The Big Bang Theory
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Morningside said:
...Koothrappali is becoming more and more irreverent to the whole storyline and could very easily be removed.
Still correct. No use for him whatsoever. Time to bring in a new character or do something with him and I don't mean some semi gay thing. Either make the character gay or straight.
First UK episode was pure Soap Opera for me, I vaguely remember Sheldon and Amy breaking up, Howard and Penny getting married with little fanfayre and Penny getting all upset about his kissing someone when he was in the North Sea, something that barely phased her last series. I think I mentally tuned out and played Boom Beach on my phone for a bit and it ended.
Happy to read that the people who download / stream the US ones saying it improves further into the series, but whilst I don't think I'll stop watching, it's still better than 90% of crap on TV, but it's not what it used to be for the last couple of years it's slowly morphed from sit-com to soap and it's going to fade away rather than burn out when it eventually ends (end of next series?)
Agree than Raj has become pointless, he's been on his way out since Bernie and he moved in together, they made him camp and it didn't work, they made him a sad lonely dog botherer and it didn't work, they tried him with Lucy, then Emily but for whatever reason they just gave up on them so like Alex, Stephanie and Priya (remember them?) one week they're in it, the next they're not and they're rarely mentioned again, if ever.
Equally I've no idea why Stuart is still there, he just sort of sits in the background and drops the odd sad one-liner, but it's never funny you almost never notice him until it's time for his line.
Sadly the series doesn't really do anything anymore, in past series they'd have an over-riding story for the series, usually involving Leonard chasing Penny, but it was just background, each episode was a thing in itself and very funny, but now they've forgotten that and it's a very slow story that fills the whole series, last year was no better.
Nope, it's the Penny & Leonard and Bernie & Howard Rom-Com and a heavy bias on Rom now. Even Sheldon's being slowly eroded or pushed awkwardly into a romantic character.
A bit like Scrubs, I loved it when it started, became indifferent to it and was begging for it to end when it did.
Happy to read that the people who download / stream the US ones saying it improves further into the series, but whilst I don't think I'll stop watching, it's still better than 90% of crap on TV, but it's not what it used to be for the last couple of years it's slowly morphed from sit-com to soap and it's going to fade away rather than burn out when it eventually ends (end of next series?)
Agree than Raj has become pointless, he's been on his way out since Bernie and he moved in together, they made him camp and it didn't work, they made him a sad lonely dog botherer and it didn't work, they tried him with Lucy, then Emily but for whatever reason they just gave up on them so like Alex, Stephanie and Priya (remember them?) one week they're in it, the next they're not and they're rarely mentioned again, if ever.
Equally I've no idea why Stuart is still there, he just sort of sits in the background and drops the odd sad one-liner, but it's never funny you almost never notice him until it's time for his line.
Sadly the series doesn't really do anything anymore, in past series they'd have an over-riding story for the series, usually involving Leonard chasing Penny, but it was just background, each episode was a thing in itself and very funny, but now they've forgotten that and it's a very slow story that fills the whole series, last year was no better.
Nope, it's the Penny & Leonard and Bernie & Howard Rom-Com and a heavy bias on Rom now. Even Sheldon's being slowly eroded or pushed awkwardly into a romantic character.
A bit like Scrubs, I loved it when it started, became indifferent to it and was begging for it to end when it did.
P-Jay said:
First UK episode was pure Soap Opera for me, I vaguely remember Sheldon and Amy breaking up, Howard and Penny getting married with little fanfayre and Penny getting all upset about his kissing someone when he was in the North Sea, something that barely phased her last series. I think I mentally tuned out and played Boom Beach on my phone for a bit and it ended.
Happy to read that the people who download / stream the US ones saying it improves further into the series, but whilst I don't think I'll stop watching, it's still better than 90% of crap on TV, but it's not what it used to be for the last couple of years it's slowly morphed from sit-com to soap and it's going to fade away rather than burn out when it eventually ends (end of next series?)
Agree than Raj has become pointless, he's been on his way out since Bernie and he moved in together, they made him camp and it didn't work, they made him a sad lonely dog botherer and it didn't work, they tried him with Lucy, then Emily but for whatever reason they just gave up on them so like Alex, Stephanie and Priya (remember them?) one week they're in it, the next they're not and they're rarely mentioned again, if ever.
Equally I've no idea why Stuart is still there, he just sort of sits in the background and drops the odd sad one-liner, but it's never funny you almost never notice him until it's time for his line.
Sadly the series doesn't really do anything anymore, in past series they'd have an over-riding story for the series, usually involving Leonard chasing Penny, but it was just background, each episode was a thing in itself and very funny, but now they've forgotten that and it's a very slow story that fills the whole series, last year was no better.
Nope, it's the Penny & Leonard and Bernie & Howard Rom-Com and a heavy bias on Rom now. Even Sheldon's being slowly eroded or pushed awkwardly into a romantic character.
A bit like Scrubs, I loved it when it started, became indifferent to it and was begging for it to end when it did.
I agree with this - I watched the first episode of Season 9 last night and found it very flat compared to the earlier series'. It is, as you say, more run of the mill soap opera than sit com.Happy to read that the people who download / stream the US ones saying it improves further into the series, but whilst I don't think I'll stop watching, it's still better than 90% of crap on TV, but it's not what it used to be for the last couple of years it's slowly morphed from sit-com to soap and it's going to fade away rather than burn out when it eventually ends (end of next series?)
Agree than Raj has become pointless, he's been on his way out since Bernie and he moved in together, they made him camp and it didn't work, they made him a sad lonely dog botherer and it didn't work, they tried him with Lucy, then Emily but for whatever reason they just gave up on them so like Alex, Stephanie and Priya (remember them?) one week they're in it, the next they're not and they're rarely mentioned again, if ever.
Equally I've no idea why Stuart is still there, he just sort of sits in the background and drops the odd sad one-liner, but it's never funny you almost never notice him until it's time for his line.
Sadly the series doesn't really do anything anymore, in past series they'd have an over-riding story for the series, usually involving Leonard chasing Penny, but it was just background, each episode was a thing in itself and very funny, but now they've forgotten that and it's a very slow story that fills the whole series, last year was no better.
Nope, it's the Penny & Leonard and Bernie & Howard Rom-Com and a heavy bias on Rom now. Even Sheldon's being slowly eroded or pushed awkwardly into a romantic character.
A bit like Scrubs, I loved it when it started, became indifferent to it and was begging for it to end when it did.
Nothing flowed like it once did, and every scene seemed very forced.
Edited by chris watton on Friday 23 October 17:27
P-Jay said:
Howard and Penny getting married with little fanfayre and Penny getting all upset about his kissing someone when he was in the North Sea, something that barely phased her last series. I think I mentally tuned out and played Boom Beach on my phone for a bit and it ended.
Howard and Penny got married??
Morningside said:
Just seen Shelden advertising Intel. Odd.
You'll be looking forward to all the others as well then 
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