01-16-2015, 08:28 AM
Deadline Prady August 26 2011
http://deadline.com/2011/08/emmys-qa-big...dy-162413/
Memorable Lines:
[BP]: If I knew exactly what you had to do to make a show Emmy-worthy, it is absolutely something that we would do.
[BP]: We are depicting a particular culture, and whenever you are depicting a particular culture, there is an instant judgment made whether you are celebrating or mocking the culture. We knew we were celebrating it because it is our culture, but it’s through the prism of a four-camera comedy.
[BP]: I love what they do over at Modern Family, but I don’t find myself turning on a comedy. I find myself turning on a drama. Because then I’m not thinking about, ‘Here’s another way to do that joke,’ or, in the case of Modern Family, ‘What a brilliant way to do that joke.’ But to watch something that shakes you and moves you and draws you in, and takes you into another world — that’s real fun.
Mood of the Masses:
I truly believe Big Bang “shines” – and that’s overly generous — because the comedic landscape is so turgid these days. (“Two and a Half Men” a top show, really?) Mark my words: Big Bang will not age well. Ten years from now no one will give a damn about it. [Bobby the Saint]
I agree, 10 years from, no one will care about the Big Bang…it’s overrated….Since they got a multi-year contract, they don’t try so hard, as if they had to renew year to year….[Kat]
Wired Science September 22 2011
http://www.wired.com/2011/09/tv-fact-che...ng-theory/
Memorable Lines:
[David Saltzberg]: “Basically as soon as the writers release any fragment of a script to the rest of the crew I get a copy. Sometimes I’ll get six pages of a new script. These writers know a lot of science. Sometimes they’ll have a whole piece of science dialog that they’ve come up with and I just have to check it. For example, the script I’m reading right now I changed one letter. They had mentioned an ‘anti-photon’ but that doesn’t make any sense because there is no such thing. So I suggested changing it to ‘anti-proton.’ The writers, I understand, want the sound and the rhythm to be the same, so if I change something like that I like it to be still correct but not change the pattern. Sometimes they’ll just say ‘science to come’ in brackets in the script — like they want characters to be working on an experiment and they need some words.”
Mood of the Masses: No Comments.
HollywoodReporter Kunal Nayyar September 22 2011
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-fe...yar-235671
Memorable Lines:
[KN]: “Do I hope that Raj becomes this womanizing player who can talk to women all the time? No, I hope that he continues to grow,” Nayyar says. “I really think if you take away a character’s obstacles then there’s no comedy. Comedy is really based on overcoming obstacles and if you take away that obstacle, my fear is that [Raj] would lose his funny.”
Mood of the Masses:
All I ask for in Season 5: More science with the boys, less sex with the girls. Nerdgasms are what set Big Bang apart from the competition since Day One. Do we really need another banal orgasm-infused sitcom? And oh, hoping for MUCH less Amy Farrah Fowler as well, by the way. The gifted Jim Parsons manages to make Sheldon adorably condescending; the robotic Mayim Bialik just makes the female Sheldon … condescending, period. She was tolerable in small doses as a guest star; as a series regular she's just become insufferable. [Sam]
Being in love with the beautiful girl who lives across the hall doesn't necessarily mean the show has to turn into Sex And The City. That's how it felt in Season 4 — hook-ups left and right. The farthest Leonard got with Penny on Season 1 was first base. The Leonard-Penny romance began as the secondary story (or "B" story, to use Bill Prady's term). The main story, or "A" story, if you will, was the science. I just miss old school Big Bang is all. [Sam]
The whole sexual context got out of hand...if you observed Leonard's relationship with Penny in series 3 (as Sam pointed out) there are two plots to the story. Even the people in the background weren't laughing...if they find it funny they're dumb. Some of the sex jokes aren't so funny anymore. Series 1 and 2 can be replayed again and again without dissatisfaction. [LV]
http://deadline.com/2011/08/emmys-qa-big...dy-162413/
Memorable Lines:
[BP]: If I knew exactly what you had to do to make a show Emmy-worthy, it is absolutely something that we would do.
[BP]: We are depicting a particular culture, and whenever you are depicting a particular culture, there is an instant judgment made whether you are celebrating or mocking the culture. We knew we were celebrating it because it is our culture, but it’s through the prism of a four-camera comedy.
[BP]: I love what they do over at Modern Family, but I don’t find myself turning on a comedy. I find myself turning on a drama. Because then I’m not thinking about, ‘Here’s another way to do that joke,’ or, in the case of Modern Family, ‘What a brilliant way to do that joke.’ But to watch something that shakes you and moves you and draws you in, and takes you into another world — that’s real fun.
Mood of the Masses:
I truly believe Big Bang “shines” – and that’s overly generous — because the comedic landscape is so turgid these days. (“Two and a Half Men” a top show, really?) Mark my words: Big Bang will not age well. Ten years from now no one will give a damn about it. [Bobby the Saint]
I agree, 10 years from, no one will care about the Big Bang…it’s overrated….Since they got a multi-year contract, they don’t try so hard, as if they had to renew year to year….[Kat]
Wired Science September 22 2011
http://www.wired.com/2011/09/tv-fact-che...ng-theory/
Memorable Lines:
[David Saltzberg]: “Basically as soon as the writers release any fragment of a script to the rest of the crew I get a copy. Sometimes I’ll get six pages of a new script. These writers know a lot of science. Sometimes they’ll have a whole piece of science dialog that they’ve come up with and I just have to check it. For example, the script I’m reading right now I changed one letter. They had mentioned an ‘anti-photon’ but that doesn’t make any sense because there is no such thing. So I suggested changing it to ‘anti-proton.’ The writers, I understand, want the sound and the rhythm to be the same, so if I change something like that I like it to be still correct but not change the pattern. Sometimes they’ll just say ‘science to come’ in brackets in the script — like they want characters to be working on an experiment and they need some words.”
Mood of the Masses: No Comments.
HollywoodReporter Kunal Nayyar September 22 2011
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-fe...yar-235671
Memorable Lines:
[KN]: “Do I hope that Raj becomes this womanizing player who can talk to women all the time? No, I hope that he continues to grow,” Nayyar says. “I really think if you take away a character’s obstacles then there’s no comedy. Comedy is really based on overcoming obstacles and if you take away that obstacle, my fear is that [Raj] would lose his funny.”
Mood of the Masses:
All I ask for in Season 5: More science with the boys, less sex with the girls. Nerdgasms are what set Big Bang apart from the competition since Day One. Do we really need another banal orgasm-infused sitcom? And oh, hoping for MUCH less Amy Farrah Fowler as well, by the way. The gifted Jim Parsons manages to make Sheldon adorably condescending; the robotic Mayim Bialik just makes the female Sheldon … condescending, period. She was tolerable in small doses as a guest star; as a series regular she's just become insufferable. [Sam]
Being in love with the beautiful girl who lives across the hall doesn't necessarily mean the show has to turn into Sex And The City. That's how it felt in Season 4 — hook-ups left and right. The farthest Leonard got with Penny on Season 1 was first base. The Leonard-Penny romance began as the secondary story (or "B" story, to use Bill Prady's term). The main story, or "A" story, if you will, was the science. I just miss old school Big Bang is all. [Sam]
The whole sexual context got out of hand...if you observed Leonard's relationship with Penny in series 3 (as Sam pointed out) there are two plots to the story. Even the people in the background weren't laughing...if they find it funny they're dumb. Some of the sex jokes aren't so funny anymore. Series 1 and 2 can be replayed again and again without dissatisfaction. [LV]
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