Geek Camp Conundrum

[captain_slinky]

It's That Time Of Year again... the time where I take each of my non-nerdy nieces for a week at a time for an intensive 7-day "Geek Camp". For those of you new to my Internetiness and may not have seen previous years recaps or boasts, let me just sum it up in one word: Awesome.

Past years have included courses on Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Star trek, Star Wars, Comic Books, Super Heroes, Science Fiction, Marathon TV Viewing and more.

This year I have hit a snag with my youngest niece, Hannah.

Everything for her personal course of action this year hinged on her being at least as open to new things as her older sister was last year. I had planned to watch Army of Darkness with her, then move on to Doctor Who for the rest of the week of watching between our games of D&D and Magic.

Unfortunately, she was unable to make it through Army of Darkness because it's "Too Freaky" :(

If the rubber kung-fu zombies of Army of Darkness are too much for her then I'm POSITIVE that the faceless manequin zombies of Doctor Who will also be far too much.

I have to re-design her whole week, and I have to do it NOW.

I'm thinking that we'll switch to watching Sci-Fi's Eureka? That's not a "Freaky" show, is it? I have up on it after the first season so I don't really remember what I'm getting in to here...

Any suggestions for non-freaky-but-still-nerdy shows I can show her this week?

Comments

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

Firefly? Red Dwarf? What about the other direction for nerdy - Black Adder, Fawlty Towers?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

She's only 11... I'm afraid that most of the Black Adder stuff will just go flying over her head. Tried Firefly once and it, too, was deemed to be "Too Freaky" :( I'm a bit worried about Red Dwarf, as I think it comes off rather dated?

I need to get over myself, that's what it is. Red Dwarf and Black Adder FTW! Thank you!

[why-in-the-heck.livejournal.com]

Red Dwarf is SO not dated! I was watching it well before I was 11 and it is forever young!!!

[aurora77]

Red Dwarf is a good choice. Some Doctor Who should be fine, but you'll have to pick and choose.

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Eureka would work. of course i'm a science geek so it kinda pushes my buttons.

And one more vote for Red Dwarf.

[melancholywings.livejournal.com]

She is a girlie-girl? What about sliders? When I was her age I also loved solarbabies, buffy, night of the comet. I needed a girlie character to connect to, and some kissing:p
City of Ember and The Golden Compass both feature kids that are the same age as her. The books for both are good reading - though the Ember books are the better of the two.
Or what about some fantasy geekery?

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

I agree w/Nani, Eureka is definitely a good place to start. It has strong, intelligent, female characters. And the male characters are pretty intelligent too. Red Dwarf is a classic! It isn't dated. She'll probably love it.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Starting with Red Dwarf this morning :)