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charameiDoctor Who is over until Christmas Day Children in Need the new series of Sarah Jane Adventures. Heroes is over. Smallville is over. I've used up most of my bandwidth torrenting unreleased episodes of Old Who... in short, I needed something new to watch this Thursday.
Based solely on the trailers, I wasn't planning on watching Lab Rats, a sitcom about a group of scientists in a lab. Ultimately, I was partly bored, partly ill and the Radio Times reviewer said it was enjoyable, so I dumped myself in an armchair and prepared to be underwhelmed.
I'm quite glad that I did watch it.
If the fundamental rule of traditional sitcoms is that the characters should be believable stereotypes, then most 'geek' sitcoms fail quite badly. I admit that I've never watched The IT Crowd, but the trailers always felt condescending; so too did the two episodes of The Big Bang Theory that I've seen at disconnected intervals. To the non-geek, they probably seem believable, but to an acual geek, they just don't ring true, and personally, I find them a tad insulting.
Not so Lab Rats. From 'Are you trying to trap a Womble?' to the thing with melting the Kit-Kats together to 'I don't trust solar power so I run my calculator off lemons', I was in the novel position of being able to laugh at a geek sitcom because I knew and recognised the characters, rather than that of feeling as though someone had taken a brief glance at my life, missed the point entirely, and turned it into a figure of fun.
The first episode of Lab Rats is not the funniest thing I have ever seen, and I won't try to claim otherwise. The A-plot in particular suffered from a few bad jokes and concepts; the two side-plots struck me as much stronger and more amusing. However, there were some good ones in there, and I have great hopes that future episodes will only get better. The writers seem to understand the geek mindset of 'experiment with stuff because sciencing is fun', so no matter how daft the plots get, I think I'll be sticking with this one.
Now, who's up for getting four Kit-Kat Chunkies and melting them together to make one giant normal one? We can use the wrappers to trap a Womble, maybe.
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The Internet has not yet spawned icons for this show. I may end up downloading E01 and making my own, because I'd really, really like some.
Based solely on the trailers, I wasn't planning on watching Lab Rats, a sitcom about a group of scientists in a lab. Ultimately, I was partly bored, partly ill and the Radio Times reviewer said it was enjoyable, so I dumped myself in an armchair and prepared to be underwhelmed.
I'm quite glad that I did watch it.
If the fundamental rule of traditional sitcoms is that the characters should be believable stereotypes, then most 'geek' sitcoms fail quite badly. I admit that I've never watched The IT Crowd, but the trailers always felt condescending; so too did the two episodes of The Big Bang Theory that I've seen at disconnected intervals. To the non-geek, they probably seem believable, but to an acual geek, they just don't ring true, and personally, I find them a tad insulting.
Not so Lab Rats. From 'Are you trying to trap a Womble?' to the thing with melting the Kit-Kats together to 'I don't trust solar power so I run my calculator off lemons', I was in the novel position of being able to laugh at a geek sitcom because I knew and recognised the characters, rather than that of feeling as though someone had taken a brief glance at my life, missed the point entirely, and turned it into a figure of fun.
The first episode of Lab Rats is not the funniest thing I have ever seen, and I won't try to claim otherwise. The A-plot in particular suffered from a few bad jokes and concepts; the two side-plots struck me as much stronger and more amusing. However, there were some good ones in there, and I have great hopes that future episodes will only get better. The writers seem to understand the geek mindset of 'experiment with stuff because sciencing is fun', so no matter how daft the plots get, I think I'll be sticking with this one.
Now, who's up for getting four Kit-Kat Chunkies and melting them together to make one giant normal one? We can use the wrappers to trap a Womble, maybe.
The Internet has not yet spawned icons for this show. I may end up downloading E01 and making my own, because I'd really, really like some.