7.16 The Table Polarization

[wellplayedpenny]

THIS ^

It's not just Sheldon who's been lost but all the characters had funnier lines back then and the writers worked harder on the subplots. Almost every episode had one strong main story and (if they even bothered with a second plot) it was fully fleshed out and just as good.

They put so much care into what they were doing and there was a real sense of a writing team who were having fun with their creation. Now the show just seems like a ball and chain around their creative necks. They must enjoy the money but all this gushing over the 'sentimental' moments is just blatant lying because the product is poor compared to what we know they are capable of. They are singing the praises of something they no longer have love for because it's making them stinking rich. Anyone with an ounce of creativity can see this a mile off.

What I find the most frustrating is this insistence by others that when I say the later seasons suck it means that I'm against the whole concept of change which is far from the truth. What I'm against is poorly written change. Personally I like dramadies but in this instance TBBT wasn't conceived or presented as a dramady in the early seasons, the proof of it being how they handled a majorly sensitive topic like the Arctic and just joked it off. Now they're trying to morph the show with its sentimental scenes but they don't work because the comedic values around them are sub par (non-existent?) and the scenes themselves are 'puppy dog eyes' rather than something with meat to them. What ultimately doesn't seem to penetrate others is that I'd be ranting over the show's downfall even if canon was Shenny because it's the quality of the program that's collapsed.