As we watch now, the potential Muse has become a housewife of abandoned personal ambition, and the noble Outsider has been regressed into infantilism, and broken down into an alternately pitiable or villainous pantomime, sometimes akin to an Idiot Child, under the guardianship of a character that began as an identikit copy of himself, and is now inexplicably, wiser and “better” than he is, and seems to function as his Keeper. This hideous destruction of character may be justified commercially, but artistically it’s indefensible.
If the characters of Sheldon Cooper and Penny are remembered past the death of syndicated re-runs, in any pocket of iconic eternity at all, it will be for their original depiction, not for the dispirited mockeries they’ve become. They have in Jim Parsons an actor of vast capabilities and extraordinary comedic instincts, and in Cuoco a comedic naturalism and enormous charm that is severely underused and underrated. It’s like watching Buster Keaton and Lucille Ball reduced to doing children’s parties.

That is all I currently wish to say on this matter. I would lay a fairly certain bet that I’ll have more to add interfrastically. In the mean…Thoughts?

I tried to watch this without the stupid Jim-grin spreading across my face. I was not successful. And I don't know if I'm using the right icon for YT posts - that is a little TV isn't it? Or is it a painting?

Jim and Conan "raid" the TBBT set

I didn't find too much to like with this one. While it's always a pleasure to see Wil Wheaton and John Ross Bowie, I miss evil Wil, the smarmy bastard. And it was a little jarring hearing Kripke actually acknowledge his speech impediment - I'd always thought he was unaware of it. Totally unbelievable that he wouldn't be, I get that, but somehow it's funnier to imagine that he's oblivious to it.