09-24-2015, 06:30 AM
The new eps no longer have the power to hurt me. I'm still going to avoid watching/hearing/reading about them, as much as possible, but I've adopted a new attitude, or at least tried to. If I hear "Howard did this and Howard did that and Howard's a terrible person and Howard's having triplets with what's-her-face"....well, that's not Howard.
That's not Howard, that's not Sheldon, and that's not whoever. These are the same actors playing different characters. That's not just wishful thinking on my part; IMO it's literally, demonstrably, factually true. This is not the same show, and I don't mean that in a figurative sense, I mean it literally. This is not the same show, just as surely as Cheers and Frasier were two separate shows that shared a few elements in common. These characters have nothing more to do with Sheldon or Howard than Burton's Batman has to do with Adam West's Batman.
This is a reboot/remake/spin-off which the creators refuse to acknowledge as such, because they want name recognition. They've established a brand, and they want to continue capitalizing on that brand. That unaired pilot, the one with different characters and a drastically different Sheldon, and no H or R? That was called "The Big Bang Theory", too. It had the same name, but that doesn't make it canonical. TPTB simply don't want to acknowledge that this is a different version of the same material or a different iteration of the same franchise.
That's not Howard, and that's not Sheldon. That's JP and SH in ill-fitting clothes and I see no reason to feel anything for them, including sadness, hope, pity, or even morbid interest. I have nothing more to say about the show itself, although I'm more than happy to keep chatting about fanfic and fun, tangential, fan-created stuff. If anyone outside HQ tries to tell me "Character X did Y, last week", my response will be "That's irrelevant." Because it is.
ETA: if the tone of this post sounds harsh, that's not directed at HQ members. I feel it's important to have dissenting opinions like this in a visible, public place where anyone can read them, especially since critical comments get scrubbed or banned from "official" venues.
That's not Howard, that's not Sheldon, and that's not whoever. These are the same actors playing different characters. That's not just wishful thinking on my part; IMO it's literally, demonstrably, factually true. This is not the same show, and I don't mean that in a figurative sense, I mean it literally. This is not the same show, just as surely as Cheers and Frasier were two separate shows that shared a few elements in common. These characters have nothing more to do with Sheldon or Howard than Burton's Batman has to do with Adam West's Batman.
This is a reboot/remake/spin-off which the creators refuse to acknowledge as such, because they want name recognition. They've established a brand, and they want to continue capitalizing on that brand. That unaired pilot, the one with different characters and a drastically different Sheldon, and no H or R? That was called "The Big Bang Theory", too. It had the same name, but that doesn't make it canonical. TPTB simply don't want to acknowledge that this is a different version of the same material or a different iteration of the same franchise.
That's not Howard, and that's not Sheldon. That's JP and SH in ill-fitting clothes and I see no reason to feel anything for them, including sadness, hope, pity, or even morbid interest. I have nothing more to say about the show itself, although I'm more than happy to keep chatting about fanfic and fun, tangential, fan-created stuff. If anyone outside HQ tries to tell me "Character X did Y, last week", my response will be "That's irrelevant." Because it is.
ETA: if the tone of this post sounds harsh, that's not directed at HQ members. I feel it's important to have dissenting opinions like this in a visible, public place where anyone can read them, especially since critical comments get scrubbed or banned from "official" venues.