With all due respect to your wife, 'fun' is not the standard by which everything ought to be measured. Crime and Punishment isn't fun; Macbeth isn't fun, etc. Yet these are all great works. And it's okay for your wife to walk away when it's not sufficiently light entertainment enough. Personally, though, I applaud it when something is NOT about fun, for a change.

And no, the absence of fun does not mean it's "great if your a Sci-Fi nerd who want's a dark and gritty," but is simply for people who want something serious.

Am I to understand you're inferring that you thought Caprica was some sort of intellectual show? LOL. Well, I suppose, in a Kindergarten sorta way, they tried to be philosophical; but, of course, failed miserably because A) they couldn't get the science right (not even enough for a suspension of disbelief); and B) because said attempts at waxing 'philosophical' (like Dr. Graystone wanting to teach his A.I. wife, Amanda Graystone, new tricks) were based on the same bad science. Or absence thereof, rather. Just telling your A.I. wife that she needs to be more 'real' is not being philosophical -- that's just being stupid.

Heroes -- Simply ended with Season 1. The rest was drivel.

Caprica -- I saw Caprica's cancellation coming from the first episode aired. Why? Because it's premiss was based on a level of science that would embarrass even a 2nd Grader. To accept Caprica you had to be incredibly dumb and paranoid: "Yeah, let's just collect all data from you on the Internet, put it together inside a chip, and, tada, we have an A.I. with an almost identical personality to yours." Riiiight. Like I said, in reverse order, you'd have to be pretty paranoid to think that much data is available online about you; and you have to be pretty dumb to believe you can create an A.I. like yourself from just your Facebook data and such. Get real.

Of course, Caprica never recovered from its inherently flawed premiss. The Tauron 'mafia' plot was mildly amusing at times, but you can't carry a whole series on that. I'm surprised it hung in there as long as it did.

But we all know the truth. It's 30 year old lardballs who still live with their parents that play this game. The lack of friends and human companionship drives them to seek out online communities where they can be accepted as who they portray themselves as rather than for who they, unfortunately, are. Seeking companionship is one of the most primal of human urges.

You're working this deal all backwards. It's real life that allows people to portray themselves as someone they, unfortunately, aren't. The cute girl with her hot body, the salesman with his endearing smile, the exec in his spiffing suit, it's all covering the inside. If we'd ever got to see who these people really are, we'de be running away screaming half the time. In worlds like WoW, however, such physicalities have fallen away. What you call 'pretending' is, in fact, often the opposite: that sweet girl you're talking to, well, she really IS sweet. That's who she really is. It's YOU, used to judging people by their outer package, who concludes she's pretending to be something she's not, should it turn out she's fugly in real life.

In worlds like WoW, the avatars notwithstanding, you are what you write: your inner thoughts is what attracts people to you (or repels them from you). There's no cute body to help you out. You can't jiggle your boobs to get your way, or bat your beautiful wide eyes at that policeman, and have him tear up that speeding ticket. It's all just you. Now, if that allows some people to be highly more successful, or popular, than they are/would be in real life, then only so because there's no (sometimes plain, ugly, or plain ugly) cover to judge the book by. That's a good thing, BTW.

You are now beginning to witness the folding of American law and justice. This is where someone in a movie once said that in the future, they abolished all lawyers. Hmmm; could there be some credence to that thinking..??!!

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". - Shakespeare, King Henry VI (Act IV, Scene II).