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I totally hoped this would be about whoever the real person that "The Carver" from HBO's Silicon Valley is based on: https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/The_
by cbanek 7y ago
I totally hoped this would be about whoever the real person that "The Carver" from HBO's Silicon Valley is based on: https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/The_Carver https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/The_Carver
"The Carver" takes bankrupt startups and "moves the carcass to the cloud." Sadly disappointed.
- neilv 7y agoI think the initial "The Carver" mystique set up the comedy of introducing a kid, but that the character might've actually been a stealth critique of a much more common dotcom stereotype: * Mechanically grinding out large amounts of formulaic code. * Routinely abusing medication for performance enhancement. * Smug, strutting, arrogant, and rude. * Demands very high compensation. * "Laidback". * Secretly a massive fudge-up in their work, but there's mutual interest in not calling that out.
- throwanem 7y ago'Stealth'? Seemed pretty overt to me. Making the character everything you describe and also a spoiled brat of a teenager with an overinflated sense of his own importance doesn't seem like something that happens in that show by accident, you know?
- cbanek 7y agoTotally agree and just to add to the list: complete inability to communicate or work with others.
- strken 7y agoWhat does "laidback" mean?
- neilv 7y agoI wasn't ready to say that it's genuine laidback, when combined with such aggressive other traits. It might be affectation or sociopathy. In any case, it seemed funny to me (and the show did some similar things with some other characters, like Keenan Feldspar).
- randycupertino 7y agoStanford Duck Syndrome, perhaps? https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/01/31/duck-syndrome-and-a-culture-of-misery/ https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/01/31/duck-syndrome-and-a...