• I was featured on the show and I had a blast doing it. There was so much unused footage that each person prob could have had an hour long show. I feel they didnt really get into each of our passions enough even though I know I personally talked alot obout the 501st and the work I do with them. They made it out to be me just liking to dress up but I do this for charity and so do over 5000 people worldwide. That was my only qualm with the show besides them being too short.

• My star wars collection is too massive to display. So I rotate my collection every few months to keep it looking fresh in my apt

• I just watched this and its really cool. No negative portrayal of ppl,which is always a concern when mundys make shows about us. Id give this shit a try.

• I was interested until I heard it was on TLC, the network that aims to make you understand other religions/large families/minorities by showing them in the worst light possible.  So the geeks they'll feature will make the BBT crew look subtle & humanized.

• Yes, I did. We keep in pretty steady contact. We're 5 hours apart thought, so...

• I have found a nerd dating site and have signed up for the free membership. I'm even thinking of paying for full access. I really like a girl who understands my "nerdom" who can get all my random quotes and would enjoy similar nerd stuff. Being a nerd is a big part of who I am and I'd really like it if I could share my life with someone who would enjoy it with me.

• Naaah...  You saw Back to the Future?  The "new" future is more precise.  Most of OUR bullies are either dead or in worse financial and social shape than we are, if we even see them!  Living well is truly the best revenge.  And bullying is no longer acceptable.

• Well, they HAVE discovered a formula to make money and get ratings... I suppose...

• True story: I was almost on this show. Being the lonely blerd ('black nerd') that I am, I decided to sign up for the speed dating sessions at NYCC...but then I remembered the panels that I wanted to go to (and I ended up missing most of them, anyway), so, it didn't happen. There were a good two hundred (at least) people ahead of me. Not sure if I've missed anything. I haven't watched, yet.

• Oooh,. I just LOVE a man with a big ....collection?  Brain? You must do it!  Finding someone who UNDERSTANDS the collector's mind, the nerd's needs, and who cherishes and reciprocates, is the most wonderful thing.  Believe me, there ARE geeky gals of every age out there who are lonely and awkward, not classically beautiful, but loyal, fairly sane, extremely interesting, and every size imaginable. I used to know of an online dating site specifically for "nerds"... The guy advertised at LOSCon one year... 

• There is NOTHING as wonderful as Geek Love!  I've never been so accepted, validated, educated, and adored before meeting my NerdMan.  I know he wants me for all of me.  Not my beauty or thinness, but my mind, sense of humor, and thirst for knowledge in addition to my middle aged chubby body, which he worships to perfection.  And he is certain I don't want HIM because he is rich or young or "handsome", although to me, he is as handsome as a Greek god!  Knowing this makes us feel beautiful and wealthy in the most lasting way. If more geeks, nerd, and "weirdos" can find a love like ours through this show, then play on!  The Mundanes may laugh at the show, or at our"awkwardness", but I think we SHALL inherit the Earth as well as have the last laugh!

• That may be true, it's still no reason to sell yourself short. j/k j/k

• if HBO wants to do a spinoff that would be awesome. ...man i miss those parties.

• or discovery heath, which is all about midgets, strange pregnancies and multiple babies at once. they should really re-brand the channel as discovery: birthcontrol

• Cool article, sounds like it was a fun experience overall!

• Well...? Did you call her? Haha!

• I'm not a geek, I'm a nerd!

• Just as long as they don't show the drunken Saturday night parties in the hotel suites..............

• If anyone would like to learn a little more about what I thought of doing the show, I did an interview with my local paper. You can read it online here: http://www.lancasteronline.com/article/local/552219_Local-man-speed-dates-on-TLC-s--Geek-Love-.html

• Just do it! I was nervous too, but it turned out to be so easy and a rather comfortable environment.

• If the show gets picked up it will travel with the speed dating company to different conventions making episodes from each of those. So each show will be different people. They did call Anna and get a where are they now statement that they put on the website though. I do have to say in defense of Anna's mom, Carolyn, they edited it to make her look worse that it was. She didn't want to be there, but the producers wouldn't let her leave us alone. Plus she was really nice. Both the how old are you and would you like to call my daughter lines were super casual but missed on tape, so we had to reenact them. That's what made them more awkward.

• I watched both episodes last night, and I thought they did a pretty good job of portraying these people in a realistic, yet positive light. Even though reality TV is pretty cheesy as a general rule, I think this series is entertaining without being condescending or cruel.  Look, everybody just wants to be loved and accepted, if you can't get behind that, then you just haven't got a heart. (Plus I love seeing the collections and stuff that people are super fanatic about).

• I watched the two episodes last night live...with my mother. She asked if I was able to do this and I told her yes as the Fan Expo now does speed dating. She then told me to do it. Which is kinda cool or bad depending on how you take it. Also she kept saying that the people's collections in the show were significantly smaller and less impressive then mine.

• Geek Love?  The novel about the circus family who try to breed their own freak show?  I would watch that TV show. This show, however, looks like crap.

• I think they represented you well, Dave. Even though, I felt having to go around NYCC with that girl and her mother might have been a bit too awkward for a potential love connection. The girl seemed normal enough, it was her mother who was the strange one. Maybe you could shed some light on this for me, and the rest of us, are they going to keep the series about you guys (meaning the couples picked out in the speed dating) or are they going to keep highlighting different couples and their first date?

• The only thing worth watching on TLC is is What Not to Wear,and withouth Stacy London's ass, that would be completely unwatchable as well. 

• Oh, the never ending parade of TLC (what used to be known as "The Learning Channel") exploiting middle America in yet another show about "reality". How I wish I could go back in time and force the MTV Exec that greenlit "The Real World" to retract that decision at gunpoint...

• Agreed. The less gasoline we thrown on that particular fire the better. Thanks, Abraxas.

• *Sigh...* It's too easy, and I'm currently single myself, so I really don't have any right to make fun of anybody. Plus, who doesn't want to make out with a hot cosplayer?

• dude!! looks like i just found a new tv show to watch. sweet.

• Oh, boy. The edited my response to her mother's question so awkwardly in that clip.

• I feel like going on a show to find Geek Love is a great way to bring your old hometown bullies out of retirement. Permanently.

• if nothing else the show may already have a built in audience from other geeks looking for love and wanting tips

• oh Todd - after that contest and a few posts last week - I don't think bringing up BBT on TR is a good idea :P

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