05-21-2017, 05:46 PM
Sheldon's a Ravenclaw.
As for the show and it's portrayal/perception of nerds - nerd has always had connotations of social awkwardness, weirdness. Geek is more about enthusiasm for a subject. You can be a geek about something, and have a job and friends and social acceptability. It is about what you like. A nerd is what you are, and a nerd can have no interest in anything remotely genre.
The show took people who are socially inept, occasionally self-loathing, and frequently vile as human beings, and initially gave them interests that were seen as mockable, the mainstream shorthand for 'weirdo'. Well, the interests have dwindled away, but the people remain sad, desperate and pathetic. It was never their hobbies that made them that way. The show does not want to admit to this latter fact.
Yes, if the guys were genuinely into their hobbies, they would meet other people interested in the same. Four hour arguments about war-crime tribunals for Death Eaters. Enthusiasm for tearing apart works of fiction to find the esoteric references to other works. Encyclopaedic knowledge of spaceship stats. And yes, impassioned debate about medieval weaponry. Honestly, they should have big kitchen fights about the latest Marvel fuckery, the 'book is better' rows about who got written out of GoT, opinions about StarWars. These things are not hidden away, now. You can have a favourite Doctor, a Reichenbach theory, quote Loki, Kirk, Gandalf...normal people get these things, now.
And BBT was not responsible for that. They piggybacked on the growing mainstream success without understanding it. Their references are the blandest, most recognisible, mainstream commercial nods. They adopt pop culture. Their influence is a handful of slogans on t-shirts.
Which, incidentally, tend to relate to the one character who started out as the most genuine unique individual of them all. The one that they deconstructed and destroyed, reduced to a primary-coloured man-child in the care of his repulsive nanny-keeper.
As for the show and it's portrayal/perception of nerds - nerd has always had connotations of social awkwardness, weirdness. Geek is more about enthusiasm for a subject. You can be a geek about something, and have a job and friends and social acceptability. It is about what you like. A nerd is what you are, and a nerd can have no interest in anything remotely genre.
The show took people who are socially inept, occasionally self-loathing, and frequently vile as human beings, and initially gave them interests that were seen as mockable, the mainstream shorthand for 'weirdo'. Well, the interests have dwindled away, but the people remain sad, desperate and pathetic. It was never their hobbies that made them that way. The show does not want to admit to this latter fact.
Yes, if the guys were genuinely into their hobbies, they would meet other people interested in the same. Four hour arguments about war-crime tribunals for Death Eaters. Enthusiasm for tearing apart works of fiction to find the esoteric references to other works. Encyclopaedic knowledge of spaceship stats. And yes, impassioned debate about medieval weaponry. Honestly, they should have big kitchen fights about the latest Marvel fuckery, the 'book is better' rows about who got written out of GoT, opinions about StarWars. These things are not hidden away, now. You can have a favourite Doctor, a Reichenbach theory, quote Loki, Kirk, Gandalf...normal people get these things, now.
And BBT was not responsible for that. They piggybacked on the growing mainstream success without understanding it. Their references are the blandest, most recognisible, mainstream commercial nods. They adopt pop culture. Their influence is a handful of slogans on t-shirts.
Which, incidentally, tend to relate to the one character who started out as the most genuine unique individual of them all. The one that they deconstructed and destroyed, reduced to a primary-coloured man-child in the care of his repulsive nanny-keeper.