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Toronto Star Canada April 11 2010
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/tel...anada.html
Memorable Lines:
[JG—regarding his pleasure at having Lenny occur] Galecki's just happy to break out of his nerd niche. “I don't generally get those roles,” he says.
Cuoco has found viewers love episodes where Penny not only gets Sheldon's snide remarks, she gets Sheldon, helping him by “driving him places, doing these things for him as a parent.”
[re: The Napkin] “That was a big turning point,” says the 24-year-old. Both she and Parsons were incredibly moved by that script. “Anyone who watches the show knows how special that scene was. It was so sweet.”
[JP-on why people root for Sheldon despite his idiosyncrasies] “I think it's mostly due to the writers' protection of his core innocence, lack of malice, you know,” he says after a pause.
“We have gone through tapings where more than once they've had to rewrite dialogue on the spot because whatever it is they've written, either I can't do it without sounding extra bitchy, or it's just too mean.
“Sheldon rarely says anything to hurt,” he explains another way. “That's what's funny about it. It's very honest.”
It's a trait Sheldon shares with Penny and its why she's able to find the chink in his armour, he says. “She's obviously more savvy, but they're both honest. All the characters on the show” — we mustn't forget Sheldon and Leonard's perhaps even geekier friends Howard (Simon Helberg) and Rajesh (Kunal Nayyar) — “seem to be mostly without malice.”
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IGN Wil Wheaton April 10 2010
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2010/04/10/bi...ton-part-2
Memorable Lines:
Could [Wheaton] be a recurring nemesis for Sheldon? "I would think so. Nothing's resolved," Parsons remarked. "And I don't think Sheldon ever gets to win in that situation. Not to spoil anything, but Sheldon wins a lot of the time, so it's nice to have a good person come on and always get the best of him, because the rest of them don't always. They try, [but] he's too smart."
[Regarding Sheldon seeing Wheaton] "He's very unhappy," Jim Parsons said....On the other hand, Parson added, "I was happy to see Wil Wheaton because he's very nice, and easy to work with. It's funny, there's absolutely no love lost between the two of them, at least on Sheldon's end, and it's really interesting to treat such a nice person that way - take after take of disdain or just staring. It's one of those things where, a lot of the time you get here, maybe you don't see each other [before filming], and we would go hours where that was the only communication we would have. I would leave the set that day and realize that I'd literally not said a nice word to him because I hadn't seen him outside of the scene. So that was weird."
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NYTimes BBT Science April 26 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/scienc....html?_r=0
Memorable Lines:
“Leonard is in the most discomfort, he wants to move through the world,” said Mr. Lorre; Sheldon doesn’t care. Leonard’s efforts to establish and then maintain a romantic relationship with Penny have constituted a major part of the narrative arc of the first three seasons.
Mr. Parsons memorizes his lines by writing them out longhand and says he is astonished when people ask if the actors on the show ever improvise. “To veer away from the scripted dialog is a one-way trip to sudden death,” he said.
The point of the show, Mr. Prady said, is to tell small stories. “We are not doing ‘Lost,’ we’re not doing a complex novel for TV,” he said. “We follow the characters, and let them tell us what they’re going to do next. We’re telling stories about outsiders. We all feel like outsiders. Can you find love? Penny pulls Leonard to the outside world; Sheldon pulls him back.”
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http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/tel...anada.html
Memorable Lines:
[JG—regarding his pleasure at having Lenny occur] Galecki's just happy to break out of his nerd niche. “I don't generally get those roles,” he says.
Cuoco has found viewers love episodes where Penny not only gets Sheldon's snide remarks, she gets Sheldon, helping him by “driving him places, doing these things for him as a parent.”
[re: The Napkin] “That was a big turning point,” says the 24-year-old. Both she and Parsons were incredibly moved by that script. “Anyone who watches the show knows how special that scene was. It was so sweet.”
[JP-on why people root for Sheldon despite his idiosyncrasies] “I think it's mostly due to the writers' protection of his core innocence, lack of malice, you know,” he says after a pause.
“We have gone through tapings where more than once they've had to rewrite dialogue on the spot because whatever it is they've written, either I can't do it without sounding extra bitchy, or it's just too mean.
“Sheldon rarely says anything to hurt,” he explains another way. “That's what's funny about it. It's very honest.”
It's a trait Sheldon shares with Penny and its why she's able to find the chink in his armour, he says. “She's obviously more savvy, but they're both honest. All the characters on the show” — we mustn't forget Sheldon and Leonard's perhaps even geekier friends Howard (Simon Helberg) and Rajesh (Kunal Nayyar) — “seem to be mostly without malice.”
Mood of the Masses: No Comments.
IGN Wil Wheaton April 10 2010
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2010/04/10/bi...ton-part-2
Memorable Lines:
Could [Wheaton] be a recurring nemesis for Sheldon? "I would think so. Nothing's resolved," Parsons remarked. "And I don't think Sheldon ever gets to win in that situation. Not to spoil anything, but Sheldon wins a lot of the time, so it's nice to have a good person come on and always get the best of him, because the rest of them don't always. They try, [but] he's too smart."
[Regarding Sheldon seeing Wheaton] "He's very unhappy," Jim Parsons said....On the other hand, Parson added, "I was happy to see Wil Wheaton because he's very nice, and easy to work with. It's funny, there's absolutely no love lost between the two of them, at least on Sheldon's end, and it's really interesting to treat such a nice person that way - take after take of disdain or just staring. It's one of those things where, a lot of the time you get here, maybe you don't see each other [before filming], and we would go hours where that was the only communication we would have. I would leave the set that day and realize that I'd literally not said a nice word to him because I hadn't seen him outside of the scene. So that was weird."
Mood of the Masses: No Comments.
NYTimes BBT Science April 26 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/scienc....html?_r=0
Memorable Lines:
“Leonard is in the most discomfort, he wants to move through the world,” said Mr. Lorre; Sheldon doesn’t care. Leonard’s efforts to establish and then maintain a romantic relationship with Penny have constituted a major part of the narrative arc of the first three seasons.
Mr. Parsons memorizes his lines by writing them out longhand and says he is astonished when people ask if the actors on the show ever improvise. “To veer away from the scripted dialog is a one-way trip to sudden death,” he said.
The point of the show, Mr. Prady said, is to tell small stories. “We are not doing ‘Lost,’ we’re not doing a complex novel for TV,” he said. “We follow the characters, and let them tell us what they’re going to do next. We’re telling stories about outsiders. We all feel like outsiders. Can you find love? Penny pulls Leonard to the outside world; Sheldon pulls him back.”
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