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After someone mentioned that my posts remind him of Sheldon Cooper last year, I downloaded and watched all the episodes.
I don't know if that's a good thing to say, but I can definitely identify with the character to a great extent.
But the show itself was great in the first 4 seasons, which had a lot of science references in them - and if you get those, it is really funny. The sci-fi movies and superhero comic books component I don't like that much because unlike in the US where there seems to be a strong coupling between interest in those things and interest in science, this is not really true in the rest of the world, where superhero comics are considered the lowest form of the comic art form and sci-fi is preferred in book form.
In recent seasons, the science seems to have largely disappeared and that's major negative from my point of view.
Also, when I say I like the first few seasons, I have to make one very big caveat and it is is that this is because I have a great tolerance for self-deprecating humor. If we are to get serious about the whole thing, it has in fact done a lot of damage to science, because it portrays a completely unrealistic picture of what it is to be a scientist. You see people in their late 20s/early 30s who spend most of their time reading comic books, playing computer games and doing various other kinds of silly stuff. In real life, scientists of that age would be occupied 24/7 trying to get papers published, secure faculty positions, obtain funding, get tenure, etc., and all of this on top of doing research. There is very little fun in working 16-18 hours a day just to be the lucky 1 in 20 who makes it. But you see none of that on the screen, instead the impression that the average person on the street gets is that scientists are some silly socially awkward geeks not to be taken seriously, which is a stereotype that is already prevalent in the public.
I don't know if that's a good thing to say, but I can definitely identify with the character to a great extent.
But the show itself was great in the first 4 seasons, which had a lot of science references in them - and if you get those, it is really funny. The sci-fi movies and superhero comic books component I don't like that much because unlike in the US where there seems to be a strong coupling between interest in those things and interest in science, this is not really true in the rest of the world, where superhero comics are considered the lowest form of the comic art form and sci-fi is preferred in book form.
In recent seasons, the science seems to have largely disappeared and that's major negative from my point of view.
Also, when I say I like the first few seasons, I have to make one very big caveat and it is is that this is because I have a great tolerance for self-deprecating humor. If we are to get serious about the whole thing, it has in fact done a lot of damage to science, because it portrays a completely unrealistic picture of what it is to be a scientist. You see people in their late 20s/early 30s who spend most of their time reading comic books, playing computer games and doing various other kinds of silly stuff. In real life, scientists of that age would be occupied 24/7 trying to get papers published, secure faculty positions, obtain funding, get tenure, etc., and all of this on top of doing research. There is very little fun in working 16-18 hours a day just to be the lucky 1 in 20 who makes it. But you see none of that on the screen, instead the impression that the average person on the street gets is that scientists are some silly socially awkward geeks not to be taken seriously, which is a stereotype that is already prevalent in the public.
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the virgin scientist in that clip looks just like i would picture someone who wasnt getting laid...and im not even sure what the robot was doing, looked like a full body convulsion
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