Quote:I also don't understand how money is an issue for these two when raising a child because that did come up for Howard.
Quote:Howard searching for ideas to make money
WHAT....THE...FUCK.
This show's treatment of the subject of money is one of the most utterly bizarre and baffling things I have ever seen. I'm not exaggerating. None of these people should be needing to ask their spouse or their parents for money. None of them.They are in some of the top-paying professions in existence. You literally cannot be more successful than they are. Even if we assume that they have debts or other expenses, they are simply NOT hurting for money. They're not. They're in the very top tier of career-success, in the nation. They make over $100,000 per year, and buying collector plates isn't going to deplete that, anytime soon. *What* is this show's Bizarro-World view of work, money, and education? Astrophysics = working at Radio Shack. Got it. It's so beyond bizarre that I can't begin to explain it. I make a lot less money than these people, but I worry about it far less than they do.
Quote:I do have to say, Simon did sell it.
I don't care. I don't care if the acting is technically good. I don't want to watch him being soft and sentimental, even if it's arguably well-done. I probably wouldn't watch SH in anything else, after this. Not that any of these people are going to have post-BBT careers, anyway. I feel no attachment to SH as a person; he has said some really dumb and fawning pro-TPTB things. I don't read/watch interviews with him or whatever. I have no particular admiration for him. I'm not picking on you, but your choice of the phrase "sold it" was apt. A truly good thing doesn't need persuasion, it stands on its own merits.
Being associated with this show will come back to haunt these actors, if the law of consequences actually exists, in this world of ours. Ten years from now, they will cringe at some of the things they said/did for money, both onscreen and off.
To me, that pic of the cast with the 200th episode cake-cutting gives an impression of obliviousness and decadence and hubris. It's like aristocrats right before the French Revolution or people enjoying a swanky time on the Titanic. "Yay, we're sellouts, hurray!" It's literally a "Let them eat cake" picture. It carries that same message.
IDK. This upsets me less than it might have, a few months or years ago. The old characters are just so utterly *gone*, so far away, that it's amazing. It's so strange. It's such a surreal feeling. I don't know what to say or feel about it. There would be nothing hugely terrible about this episode you just described...except that they're still *calling it* The Big Bang Theory. Otherwise, it would be just another somewhat-stupid, occasionally-offensive, occasionally-good cookie-cutter sitcom.
I disagree that there is, or has ever been, anything appealing about MR. Even if I try to put aside my bias, I cannot imagine any circumstance in which I would be willing to watch her.
[size=small]I knew the H/B baby was coming, but the baby itself bothers me less than soft, feminized, cutesy-pie Howie who wuvs Wifey and wants to cuddle things. I'm not totally opposed to stories involving children or parenthood, and I don't actively dislike kids, although I strongly prefer my fave characters to be happily and intentionally childfree. I do not relate to stories about pregnancy, nor do I find them funny or entertaining. If a character isn't childfree, then they're not going to be a special favorite of mine.
Whatever. When I came across this news, I cried for about fifteen seconds and then said "Fuck everything and everyone associated with this." At this point, there might as well be one of those scrolling news-ticker ribbons at the bottom of the screen during this show, saying "YOU WILL CONFORM TO THE LIFE-SCRIPT. Weddingbabyweddingbabyweddingbabywedding..."
I wouldn't give a shit about any of this if they would simply give the characters different names. I'm serious.
My fave character and ship seem so far away, now. That's the only way I can describe it. I know I'm repeating myself, but it's such a strange feeling. Where did he go? Why am I, a random person on the Internet, more willing to defend him than the actor who embodied him? Why do these people seem to not understand their own creations?
How many deaths can these characters die, and when will I stop caring? I truly think that to watch one of these scenes would be more disturbing and upsetting for me than to watch a super-violent and brutal horror flick or something of that nature. That's what this is: the snuff film that keeps on giving.