I disagree. Being on top presents its own interesting challenges. It might be even harder staying on top and preserving your integrity when you get there. Almost every story is an underdog story; we've seen it already. I remember when the show Angel (spinoff of Buffy series) had the underdog protagonists inherit the evil supernatural law firm they were fighting against for 4 seasons. Our Heroes were suddenly on top and the ambiguity of their position on the good v evil spectrum made for some great TV. It was also nice to see the "if we just had all the power we can make a difference; it will be different" scenario play out. They failed miserably and that was just as interesting as the underdog struggle. At some point it will be nice if Pied Piper became a Hooli.
This show already has the character/dichotomy of Gavin Belson/Hooli to show what happens to people who reach the top (and how hard it is to stay there). I consider Belson and Hendricks to both be the protagonists... Each on opposite ends of the spectrum. But the journey of PP going from a side-project/app idea into a potentially multi-billion dollar company is a great story... And there's still a ways for it to go.
Highly unlikely and implausible that one person (or even Hendricks' customer reach-out strategy) could solve the DAU problem.... Bernice was probably just one-time comic relief (and it was hilarious that she went from a naive skeptic into a fanboy in just one brief tutoring session). Either the neural net does something unexpected that has massive positive consequences, or they happen to luckily stumble upon a yet to be revealed/recognized everyday use for the platform/compression that makes it into a killer app.
If they start using THE BOX - does it have PP software/engineering on it or EndFrames/Hooli's? If it has PP on it .. would it affect their daily user numbers? Rocket River Help me out nerds!
It's endframes box. The premise is that making a box is such an easy/idiot-proof application of middle-out compression, it doesn't take much to accomplish. But I figure that hooli will find a way to f it up.
Its more like he's motivated by sure-things that are guaranteed to turn profits... even if that means passing on riskier, but possibly more profitable/impactful ventures. He's like the guy who invested big on the initial sales of mini-disc players and stand-alone mp3 players... and got out before each of them became ultimately obsolete when a more profitable form of technology came along. In hindsight, had PP done the box... they'd likely be meeting the benchmarks to qualify for their next round of funding. However, given that Barker was signing an agreement with the box installers of exclusive rights to the algorithm, they would never have been able to release the platform on a wide-market scale. (the platform that isn't really taking off just yet).
If they wanted to make this reflect today, suspect some three letter agencies would like to know more about encrypted sharding.
If their application was aimed more for Business Enterprise I could see it being largely successful as well.
Yeah, I'll still watch the first episode or two of next season, but I'm not sure how much more of this I'll be watching. I felt like essentially the same **** happened that has happened previously.
Much like Cheers tried too hard to preserve the show taking place in a bar. For better or for worse, this is the show. I thought this season was the best of the three.
Nerdiness is an intrinsically derogatory and stereotypical concept that conflates intellect with frailty and awkwardness; so to even employ the term excuses the requisite cliches: whatever false impressions BBT creates have been around for at least a couple of generations of media beforehand. For the show itself, the characterization is just an entree to other regional, gender and cultural stereotypes that resonate with a broader and older audience than the principal characters themselves.
Anyone threatening to quit a show like this is a lying drama queen who will be here all next season. Stop trying so hard.
That is true... then again, they created a video-chat app that is poised to go viral without any sort of major capitol investment or funding utilization. Hell, didn't they spend a large chunk of the funding on the abysmal "tables" commercial? And the rest on seminars/outreach programs to explain how the app works?
Late to what? I won't pretend to not like it particularly considering some of the earlier season scripts and how limited sitcoms are with the proliferation of prime time reality programming. I imagine I could have used less flattering language to describe the actual ethnic and social stereotyping that the show indulges in under the pretense of behavioral caricatures.
