In theatre they have the concept of exaggerated movement to draw
attention to actions that a viewer might not notice due to distance from
actor and such. Hackers on TV are the same way since 95% of what hackers
do isn¹t easily visually translated to a non technical person. The problem
is non tech
Those of us who loved Buffy watch anything Joss Whedon puts out, because
we KNOW he's capable of genius. That said, he always has a hacker
character, and they've been getting progressively worse. Willow is
entirely believable - conflicted, dark, and at the same time cheerfully
nerdy.
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Could it be that when Whedon meets a real geek (or hacker, as in the
case of those who are) they get way too fanboy and so poor Joss has
never seen a real hacker through no fault of his own?
http://thomasquinlan.com/2013/10/on-meeting-joss-whedon/
