Lovely essay and I agree with your take. The other essay made me growly and uncomfortable because the husband and son (one IDed with autism, the other one self-diagnosed) both love the show to death...and it comes close enough to both of their temperaments that if it were laughing at the geeks, they wouldn't go for it.
When you're including The Lone Gunmen, though, don't forget Scully and Mulder themselves. In a lot of ways The X Files was also a show about geeks, with Scully and Mulder top amongst them. And Northern Exposure had faint whiffs of that rarely recognized but still very real category of the rural geek clan.
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Date: Wed, Jan. 9th, 2013 02:34 pm (UTC)When you're including The Lone Gunmen, though, don't forget Scully and Mulder themselves. In a lot of ways The X Files was also a show about geeks, with Scully and Mulder top amongst them. And Northern Exposure had faint whiffs of that rarely recognized but still very real category of the rural geek clan.