03-11-2014, 07:00 PM
(03-11-2014, 06:43 PM)SpaceAnJL Wrote: When you consider how many of the showrunners come from Nickelodeon, it might make more sense. They are used to catering for an audience of hysterical tweens.
There's always been the view in the show that the whole geek thing is 'childish', a love of sci-fi and comics reduced and equated to 'playing with toys'. And portrayed as a bad thing. You can't be an adult and have hobbies that aren't mainstream. Because, obviously, casual sex and binge-drinking are the mark of a grown-up, and painting your face and wearing a jersey to follow a sports team makes you a good adult, whilst wearing a brown coat to follow a tv show makes you a bad one.
I'm not touching the idea of badly sublimated kink. The kindest interpretation is that they think it's funny to have people behaving like small kids aping a rather infantile concept of adulthood. Maybe it's supposed to be entertainingly transgressive, I don't know. I just find it uncomfortable, tedious and embarrassing by turns.
Jim Parsons is 40 now. It starting to make him look foolish.
