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Compare and contrast: 

The Big Bang Theory uses its so-called “geek” characters as the butt of jokes, has only a superficial understanding of their personalities, and has a really, really limited range of pop culture reference points for the things they do and like. It’s pretty much the mainstream’s idea of what geek culture is. Also, although they include some tokens, geek is consistently coded as white and male. The humor is from the “normal” girl who isn’t as smart and is constantly baffled by their strange behavior.

Community’s Troy and Abed are not the butt of jokes - they have their own world of games and references and imaginings that is fun and funny and unique. The humor is watching their reactions to other people who just aren’t as awesome as they are. It’s geek culture’s idea of what geek culture is like. They have an almost bottomless level of pop culture references to actual things that actual geeks are into. And, obviously, they are both people of color - and while the geek characters are men, they don’t play off “normal” girl characters who aren’t smart enough to grasp their interests. 

After watching Community I understand better why I can’t stand The Big Bang Theory.

Got it in one.  Excellent writeup.

People ask me why I don’t like TBBT, and this is a perfect summary of my reasons. Community is a great show on a lot of levels, especially the portrayal of geeks.

The other great thing about Community is that it challenges what people consider to be a stereotypical geek. Troy is (was?), well, a jock. He was supposed to play football for Greendale. In what mainstream television show or movie would you ever see a geek be portrayed as anything other than a pallid and socially awkward outcast? And frankly, the writing in Community is just a million times better. Written by geeks for geeks.  

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Random small things that I loved in Belgravia

madlori:

  1. Sherlock admitting that he wears that coat to look more imposing
  2. John’s look at the CIA killer before he went downstairs with Mrs. Hudson: it so clearly said “Oh, he is gonna kick your ass, and I will laugh.”
  3. Sherlock wiping his feet very thoroughly when coming into Mrs. Hudson’s kitchen
  4. The Cluedo board stabbed to the wall
  5. The way the floating letters of John typing his blog went behind the cattle skull on the wall
  6. Sherlock’s fidgety toes in the palace
  7. That Sherlock’s room is just a nice, tidy bedroom.  It would have been so easy and obvious to make it a bohemian tip of a place.
  8. Sherlock eating.  Twice!
  9. John’s array of awesome jackets
  10. Irene’s Louboutins
  11. Irene’s friend Kate’s awesome outfit
  12. The overcranked action sequence.  I can sense with my fandom spidey senses that some probably hated it but I am a sucker for overcranked action sequences.  Bonus points for that perfect little initial pivot twirl Sherlock does.  He looks like a goddamn dancer.
  13. Sherlock and Irene interposed into the hiker’s field, Criminal Minds style, while he takes her through the case
  14. THE GEEK INTERPRETER
  15. Sherlock’s ensemble of white shirt, black trousers and burgundy dressing gown was SUPAH SEXY
  16. Mrs. Hudson’s outfit in the “Boys, you’ve got another one” scene
  17. John in a helicopter with the WTFiest expression ever
  18. The wordless shrug-exchange John and Sherlock have when John first gets to the palace.  WTF?  No idea.
  19. John saying “shit.”
  20. John drinking Stella.
  21. That jumbo jet deduction was…phwoar.  Yeah, good.
  22. BREAKFAST AT THE HOLMES-WATSONS now with egg cups.
  23. They both sit with their legs crossed and it’s fucking sexy.
  24. John’s clearly much-used cautionary-tone “Sherlock.”
  25. Irene in Sherlock’s coat.  MROWR.
  26. Irene tipping backwards out of the bathroom window on a rope.  
  27. “My client is…”  ”Illustrious!”  I C WHAT U DID THAR MOFF.
  28. John on the pull.  Nothing he couldn’t ruthlessly cancel.
  29. Bee Gees.  I know some disagree but I thought it was trolltastically brilliant.
  30. Sherlock with a blowtorch, lab goggles and a flask.  

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moftiss:
jeannie7000:

Katy Perry wearing some awesome Alexander McQueens.

I tried these on at the McQueen store.
And then it hit me that I had $5k strapped on my feet. 

jeannie7000:

Katy Perry wearing some awesome Alexander McQueens.

I tried these on at the McQueen store.

And then it hit me that I had $5k strapped on my feet. 

i-aint-bovvered:

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➜ Spending half a film wondering what you had previously seen the actors in

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GPOY me re-watching Band of Brothers.

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callmenix:

Andrew Scott as Private John ‘Cowboy’ Hall 
Band of Brothers (Part 2: Day of Days)
—
Winters: I say flash, you say thunder.
Hall: Yes, sir. Thunder, sir.
—
Hall: I wonder if the rest of them are as lost as we are.
Winters: We’re not lost, private. We’re in Normandy. 


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Started rewatching Band of Brothers tonight and noticed an Andrew Scott-like figure after Damien Lewis’ character lands on the ground. Turns out, it is Andrew Scott! (I knew I recognized those giant brown eyes, even in the dark…) Christ, everyone is in this series. My 12 year old self was too oblivious to notice these men and to know that I’d be ogling majority of them 10 years later. 

hellyeahandrewscott:

callmenix:

Andrew Scott as Private John ‘Cowboy’ Hall 

Band of Brothers (Part 2: Day of Days)

Winters: I say flash, you say thunder.

Hall: Yes, sir. Thunder, sir.

Hall: I wonder if the rest of them are as lost as we are.

Winters: We’re not lost, private. We’re in Normandy. 

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Started rewatching Band of Brothers tonight and noticed an Andrew Scott-like figure after Damien Lewis’ character lands on the ground. Turns out, it is Andrew Scott! (I knew I recognized those giant brown eyes, even in the dark…) Christ, everyone is in this series. My 12 year old self was too oblivious to notice these men and to know that I’d be ogling majority of them 10 years later. 

He looks so much like a friend of mine, especially so in this photo set. 

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Les miroirs sont les portes par lesquelles la mort vient et va. Du reste, regardez-vous toute votre vie dans un miroir et vous verrez la mort travailler comme des abeilles dans une ruche de verre.
— Heurtebise, Orphée.
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Meh, it’s the RDJ one but still!

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sherlockkov:

Believers are everywhere… *no billboards were harmed during the creation of this fan art.*

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Meh, it’s the RDJ one but still!

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i have too much time on my hands.

plus

I am laughing way harder than I should be. Little Oskar knows how to throw down. 

lovesten:

North park with my bb’s tonight. 
Hooker jacket is in FULL GEAR, y’all !

The reason why she’s late scooping me up tonight, bahaha. Birds of a feather, I tell ya; I was late to class today because I just haad to instagram my outfit of the day. 

lovesten:

North park with my bb’s tonight. 

Hooker jacket is in FULL GEAR, y’all !

The reason why she’s late scooping me up tonight, bahaha. Birds of a feather, I tell ya; I was late to class today because I just haad to instagram my outfit of the day. 

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Criminal - Fiona Apple

Rainy day tunes. 


If only I could find a way to do this to my iPhone…

If only I could find a way to do this to my iPhone…

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