Fully Functional.
My wife actually love BBT and got me watching it. I still hate laugh track sitcoms, and as a Super Nerd a lot of things irritated me, but overall it’s not nearly as bad as I was expecting from all the meme hate.
Still, the meme is not wrong, Data had a fine positronic brain, sure, but He can kill a motherfucker when necessary.
Papa Soong didn’t raise no bitch.
You want someone to look tough? Have them knock down Worf. Want someone to look unstoppable? Have them subdue Data.
How well does Data fair against blue barrels?
I found big bang theory a lot more palatable if you consider it as an unreliable narrator story, with penny as the narrator. It’s not what actually happened, but what Penny remembers about it. All the geeky/nerdy stuff gets filtered. Only the surface, superficial stuff gets remembered, and even that is distorted. That is why it plays on stereotypes so much.
My wife likes BBT, I’ve learnt to tolerate it at best.
I did grad school in planetary science while BBT was airing. I hated it. I could go hang out with my friends and have much funnier nerdy convos. “I’ll buy you a beer if you can prove to me that the electron exists.” – one of my favourite remembered starts to many hours of drinking one day.
My dad watched BBT and was pretty convinced it was a documentary of my life, or close enough. I told the above story to my dad, and it did nothing to dissuade him.
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My biggest memory regarding BBT was the time I was hanging out with a GF family and when her mom’s friend asked her how she’d been doing/what was going on with her life she mentioned that she had been playing D&D with some of her friends (no details about it or anything just that) and her mom’s friend immediately started cackling “IT’S JUST LIKE BIG BANG THEORY!”. Really cemented my disdain for the show knowing what kind of person enjoyed it.
Just the same, this is completely on brand for Sheldon’s interpretation of the character. He finds one aspect of the character he identifies most with, and completely ignores the ones that he doesn’t.
I recently binged the whole thing, mostly because I wanted to know how it ended. I stopped watching it around season 3 when it was on the air.
The show is literally only watchable at 2x speed.
I cannot take laugh tracks anymore. They just annoy the fuck out of me. If you ever get a chance and you like the show, the European version of M*A*S*H without the laugh track was a revelation. The people responsible for the laugh track didn’t understand when the show was actually trying to be funny half the time.
Our hate comes from within. We all watched it with such naive hope for far too long before realizing that we were the punchline.
The disappointment that gets through in the memes is the disappointment we feel in ourselves.It’s a show I loved to hate when it aired, but watching the occasional episode here or there with my gf I’m finding that it gets a few chuckles out of me.
The Big Bang theory always felt like a stupid person’s idea of what smart people are like.
Also, from the couple of episodes I watched, apart from being terribly unfunny, it felt like the whole point was just to mock neruodivergent people.
To be fair that’s what most comedy shows seem to do.
The IT Crowd managed to pull off nerd humor well though.
There was nothing smart about BBT, that’s for sure. It’s just annoying and stupid.
I still remember the comic that had a character calling it “nerd minstrel” lmao
They were all so mean. To me it felt like they were trying to normalize mean-ness, racism and sexism, under the guise of “nerds are misunderstood”
I hated that show. My mother would constantly make comparisons between Sheldon and I.
That shit hurts, mom…
Led to me discovering I was gay…so there’s that, I guess. Fuck that show
That’s fucking rough, buddy
I honestly find even ten seconds of the Big Bang theory to be like nails on a chalkboard.
It feels written by someone who isn’t a nerd trying to write a nerd character and just missing the point utterly and completely.
If you want an example of good non neurotypical nerd characters that are on the spectrum maybe, you don’t need to look any further than Tendi and Rutherford in Lower Decks. They both have heart and feel way more fleshed out than the Big Bang theory.
The Big Bang theory just makes me want to vomit, it either feels like the most insufferable version of nerds or it feels like a high school bullies super reductive perception of nerds. Also the whole “Penny is a normal hot girl hanging out with nerds” is such a stereotypically reductive setup too.
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It’s nerd blackface.
One thing I did not like about data is he sorta made everyone else second best in thier specialty. stronger than worf, smarter than wesley. I almost surprised they did not give him more sensory capabilities than giordi.
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riker will never be as fully functional as data and even picard louds his wisdom at times.
Lauded.
No bro, Picard louds it. Like when he says “THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS!”
Riked never could woo Tasha Yar, so Data has that on him!
Yeah, but they were both space drunk at the time, so does that count?
Data looking at that hologram of Yar is the funniest fucking scene in the entire series.
He’s stronger than worf, but doesn’t have his instinct for dangerous situations. He’s smarter than Westley (lol) but doesn’t have a great capacity for improvisation and adaptability. He’s technically better than Geordi at science, but not necessarily engineering, again pointing at his spock-like proclivity for sticking with “in the box” thinking.
Ironically, Geordi has better tech eyes, but data gets more play, if you know what I’m saying 😉
That’s one of the reasons I think neurodivergents identify so strongly with him. I might be smarter, or better at some things than someone else, but it definitely doesn’t mean I’ll be more successful than they are.
They did it with Spock too, so it is sort of par for Trek
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yes but no post nut clarity.
Man in the future not only will machines take our jobs but they will also turn into Data and take our girls
But that’s kinda the same discussion as in pen and paper RPGs - why do have any other regular members of the party if you have magic user. It’s a cool idea to add frankly overpowered character but it will inevitably lead to the numerous plotlines where they gonna have to cripple them or remove from the picture in order to let others to show some problem solving skills.
They do that with villains in those superhero movies too. First you introduce ludicrously powerful character that can alter matter at will or manipulate time or crush armies with thought then how do some much weaker guys defeat them? When they are looking to the left so they don’t see someone’s first. Or some random crap that was never mentioned before. Or sometimes literally a more powerful guy shows up.
It’s the easiest way to put yourself into a corner as a writer.
yeah it drives me a little nuts with adam eve in incredible. she fights so many opponets who rely on tech but doesn’t bother converting it all to lead bricks.
adam eve in incredible
It’s actually atom eve. I had the same confusion when I first watched the show. The fact that the animators screwed up and used the “far away” version of her chest logo (with just an X over the female symbol) during closeups didn’t help. Her actual logo is the female symbol with electron orbits around it.
I mean… I could tell the TBBT writers never watched Star Trek because I have seen TBBT, so I’ve been subjected to their writing.
He’s criticizing their technique.
Any true fan would have posed Worf getting his ass kicked.
Worf said Data is the only member of the crew strong enough to break his wrist.
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I dunno, I actually really liked TBBT. It’s one of those series that I can go back and watch whenever I feel down.
Seems like a fun bunch of friends who know how and when to mock each other, and seldom go too far. If they do go too far, they usually apologise and don’t do it again.
I think people nowadays just get offended too easily.
You think the problem people had with that show was that it was too “offensive”? Lmfao.
Like what you like, but the criticism I had/heard was never once, “I can’t handle how edgy this is”
It’s trashy and very migonystic. I’m okay with guilty pleasures but please express the guilt, don’t take the people get offended easily route.
Lol it seems like everything is misogyny nowadays.
I really think it’s because people get offended way too easily.
We’re just telling you why it’s trash and not aimed at actual nerds. It’s aimed at the general population and the characters are shown to treat girlfriends like trophies. The whole offense thing is mostly a free-speech absolutist talking point. And you don’t want to know what type of political movement historically are free-speech absolutist until they consolidate power.
Well, you’re entitled to believe what you wanna believe. I don’t think they treat their girlfriends like trophies generally.
So, yes, I do believe people are getting offended way too easily. The fact that a simple opinion of mine is rubbing so many people the wrong way is proof of this.
It’s our opinion about a show. Don’t flatter yourself thinking I’m clutching my pearls on your behalf.
Well alright then. No need to be so aggressive to people who don’t share your view.
Just don’t get offended so easily.
