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[shadowkat]

Got more accomplished than expected today, considering how much time I wasted spent talking about Buffy comics online. Sigh. I'm such a geek. I used to deny it, but I've decided to just embrace my inner geek this year. (shhh...don't tell anyone)

Started watching The Big Bang Theory this year. And, well...I cackled uncontrollably at this:

The boys, three astrophysicists, are playing a game of 20 questions - trying to figure out which fictional character the person is.

Wolwoitz (who has just gotten off the phone with his girlfriend and looks upset): Who's turn is it?
Leonard: It's yours.
Wolwitz: okay, shoot.
Leonard: Are you a character in a tv series?
Wolowitz: I just got dumped by my girlfriend (proceeds to cry).
Sheldon: Oh god, he's probably a character out of Bab5 and we'll never get out of here!

(LOL! Okay, only a geek would get that line. Because a) you have to know what Bab5 means (Babylon 5) and b) what the show was - the best sci-fiction tv series of the 1990s in my opinion, but admittedly had a million characters and subplots - also alot of emotional pathos. and c) how many people critiqued it against something simpler like say Star Trek.)

Sigh. I love my geek comedy. Once you turn off your inner feminist, the uncontrollable laughing takes over.

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[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

hehehe :)

B5 was fantastic though, to the day the best sci fi show ever made.

[shapinglight]

Once you turn off your inner feminist, the uncontrollable laughing takes over.

I've only seen a bit of one episode of The Big Bang Theory, but I can see why you would need to turn off your inner feminist. That said, what I did see was very funny. Like watching lots of Andrews running around trying to out-geek each other.

And I would have got the B5 reference too. Loved that show to bits.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Big Bang also deals with some personality disorders that I've been familiar with, in a way that I've never seen on a show (any show ever):
Sheldon's control and eating problems are typical of high functioning autism, which often goes with genius IQ... it is interesting that the show gave him a background of growing up in Texas w/the born again Mother who loves him but can't even try to understand him.
Leonard they went another way, his Mom is a lot like Sheldon and clearly Leonard has worked all his life to try to get her attention and approval (while she is oblivious and only interested in the clinical/scientific things). It is no wonder Leonard rooms w/Sheldon!

These guys are stereotypical but in ways that are interesting and kinda true...
I seriously love this show.

Oh, and I really loved Babylon 5 too, but my complaint was that on second viewing I didn't find any layers I had missed... The show is amazingly complex and brilliant, but not really rich dramatically/metaphorically (well I guess you could spend a life time writing papers on the politics...).

[ann1962]

It's my new Happy Show.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I don't know about best ever, I liked Farscape and BSG a bit more...but mileage varies. ;-)

And I've admittedly not seen it since it aired in the 1990s.
So memory is foggy.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

The episodes of Big Bang actually get better as you go. Some of the early ones made me cringe. But this season's are hilarious and worth a look. It's also episodic, so you don't really need to see them in order as far as I can tell.

Last night's had a great bit..

Two characters are arguing.

Wolowitz: Wolverine was NOT born with bone claws.
Sheldon: Yes he was.
Wolowitz: No, he wasn't.
Sheldon: You are wrong...(goes off to find the issue)

Sheldon - pulls up the comic and says see, on page 13, first issue of Origin, it shows that Wolverine was born with bone claws.

(You have to see it in context, but I just roared with laughter - it reminded me of so many of the arguments I've gotten into online.)

I adored B5...best sci-fi show of the 1990s, until Farscape and BSG came along. ;-)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I've definitely meet these guys. Sheldon reminds me a bit of my cousin, who is not autistic, but bi-polar, although my uncle has decided he is. Sigh. Amateur psychologists! ;-)

I disagree with you about Bab5, but it's been too long since I've seen it to really go into specifics. If memory serves and from the countless metas and fanfic I've seen online, I'd say it is arguably as layered if not more so than Whedon's shows and BSG...in some respects. There is an intricate metaphor regarding religion and instuitionalized religion, as well
as philosophical views. Very philosophical in some respects.
Also goes into depth on relationships, exploring all the angles. Not to mention racism, gender equality, and sexism.

It is a show I wish I could own...if only for the Londo/G'Kar relationship which has got to be the most complex and three dimensional character arc ever shown on sci-fi show. Sure in some respects I enjoyed Farscape more, and BSG definitely had a better production value, but Bab 5 managed to show how first impressions can be wrong. A tightly plotted novel for television, flawed true, but tightly plotted. Sigh, it's really hard for me to choose between the three.

Big Bang is my happy show - it makes me laugh.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Hee. I never laughed so hard as I did during the last two episodes. The Wolverine exchange reminded me of some of the fights I've had online. LOL!

Glee is also a happy show, but it doesn't make me laugh nearly as much.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

That said, the Londo/G'Kar character arcs are by far the best in sci-fi history, I don't think anyone has ever come close to equalling that, including, much as I love it, Buffy.