Wishful Thinking...

[Wisp]

Oh, 'Community' - Troy and Abed is the way to have a geeky boy friendship. Though the best one I've seen was Chuck and Morgan. THAT'S how to portray geeky bro's, and allow character growth.

Wil Wheaton allowed to display his inner asshat as a nemesis would be funny. But you'd have to balance out the wins to either side. So many possibilities for Trek jokes in mock combat scenarios.

As for sudden!relationship late introduced characters, they would never be allowed to insinuate into this reality, especially when they are just a rehash of the failed character dropped from the unaired pilot, shoehorned in. You don't bang on about 'organic storytelling' and 'only mistress being science' and then pull a whammy like that on your audience, without someone calling shenanigans. Organically introduced characters, met through work or the comic store, make sense. Asspulls don't.

Oh, please, yes, a return to actual acknowledgment of intelligence, and genuine geek humour, as opposed to the ersatz mundane view of geeks we're getting. How about some genuine geek girls? (Wearing glasses doesn't count) Martha worked - but I suppose the concept of normal people having odd hobbies is a bit too brain-breaking for the show, which can't seem to get past 'geek= basement dweller'.

Amen to that. It's always bothered me that the writers, though presumably well-meaning, seem to lack the knowledge (beyond guesswork) of intelligent, talented people. They come in all shapes and forms. All of the supposedly "geeky" women (Bernadette, Amy, Leslie) are, for lack of a better word, a bit plain. Dressing Amy in her grandmother's cast-offs was depressing to me.

It's like a lumping together of more closed-minded people's expectations of what an academic "geeky" person has to look like, and it's very superficial. I would have loved to have seen this subverted, like I have in other shows. Although I've only seen about 12 Community episodes from season 1 (In order), there is a nice bucking of the stereotype in Troy, because at first, I was unsure after finding out he used to be a "jock" whether or not that was it. I didn't expect him to cast off the highschool heirarchy shackles and befriend Abed, in the process become instantly more likeable. (It's a surprising show isn't it, that Community. I never know what's coming next.) It feels to me that the TBBT writers are incapable of "moving on" the characters and keeping their core personalities and credibility intact.