[ 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.

[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.