Nerd Alert!
Hey, new Big Bangs today! I'm so glad the strike is over.
posted by LAGuy @ 2:03 AM
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2 Comments:
OK- I'll jump. This show is very funny and I love it- but this is some jock's view of what nerds are. Most geniuses I've met (OK people I've accepted as really smarter than me), while often odd, do not collect comics, idolize superheroes, or have obsessive compulsive traits and most "nerds"(to use the show terminology) I've met who are interested in those things are not super-geniuses (although often in my experience of above average intellect and possessors of vast amounts of information/knowledge about their chosen area of interest).
There is some overlap of the types I realize and the TV show needs a hook but the conflating of Einstein with the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons (who had the best line in the movie incidentally)is an injustice crying for recompense.
Yes, I've noticed this too. It's bothered me a bit, except that I understand they're doing it just so they have more comic areas to cover, I assume, and not because they don't know better.
I've also noted in previous posts they've gone in the other direction and made these nerds too studly. Or at least, after the first several shows, almost all of them had some serious action.
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