01-06-2018, 02:26 AM
Regarding Raj I would say that there was one factor which became deadly for him.
Quantity over quality.
It is true that he had the characteristics of a side-kick and that he was from beginning the most cliche-like figure.
(Foreigners with sexual problems).
But there was enough room to gave him own plots and story-lines (his work at the 'Caltech', his mutism, his relationship to his parents and so on) to keep his character intersting. This was only possible because there was a limited number of characters. The original five ones (Sheldon, Howard, Leonard and himself) and the neighbour (the 'Alien') Penny
(with the occasional appear of supporting ones-Stuart, Kripke, Gablehouser, Leslie Winkle) made the perfect balance and enough possibilities to gave every figure sufficient attention.
But then happened what was not only toxic for him but for the whole show.
Bernadette appeared and Amy appeared and the focus turned to this characters and the realationship-stuffs which came with them.
We know it also from other shows.
If there are simply too much figures, one-or more- of them moved into the offside, because the writers, at some point, do not know what to do with them anymore.
So we could summarice that the 'Lenny'-'Shamy'-and 'Howardette'-stuffs not only ruined Sheldon, Penny and Howard but indirectly Raj too.
The introductions of Bernadette and Amy, seemed at the first view, like a genius maneuver but last it brought only damage.
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Quantity over quality.
It is true that he had the characteristics of a side-kick and that he was from beginning the most cliche-like figure.
(Foreigners with sexual problems).
But there was enough room to gave him own plots and story-lines (his work at the 'Caltech', his mutism, his relationship to his parents and so on) to keep his character intersting. This was only possible because there was a limited number of characters. The original five ones (Sheldon, Howard, Leonard and himself) and the neighbour (the 'Alien') Penny
(with the occasional appear of supporting ones-Stuart, Kripke, Gablehouser, Leslie Winkle) made the perfect balance and enough possibilities to gave every figure sufficient attention.But then happened what was not only toxic for him but for the whole show.
Bernadette appeared and Amy appeared and the focus turned to this characters and the realationship-stuffs which came with them.
We know it also from other shows.
If there are simply too much figures, one-or more- of them moved into the offside, because the writers, at some point, do not know what to do with them anymore.
So we could summarice that the 'Lenny'-'Shamy'-and 'Howardette'-stuffs not only ruined Sheldon, Penny and Howard but indirectly Raj too.
The introductions of Bernadette and Amy, seemed at the first view, like a genius maneuver but last it brought only damage.