Relationships

[JustMyLuckiness]

I compared it a while ago to taping a sporting event to watch later, but before you get to watch it you find out that your team lost. So why bother watching it if you already know you're going to be disappointed in the end? That's what TBBT is to me now. We KNOW that AFF will conquer Sheldon. We KNOW that Leonard and Penny will get married. We KNOW everyone will be happily coupled up when the show ends.

But that's what the canons seem to want. It's comfortable to them. They can pretend to get all upset over the predictable breakups/makeups/crises that will be served up in the next three seasons, but they KNOW they're going to get what they want in the end.

The show is now almost exclusively about the status of the relationships at the expense of the unique, fresh, intelligent, witty dialogue that characterized the original show.

Love your whole post except for one minor thing...

With Howard's continuing emasculation at the hands of an increasingly dislikeable Bernadette, Leonard's jealous manipulation and monopolization of Penny's entire life, and Amy's borderline abuse of Sheldon, I can't see how *any* of these couples could be considered 'happy'.