[Dailydave] SHIELD is disappointing.

[Thomas J. Quinlan]

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Could it be that when Whedon meets a real geek (or hacker, as in the
case of those who are) they get way too fanboy and so poor Joss has
never seen a real hacker through no fault of his own?

http://thomasquinlan.com/2013/10/on-meeting-joss-whedon/


On 21/11/2013 17:23, Dave Aitel wrote:
> 
> Those of us who loved Buffy watch anything Joss Whedon puts out,
> because we KNOW he's capable of genius. That said, he always has a
> hacker character, and they've been getting progressively worse.
> Willow is entirely believable - conflicted, dark, and at the same
> time cheerfully nerdy.
> 
> Avengers' hacker character is essentially Tony Stark, although the 
> flying carrier also gets hacked by an arrow - built by someone off 
> screen and off script.
> 
> But in his new show, S.H.I.E.L.D., Whedon takes the hacker schtick
> and makes it extra inane with a dash of confusing. For example, one
> of the major plot points was his hacker character Skye coming on
> board with SHIELD and then suffering the inevitable conflicts of
> interest that hacker subtypes have when working for big brother.
> Which COULD be a really interesting story, except it's clear that
> Whedon has never met a modern hacker, but just sort of heard about
> them from one of his friends who at one point read a blog post
> about Julian Assange.
> 
> In other words, it's awful. Hackers make for great TV, despite the
> fact that they spend most of their time sitting in one place
> staring at a screen. That's because they're as weird as it gets in
> real life, and they have interesting common traits. For example, in
> the show Whedon has a bracelet put on Skye which renders her unable
> to use computers. But no hacker can look at anything like that
> without trying to constantly fiddle with it, and probably finding a
> way to take it off, as opposed to meekly submitting to it, the way
> Skye does.
> 
> http://happynicetimepeople.com/agents-shield-recap-skye-worst/
> 
> -dave
> 
> 
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