Oh, and yes, you
should start watching The Big Bang Theory!
And my 13 year-old daughter just seconded that! Oh, and my my oldest son and middle daughter also said ditto! (The other two are two young - 5 & 3 - to get the show, but they said yes too, just to be included!
)
I refused to even glance at the show at first, because I thought that it looked like it was just gonna be another brainless mean-spirited popular media creation based on the idea that it's "funny" for straight (aka "normal", aka "Herbert") sheeple to pick on stereotypical geeks and nerds. (Plus I don't watch sit-coms.)
But some Trekkie & Browncoat friends of mine kept raving about the show each week, so I reluctantly agreed to take a peek at one episode, and I was hooked in like 2 minutes! (So were my oldest 2 kids - especially my 13yr daughter, who is an astronomy and band geek herself, and "proud of it!")
I mean sure, the 4 main male characters are stereotypical uber-geeks in a lot of ways, but as an uber geek myself (and all of us here on TBBS would have to be geeks or we wouldn't be here) I can relate to Sheldon and Lenard a lot, and they are much more than 1 dimensional stereotypes based on how average people see Trekkies and nerds and geeks. And it's obvious somebody writing for this is a BIG geek themselves - a lot of the humor is based on having some basic understanding of things like Star Trek, D&D, string theory, and science in general. Non of my non-geek relatives get or like the show at all!)
So give it at shot this Monday - all of you hold outs here - and reposrt back here after and tell us why you now love the show!
(I should add a disclaimer: I guess I can't really claim to be a perfect geek, since I have mentioned having several children here - 5 - and so I have obviously had sex or perfected cloning (not yet on the latter, still working on it!) But I can I assure you that I was a virgin through high-school and then some! And didn't date *ever* until college or have sex until I was 23! And not for lack of wanting to, but because I was a BIG geek!
And anyway, 2 of the main geeks in this show have sexual interactions with otheer people! Although the other too...not likely in this 11 dimensional M-brane of spacetime...)
