There's this expectation that

有的人希望为了观众着想
you have to sort of dumb a show down to the audience.

编剧应该将剧情简单化
We kind of went the other way. We sort of felt like,

我们却有些反其道行之我们多少认为
let's make a show that we would really appreciate as viewers

应当做一部我们真正欣赏的剧集
That tried to be intelligent, that tried to introduce things

因为观众希望更聪慧希望引入新事物
That are sort of heavily thematic, based on philosophy or physics.

那些基于哲学和物理学的深刻话题
If one of the writers really loved the teachings

如果某位编剧特别喜欢Rousseau或Locke的教学
Of Rousseau or Locke, uh, why not name characters

那为什么不将剧中人物起为
After those philosophers?

哲人的名字呢
Are you Daniel Faraday?

你是Daniel Faraday[物理学家]吗
Jeremy Bentham?

Jeremy Bentham[哲学家]
Anthony Cooper.

Anthony Cooper[物理学家]