FolkLorre

[Louise]

As I (and others) have been saying these past few days, I think Lorre is just messing with the audience, now. As FM said in the chat box, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if this show's ending (when it finally comes), has some kind of nasty twist to it.

Yes, the current couples will be endgame, but somehow I'm starting to imagine that it won't play-out exactly as the canon shippers hope. Lorre can still pull a fast one. WHY would he do this? Nothing but spite.

For example, I wouldn't put it past them to have these weddings and babies occur off-screen or just be glossed-over, thus robbing Shamies and Lennies of their climactic moment. They could do something tricky, like skip ahead in time by a year or two, in the last few seasons. S9 ends and when S10 opens, it's a year later. Something like that.

Ditto for The Coitus™ (yuck) . They could gloss-over that instead of making it a big deal; the characters just mention it in a casual, off-hand way as having already happened, and the shippers don't get their big day.

I could be totally wrong, because those big events might spell big ratings, and the writers certainly have nothing else to write about and are desperate for material.

But they skipped-over Amy's integration into the group, so I wouldn't put it past them to have these weddings take place between-seasons or something, and when we return in the Fall, it's just the same boring-old-couple interactions. They could make the shippers wait so long and beg so hard for these "big events" that all the enjoyment is drained out of it.

They could spend a whole season killing time with Raj & Generic Girl-Shaped Character #3, making the Lennies and Shamies wait. Or there's other time-filling, ratings-whoring stuff like the Howie's Dad storyline.

Again, I could be totally wrong, but somehow I feel like TPTB would enjoy deflating the fans' balloon and just downplaying the stuff that the shippers have been salivating for.

That's just one example of what might happen. I don't expect anything to change and I certainly don't hope for a more Nostalgic-friendly turn of events, but the writers might not go for an orgy of shippiness, after all.

I'm not saying it's *likely*, I'm just saying it wouldn't surprise me.

I kinda predict that unless MR gets pregnant IRL, they'll have Howie™ and Bernie™ (Generic Girl-Shaped Character #2) adopt a kid, because that will be portrayed as some kind of compromise between having and not-having babies. And then they could have an older kid who is already verbal and cute and what-not, for the show, since babies don't actually *do* anything. Or the Lenny kid will mysteriously age four years between one season and the next. Sitcoms have been known to do that, before.

(and I maintain that none of the vintage characters were intensely interested in becoming parents ASAP, except possibly Leonard. They were very young and, for the guys, had just recently finished many grueling years of school and study, and prob. have lots of student-loan debt.)

I also predict some really pathetic episodes where the couples *almost* break up, but then the guys go crawling back because their lives are empty and meaningless without the Wimmins. (Or I suppose P. crawling back to L.)

Either way, I look forward to many happy years of not watching and ignoring this tripe completely.

( Meanwhile, in a universe far, far away, Real!Howard will be sitting in the Time Machine, or perhaps the Goth Club, having margaritas with Real!Raj and feeling relieved that he dodged a bullet.)

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Of course, knowing that CL was working on both shows simultaneously on adjacent stages on Warner Bros lot; explains the appearance of Charlie Sheen(which is random, otherwise). He just walked over from the other staging area.

I like curly-haired Raj. RIP.