05-03-2014, 12:16 AM
(05-02-2014, 11:58 PM)queenoftheDales Wrote: I agree with you and FlyingMonkey. I want to be nit-picky about the episode (I think I was actually) but I'm more willing to forgive the smaller things because this episode was so much more like the vintage ones. I could have done with out the Lenny proposal conversation, but compared to the relationship agenda the writers have been pushing all season, this wasn't so bad.
It had the potential to be better though, much better. Time was wasted with that c-plot; it could have been better used with the group or something. Plus with the actual show time becoming less and less (or was it just me?) ,TPTB need to work on time management. Squeezing all these story lines into 20-22 minutes seems to be a recurring issue this season.
It makes you wonder what's in their contract that TBTP feel the need to use every character in every episode. Episodes would be easier to write for if they only used Bernie, Amy, Howard and Raj in 15-20 episodes (with Howard and Raj getting closer to the 20 episode). Of course this would take a Showrunner who actually spends time to plot out the season, instead of winging it week to week.
“There are no scenes more fun to do, I feel like, than the ones between Sheldon and Penny. They are such a wonderful odd couple.” - Jim Parsons