I actually quite like that Sweets is an intelligent person without initially seeming to be so. He's obviously good at his job (or rather, the writers WANT him to be good at his job but absolutely fail on the research front, so he would be good at his job if they only got a real psychologist on board) but he doesn't flaunt it. He's quietly intelligent and intelligence is not all that defines him. I feel like this is probably an accident rather than a genius stroke of writing, but either way, it's nice to see a character who can be intelligent without falling into all the stereotypes of typical intelligent characters. I feel like many more real-life people are intelligent in a Sweets or Angela style way than they are a Hodgins or Brennan style way.
That said, I see your point and I think it's definitely dangerous to overuse a character you're not going to commit to writing properly. Personally I think it shakes things up nicely to have Sweets doing interrogations - but then I'd be happy with anyone else doing them, just to break the format. It doesn't have to be him - and realistically it's a bit illogical that it is.
I think he doesn't come off intelligent in any way though. I think they TRY to but it just fails. Everything about him is an immature boy; I get that he's a boy but he's in an adult profession and he doesn't act like it even when he needs to be.
My issue with this is they don't know how to write realistically. IF Sweets really is a young genius he'd have some quirks and they don't show it. They make him too ordinary for what they're trying to do with him.
I think it's poor writing; but that's just my opinion.
I don't think he's actually meant to be a boy genius, though. There is no indication that he has or is meant to have any particular aptitude in anything other than his chosen subject and profession. They don't pretend he is good at maths or science, for example, so he is a very different kind of genius from Zach. Not to mention that not everyone is the same; there are plenty of hugely intelligent people who exist without 'genius quirks' and making him slightly odd just to fit into the typical image of geniuses would be nothing other than fulfilling stereotypes. You don't have to be odd just because you're intelligent.
Also, he's in his early twenties so I'm sure a little immaturity can be excused - yes, many people are incredibly mature at his age but if he went through his courses that fast then maybe he never had the same chance to mature that the rest of us did through a normal schooling path. Either way, I don't think he comes across as ridiculously immature; simply as young.
All that said, I agree that whatever our opinions of him are, it is a result of poor and inconsistent writing, not because they deliberately set out to portray him as a normal kind of genius, or immature, or anything else.
I think they imply that he is meant to be. I mean he accomplished all of this when he was 23...
I think his immaturity comes from the writers; to be honest. They want and need that humor. I mean he's even immature in his own profession. He's not good at what he does; I don't buy the fact that he's smart or that he deserves to be in this profession. He comes off as if he's in training.
I think it's just in the writing; they're even dumbing down Brennan a lot more for laughs.
That said, I see your point and I think it's definitely dangerous to overuse a character you're not going to commit to writing properly. Personally I think it shakes things up nicely to have Sweets doing interrogations - but then I'd be happy with anyone else doing them, just to break the format. It doesn't have to be him - and realistically it's a bit illogical that it is.
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My issue with this is they don't know how to write realistically. IF Sweets really is a young genius he'd have some quirks and they don't show it. They make him too ordinary for what they're trying to do with him.
I think it's poor writing; but that's just my opinion.
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Also, he's in his early twenties so I'm sure a little immaturity can be excused - yes, many people are incredibly mature at his age but if he went through his courses that fast then maybe he never had the same chance to mature that the rest of us did through a normal schooling path. Either way, I don't think he comes across as ridiculously immature; simply as young.
All that said, I agree that whatever our opinions of him are, it is a result of poor and inconsistent writing, not because they deliberately set out to portray him as a normal kind of genius, or immature, or anything else.
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I think his immaturity comes from the writers; to be honest. They want and need that humor. I mean he's even immature in his own profession. He's not good at what he does; I don't buy the fact that he's smart or that he deserves to be in this profession. He comes off as if he's in training.
I think it's just in the writing; they're even dumbing down Brennan a lot more for laughs.
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