Followup

Today there was a departmental seminar with some guy from Ottawa who got his PhD like three years ago and already had his own group that were producing Science papers. The talk (Catalytic Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation without Activating Groups: A New Biaryl Synthesis) only rendered two marks on the bingo sheet; the two giveaways "You've no idea what's going on" and "Master's student bobs head fighting sleep". In other words a pretty good talk. It is not unusual that I have no clue what the speaker is going on about, especially if it is not physical chemistry. If it's chemistry chemistry I'm totally lost. Unfortunately I think most other people are lost too. Can it really be so hard to get people to speak at a lower level at a departmental seminar? Is it really that important to show off?