This is something I’m finding sort of interesting in this TV season’s Big Bang Theory, where a hot, not that bright, girl moves in across from two worldclass geeky physicists. One of them falls for her, but they’ve been playing that down a fair amount…and as it happens, the girl’s turned out to feel like the weak link in the show. I mean, the character’s a nice enough person, and she’ll sometimes help out the geeks with some social issues, but she’s written as so generic that she’s not that interesting in and of herself. And I think, consciously or not, the writers are realizing this as she now feels more at the level of supporting cast rather than co-lead and every other appearance by her feels forced. She really doesn’t have anything in common with the geeks, and while they’re not the types to spit at each other in the hallway, they really don’t have any reason to hang out with each other.

And I was impressed by the lack of a Miller reference, if anything.

“I’m also disappointed that whores came up and Bird didn’t take a single crack at Frank Miller.”

While I’m sure his Goddamn Sense was tingling the entire time House Bunny was in production, Frank has more important Hollywood matters to worry about. The Spirit isn’t going to become a shallow copy of Sin City all on its own.

(Okay, seriously, I’m willing to give Miller the benefit of the doubt with The Spirit, I’m sure there will be at least some good to come of it. I just got introduced to The Spirit during Darwyn Cooke’s run, which is about as Anti-Miller as you can get and still be an Urban Noir setting.)

For women, I agree, but this kind of message is kind of . . . . less than ideal. I can recall episodes of Fresh Prince or Family Matters where the show’s unhealthily overweight character tries to lose weight, but eventually quits at the end of the episode because of the message “be happy with who you are and don’t conform to society’s standards!”