Normally I like this show. It's certainly dated now and I hate what they did to Zach and I guess that repeats here.
The thing is, Brennan is coded autistic from the beginning. Here she is a person who is very clear that she's the best in the world at what she does, and in the end she concludes that the kid who's perfect game was co-opted simply doesn't care because he's autistic. She doesn't know that. She can't. Just because we communicate things differently sometimes doesn't mean we don't care. And she would care if someone used her work for their own advancement without crediting her. It's just another moment of misrepresenting us in ways that ultimately do harm in the real world. It's disappointing.
The joke about avatar being the most important thing that ever happened to the guy that's pretending he's not both on the show and in the movie was funny tho. At least one of them would have known that it was a rip off of the LeGuin novel tho. (the word for world is forest). Not in-world realistic that not one of those sci fi loving academics would have read LeGuin's seminal series.
The thing is, Brennan is coded autistic from the beginning. Here she is a person who is very clear that she's the best in the world at what she does, and in the end she concludes that the kid who's perfect game was co-opted simply doesn't care because he's autistic. She doesn't know that. She can't. Just because we communicate things differently sometimes doesn't mean we don't care. And she would care if someone used her work for their own advancement without crediting her. It's just another moment of misrepresenting us in ways that ultimately do harm in the real world. It's disappointing.
The joke about avatar being the most important thing that ever happened to the guy that's pretending he's not both on the show and in the movie was funny tho. At least one of them would have known that it was a rip off of the LeGuin novel tho. (the word for world is forest). Not in-world realistic that not one of those sci fi loving academics would have read LeGuin's seminal series.