DId anyone like "Weird Science" the tv show?

[Jayson1]

It's based on a movie that is actually a very overrated movie but to me the show was lots of fun. I mean the show relies to much on the boys trying to get dates every week but I liked just how irrelevant and silly it was. Lisa was of course big time eye candy but Vannesa Angel had more personality than the movie version of the computer generated, dreamgirl. Plus the show's Chet stole the show whenever it was in a scene. Played by the actor who is proably bettered remembered for his Beecher character on "Oz" but I loved him in this show as well. I've been watching the show again recently on Hulu and while I think it's something that works mostly if you were alive in the 90's I think modern audiences might like it.

Jason

 

[Venardhi]

When I was 10, sure. I presume mostly because I was just figuring out how great boobs were.​

 

[Gaith]

I noted some ep-by-ep thoughts in this thread a long time ago - almost a decade, in fact. (Since then, I've come around on the pilot; I now find that it does a solid job setting up the series.)

There's definitely lots of charm to be found in the show's Lisa/Gary+Wyatt friendship. (And also in the movie, for that matter, though by the time said movie friendship is really developed, the story's at a seemingly conclusive end.) The show's premise, episodic structure, and censorship limitations set pretty narrow limits on what it could achieve in the space of 20-odd minutes, but though I didn't watch the whole series, I found nine episodes I liked, or about three hours of content - and I only really enjoy about an hour of the movie itself, anyhow, so, there's that.

 

[Kirk Prime]

The one problem I found with Weird Science--especially the movie, was that if a teenager creates someone that hot, and she's ready, willing, and able to sleep with them, there is no way in hell it doesn't happen.

No way.

But as to other thoughts on this show, Chet was 90 percent of the show. He was hilarious.

 

[Jayson1]

The one problem I found with Weird Science--especially the movie, was that if a teenager creates someone that hot, and she's ready, willing, and able to sleep with them, there is no way in hell it doesn't happen.

No way.

But as to other thoughts on this show, Chet was 90 percent of the show. He was hilarious.

I think the logic of the genie not sleeping with the teenage boys is that she is smarter and more mature than they are and thus is more interested in helping them gain confidence so they can find real love and happiness in the real world. She does it in away with her hot body and magic tricks so that it will reach them because a teenage boy is clearly not going to just listen to some boring speech on how to behave or how they should act.

On the tv show she ended up being more like a sister or even a friend and was just as interested in hanging out instead of just trying to teach them something. I should also note that the show had two other really good characters in Principal Scampi and Wyatt's dad.

Jason

 

[Gaith]

In the show's pilot, TV Lisa explicitly says she won't mess with the boys before they're "legal." Movie Lisa initially claims to be under the boys' command, and briefly makes out with Wyatt, but I think it's clear from her actions and LeBrock's performance that she wouldn't actually permit things to get full-on sexual. After all, both Lisas are significantly more worldly and wiser than the boys (not to mention infinitely more powerful) from the start.

 

[Jayson1]

One of the things I have always wondered about, especially with the tv show is how does everyone else in this world perceive things. Chet never seems to remember Lisa and what was going through people's minds that time Wyatt was made the President or the time they became famous rock musicians. Do people go through their lives with huge gaps of missing memories or weird memories of things that seem impossible that it could have ever really happened.

Jason

 

[Gaith]

^ Well, the simplest explanation is probably that Lisa is a demon inflicting the boys with mutual psychoses and delusions, that none of their adventures are real, and they and Chett are slowly going insane. (Seriously, read Wikipedia's one-sentence summary of the series finale and tell me that's not the case.)

In other words: you're overthinking this.

 

[Jayson1]

^ Well, the simplest explanation is probably that Lisa is a demon inflicting the boys with mutual psychoses and delusions, that none of their adventures are real, and they and Chett are slowly going insane. (Seriously, read Wikipedia's one-sentence summary of the series finale and tell me that's not the case.)

In other words: you're overthinking this.

I'm a nerd. It is my nature to overthink these kind of things. Now the question is are the movie and tv show somehow connected. What if both shows are set in "The Matrix" and we are seeing how the Matrix sort of replaces people over time. You simply replicate the same DNA of a person once their body wears out and creates new versions of themselves over and over with modifications to the time period. Perhaps they recylce the time period ever 100 years or so which means you got to sort of put the same people into new time periods which is why the boys in the movie are in the "80"s and the ones from the show are in the "90's." Lisa is of course just a program to keep track of them. Maybe the real Gary and Wyatt, thousands of years ago were the people who created the first AI's and thus they have been perserved in a fashion through the Matrix.

Jason

 

[Nerys Myk]

I didn't even know there was a TV show.

 

[Gaith]

Maybe the real Gary and Wyatt, thousands of years ago were the people who created the first AI's and thus they have been perserved in a fashion through the Matrix.

I didn't even know there was a TV show.

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[The Borgified Corpse]

^ Well, the simplest explanation is probably that Lisa is a demon inflicting the boys with mutual psychoses and delusions, that none of their adventures are real, and they and Chett are slowly going insane. (Seriously, read Wikipedia's one-sentence summary of the series finale and tell me that's not the case.)

Huh. Never watched the show but I started reading the synopses of the episodes and that does sound pretty crazy. Although the one that made me laugh out loud was: "Chett goes back in time to ancient Rome and becomes a hero by introducing the people to jeeps and beef jerky." I may actually have to seek out this show now.