FolkLorre

[ricardo shillyshally]

I am watching the early seasons at present(re-runs here to drum up support for new season). The character are so fresh, they do still have multiple social links, the guys hang out and are happy, none of them have a girlfriend, it is exactly what CL and BP envisioned. Penny is independent. Here's another interesting quote from article; 'Sitcoms, if they show us anything, show us people we might like to know. Because of this, the sitcom is a medium designed to reassure. The more reassuring the sitcom, the better its chances become at winding up in the financial promised land of syndication, where multi-camera sitcoms fare far better than their single-camera brethren. Most sitcoms are about families, and, for the millions who watch a sitcom, it becomes a kind of mental family. Week after week, your couch faces the couch of characters you feel you know, characters whose problems can never quite get solved.' and ' To laugh at these things with our mental families may allow us to cope with our own loneliness and alienation and self-hatred. It may be that the sitcom’s constant avoidance of any final, dramatic catharsis is its accidental strength. If so, that would make this least lifelike form of entertainment the most comfortingly similar to real life.'