09-28-2014, 12:13 PM
Nothing fills me with rage like that scene where Penny tells Howard he has to marry Bernadette because "you'll never do any better, all of the women in the world got together and decided they don't want you."
I'm not trying to be anti-Penny, but that is just jaw-droppingly cruel, judgmental, and inappropriate. Who made Penny the arbiter of these things? Again, this bizarre message that the point of life is to marry the first person who will even grudgingly tolerate your presence.
Howard is not some second-class citizen. All of the characters have flaws and less-than-stellar qualities. Who talks this way to a friend? The cruelty and self-righteousness of that moment are mind-blowing to me. How are his decisions even any of her business? In what world do someone's friends have a say in who they marry? The behavior on this show just isn't realistic at all. If someone tried to tell me who I could or could not be with, I would tell them where to go. This is the same woman who called him a pig and punched him in the face, and she knows what's best for him?
These characters can never mind their own business; they're always trying to meddle in each other's relationships. Just because Penny introduced H. to B., that doesn't make her the supervisor of their relationship.
Look at your own relationship decisions, Penny. Glass houses, etc...
If Howard wants to believe that he could date Halle Barry (or Zac Efron!), then let him. That would've been a hell of a lot more interesting than the H/B...
I try to ignore/dismiss the whole H/B storyline anyway, but that is probably in my bottom two or three scenes of the entire series, and I don't understand people who find it amusing.
ETA: I don't mean to upset any Penny fans. This is just my personal reaction to that scene.
I'm not trying to be anti-Penny, but that is just jaw-droppingly cruel, judgmental, and inappropriate. Who made Penny the arbiter of these things? Again, this bizarre message that the point of life is to marry the first person who will even grudgingly tolerate your presence.
Howard is not some second-class citizen. All of the characters have flaws and less-than-stellar qualities. Who talks this way to a friend? The cruelty and self-righteousness of that moment are mind-blowing to me. How are his decisions even any of her business? In what world do someone's friends have a say in who they marry? The behavior on this show just isn't realistic at all. If someone tried to tell me who I could or could not be with, I would tell them where to go. This is the same woman who called him a pig and punched him in the face, and she knows what's best for him?
These characters can never mind their own business; they're always trying to meddle in each other's relationships. Just because Penny introduced H. to B., that doesn't make her the supervisor of their relationship.
Look at your own relationship decisions, Penny. Glass houses, etc...
If Howard wants to believe that he could date Halle Barry (or Zac Efron!), then let him. That would've been a hell of a lot more interesting than the H/B...
I try to ignore/dismiss the whole H/B storyline anyway, but that is probably in my bottom two or three scenes of the entire series, and I don't understand people who find it amusing.
ETA: I don't mean to upset any Penny fans. This is just my personal reaction to that scene.