11-20-2015, 12:52 PM
The part before the journal is my reasoning why I can stomach Lenny more than Shamy - they are written to be quite funny every once in a while and I think KC and JG are good enough actors that I can laugh at them. In fact, just about all of these people deserve better scripts than this. I could also relate to Penny here because I can seriously barely remember my own birthday and probably only pull it off because it's on a distinctive day. Problem is, Lenny aren't the height of interesting, either, even when they don't annoy me. That's the problem when your only joke material is relationship problems. (The show also collided with my morals here once again... I'd have a much bigger problem with someone reading my diary. It's not equivalent with someone forgetting my birthday at all, which I think was what they were going for.)
I did appreciate that they at least made an attempt to tie Emily into some friendship dynamic, although I don't think it really worked. Did she even speak to her boyfriend? And where did the soup kitchen thing come from? Never seen any of them volunteer before. Instead of harping on Howard, could've had some jokes about people who only do charitable things on the big holidays...
And then Shamy, who are much easier to stomach as friends because until the fish game, it was still mostly Amy disapproving Sheldon's antics, something that always made me wonder why she was in the relationship in the first place. As WPP said, funny fishgames wasn't really what their relationship has been about for a while. If it was, maybe I would understand why people ship Shamy because that part was fun. Not fun enough to suddenly pull the plug on the break-up, though, I mean what? It's not like any of the issues Amy had were addressed. It just makes her seem pretty fickle. And then of course we had to end what I thought was a funny-ish lighthearted romcom episode (because it is a romcom these days, but not nearly often enough consistently funny) on a downer beat with a dramatic lingering shot of Amy. Oh God, I don't care.
I did appreciate that they at least made an attempt to tie Emily into some friendship dynamic, although I don't think it really worked. Did she even speak to her boyfriend? And where did the soup kitchen thing come from? Never seen any of them volunteer before. Instead of harping on Howard, could've had some jokes about people who only do charitable things on the big holidays...
And then Shamy, who are much easier to stomach as friends because until the fish game, it was still mostly Amy disapproving Sheldon's antics, something that always made me wonder why she was in the relationship in the first place. As WPP said, funny fishgames wasn't really what their relationship has been about for a while. If it was, maybe I would understand why people ship Shamy because that part was fun. Not fun enough to suddenly pull the plug on the break-up, though, I mean what? It's not like any of the issues Amy had were addressed. It just makes her seem pretty fickle. And then of course we had to end what I thought was a funny-ish lighthearted romcom episode (because it is a romcom these days, but not nearly often enough consistently funny) on a downer beat with a dramatic lingering shot of Amy. Oh God, I don't care.