Has anyone watched CBS’s new sort-of police procedural show ? The episode on Monday night didn’t impress me. I read one review which called it a dumb person’s fantasy about the abilities of super-smart people in their 20′s; and the show and a clip of the pilot I watched online reference the main characters’ ultra-high IQ’s. (Funny, I thought the liberal-progressive party line dismisses IQ as racist pseudoscience and the “mismeasure of man,” or something.)
One character, a stereotypical math nerd and calculating prodigy named Sylvester, seems plausible to me because the high-end mathematicians tend to do their best work by their early 20′s. But in general a collection of characters this young wouldn’t know whatever random or arbitrary things they need at crucial points in the plot to move the story along, regardless of their IQ’s.
You might have a different view of the series so far, however. Discuss.
One character, a stereotypical math nerd and calculating prodigy named Sylvester, seems plausible to me because the high-end mathematicians tend to do their best work by their early 20′s.
I read the Wikipedia description (four male supertalented geniuses plus one female nerd plus one average waitress) and it sounded like a sequel to The Big Bang Theory.
At least in The Big Bang Theory, the characters don’t know everything and they have awkward but funny social experiences.
By contrast, plays the characters’ social inadequacies straight, though one of them, the “behaviorist” who wears a hat all the time, has the ability to perform a “Sherlock scan” on people he just met and can figure out how to manipulate them, at least for a time. I guess that might make him a high-functioning sociopath or something similar.
Has anyone watched CBS’s new sort-of police procedural show ? The episode on Monday night didn’t impress me. I read one review which called it a dumb person’s fantasy about the abilities of super-smart people in their 20′s; and the show and a clip of the pilot I watched online reference the main characters’ ultra-high IQ’s. (Funny, I thought the liberal-progressive party line dismisses IQ as racist pseudoscience and the “mismeasure of man,” or something.)
One character, a stereotypical math nerd and calculating prodigy named Sylvester, seems plausible to me because the high-end mathematicians tend to do their best work by their early 20′s. But in general a collection of characters this young wouldn’t know whatever random or arbitrary things they need at crucial points in the plot to move the story along, regardless of their IQ’s.
You might have a different view of the series so far, however. Discuss.
Do you have a citation for that claim?
I read the Wikipedia description (four male supertalented geniuses plus one female nerd plus one average waitress) and it sounded like a sequel to The Big Bang Theory.
At least in The Big Bang Theory, the characters don’t know everything and they have awkward but funny social experiences.
By contrast, plays the characters’ social inadequacies straight, though one of them, the “behaviorist” who wears a hat all the time, has the ability to perform a “Sherlock scan” on people he just met and can figure out how to manipulate them, at least for a time. I guess that might make him a high-functioning sociopath or something similar.