10-19-2015, 01:40 PM
Yeah, that's true, it's like they're taking them down one by one. I remember that one of my friends used to say that she doesn't like TBBT because it's a show about nerds in which she (as a nerd) is the punchline to every joke. And to a degree, that has always been true. Still, in the early seasons it always felt like there was some sort of heart there. Yeah, they ridiculed their interests, but there wasn't this persistently nagging narrative that everyone has to fall in line and get on that 30 year plan with kids and picket fence and leaving their Tardises and lightsabers in the closet. And the influence went both ways; Penny drew them out, but she was also picking up stuff, like when in that episode where the other actress moved in above them, she told her that the boys don't "have their shields up" like other men do.
It makes me honestly wonder what kind of people the writers know. I have friends who are married with kids and they haven't spontaneously transformed into my parents. Of course, neither my parents or theirs actually do fit that strange mould either. When I visit my dad, we play Gears of War co-op. And I don't think that's super-special or anything because real life is always so much more complex than what the show is headed for now and I think the first seasons still captured that.
It makes me honestly wonder what kind of people the writers know. I have friends who are married with kids and they haven't spontaneously transformed into my parents. Of course, neither my parents or theirs actually do fit that strange mould either. When I visit my dad, we play Gears of War co-op. And I don't think that's super-special or anything because real life is always so much more complex than what the show is headed for now and I think the first seasons still captured that.