(08-18-2014, 01:55 PM)Louise Wrote: I wouldn't treat a random stranger the way these characters treat their "loved ones." I'm a very assertive person and I don't take sh*t, but I don't scream at people or call them an idiot right to their face.

Yes, all couples argue and that's normal, but IMO this level of hostility is not normal or healthy. More importantly, it's not entertaining to watch. Watching people argue isn't funny, or endearing, or meaningful, or...anything. It's deeply squicky and unsettling.

I can only imagine that the people who enjoy this stuff have been burned in their own relationships at some point, so they have a hostile outlook. Or they subscribe to a phony feminism where the woman is always right and the man is always wrong.

It's like "The Guitarist Amplification", where Sheldon was distressed because everyone around him was arguing. Well, he must really be distressed, now.

If someone annoys you that much, and their behavior is that unacceptable to you, maybe that's a sign you shouldn't be together in the first place. Dontcha think?

I'd never treat a boyfriend/husband that way. I've been less harsh to random jerks who harassed me on the subway...

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It occurred to me that I'd feel one hundred percent better (well, maybe eighty percent better), if they simply gave this "new" show a different name and stopped pretending that this is the same concept we were introduced to in 2007.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: S3 or S4 onward should be regarded as some type of reboot, re-make, or spin-off, much like the original unaired pilot was a very different spin on similar themes...

(08-18-2014, 02:07 PM)Dsnynutz Wrote: I agree. I keep waiting for the episode where Sheldon wakes up screaming Danger, danger, and we find out that seasons 4-7 were a nightmare brought about from bad Thai food (although I would allow season 4 minus the Penny/Raj hook up and a couple other episodes)

(08-18-2014, 01:55 PM)Louise Wrote: "They do not, to wit, become a different person wearing the same clothes."


In a way, it can be comforting to know that these are simply NOT the same characters as before. They're not. They might as well have different names. It's a different iteration of the same franchise, sort of how there are different versions of Blackadder, yet played by the same actor.

(08-18-2014, 07:23 AM)Idle Miscreant Wrote: That's the thing isn't it. If you LIKE the lads just as they are, watching them get yelled at every episode can get very unpleasant.

It’s the same with this “growth” nonsense.
I like my friends immensely, flaws and all. The flaws are part of their identity. I cannot conceive of a situation where I might wish them to alter, to GROW, because then they would not be the characters I love. Moreover, people DO NOT drastically change their personality, interests, habits. The same person might get a little tireder as they get older, or mellow out a bit, BUT – and this is the knobbly crux of my contention – they do NOT suddenly lose their germ-phobia, their obsessive need for routines, and habit of spouting off unusual (and ostensibly unrelated) facts about the universe. They do NOT suddenly stand differently, speak differently, and engage in activities which their previous self abhors and had dismissed as irrelevant. They do not, to wit, become a different person wearing the same clothes.

What particularly irks me here, is that Sheldon as a FICTIONAL character, was drawn in a certain way. He’s not real, he’s ART. The appeal of this PARTICULAR way of drawing him was what made the show popular in the first place.

So he MUST be changed obviously.




(Shouty McCAPITALS is out today, I apologise...)

(08-18-2014, 01:23 PM)Dsnynutz Wrote: O.k. I just have to ask this. Is anyone besides me a little worried about Penny's new job? She's depressed and a near alcoholic. It just seems like letting her have easy access to free prescription drugs samples is just asking for trouble.