Sometimes being a geek impacts how you see the world. You can see the exact same thing as other people, but have a completely different experience. A few of the more recent examples:
Watching a trailer for the new Star Trek movie.
Normal person: "Star Trek? Another one? How many is that? Ooh, explosions."
Geek: "Wait a minute! Are those Romulans? How are they going to spend the entire movie not letting any of the Federation people see them? No one knew what they looked like until "Balance of Terror" and that's supposed to be decades later. You can't make a prequel and completely ignore the canon of the series."
Seeing a trailer for Watchmen
Normal person: "How many comic book movies can they make? What's with that blue guy, and is he not wearing any pants?"
Geek: "I'm glad they kept the 1985 with Nixon still as president setting for this. They better not screw it up though. I know the ending is kind of weird and might be hard to translate to film, but if they mess that up they might as well not have bothered making it. They always mess things up. It's no wonder Alan Moore won't even take their money or let them use his name any more. That reminds me, I need to go online and see if opening day tickets are on sale yet."
Seeing an ad for Mortal Kombat vs. D.C. Universe
Normal person: "A new game. I want it." or possibly "A new game? It's going to corrupt my babies. Now let's go watch 24."
Geek: "How can we play this game with Superman involved? Is there kryptonite in the game? No? Then I pick Superman. Therefore, the battle is already over. The winner? Me! Ha ha ha! Rematch? You lose again! Had enough? I thought so!"
Watching the trailer for The Day The Earth Stood Still
Normal person: "Keanu? Really? You must be kidding."
Geek: "Keanu? Really? You must be kidding."
4 comments:
ROFL -- you are brilliant.
How ARE they going to keep anyone from seeing Romulans?
All I thought about in the Star Trek trailer was "oohh, more J.J. Abrams!"
Pretty damned funny, Craig. Geeks need to be stopped.
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