10-02-2014, 01:10 AM
Hey, I'm new here, and this thread's actually the reason I've decided to register, so I figured it would be appropriate to respond here first 
I think my greatest wish, since we're going all out on this one, would be for a sort-of reboot, where someone from the olden days - preferably Penny and Sheldon (maybe tie it back to that time machine episode of first season), but I think Raj could pull it off and make it entertaining, too - manages to travel five years in time and ends up in the current timeline.
Honestly, I think Sheldon would be horrified by the older version of himself, Amy's boytoy manchild who can't even dress himself (and who has a snowball's chance in hell of winning that Nobel's prize), and Penny would kick her older version's butt for letting go the way she has since getting back together with Leonard.
Maybe something along the lines of:
"You know, I honestly didn't think you could become any worse, sweetie, but I see you've proven me wrong. At least now you just have no clue when you insult someone; seems that in this time, you do it on purpose, which, FYI, makes you a giant jerkwad."
"Ah, yes, that appears to be the unfortunate truth, although it seems to me that your propensity for imbibing alcoholic beverages in unhealthy quantities and engaging in ill-advised relationships purely for the sake of sating a primal urge to copulate has become your only driving force in your life."
"Hey, I'll have you know... oh, screw it, when you put it that way, I really am pathetic. No, what we need is a very good plan to make sure this never happens."
"Yes, I completely concur. The first step should be to determine when this change has begun taking place, and who the perpetrators are."
"And if I get to kick this Leonard's ass for turning me into this... pathetic drunk, then I'll call this a day well spent."
"Just so long as you extend the courtesy to whomever found a way to lower my IQ to the levels of the masses... good lord, I cannot believe I've just said that."
"Oh, trust me, it is on."
Then they'd figure out what the hell went wrong and make sure it doesn't take place.
Too bad TPTB are more interested in getting ratings and money than they are in the integrity of their own creation... Oh, well, at least we'll always have Shenny HQ and fanfiction. And old episodes, for those of us who can enjoy them without having them ruined by the new stuff.
I think my greatest wish, since we're going all out on this one, would be for a sort-of reboot, where someone from the olden days - preferably Penny and Sheldon (maybe tie it back to that time machine episode of first season), but I think Raj could pull it off and make it entertaining, too - manages to travel five years in time and ends up in the current timeline.
Honestly, I think Sheldon would be horrified by the older version of himself, Amy's boytoy manchild who can't even dress himself (and who has a snowball's chance in hell of winning that Nobel's prize), and Penny would kick her older version's butt for letting go the way she has since getting back together with Leonard.
Maybe something along the lines of:
"You know, I honestly didn't think you could become any worse, sweetie, but I see you've proven me wrong. At least now you just have no clue when you insult someone; seems that in this time, you do it on purpose, which, FYI, makes you a giant jerkwad."
"Ah, yes, that appears to be the unfortunate truth, although it seems to me that your propensity for imbibing alcoholic beverages in unhealthy quantities and engaging in ill-advised relationships purely for the sake of sating a primal urge to copulate has become your only driving force in your life."
"Hey, I'll have you know... oh, screw it, when you put it that way, I really am pathetic. No, what we need is a very good plan to make sure this never happens."
"Yes, I completely concur. The first step should be to determine when this change has begun taking place, and who the perpetrators are."
"And if I get to kick this Leonard's ass for turning me into this... pathetic drunk, then I'll call this a day well spent."
"Just so long as you extend the courtesy to whomever found a way to lower my IQ to the levels of the masses... good lord, I cannot believe I've just said that."
"Oh, trust me, it is on."
Then they'd figure out what the hell went wrong and make sure it doesn't take place.
Too bad TPTB are more interested in getting ratings and money than they are in the integrity of their own creation... Oh, well, at least we'll always have Shenny HQ and fanfiction. And old episodes, for those of us who can enjoy them without having them ruined by the new stuff.
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