04-18-2016, 06:48 AM
This is the thread for general carping, innit?
I had to suffer through an extended family dinner the other day, with the various factions converging from various countries, like some scene out of Godfather...Imagine my horror (and bafflement) when the conversation amongst the younger members turned to TBBT.
"It's boring now!"
"Sheldon's changed. He's not funny anymore."
"He's too normal."
"I don't like all the relationship crap."
"There's no more Sheldon and Penny scenes!"
Etc.
I just sat and seethed with a sort of embittered schadenfreude, nursing my apéritif...
Actually I did that for most of the dinner. And most of the time in general. The fuckers kept trying to drag me into the conversation, but I resisted with the strength of a thousand gods. Or one slightly peely-wally god anyway...
Point is, loads of folk have the same opinion as us, but for every one that stops watching, another idiot - sorry, person - who ENJOYS manipulative relationships and married couples squabbling, and always thought Sheldon was "too weird" (and too clever, too unromantic, too unusual, too...), now suddenly finds him more conventionally acceptable, and so joins the regular viewers.
Then there's the core of folk who are being dragged along like an emotional hostage.
It's not a BAD show now. Just very very different from what we liked about the first four years. There's still clever lines, and most of the actors are as sharp as ever, but if the soul of the main character has been eviscerated, watching it now makes for a rather hollow, despairing experience...
And the complete hijiacking (and 180 degree spin) of Sheldon's entire storyline to revolve around a woman (and an unpleasant one at that) is about the most heinous fan backstabbing I've ever witnessed.
"You know that character that you loved because he was brilliant, and self-possessed, and detached from idiotic romantic storylines? And that powered the show, and made it famous? Well, we're going to lower his IQ, make him fail at everything, mope around a girlfriend and be constantly manipulated and belittled by her, and make him realise that everything he was, all his passions and beliefs, and all that you honoured and respected him for, was actually WRONG. HAHA! Suckers!"
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I had to suffer through an extended family dinner the other day, with the various factions converging from various countries, like some scene out of Godfather...Imagine my horror (and bafflement) when the conversation amongst the younger members turned to TBBT.
"It's boring now!"
"Sheldon's changed. He's not funny anymore."
"He's too normal."
"I don't like all the relationship crap."
"There's no more Sheldon and Penny scenes!"
Etc.
I just sat and seethed with a sort of embittered schadenfreude, nursing my apéritif...
Actually I did that for most of the dinner. And most of the time in general. The fuckers kept trying to drag me into the conversation, but I resisted with the strength of a thousand gods. Or one slightly peely-wally god anyway...
Point is, loads of folk have the same opinion as us, but for every one that stops watching, another idiot - sorry, person - who ENJOYS manipulative relationships and married couples squabbling, and always thought Sheldon was "too weird" (and too clever, too unromantic, too unusual, too...), now suddenly finds him more conventionally acceptable, and so joins the regular viewers.
Then there's the core of folk who are being dragged along like an emotional hostage.
It's not a BAD show now. Just very very different from what we liked about the first four years. There's still clever lines, and most of the actors are as sharp as ever, but if the soul of the main character has been eviscerated, watching it now makes for a rather hollow, despairing experience...
And the complete hijiacking (and 180 degree spin) of Sheldon's entire storyline to revolve around a woman (and an unpleasant one at that) is about the most heinous fan backstabbing I've ever witnessed.
"You know that character that you loved because he was brilliant, and self-possessed, and detached from idiotic romantic storylines? And that powered the show, and made it famous? Well, we're going to lower his IQ, make him fail at everything, mope around a girlfriend and be constantly manipulated and belittled by her, and make him realise that everything he was, all his passions and beliefs, and all that you honoured and respected him for, was actually WRONG. HAHA! Suckers!"
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"