05-09-2014, 10:25 PM
The review on the main site is brilliant. It's nice to see a review that isn't ego-stroking this show. [GO READ IT] :applause:
This exactly. The writers have been back and forth with Penny's level of commitment from the start. It seems like every step this "ship" has taken was pushed. Their first date, the first "I love you" (which is hardly ever uttered by both parties), even the on again/off again bs. These proposals have been no different. Penny is settling, history has shown she is doubtful of her commitment to Leonard. She has no direction right now and on top of everything her boyfriend decides, in the wake of another failure, to be whiny and insecure. It suddenly became the Leonard show, so Penny tells Leonard what he wants to hear: Let's get married. It'll shut him up for a bit while she gets things figured out.
What the fangirls are forgetting is that an engagement is NOT permanent and there is probably going to be another season shitty relationship drama.
(05-09-2014, 11:44 AM)Gamma12 Wrote: So no matter how much they have the character of Penny protest that she is not settling, that she wants to marry Leonard because he is Leonard, it does not come off that way to me. It definitely comes off as Penny not knowing what her next move will be and deciding that Leonard would be the good safe choice so what the hell, why not.
This exactly. The writers have been back and forth with Penny's level of commitment from the start. It seems like every step this "ship" has taken was pushed. Their first date, the first "I love you" (which is hardly ever uttered by both parties), even the on again/off again bs. These proposals have been no different. Penny is settling, history has shown she is doubtful of her commitment to Leonard. She has no direction right now and on top of everything her boyfriend decides, in the wake of another failure, to be whiny and insecure. It suddenly became the Leonard show, so Penny tells Leonard what he wants to hear: Let's get married. It'll shut him up for a bit while she gets things figured out.
What the fangirls are forgetting is that an engagement is NOT permanent and there is probably going to be another season shitty relationship drama.