The Big Bang Theory
Discussion
BRISTOL86 said:
Sparky137 said:
Your kidding!! I thought that it was absolute pants!!
Got to agree there, possibly the worst ever episode for me. louiebaby said:
I'm still a few episodes behind the US, playing catch up, but the only person on the whole show that doesn't seem to be just "phoning it in" is Penny's stylist. She seems to still be doing a decent job.
You mean she's finally recovering from the "bad hair and several layers of all-covering lumberjack shirts" stage?
Johnnytheboy said:
You mean she's finally recovering from the "bad hair and several layers of all-covering lumberjack shirts" stage?
Yeah that all seemed to coincide with her brief marriage. I think I said at the time she'd insist penny cover-up, if I remember rightly Penny was completely asexual during most of Kaley's marriage. 
P-Jay said:
Yeah that all seemed to coincide with her brief marriage. I think I said at the time she'd insist penny cover-up, if I remember rightly Penny was completely asexual during most of Kaley's marriage.
If you believe what you read, that was down to an overly controlling spouse. Thank god she's got rid of him now and can go back to being the beautiful bubbly person that she really is.
Hypothetically - if this series was the last (it's not, there will be at least one more) where would we say the peak was?
In years to come when people look back at TBBT (if they do) will it be like The Simpsons thread when members posted their favorite bits and I think we discovered that the best was really early on and the rest was mostly so-so with a few glimpses of it's old self.
Personally I think it peaked just before Leonard and Penny became a couple permanently and Penny became "Business Penny" cut of her hair, became all serious and stopped being funny, Series 8 I think, it had been on the cards for a while, but that was when it tipped over to Soap from Sit-com for me, but mostly it really put a dent in the Penny/Sheldon double act which was the last great thing about TBBT - Leonard playing the straight man to Sheldon long gone and Raj and Howard desperately chasing girls even longer ago.
There's been a couple of laughs in Series 9, I always like Professor Proton, but it's be mostly middle of the road, inoffensive banality - that scene in the last UK episode when the 3 girls are sat in the garden in soft focus talking about 'stuff' - if you'd never seen TBBT and caught that you'd assume it was some daytime US soap.
In years to come when people look back at TBBT (if they do) will it be like The Simpsons thread when members posted their favorite bits and I think we discovered that the best was really early on and the rest was mostly so-so with a few glimpses of it's old self.
Personally I think it peaked just before Leonard and Penny became a couple permanently and Penny became "Business Penny" cut of her hair, became all serious and stopped being funny, Series 8 I think, it had been on the cards for a while, but that was when it tipped over to Soap from Sit-com for me, but mostly it really put a dent in the Penny/Sheldon double act which was the last great thing about TBBT - Leonard playing the straight man to Sheldon long gone and Raj and Howard desperately chasing girls even longer ago.
There's been a couple of laughs in Series 9, I always like Professor Proton, but it's be mostly middle of the road, inoffensive banality - that scene in the last UK episode when the 3 girls are sat in the garden in soft focus talking about 'stuff' - if you'd never seen TBBT and caught that you'd assume it was some daytime US soap.
P-Jay said:
In years to come when people look back at TBBT (if they do) will it be like The Simpsons thread when members posted their favorite bits and I think we discovered that the best was really early on and the rest was mostly so-so with a few glimpses of it's old self.
Sadly, I think you're right.Thinking about it, we'd seen it's best after about season 3-4.
It had good bits after that but the consistency had gone.
Their big mistake was moving the characters on.
They were better characters when they were 4(well,3) sexually frustrated bachelors. That situation alone gave the writers more scope and options.
longshot said:
P-Jay said:
In years to come when people look back at TBBT (if they do) will it be like The Simpsons thread when members posted their favorite bits and I think we discovered that the best was really early on and the rest was mostly so-so with a few glimpses of it's old self.
Sadly, I think you're right.Thinking about it, we'd seen it's best after about season 3-4.
It had good bits after that but the consistency had gone.
Their big mistake was moving the characters on.
They were better characters when they were 4(well,3) sexually frustrated bachelors. That situation alone gave the writers more scope and options.
Series one was still the best I think.
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