8.23 The Maternal Combustion

[Idle Miscreant]

This was the episode we've been waiting for since we first met Mary and Beverly. If only it had come sooner! As it is, neither myself nor most of HQ gets to watch it, because the damage that has been caused to our favourite characters is by now so extreme as to taint the entire show. I can't "believe" in Mary if she's standing next to an unbelievable Sheldon. It causes a reality disjunct. Well, as real as television gets anyway...

Anyroad, I haven't seen the episode, so cannot comment properly. Similarly, I admire WPP's reviews for their eloquence, but have no idea whether I'd concur with their reasoning or conclusion. History suggests I would, as I've concurred with all WPP's previous ones. But nonetheless I can't comment relevantly until I've seen the episode. And unless they fix Sheldon in Season 9, that won't be happening.

But I CAN say, as we mentioned in chat, that WPP's comment about there being two distinct writers, for comedy and for schmaltz, seems bang on. Fitting that TBBT is also filmed on the same lot as Casablanca, which also used different writers for different moods.

I'm glad Metcalf had some good lines, and both her and Baranski are of course deeply classy actors. So let's have some flashbacks!


Mary & Vintage Sheldon


Vintage Sheldon & His Brain


Vintage Sheldon "seducing" Beverly (my mother loves this scene...very dubious)



Beverly & Vintage Sheldon Being Incongruous (which is why it worked. If he was like this all the time, it wouldn't be funny, would it.)


Something I don't understand...The denouement of episode 8.23 was Beverly hugging Leonard, and this was considered remarkable?
Er...


Has the audience forgotten this ALONG with Sheldon hugging Penny TWICE before Season 7? Or does this current audience simply not watch any seasons without relationships in it?
Baffling!

AND just for kicks...