding of mathmatics and angles.

Being good at pool can't have that much to do with maths, though, otherwise I couldn't be okay at it.

[aschen]

It has to do with physics and geometry.

[Major Fischer]

Being good at pool can't have that much to do with maths, though, otherwise I couldn't be okay at it.

It has a great deal to do with geometry.

[trinity1013]

It has a great deal to do with geometry.

Now, geometry is something different. Because, as strange as it is, the only thing maths-related I'm good at is geometry, I never had a huge problem with that.

[Skydiver]

actually, i used to play pool, and i use that term very, very, very loosely. as in we'd go to parties and there'd be a table and we'd mess around. (we were kids) and i always sucked.

but a couple of years ago, we were ina bar and i starte to look at it like i would a math problem or logically and i could see better taht hitting that ball on this sidewill make it go into that pocket, etc, etc.

pool makes sense for sam in a way that it is a lot of logic, physics and geometry involved

[morjana]

There is a certain amount of logic to it, given her understanding of mathmatics and angles. Superhuman motor control doesn't help if you don't have the fundamental skills to start with.

*shrug*

MacGyver was excellent at pool also.

Morjana

[Major Fischer]

MacGyver was excellent at pool also.

Morjana

Anyone that can build a helicopter with two paperclips, a gum wrapper and a pen cap should be able to do well at pool

[Mr Prophet]

Anyone that can build a helicopter with two paperclips, a gum wrapper and a pen cap should be able to do well at pool

Do any of those skills transfer?

[michelleb]

what about snooker?

[Mr Prophet]

what about snooker?

Different rules; bigger table. I'm a lousy pool player, but at least I can usually get the ball to travel from one side of the table to the other.

[Matt G]

actually, i used to play pool, and i use that term very, very, very loosely. as in we'd go to parties and there'd be a table and we'd mess around. (we were kids) and i always sucked.

but a couple of years ago, we were ina bar and i starte to look at it like i would a math problem or logically and i could see better taht hitting that ball on this sidewill make it go into that pocket, etc, etc.

pool makes sense for sam in a way that it is a lot of logic, physics and geometry involved

I used to play pool on a regular basis and used a theoretical approach. Result: Insane shots whenever I looked snookered which sometimes came off.