7.16 The Table Polarization

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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.

I totally agree with you about the change in the characters. The problem isn't that they grew or evolved, the problem is that they just jettisoned some of their core characteristics because those characteristics became bothersome to the writers. Instead of setting up scenarios that might lead to the changes they want tptb do interviews and promotion to TELL us about the amazing growth. So you get some people going, oh yeah I see it, and some of us going, huh? I think the telling thing with this show is that for so many of these "special moments" they seem to feel the need to give them the hard sell. TBTP don't let those moments stand on their own, they go out before and after and tell people what they should feel or take from the episode. If you are really writing a quality program, and also showing not simply telling, do you really need to do this.