The Big Bang Theory after seasons the first two seasons. Initially, it was great, but like all geek-nerd (and for most of my life I've been put in one of those two groups. Well, kind of.) shows, it just runs out of material, because there's only so many jokes that can be made, quite honestly. I haven't watched it in a while because it's not funny anymore, and it's become more of a relationship based show, which was never its premise. The character development is pathetic, as well. Take Sheldon, for example. In the first couple of seasons, his quirks and strange idiosyncrasies were hilarious, but now they're just forced and not funny, especially with his laugh. It's like they're trying to hard, and, getting back to Sheldon again, everything he does seems terribly contrived. It worked for the first few seasons, but it's just terrible now, imo.
For the most part I agree with this, although I've continued to be a somewhat regular viewer. I did think Season 3 was largely good (you may have not liked the relationships, but they set up the Leonard-Penny story in the pilot, so they were being good with that). Seasons 4-6 were generally disappointing, 4 and 6 being worse than 5. The second half of last season, however, actually had some real, not contrived character development for the first time in years. It will be interesting to see if they keep that going this season or not, but there's a chance that this is a show that finds its way again after stumbling about looking for odd gags and shark-jumping story lines for multiple seasons.
I do think you're right that the de-emphasis on science/math jokes has been disappointing, however, as the show's popularity has grown and more mainstream humor has taken its place.
No, I understood that, it's just that that was never the premise of the show, or maybe I just wrongly interpreted it from the beginning. I don't know, I just find it boring now, and they just got another three seasons - for what? How much more can they possibly stretch out of what's left of the original program, haha?
The pilot episode (which was a solid pilot even if Sheldon's character was actually much less anti-social than later on) ended with Leonard saying of Penny "Our babies will be smart and beautiful!" While they didn't have to get those two characters together, they certainly set it up from the beginning that it might happen.
I agree I don't know what more they can do with three seasons other than pay Jim Parsons a lot of
money.
No, like I said, I remember all of that, but it continues to boggle the mind that Sheldon has somehow regressed, socially, and it all seems forced and horribly contrived now, but maybe that's just me. I knew that the Leonard and Penny situation was going to be center stage, but I guess I wanted more plot lines, and different situations.
Plus, over the years, I've found Penny to be completely arrogant and repugnant as a character. She has insulted and used Leonard on multiple occasions, and her ego - my god, how does someone even fit into a room if it's already in there. I think the line that ticked me off the most was the one where Leonard said something like (it may have been the episode where Penny tries to deceive her father that she and Leonard are still together after they'd broken up), "so, just out of curiosity, how did you win me back? Did you wine and dine me, etc?" and Penny said, "Oh please, I whistled and you came running." That just made me incredibly angry, because I've had many dealings with (and I hate to demean the term) people like that. Sorry, I just can't stand such manipulative monsters.
I think this clip is more than appropriate, and, see, the laugh at 2:01 is just so fake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1RZwOlSg5oI think it should also be pointed out that Penny bullied people, both physically and verbally, when she was in high school, so I have absolutely no respect for her as a character.
Side bar - Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, and Johnny Galecki all demanded, and are now receiving, $1 million dollars and episode, which can be perfectly summed up by this clip from the show at 0:29
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXV4Cw6vsU0