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Mar 28, 2019 - 6:28 AM
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Tall Guy
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I've BEEN a big fan of TBBT for some time, but this last season seems to me as if they're just marking time until the closing curtain, unfortunately. Probably a good time to end it.
If there was an event that caused it to stall, for me it was the death of Howard's mother and the (I suppose) understandable dip into mawkishness that followed it for a while.
I've always liked the relationships between the characters more than the characters themselves, who, for sitcom purposes, have to be a bit stereotyped. The best of these was the Sheldon/Penny axis, followed probably by Howard and Raj's beneath-the-surface bromance, exposed brilliantly and hilariously by Leonard's mother.
I'll be sad to see it come to an end, but at the same time I won't if you see what I mean.
I think my favourite line out of the whole show was Zack's, in response to Penny pointing out that they got married by a fake Elvis. "Of course we did - we couldn't afford a REAL Elvis". (Might be slightly paraphrased.) Still makes me laugh.
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I can't stand 5 minutes of it. Give me TWO AND A HALF MEN any day.
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I can't stand 5 minutes of it.
Yes but who's your favorite character in that 4:59?
Let me think...I guess it must be the guy who looks like Lukas Kendall.
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If there was an event that caused it to stall, for me it was the death of Howard's mother and the (I suppose) understandable dip into mawkishness that followed it for a while.
I thought the death of Howard's mother was great way for the show to respond to the real-life event. Much better than re-casting the voice role would have been.
What has hurt the show for me was the way they gradually destroyed the Sheldon character in later seasons. He becomes a soft-hearted loverboy? Are you kidding me? While supposedly making him more relatable, this change has actually made him detestable, because it reveals that he is fully capable of human feeling when there's something in it for him, but he chose to be an a-hole to all his friends for years. Back when (it seemed) Sheldon had mental deficits that made him treat people badly, it was funnier. Now he's just a willful jerk.
The original conception of Amy Farrah Fowler was great too, and they re-wrote her personality as well, but to less damaging effect. She was re-engineered before we got too invested in her original design. And there are still hilarious flashes of the old Amy from time to time.
Original Leonard was a funny and relatable nerd, but mid-Leonard somehow became a total baller, with women lining up to sleep with him. I had trouble believing that. Late Leonard is all about Penny, which is fine.
That said, I still love the show, and watched reruns to the point of memorization on TBS and the local station that also carries it. The show has done an amazing job with characters. As time went on, the cast kept growing, and every addition who stuck has been amazingly good. Amy, Bernadette, and Stuart in particular; any of them could carry their own show. TBBT has the best sitcom cast since Friends, maybe better.
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Mar 30, 2019 - 11:05 AM
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barryfan
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As far as evolution of characters go, Amy evolved into a much better character. Initially, she was a bitchy robot. And now, just a science nerd with love in her heart.
The first two episodes that Bernadette had, she had a normal voice. Then as an acting choice, she decided to go to the squeaky voice. That was a bad decision IMO.
Meanwhile, Sheldon's evolution has been much more natural. He had multiple scenes/episodes where he said he was learning sarcasm, or trying to be more empathetic. And Amy had alot to do with that. I think this is totally plausible. I have 2 good friends who got married. He was a jokester, easy going. She was uptight and a worry wart. They both said that after they met and got to know one another, he became more serious and she learned how to laugh. So people can change.
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I'm not clicking on a link posted for no reason, under a new handle, who joined the board that day and said something brief and superficial. It looks like another round of spamming by fake handles.
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And again: I'm not clicking on a link posted for no reason, under a new handle, who joined the board that day and said something brief and superficial. It looks like another round of spamming by fake handles.
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