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captain_slinkyWil Wheaton announces that he'll be guest-starring on an episode of "The Big Bang Theory" this season.
This just kinda pisses me off because it was two years ago at ECCC that Wil put his finge on what I couldn't quite grasp about that show what was bugging me. He said that he didn't care for it because there was this feeling... this *theme* to the show that was a "We're not laughing WITH you, we're laughing AT you" thing that came off as kind of insulting to us Nerds.
And when he said that, I was all "OMG THAT'S IT YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD WIL WHEATON!!!"
The entire first season of the Big Bang Theory was all about "You silly Nerds! Don't you understand that you're NERDS, and will NEVER get the pretty girl? These are the reasons you will never get a girl!", and it was kind of insulting. Like if they made a show about black people and it was al about eating fried chicken and watermelon, listening to Jazz and tap-dancing... bu tone of the main characters was really in to a white girl who moved in next door. "Silly Negro! You can't get a White Woman! Look at how different your lives are! She doesn't even LIKE Grape Kool-Aid and Malt Liquor!"
THAT'S insulting. But when it was comic books, sci-fi and on-line gaming it became perfectly acceptable. And THAT was just... awkward for me.
But then my Nieces forced me to keep watching the new season, and by golly it got BETTER. I mean, A LOT BETTER. Instead of being about how Nerds will never get a pretty girl, it became about how some people just aren't right for each other. It became about quirky characters instead of socially awkward hobbies. It became a funny show about funny people instead of an insensitive mockery of everything I love! HOORAY!
And now it MUST be okay, because the guy who first made me loathe the show will now be playing a roll on it :) Wil was even wearing a "Rock Paper Scissor Lizard Spock" T-Shirt at PAX last weekend!
This just kinda pisses me off because it was two years ago at ECCC that Wil put his finge on what I couldn't quite grasp about that show what was bugging me. He said that he didn't care for it because there was this feeling... this *theme* to the show that was a "We're not laughing WITH you, we're laughing AT you" thing that came off as kind of insulting to us Nerds.
And when he said that, I was all "OMG THAT'S IT YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD WIL WHEATON!!!"
The entire first season of the Big Bang Theory was all about "You silly Nerds! Don't you understand that you're NERDS, and will NEVER get the pretty girl? These are the reasons you will never get a girl!", and it was kind of insulting. Like if they made a show about black people and it was al about eating fried chicken and watermelon, listening to Jazz and tap-dancing... bu tone of the main characters was really in to a white girl who moved in next door. "Silly Negro! You can't get a White Woman! Look at how different your lives are! She doesn't even LIKE Grape Kool-Aid and Malt Liquor!"
THAT'S insulting. But when it was comic books, sci-fi and on-line gaming it became perfectly acceptable. And THAT was just... awkward for me.
But then my Nieces forced me to keep watching the new season, and by golly it got BETTER. I mean, A LOT BETTER. Instead of being about how Nerds will never get a pretty girl, it became about how some people just aren't right for each other. It became about quirky characters instead of socially awkward hobbies. It became a funny show about funny people instead of an insensitive mockery of everything I love! HOORAY!
And now it MUST be okay, because the guy who first made me loathe the show will now be playing a roll on it :) Wil was even wearing a "Rock Paper Scissor Lizard Spock" T-Shirt at PAX last weekend!
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Date: 2009-09-10 02:49 pm (UTC)