10-12-2014, 03:04 PM
It's just a way to force the idea that Penny has been improved. Nothing happens for years and years and then out of the blue Stuart is proclaiming that Leonard and Penny are the couple of the decade. Oh don't we all dream about a love like theirs? 
I bet that scene had the writers stumped. It's easy to come up with the part about Penny giving Leonard confidence, but Leonard gave Penny what? alcoholism? What they came up with was so lame. SO I think they saw it necessary to change Penny and as Space put it - prepare her for the role of wife.
The writers are far too interested in PROVING the couples should be together, than they are in making a great comedy. Penny's being a B-movie actress would have been so much funnier. Even a beauty therapist, or someone behind the scenes of a tv show but NO they had to take her identity away.
I bet that scene had the writers stumped. It's easy to come up with the part about Penny giving Leonard confidence, but Leonard gave Penny what? alcoholism? What they came up with was so lame. SO I think they saw it necessary to change Penny and as Space put it - prepare her for the role of wife.
The writers are far too interested in PROVING the couples should be together, than they are in making a great comedy. Penny's being a B-movie actress would have been so much funnier. Even a beauty therapist, or someone behind the scenes of a tv show but NO they had to take her identity away.