10-01-2014, 10:18 AM
Thanks for scrounging up the test, Nutz! Good grief. Disregarding the facts that Sheldon thinks the social sciences are hokum, the test is not designed for couples to take together, and that a basement captive would score just as highly, it's, er, well I don't know where I was going exactly with that sentence.
Okay, so...8.2. We're TOLD. But what I SEE is Amy sourly grumbling, yet again, about Sheldon <honestly, just frackin' fill in the blank>, the two of them sharing a meal with the sterility and formality of a first date, and Nanny Fowler having to offer up cotton candy and a bobblehead doll (ugh, really?) to get her sanctioned-by-science mate to stick around. Yes, yes, the script calls for them to smile in sync a couple times, but that simply doesn't begin to mop up the exasperation and discontent that pours out everywhere else. So why doesn't any of this 8.2-garnering fabulousness ever make it ONSCREEN I wonder?
A Yoko and Yoko re-set is arguably more palatable than one half determinedly scheming to snare the other's notice and affection, but it honestly wouldn't surprise me if, later on, we see Amy spooning with Rice!Sheldon or frantically licking Sheldon's bedroom etc. These are, after all, canonical facts that the conglomerate (as Idle Miscreant terms it) can resurrect at will if they feel an episode needs spicing with their patented brand of squickiness.
Penny and Leonard seem to be vanishing before my eyes. I can't seem to recall much of anything they do these days, this episode being no exception. Leonard furrows his brow, Penny wrinkles her nose, there's a minute of "are we crazy?" quickly resolved with a "we're gonna make it." Cue the audience "awww." It all has the emotional tug of a greeting card. Meanwhile I expect the two of them will soon be nothing more than a couple of speech bubbles bobbing around. (I have a suspicion that I stole that speech bubble image from one of you lot. If so I apologize that my brain can't cough up anything original.)
Helberg, as always, is brilliant and particularly shines in a too-short bit of physical comedy that calls to mind Art Carney in The Honeymooners. I like to think that Vintage Howard is still in there somewhere. Behind the in-laws, the car payments...Berna-zilla. Ultimately though his storylines are undermined by an obnoxious dependance on the idiot husband/wise wife trope and a sad re-jigging of his bromance with Raj. The snark too often veers into meanspiritedness. "You suck, Wolowitz!" Over and over again. Poor guy, I want him to win.
Painfully unfunny and unbelievable episode. Parsons...eh... Toad gives it 2 Dirty Socks. If not for Helberg I would have given it 3.
Okay, so...8.2. We're TOLD. But what I SEE is Amy sourly grumbling, yet again, about Sheldon <honestly, just frackin' fill in the blank>, the two of them sharing a meal with the sterility and formality of a first date, and Nanny Fowler having to offer up cotton candy and a bobblehead doll (ugh, really?) to get her sanctioned-by-science mate to stick around. Yes, yes, the script calls for them to smile in sync a couple times, but that simply doesn't begin to mop up the exasperation and discontent that pours out everywhere else. So why doesn't any of this 8.2-garnering fabulousness ever make it ONSCREEN I wonder?
A Yoko and Yoko re-set is arguably more palatable than one half determinedly scheming to snare the other's notice and affection, but it honestly wouldn't surprise me if, later on, we see Amy spooning with Rice!Sheldon or frantically licking Sheldon's bedroom etc. These are, after all, canonical facts that the conglomerate (as Idle Miscreant terms it) can resurrect at will if they feel an episode needs spicing with their patented brand of squickiness.
Penny and Leonard seem to be vanishing before my eyes. I can't seem to recall much of anything they do these days, this episode being no exception. Leonard furrows his brow, Penny wrinkles her nose, there's a minute of "are we crazy?" quickly resolved with a "we're gonna make it." Cue the audience "awww." It all has the emotional tug of a greeting card. Meanwhile I expect the two of them will soon be nothing more than a couple of speech bubbles bobbing around. (I have a suspicion that I stole that speech bubble image from one of you lot. If so I apologize that my brain can't cough up anything original.)
Helberg, as always, is brilliant and particularly shines in a too-short bit of physical comedy that calls to mind Art Carney in The Honeymooners. I like to think that Vintage Howard is still in there somewhere. Behind the in-laws, the car payments...Berna-zilla. Ultimately though his storylines are undermined by an obnoxious dependance on the idiot husband/wise wife trope and a sad re-jigging of his bromance with Raj. The snark too often veers into meanspiritedness. "You suck, Wolowitz!" Over and over again. Poor guy, I want him to win.
Painfully unfunny and unbelievable episode. Parsons...eh... Toad gives it 2 Dirty Socks. If not for Helberg I would have given it 3.
OH PLEASE...