From Cracked: "5 Things TV Writers Apparently Believe about Smart People"

[kuriadalmatia]

At first, I was kind of miffed that, well, Criminal Minds wasn't mentioned in the opening paragraphs. Numb3rs was, and it has been canceled. So I was all prepared to leave a note about how Criminal Minds was looked over yet again (because, let's face it, this show gets little love from any media or its network

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[coffeebuddha]

Definitely agreed about Reid. From everything we know about his character and his childhood, he makes perfect sense. Take an extremely gifted child in a bad situation and surround him/her with books, and chances are he/she's going to start reading everything around him/her, if only as a way to escape.

No mention of Big Bang Theory at all? Weird lol.

Not really, if you think about it. The genius characters are in a setting where their educations and skill sets are realistic. Yes, they're young, but the only one who's a 'supergenius' is Sheldon, and it's made fairly clear that he did work his ass off to accomplish that; he obviously has no idea what to do with himself over an extended period of time if he isn't working. None of the characters show any real proficiency in fields outside of the ones they've studied or in subjects that hold personal interest for them. When they act inappropriately, there are consequences for those actions although Sheldon is admittedly given more leeway from the other characters than I'd be willing to give him in real life. They're pretty much the exception to all of the rules that Cracked is talking about.