10-09-2014, 03:12 AM
It's bizarre, because it's a 20 min sit com format, it's like the characters are stuck in a sort of superficial present. Reliving their cliched characters, and the same jokes; "It's just the same joke endlessly repeated – the everyday translated into geek-speak, and the obscure and difficult treated as if it were common knowledge".(Robert Lloyd). Actually they've been on our screens for almost 70 hours, and yet the only time we see more depth to the characters is when Bev Hofstadter offers insights in person, or in print.