The Big Bang Theory had a Professor from UCLA write physics equations that would appear in the show. These equations had no effect on the shows "humor" or story-lines and existed as clickbait fodder for rags like Buzzfeed. Ghostbusters 2016 had a scientist on set as a consultant on the Proton Packs and other tech. It didn't stop the movie from being an unfunny mess where the tech behaves like magic wielded by babbling morons. This scientist is probably providing the same function for the MCU he's on set explaining the theoreticals behind the technology in the movies but never says its impossible to achieve by todays standards. His job is to say fancy words and pretend these movies are more smartly written than they really are. Also every time a hear theoretical physics I think:
Call me when Trump ties some chick to a railroad track laced with dynamite while twirling his handlebar mustache.
I got nothing. Hes defending the game with a lot of big fancy words but the what and why completely elude me. All I know is that he's probably jacked it to Abby.
Lol back when the tranny sex scene for TLOU2 got leaked I thought how excessive it was and how a more restrained love scene would have conveyed the same emotional reaction. You don't need to explicitly show sex to tell the audience that two characters love each other. We know Steve Rogers loves Peggy Carter because of their interactions with each other and the way he talks about her, we know Peter Parker loves MJ because he tries to protect her and his visible jealousy toward her other boyfriends influences his actions and affects his superpowers. The characters dialogue and physical mannerisms tell us about the intimacy of their relationships while suggesting they probably engage in hanky panky off camera. A film does not need characters engaged in full frontal fucking to tell us they love each other.
We watched some episode of Big Bang Theory in our "English for Physicists" course at university, back when BBT was fresh and fun. Main focus was on how the equations in the background made sense, but later, during my Master's it would painfully obvious how basic BBT really was in terms of physics. Like, the whole episode where Sheldon works as a waiter at the Cheesecake Factory to gain some Einsteinian insight into a problem. He drops some, dunno, Skittles or whatever, and realizes that electrons move through graphene as waves. Now, graphene has been the hype material in condensed matter physics for quite a while, but the fundemantal physics behind it have been known since the 40s, and calculating the band structure of graphene and its properties are one of the first exercises you do in condensed matter physics because it's one of the simplest materials since it's basically two-dimensional.
Scientific consultants are a waste on Marvel movies.
"So, science dude, uh, is there like, magic
but it's actually science, knowhatimean?" -"Uhm, yeah, I guess? There's something called Clarke's Third Law that states that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and" -"Alright awesome bro so Thor, you know Thor right? He's like a literal GOD, but he could be just a super advanced techno human thing, right, full of that, whatchucallit, nimotech?" -"Nanotech?" -"YEAH BRO that's the shit, so Thor's like a god because of technology, does that make sense?" -"Sure, that's a common trope in Science Fiction an" -"WICKED bro, alright, thanks, now piss off, nerd."
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