04-23-2015, 08:56 AM
It's certainly been an interesting season, insofar as they finally destroyed Sheldon, Penny and Howard, thus completely alienating Sheldon fans, Penny fans, Howard fans AND Shenny fans, both romantic and platonic. That's QUITE A LOT of alienation going on.
As a side note, they managed to piss off the subset of Leonard and Lenny fans as well, by sidelining their ship in favour of the GooGooGaga Ship Shamy.
Additionally, the audience (and NOT the hopped up studio audience) is fed up with relationships, and yet they throw down the finale, and suddenly we have TWO engagements, thus two weddings ahead, a married couple and another couple.
No friendships to speak of. No Sheldon & Penny, no Howard and Raj. No Leonard & Sheldon. Just date-night clothes, and beige and endless marriages unto a conventional white-picket fenced death. And increasingly unrecognisable characters.
I don't know what this show is anymore. But it's not The Big Bang Theory. I'd thought the next few episodes were getting back to Vintage, but now I know the finale, I can't bear to watch them. And I was looking forward to the bastards!
Given that there will eventually be 6 (or more) years of this Friends remake (although it's not a romcom, more of a romdram), 1 year of transition (S4), and 3 years of the show as it was originally conceived (and the 3 years that is on the merch, and that everyone quotes, and that wins all the episode polls, and was critically acclaimed...etc.), we have to decide whether to rename these first 3 years as something completely different, or to rename the latter 6 or 7.
We generally call them the Jar Jar Binks years, but at least kids liked Jar Jar Binks...Kids don't care about four couples and relationship plotlines that are common to every single romcom. And neither do geeks and artists, apparently.
But nevermind, there are plenty of women in the world who fancy Jim Parsons, and who think Season 1-3 Sheldon was "an emotionless robotic arsehole" and depressingly prefer this gormless, low IQ toddler Sheldon, and want him to lose both his pants and the last vestiges of his identity (and asexuality) as quickly as possible so he can get into bed with a woman who bears utterly no resemblance to the original character he was interested in, but is now just a female Leonard, and a convenient stand-in for all the women who weren't very popular at High School, and are somehow still obsessing about this in their twenties to fifties, and are treating AFF's "capture" of Sheldon as some kind of personal success. Nevermind that this has ruined both Sheldon AND the show in the process.
Just keep writing for them, like you've been doing all season.
And while you're at it, you can rewrite the description of the show on all the IMDb and film sites, because it no longer matches the content.
The Housewives of Ameriky have loved Season 8, and they're going to love Season 9 even betterer! And that's where the bloody money is, isn't it.
Although compared to Season 2 & 3's 100%...
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Incidentally, if we seem angry here, it's because of course we bloody are. We loved this show and its characters. We admired the creators. People don't write rants out of apathy, or about shows they only MILDLY enjoyed. Love topples into hate quite easily, particularly when a sense of betrayal's involved...
Good thing it's only a TV show eh!
It's the fucking principle of it all...
As a side note, they managed to piss off the subset of Leonard and Lenny fans as well, by sidelining their ship in favour of the GooGooGaga Ship Shamy.
Additionally, the audience (and NOT the hopped up studio audience) is fed up with relationships, and yet they throw down the finale, and suddenly we have TWO engagements, thus two weddings ahead, a married couple and another couple.
No friendships to speak of. No Sheldon & Penny, no Howard and Raj. No Leonard & Sheldon. Just date-night clothes, and beige and endless marriages unto a conventional white-picket fenced death. And increasingly unrecognisable characters.
I don't know what this show is anymore. But it's not The Big Bang Theory. I'd thought the next few episodes were getting back to Vintage, but now I know the finale, I can't bear to watch them. And I was looking forward to the bastards!
Given that there will eventually be 6 (or more) years of this Friends remake (although it's not a romcom, more of a romdram), 1 year of transition (S4), and 3 years of the show as it was originally conceived (and the 3 years that is on the merch, and that everyone quotes, and that wins all the episode polls, and was critically acclaimed...etc.), we have to decide whether to rename these first 3 years as something completely different, or to rename the latter 6 or 7.
We generally call them the Jar Jar Binks years, but at least kids liked Jar Jar Binks...Kids don't care about four couples and relationship plotlines that are common to every single romcom. And neither do geeks and artists, apparently.
But nevermind, there are plenty of women in the world who fancy Jim Parsons, and who think Season 1-3 Sheldon was "an emotionless robotic arsehole" and depressingly prefer this gormless, low IQ toddler Sheldon, and want him to lose both his pants and the last vestiges of his identity (and asexuality) as quickly as possible so he can get into bed with a woman who bears utterly no resemblance to the original character he was interested in, but is now just a female Leonard, and a convenient stand-in for all the women who weren't very popular at High School, and are somehow still obsessing about this in their twenties to fifties, and are treating AFF's "capture" of Sheldon as some kind of personal success. Nevermind that this has ruined both Sheldon AND the show in the process.
Just keep writing for them, like you've been doing all season.
And while you're at it, you can rewrite the description of the show on all the IMDb and film sites, because it no longer matches the content.
The Housewives of Ameriky have loved Season 8, and they're going to love Season 9 even betterer! And that's where the bloody money is, isn't it.
Although compared to Season 2 & 3's 100%...
Incidentally, if we seem angry here, it's because of course we bloody are. We loved this show and its characters. We admired the creators. People don't write rants out of apathy, or about shows they only MILDLY enjoyed. Love topples into hate quite easily, particularly when a sense of betrayal's involved...
Good thing it's only a TV show eh!
It's the fucking principle of it all...
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"