I felt that the presenter is a very rare example of a engineer who felt that his expression and purpose was attractive to his imagined audience.
Without diversion via the questions embedded in the profession and the perception and self perception of the male geek working and academic world, I so rarely see a presenter reacting to a sense of apparent human warmth in the room, and beyond the lens, which even with the most encouraging assistance behind the lens, is genuinely hard to do. Hard enough that I think it is a classic contribution to the stereotypes of inflated ego newsreel presenters, which Hollywood loves to satirise, in my opinion because Hollywood is mocking, to their narrow and insecure view, a subspecies of acting which when done well, can so massively capture the greater audience than ever some most serious actors may manage to capture.
This is a bit more than a little bit of geek knowhow and applied thought, but I think many geeks by virtue of sheer analysis without a obstruction of a ego, could be handily outperforming the supposedly inherent talent they are "meant" to possess. It may be reaching well into "real serious" acting, very easily. I don't pretend to be a judge of that, but if acting abilities are "I know it when I see it", this is excellent acting indeed.
Edit, is not was, first line. A comma for clarity but later on.
Without diversion via the questions embedded in the profession and the perception and self perception of the male geek working and academic world, I so rarely see a presenter reacting to a sense of apparent human warmth in the room, and beyond the lens, which even with the most encouraging assistance behind the lens, is genuinely hard to do. Hard enough that I think it is a classic contribution to the stereotypes of inflated ego newsreel presenters, which Hollywood loves to satirise, in my opinion because Hollywood is mocking, to their narrow and insecure view, a subspecies of acting which when done well, can so massively capture the greater audience than ever some most serious actors may manage to capture.
This is a bit more than a little bit of geek knowhow and applied thought, but I think many geeks by virtue of sheer analysis without a obstruction of a ego, could be handily outperforming the supposedly inherent talent they are "meant" to possess. It may be reaching well into "real serious" acting, very easily. I don't pretend to be a judge of that, but if acting abilities are "I know it when I see it", this is excellent acting indeed.
Edit, is not was, first line. A comma for clarity but later on.