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[moon_custafer]

Cracked actually runs some pretty good commentary these days. Here's one about the problematic portrayal of geniuses on tv; and yes, I've heard of the "CSI Effect" on juries.

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[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

I've never seen "Murder One" but "Criminal Minds" seems to follow me around a lot. I like how their super-genius is portrayed as coming from a Tesla-type family with a lot of members who've wandered across the line into madness. He's constantly worried that one day he'll stop being visionary and just start seeing things. One of the other guys admits he can't begin to understand how it would be to live in that hailstorm of data and associations but manages to be of emotional comfort anyway.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

It also helps that he has a Watson - his partner is not the same sort of genius, but she's above-average in intelligence and she's emotionally very stable.

Goren is also implied to be very knowledgeable about some things, while other times he bones up on subjects that are relevant to the case at hand -- whether those remain in his head long-term is unknown.