10-15-2014, 08:05 AM
(10-15-2014, 04:42 AM)Nutz Wrote: It really is baffling how many times TPTB have turned away from truly funny moments, chemistry between actors, and opportunities just to push their message of mommy issues, incest jokes, mental regression, alcoholism, changing your core values for sex, and codependency.
If this is truly their idea of what normal looks like, the producers (especially Lorre) should look into intensive therapy, and that includes therapy where they are spending some quality time in a facility with padded rooms.
Yes. You really summed it up, Nutz.
The incest/pedophilia jokes and the Oedipal themes have gotten completely out of control. I'm amazed nobody in the mainstream media notices it. Ditto the idea that it's normal to be jealous if your partner had/has contact with *anyone* besides you. I've never seen a mainstream comedy with such a twisted take on sexuality.
I truly do not understand TPTB's priorities and point of view, and it's even more baffling that the show is so ultra-popular, given what you described. And they push these messages *so hard*, it's like a kind of zealotry. I know I've said this before, but it's like a type of fundamentalism.
They are presenting a truly bizarre vision of life, friendships, and relationships, and the idea that anyone relates to this is disturbing.
Why does the public not recognize how creepy and unhealthy it all is, and how full of negative, destructive messages?
TPTB are totally out of touch with how people in their 20s/30s actually live nowadays, and what a healthy friendship/relationship looks like, and how real people, especially women, behave. Where are their bizarre and outdated values *coming from*??? It's a mystery to me.
So, what's the appeal? Nothing about this show speaks to me, anymore. Who is sitting at home going "Oh, yeah, that's so true, that is totally me and my friend/wife/mom!"
I can only conclude that half the audience are just watching out of habit, and the other half are the usual Tumblr fangirls who will go wild for anything with a tall and lanky blue-eyed guy in it. They'd watch JP do the Ice Bucket Challenge for 22 minutes; it doesn't matter.
I don't get it, I really don't get it. What do TPTB hope to accomplish with all this, besides the money? They have this extremely specific point of view that they're trying desperately hard to promote, and for what?
Are the viewers sitting at home nodding and going "yes, the sole point of life is to get married by 26 and have kids..." ??
What we need is a TV show starring Cumberbatch & Hiddleston, and maybe Orlando Bloom, and then the fangirls would drop TBBT like a hot potato and come running...
