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Je Bridges may not be the cultural signi er that Johnny Depp’s presence in a lm is, but his o beat selection of roles—The Dude, Tron’s Kevin Flynn, Iron Man’s Obadiah Stane, Starman’s titular alien— definitely marks him as a geek star. “WORST. EPISODE. ” —SHELDON, THE BIG BANG THEORY IF GEEKS ARE ANYTHING, WE ARE OPINIONATED. We wield our views like +1 spiked clubs, casting judgment upon throwaway entertainment as if we were debating scripture (ahem). Those of us who’ve prowled Internet forums and chat rooms don’t just know people like The Simpsons’ infamous Comic Book Guy, we’ve been them.

PETER PAN, PETER PAN AT SOME UNDEFINED POINT in time between 2006 and 2010, Doctor Who became the new Star Trek. Which is to say, it ceased to be that goofy British sci- show with the laughable special e ects that even most American nerds had never really watched, and instead it became the new geek pop-culture touchstone, general knowledge of which marks someone irrefutably as one of the tribe. Why did this happen? In part, it was because there was a void—J. J. Abrams notwithstanding, Trek ran out of steam years back—and, in part it was because the Internet-fueled ease of viewing a BBC show in real time, instead of months or years later on PBS, nally made the show widely accessible in the States.

When the motif is rst introduced, a grizzled old squire tells the young peasant boy William that he can no sooner become a nobleman than he can change the stars—a clear reference to the astronomical fact that the stars, a fact of nature, will be as they are and do as they do, with no relation to the actions of humans muddling along on earth. The boy’s father then tells him that if a man is brave and determined enough, he can accomplish anything he sets his mind to. William takes this advice to heart and dedicates his life to “changing his stars”; with that possessive pronoun added, the stars cease to be a metaphor for the implacable universe and become a re ection of the would-be knight’s personal destiny.

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