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The last several episodes of The Big Bang Theory have featured three people credited with Story and three different people credited with Teleplay. I realize TV is a collaborative art, but they seem to be carrying it a bit far. What's going on over there?
PS It turns out Sheldon doesn't like Babylon 5. This is the least believable thing ever on the show.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:28 AM
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I find their comic book reading habits and dialogue unbelievable as well. In my experience, young adult comic book nerds tend to prefer Marvel to DC, and more generally prefer less well known heroes. Having four nerds who all happen to love the Flash borders on the inconceivable. (Although Howard likes Silver Surfer.) Indeed, at one point Sheldon was in a discussion where he bothered to explain the identities of the different Robins -- which is hardly something he'd have to explain to any other Batman fan.
I suspect that, having asked the audience to accept a lot of incomprehensible physics jargon (which seems to always be accurate), the writers decided not to add in references to unknown comic book heroes. So the characters only talk about commonly known heroes.
Or maybe Warner Brothers, which produces the show and owns DC Comics, is doing some product placement? In the comic book shop, all the posters, all the toys, and 3/4 of the comics on the wall are DC. (And yes, freeze-framing Big Bang Theory to look at the comics on the wall is one of the nerdiest things I have done.)
When they talk Star Trek, all they care about is Spock. Everyone loves Spock, but real Trek fans go much deeper into the series.
They did have some quotes from "Wrath of Khan" when Sheldon met Wil Wheaton. Which is odd... I can see Sheldon, as a super-Spock fan, not liking ST:TNG. But if that was the case, why would he have idolized WW in the first place?
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