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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
Why couldn't they just call it "Intelligent Girls?"
I don't get it.
Also, call me whatever you want, but I am of the opinion that there's a difference between someone who is "intelligent" and someone who is "nerdy." I'd rather just watch a group of intelligent people doing something interesting on TV, instead of somebody branded as a "nerd."
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I always hate it when people choose to use the term "nerd" as a negative. I will say that I'm more that just an intelligent person, and the best way to sum up those aspects of me is as a nerd. I love to read sifi, a significant portion of my free time is spent coding, I regularly engage in table top role playing, I find this hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfpnbGXL70 ... this list goes on. And yes, I'm proud of how nerdy I am because this is what sets me apart from people who are merely smart.
The problem that I have with this show it that it looks like another show that is trying to be cool and edgy, a format that has been combined with nerdy building shows too much recently. I think what made MythBusters (what seems to be the standard for shows of this type) such a success is that it has never tried to be classically cool. Yes, they have the slightly more than occasional (alright very frequent) gratuitous explosion, but from what I see they never tried to appeal to the masses.
Nerd girls looks like its going to try and appeal to the crowd that hears robot competition and immediately asks the closest nerd to build him a battle bot. Regardless of how smart the girls on the show are, the content will be too watered down by the time I get to see it to be of any interest. While it could get some kids interested in a technical field, it feels like a greasy used car salesman selling a product that is oversimplified and looks much flashier that it actually is.