01-12-2016, 12:10 AM
Always nice to get a post from the Ratman with his enthusiatic Shenny charm.
I sometimes wonder if the reason the show is so popular, is because the audience enjoys the flawed ships. They like to laugh at someone else making bad choices. And they also like the fantasy element of it. It has an unreal quality...
Leonard getting Penny is a fantasy, with Amy getting Sheldon not too far behind. I'm sure it does happen in real life occasionally. The guy who waited around whining and pining, ending up the popular girl who gave up looking and settled. Or the girl who gave five years of her life to a man who always seemed a little out of reach. The later is a familiar tale, and usually ends with the girl who 'did all the work' getting sidelined when the elusive man suddenly decides he's ready to love and settle down but and instead of chosing the woman who did all the work, he picks someone new. Thanking her and disappearing into the night.
BB takes both these realities and offers a more desirable but unrealistic outcome.
I sometimes wonder if the reason the show is so popular, is because the audience enjoys the flawed ships. They like to laugh at someone else making bad choices. And they also like the fantasy element of it. It has an unreal quality...
Leonard getting Penny is a fantasy, with Amy getting Sheldon not too far behind. I'm sure it does happen in real life occasionally. The guy who waited around whining and pining, ending up the popular girl who gave up looking and settled. Or the girl who gave five years of her life to a man who always seemed a little out of reach. The later is a familiar tale, and usually ends with the girl who 'did all the work' getting sidelined when the elusive man suddenly decides he's ready to love and settle down but and instead of chosing the woman who did all the work, he picks someone new. Thanking her and disappearing into the night.
BB takes both these realities and offers a more desirable but unrealistic outcome.