The rest of Season Grate (Eps 8.07-8.15 and 8.17)

[MilleniumRing]

Okay, so my dad and I had nothing to watch on telly when it got to 8pm. E4 was just sort of 'put on' out of inevitability. Lo and behold, UKs newest episode aired: s8e3. Yes, we're behind. I'm aware. I hated the general episode and my god I can see what you guys mean about the characters being totally alien. I've only read things and seen screencaps or the odd trailer, but to actually sit through 22 minutes of poor writing/directing/acting made me ill. The only highlight to this atrocious episode was the rather endearing moment that Howard announced - proudly - that he'd be throwing a pitch for NASA at a baseball game. His scenes, and Raj's of course, made up the better parts of this episode. I know I can't throw a ball any distance to save my life, so I totally empathised with Howard in this one. Bernadette was a little grating with her comments. She could have been more supportive at the beginning, but she was kind of harsh really.

The other half to the episode felt like a completely different reality. I couldn't even recognise PENNY in the scenes. It was all so stale and yes, Amy is definitely stealing the show from the main characters. She's like a horrid growth that you can't remove because it could be terminal (i.e. the other fans would kill the creators), yet you know that if you keep it around anymore it'll suck out the life from the thing it's attached to. Personally, I'd hack the eyesore off and never look back, but they creators don't dare for fear of upsetting mainstream people.