Jim News
(01-27-2019, 02:58 AM)chaotic temptation Wrote: I see comments all over the internet that NO way are Leonard/Penny a believable and interesting couple. Peddling Lenny again and again ultimately led to creative blackhole and the cracks started to show by season 8 when they started keeping shenny apart and forced Lenny and Shamy more and more exclusively.

I gotta be honest, I haven't seen much in the way of comments outside of this site that /don't/ say that Lenny/Shamy is a believable and interesting couple(Perhaps I haven't been looking hard enough?). I keep coming across stuff like clickbait articles and stuff like "10 moments Lenny/Shamy saved the show" and other such "positive" messages. I'm well aware there are plenty of those people who consider themselves "nerds" and "geeks" and suchlike that hate TBBT because of how the show portrays such people when they are /so much more/ than that, but mainstream media still seems to glorify TBBT pairings and call that a healthy relationship beyond bemoaning the fact that the show is ending now and a lot of other people (throughout the years and now) seem to feel the same way. My own mom loves TBBT for example and she doesn't seem to see what's wrong with Lenny/Shamy let alone everything else about the show(That laugh track oh my god!).

That said, I totally agree with everything else you've said. Johnny and Kaley just didn't have the chemistry together to become a believable "main couple" for the show and MB's Amy is everything you should look OUT for in a woman, not what you WANT in a woman. When MB said in an interview "Amy is me and I am Amy" I burst out laughing because /holy crapbaskets, that explains so much/ about her! The fact that she can take pride in playing as Amy, a woman I personally view as an affront to woman in general and relationships everywhere is astounding. 

I mean, it's not her dressing like an old lady or anything that bothers me(God knows my own fashion sense sucks even if I don't dress in old lady clothes and am male), it's her personality and the way she twists everything in the relationship towards her and how she's trapped Sheldon into what I view as a toxic relationship that bothers me. That and the fact that she *shudders* went ape in Sheldon's office and "marked" her scent and stuff all over the place. THAT IS CREEPY AS HECK. I don't care if it was meant to be "funny", it's still flippin' creepy as all get out. Especially considering it was well established that Sheldon had a major fear of germs amongst his many fears.

And the way they twisted Sheldon's character to "accommodate" Amy and try and breathe new "romantic" life into the show was an utter disgrace. If I had been Jim, I'd have walked out then and there because to change Sheldon so obviously and not in an organic way or to not just keep Sheldon as an asexual which would have been interesting(And PR could spin that as "representation" which Hollywood is all about these days or so they claim) is, excuse my language, sh*tting all over Jim's hard work, Sheldon's previously established characterization, and the first 2-3(ish) seasons. It's not like he couldn't have walked out then, since he already had plenty of money, he just wouldn't have had the later millions he's gotten these past 2 seasons.

They had a chance with something genuine and that had chemistry between Jim and Kaley, even if only in a friendship way as evidenced by the numerous friendship scenes before they /really/ pushed the Lenny/Shamy hard by separating them, and blew it by forcing two badly matched, chemically inert, disastrous couples as the "real relationships".

(01-27-2019, 02:58 AM)chaotic temptation Wrote: I wish Jim and Kaley success in the future and hope they move further away from the sad caricatures their characters became.

I wish them all the best too, but that doesn't seem likely unless Young Sheldon dies or Hollywood does us all a solid and says no more TBBT spin-offs considering Jim is working on YS and Kaley is interested in a spin-off as are some of the others. I can't believe I'm about to quote Kylo Ren(God knows I hate NuStar Wars) but this calls for it:

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Jim News - by Tuesday Pajamas - 06-10-2014, 10:25 PM
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RE: Jim News - by Tuesday Pajamas - 01-21-2015, 04:14 AM
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RE: Jim News - by Tuesday Pajamas - 04-21-2015, 07:08 PM
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