The Geek Hierarchy

[Geo]

If you've seen a science fiction or fantasy movie/TV show that was adapted from a book or other source material before you actually read the source material, your geek cred is seriously questionable.

Depends on your birth year, wouldn't you think?
These days, it's pretty hard to read a (scifi) book before you've seen a TV adaptation of it.
I'm actually not sure what I've seen first: Do androids dream of electric sheep or Blade Runner... and the latter is already an old movie!

[Doc Nebula]

True that.  Better for getting the entire cast, I suppose.

[Buster's Uncle]

I think that there's geeks and then there's geeks - and the sort who watch Star Wars and don't read books (unless they're about SW) are, IMAO, inferior to geeks who read, no question.  But I'm not comfortable excluding the movie morons from the tribe - placing them down there on the Geek Hierarchy chart with the furries (sorry, Flygon) is good enough for me.

[Geo]

But I did watch the initial part of "V" before I read the novelization. 
(mostly because my father forbid me to watch it)

[Buster's Uncle]

Reading books is good for you - and I'm not judging if you discovered something in the wrong order, as long as you're in the habit of reading.

-Also, are we talking the original miniseries, or the TV show?  Because one was a pretty awesome allegory about fascism, and the other a dumb soap opera with space lizards.

[Doc Nebula]

Yeah, I'm a little more hard core with that 'seen the movie before you've read the adaption' than I should be.  I've seen BLADE RUNNER a lot, never read the original short story.  But I don't like Dick.  (Take that any way you like.)

[Buster's Uncle]

Too easy.

The Man in the High Castle was okay...

[Geo]

-Also, are we talking the original miniseries, or the TV show?  Because one was a pretty awesome allegory about fascism, and the other a dumb soap opera with space lizards.

Original Miniseries of course.
By the time the TV show was broadcasted in my country, the whole family gathered around the screen to see it.
Only last week I watched the intro of the TV show again, and was horrified at the copying of the scout ship pursuit scene from the Miniseries.

[Geo]

The Man in the High Castle was okay...

Too Fascismtic to you. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Why?  I expect a little in a Nazis won story...