Big Bang Theory vs B5--the answer

[Blair Leatherwood]

This showed up on Bill Prady's Twitter feed last night:

Why all the hate from Sheldon at Babylon 5? // cause some of us never
understood it --bp

[Duggy]

On Oct 23, 4:07 am, Blair Leatherwood <bleatherw...@comcast.net>
wrote:

> This showed up on Bill Prady's Twitter feed last night:
>
> Why all the hate from Sheldon at Babylon 5? // cause some of us never
> understood it --bp

So the same answer we've heard over and over.

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[Dan Dassow]

If some of the writing staff does not understand Babylon 5, then they
apparently do not have the intellect to properly write Sheldon’s
character or Sheldon’s estimation of his own intellect is highly
inflated.

Dan Dassow

[Duggy]

On Oct 24, 9:29 am, Dan Dassow <dan_das...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If some of the writing staff does not understand Babylon 5, then they
> apparently do not have the intellect to properly write Sheldon’s
> character or Sheldon’s estimation of his own intellect is highly
> inflated.

A person - or character - can not understand a show and still be
intelligent.

What I don't quite understand is what they don't understand.

Not like, I get that, I can "respect" that. But not understand...?

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[Rich Lueck]

Blair Leatherwood <bleath...@comcast.net> wrote in news:i9sjsl$eh8$1
@news.eternal-september.org:

> This showed up on Bill Prady's Twitter feed last night:
>
> Why all the hate from Sheldon at Babylon 5? // cause some of us never
> understood it --bp
>
>

Perhaps the reason Sheldon didn't understand or couldn't relate to Babylon
5 is that it often dealt with human issues, religion, relationships, taking
responsibility for one's actions, etc.
These are things Sheldon *doesn't* understand and has little to no interest
in.
Notice that the others *do* like Babylon 5, but then, they are more human.

Z

[Soundy]

I dunno, I think it's a lot simpler than that: if they referenced
Babylon 5 all the time, most viewers wouldn't get the jokes. More non-
sci-fi-buff viewers will GET the anti-Wil-Wheaton jokes, and Sheldon's
Spock-man-crush. Sure, they could have made Sheldon a B5 fan instead,
but Sheldon getting excited over "possessing the DNA of Michael
O'Hare" would leave about 99.9% of their audience going, "WHO???" For
the jokes to work, they have to reference something that's a near-
universal cultural meme.

Naturally, they need to counterpoint all that... for that they could
have probably chosen any number of sci-fi shows for Sheldon and the
others to debate over: Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, etc. If I
were to really fanwank over it, I'd consider it an honor that the
writers DO recognize B5, not just as a contemporary to the later Trek
series, but as a "worthy adversary" to the entire franchise.

Then again, I also picture JMS reading this sort of thread, standing
up at the front of the room, looking down at us all, and screaming,
"it's just a TV show dammit, IT'S JUST A TV SHOW!"

[Jeffrey Kaplan]

Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, Rich Lueck said:

> Perhaps the reason Sheldon didn't understand or couldn't relate to Babylon
> 5 is that it often dealt with human issues, religion, relationships, taking
> responsibility for one's actions, etc.

So did all iterations of Star Trek, though usually at a significantly
shallower level.

--
Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
Double ROT13 encoded for your protection

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

[Duggy]

Well, duh. We've said all that.

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[David E. Powell]

On Oct 24, 10:07 am, Rich Lueck <zosol...@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Blair Leatherwood <bleatherw...@comcast.net> wrote in news:i9sjsl$eh8$1

Good point.....