01-11-2014, 06:19 PM
(01-09-2014, 11:36 PM)SpaceAnJL Wrote: One way of looking at the show is that we've been watching a slow mental disintegration of one man when the core of his identity is stripped away from him.
That's what that has occurred to me too. Can it be that TBBT is in fact the tragic story of how the genius gets mocked, loses his mind and wastes away, with his spirit broken and his identity taken away from him, once he is put in the wrong place, associating with the wrong people, once he is made to doubt himself, made to become 'normal', made to fit in?
Not that I believe tptb are deliberately and consciously telling such a story, but the show these days indeed comes across, to me anyway, as one huge, tragic story of the genius and the different being defeated by - and made to show respect to - the mediocre and the "normal".