[ SECRET POST #2781 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2781 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Game of Thrones]


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[Kevin Sorbo/Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]


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[Transformers: Prime]


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Comments

Re: Mostly confusion over the target audience.

[(Anonymous)]

The co-created credit or the fact it was on CBS should have been enough to clue people in that BBT wasn't passing itself over as "the sitcom for nerds." It wasn't like the show started off as a single-cam NBC comedy or a YouTube webseries or some shit.

Re: Mostly confusion over the target audience.

[nyxelestia]

I guess that would depend on familiar you are with various networks as content creators. With a handful of exceptions, I don't watch enough shows or even know about enough shows from any network to get a general impression of what the network creates on average. I definitely know that I didn't know until right now that CBS was "known" for crap sitcoms, and I went to see their show listing on Wikipedia to check.

Unless it's seriously problematic or other people more familiar with a network point out a trend, I'll take a show its own value and in this case, I look at TBBT based on how I remember it being advertised, what perceptions were being spread about it, and how people talked about it.

One thing I distinctly remember was that a lot of the earlier episodes I saw did have more jokes that tend to require at least some knowledge of nerd culture to make sense. (Not too deep, just that you'd get more humor out of a redshirts joke if you knew about Star Trek, or that "someone shot first" is funnier if you know the Han Solo addage). It seemed inclusive, that a general audience could like it but nerds could actually identify with it a little more. Pretty soon, though, it became less laughing with nerds and turned right back into laughing at them. As I've mentioned, it's been a while since I've seen the show, so maybe things have changed again, but based on the earlier seasons, I don't blame some of the resentment people have towards the show.

Probably one of the other big things about the show is even if it were meant to appeal to a general audience, the show still comes across as meaning to be a reasonable, even if not accurate, take on actual nerd and STEM-academia culture. Or at least a new take on it. Instead, it's just the same tired old stereotypes about various nerd and geek cultures, and even race and gender stereotypes, all condensed into one show.