03-10-2014, 03:31 PM
(03-10-2014, 02:22 AM)SpaceAnJL Wrote: If I thought he meant that Penny might have an average career, a few tv roles and plays, a steady but not spectacular stream of work, I'd be more hopeful. Yeah, I get that she's not going to be the Next Big Thing and catapult into the A-List, that's fine.
What worries me is that very real fear that what they mean is 'huh? why the hell would Penny need a career? She's just Leonard's plaything. She's there to have sex with him, and eventually get married. Uh, let's bullshit our way through this.'
The lack of surname was never a joke. It just emphasises that she is a prop, not a character in her own right.
I agree, I never saw Penny as ending up as a Superstar, but I did see her as the kind of actress who ended up as a character actor in everything. You know the type of actor I mean, it the one where you go oh, Who is that? I've seen him appear in dozens of shows But I can never remember his name. I was hoping that having her turn into this kind of actress would make her having no last name in the show a witty joke within a joke.
“There are no scenes more fun to do, I feel like, than the ones between Sheldon and Penny. They are such a wonderful odd couple.” - Jim Parsons