The Big Bang Theory

[Ahmad94]

Losing me slightly but will always love the series. Season 5 has ended ,right?

 

[Owzat]

Losing me slightly but will always love the series. Season 5 has ended ,right?

Like I say, it is something you love like an old cat or dog, but you know it's on its last legs and would be better to blow to smithereens with a shotgun - now there's a line for BBT to consider!

Not sure if the series has ended, might depend where you are of course. It may all end with a minor crackle at this rate, definitely a bad moving adding first Bernadette who is ok in small doses, but really only a secondary character, Shamy (and Amy in her own right), who is a really wooden character and it comes across as wooden acting which it might be and she engenders poor plots, and the now it seems fading out of it Priya who was quite cute but frankly rather bossy and not a great character.

They should have kept the plots simple and the cast restricted, at the moment it is way too many cooks all peeing in the broth. The bond between Wallowitz and Raj has almost disappeared, the fascination Wallowitz had with Penny going as he is engaged, and the whole thing is caving in.

 

[lancashire666]

Losing me slightly but will always love the series. Season 5 has ended ,right?

It just stopped for the Christmas/New Year period, when shows get lower viewing figures.

Still got half the season to go

 

[Owzat]

Still got half the season to go

Surely it can only get better.......................?

 

[Sureshot]

Not seen much of Season 5 (first two episodes I think). Thing is, comedies will always have a limited time span, they've already done over a 100 episodes and it will be hard to keep it fresh. I still enjoyed S4 and both 2 & 3 were hilarious. As with any comedy there is no point in thinking it will go on forever, because they can't, as a matter of what they are, go on for that long.

The best comedies out there had a very short life, like Fawlty Towers.

 

[Themer]

The best comedies out there had a very short life, like Fawlty Towers.

And even then the second series wasn't given a glowing review by the critics of the time.

 

[Owzat]

Not seen much of Season 5 (first two episodes I think). Thing is, comedies will always have a limited time span, they've already done over a 100 episodes and it will be hard to keep it fresh. I still enjoyed S4 and both 2 & 3 were hilarious. As with any comedy there is no point in thinking it will go on forever, because they can't, as a matter of what they are, go on for that long.

The best comedies out there had a very short life, like Fawlty Towers.

Agree re time spans, but these days yank comedies in particular seem to go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on..............................

Big Bang has plenty of scope to be funny still, just some of the characters that were fringe are now more central and they're crap - Amy is dire, Bernadette is ok but should be no more than a fringe character and her engagement to Howard spoils Howard like Monica spoiled Chandler in Friends.

Raj has had too many storylines that make him seem like a complete jackass to coin a yank favourite expression, they dumped Priya but now Leonard has done the Penny thing in many ways and several times, the series is like a coke that has been open a few days - lost its fizz. The stories over an expanded group dynamic of "the boys" and "the girls" is overcomplex and basically in contradiction with the original theme - single nerdy blokes who couldn't get girls.

As for Fawlty Towers, there were two top class episodes and the rest were average or poor - but I concede that might just be the comedy wasn't in my taste except two which crossed over (Communication Problems and The Builders)

I think it was Father Ted writers who said about three series and then you start repeating. Yank comedies seem to set their stall out for 100 episodes or bust, if they make it past a first series then they just don't stop. They did something similar with Star Trek when it spawned Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. I liked Farscape but that repeated itself and two themes far too much, constantly on about wormholes and crew dying and being reincarnated.

How many sci-fi series repeat the whole theme of captured, not killed, escaped? How many times did members of Blakes Seven, Doctor Who etc get caught, their captors decided not to shoot them, and then they escaped? I was disappointed Firefly only had one series, but I can see why. The film was way better and covered most of what an entire series had. Buffy was another where the theme, martial arts fighting etc got repetitive.

Two comedies had scope for longevity, Only Fools And Horses with a great cast and Drop The Dead Donkey which fed off mocking news stories. They focused the final series on the station closing down which was by far the worst series of the lot, but still better than BBT.

Big Bang needs Howard freed from Bernadette, dare I say she gets tragically killed or swept off her feet by a famous something or other and taken far far away, and Amy goes off to work in outer mongolia. With the focus and cast more centralised it can get back on track with more university based storylines, introduce new characters and focus on nerdy-ness not male-female relationships within the now extended group.

Sheldon is one of the funniest characters, he is less central with too many others involved.

 

[Sureshot]

Don't you go dissing Firefly mister! Though I suppose it was fairly niche, just frustrating because the River story was just at the beginning and is one of the greatest pieces of character writing I've ever seen.

Father Ted was awesome, is still hilarious (better than Fawlty Towers, but of course FT was just so far ahead of it's time). It had the perfect amount of series imo.

I think the Bernadette character is quite good, even with the marriage thing. The interaction between her and Howard's mother is amusing, but I don't think her and Amy work together, by that I mean that you can't have all the boys in relationships. I think Amy related stories can be funny, but can also seem like a female Sheldon and of course the reduction in Sheldon time on the show is the real killer for the hilarity, because he plays the part to perfection.

 

[Ahmad Shah]

Just watched all the previous seasons on the internet,I really like that Sheldon guy specially his Bazinga

 

[Themer]

Bazinga

I've never seen this show but is that a euphemism?

 

[Ahmad Shah]

I've never seen this show but is that a euphemism?

Na,whenever he pulls a practical joke he calls it bazinga.

 

[iridescentt]

It's like his way of saying 'Gotcha'.

 

[Manly]

Agree re time spans, but these days yank comedies in particular seem to go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on..............................

Big Bang has plenty of scope to be funny still, just some of the characters that were fringe are now more central and they're crap - Amy is dire, Bernadette is ok but should be no more than a fringe character and her engagement to Howard spoils Howard like Monica spoiled Chandler in Friends.

Raj has had too many storylines that make him seem like a complete jackass to coin a yank favourite expression, they dumped Priya but now Leonard has done the Penny thing in many ways and several times, the series is like a coke that has been open a few days - lost its fizz. The stories over an expanded group dynamic of "the boys" and "the girls" is overcomplex and basically in contradiction with the original theme - single nerdy blokes who couldn't get girls.

As for Fawlty Towers, there were two top class episodes and the rest were average or poor - but I concede that might just be the comedy wasn't in my taste except two which crossed over (Communication Problems and The Builders)

I think it was Father Ted writers who said about three series and then you start repeating. Yank comedies seem to set their stall out for 100 episodes or bust, if they make it past a first series then they just don't stop. They did something similar with Star Trek when it spawned Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. I liked Farscape but that repeated itself and two themes far too much, constantly on about wormholes and crew dying and being reincarnated.

How many sci-fi series repeat the whole theme of captured, not killed, escaped? How many times did members of Blakes Seven, Doctor Who etc get caught, their captors decided not to shoot them, and then they escaped? I was disappointed Firefly only had one series, but I can see why. The film was way better and covered most of what an entire series had. Buffy was another where the theme, martial arts fighting etc got repetitive.

Two comedies had scope for longevity, Only Fools And Horses with a great cast and Drop The Dead Donkey which fed off mocking news stories. They focused the final series on the station closing down which was by far the worst series of the lot, but still better than BBT.

Big Bang needs Howard freed from Bernadette, dare I say she gets tragically killed or swept off her feet by a famous something or other and taken far far away, and Amy goes off to work in outer mongolia. With the focus and cast more centralised it can get back on track with more university based storylines, introduce new characters and focus on nerdy-ness not male-female relationships within the now extended group.

Sheldon is one of the funniest characters, he is less central with too many others involved.

I honestly don't know why you still watch it.

 

[ste_mc_efc]

Agree re time spans, but these days yank comedies in particular seem to go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on..............................

Big Bang has plenty of scope to be funny still, just some of the characters that were fringe are now more central and they're crap - Amy is dire, Bernadette is ok but should be no more than a fringe character and her engagement to Howard spoils Howard like Monica spoiled Chandler in Friends.

Raj has had too many storylines that make him seem like a complete jackass to coin a yank favourite expression, they dumped Priya but now Leonard has done the Penny thing in many ways and several times, the series is like a coke that has been open a few days - lost its fizz. The stories over an expanded group dynamic of "the boys" and "the girls" is overcomplex and basically in contradiction with the original theme - single nerdy blokes who couldn't get girls.

As for Fawlty Towers, there were two top class episodes and the rest were average or poor - but I concede that might just be the comedy wasn't in my taste except two which crossed over (Communication Problems and The Builders)

I think it was Father Ted writers who said about three series and then you start repeating. Yank comedies seem to set their stall out for 100 episodes or bust, if they make it past a first series then they just don't stop. They did something similar with Star Trek when it spawned Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. I liked Farscape but that repeated itself and two themes far too much, constantly on about wormholes and crew dying and being reincarnated.

How many sci-fi series repeat the whole theme of captured, not killed, escaped? How many times did members of Blakes Seven, Doctor Who etc get caught, their captors decided not to shoot them, and then they escaped? I was disappointed Firefly only had one series, but I can see why. The film was way better and covered most of what an entire series had. Buffy was another where the theme, martial arts fighting etc got repetitive.

Two comedies had scope for longevity, Only Fools And Horses with a great cast and Drop The Dead Donkey which fed off mocking news stories. They focused the final series on the station closing down which was by far the worst series of the lot, but still better than BBT.

Big Bang needs Howard freed from Bernadette, dare I say she gets tragically killed or swept off her feet by a famous something or other and taken far far away, and Amy goes off to work in outer mongolia. With the focus and cast more centralised it can get back on track with more university based storylines, introduce new characters and focus on nerdy-ness not male-female relationships within the now extended group.

Sheldon is one of the funniest characters, he is less central with too many others involved.

cool way to take the fun out of comedies with essays bro.

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The best comedies out there had a very short life, like Fawlty Towers.

seinfel seinifel seinfeld curb seinfel seinfel seinfeld.

 

[Ahmad94]

I love the new episodes. Love Raj using Siri on his phone.


Slightly unrelated

Bazinga Punk