05-08-2015, 09:16 PM
(05-08-2015, 02:47 PM)Idle Miscreant Wrote: I really despair of what has happened to this once magical and highly unusual show...but as Louise said, the characters have been dead for so long now that it's getting less and less painful. The more infuriating aspect is the wasted potential. The writers are far, far cleverer than this, the actors are capable of greater subtlety. Above all, those marvelous characters deserved a more interesting future than this conventionalist nonsense. I don't care if it's "realistic". It's MEANT to be art.
What we've been watching the last couple of seasons is NOT realistic in any way, shape, or form. The personality changes, the emotional abuse between romantic partners and "friends", the manipulations, and the melodrama of it all makes seasons 1-3 and most of 4 far more realistic then the crap they're writing now.
Not a single person who had the personalities of the characters (minus Leonard) in seasons 1-3 would even hang around this bunch of losers. They would have found new friends and laughed at the people who felt the need to completely give up who they are fundamentally just to be part of a "couple" with someone who only likes you for what you represent "after they've changed you".
"Most good jokes state the bitter truth. Without some fundamental basis of truth, there's little with which the audience can associate." - Larry Gelbart (Creator, Producer, Writer of M*A*S*H)
It makes you wonder what TPTB find funny, Cause their bitter truth of "you must change everything you are to be loved" is starting to tank the ratings.
“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