as a professor or ta, or anybody involved in academia really, do you like when otherwise dull students get passionate about your subject or do you find it annoying?

I’m a certifiable brain let (sub 115 iq) but I’m big into pop science and Star Trek, I used to sperge out at my physics professor at community college about various physics related topics, I would also say I knew a fair bit more about physics than the average community college attendee but only on a very shallow level, my prof seems to have welcomed my enthusiasm but looking back at it he probably cringed and hated me