The Big Bang Theory was my favorite show on television. But it's not just me - besides Sunday Night Football on NBC, it was the Number 1 scripted show last week. And I mean Number 1 by a landslide. Like many viewers, I did not watch it at first, but have caught up in syndication. I guess the show spoke to me because I hit all the criteria that it's made for: I'm a nerd who would totally be enamored with the gorgeous blonde who lived next door. The show made total sense to me and I loved every minute of it... until this season. It started when Kaley Cuoco got married. Changing your name on a sitcom that will live in reruns forever looks real stupid when you get divorced. Ask Courtney Cox how she feels about seeing her now ex-husband's name next to hers every single solitary hour of the day on television. It's lovely that Cuoco is so giddy to make the change, but the inside word is now her marriage to Ryan Sweeting is crumbling, which would make this the classic blunder of all time (replacing never start a land war in Asia). If they get divorced, especially only after a year, for the rest of eternity on TBS she will continue to relive the big mistake she made in front of the entire world. Yipes.
But here's the worst part for us fans. And when I say us fans, I guess I mean mainly men. The cutting of the hair. Yes, this may seem awfully sexist but a man likes what he likes. The entire series is based on a big, busty, beautiful blonde spacy actress who for some reason in this universe is attracted to a scientist. What "everyday" man doesn't this speak to? That's why the show is so successful. So, now she gets married, changes her name, gets a pixie cut and some horrid coloring in real life and, in the premise of the show, now works for a pharmaceutical company. What the hell happened? Every time I see the name change in the show, the show becomes real in the sense that I know Kaley Cuoco is an actress on a show and she doesn't really love Leonard. She's married to someone else in real life. Now, as ridiculous as that sounds, that's what you buy into in a show - you're not reading the credits on a daily basis, but when the names you read, if you watch TBS up to six times a day, all of the sudden change, you are swept out of the universe they have created. That is problem number one, Penny changing her hair and not playing the kind of "damsel in distress" anymore is problem number two. I understand that in real life this would be a welcome change for anyone, but this show is pure fantasy. I want the fantasy to stay alive for all the years left in syndication.
Take a show like Friends. Its staying power is quite phenomenal. Besides maybe when Joey liked Rachel for a season, the show stayed its course and even improved when Monica and Chandler got together. There are no seasons on Friends, even some 20 years later, that make you say, "this is where everything changed." The same can be said for Seinfeld. The Big Bang Theory should have just pulled the old classic aging sitcom move of getting a new younger kid to boost ratings like cousin Oliver in The Brady Bunch or Olivia in The Cosby Show.
With her smart, adult, responsible haircut and new job, Cuoco and her character, Penny, have ruined what was the fun of the show. It makes sense that the Penny we see now might marry Leonard. The show and cast are committed for two more guaranteed years. Unfortunately, I guess we now have to hope for Cuoco and Sweeting's marriage to disintegrate. At that time she may reflect her character and go back to the same fictional character we've learned to love in our little fantasy. In reality, as a woman, I suppose - good for you Kaley for changing it up.
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But here's the worst part for us fans. And when I say us fans, I guess I mean mainly men. The cutting of the hair. Yes, this may seem awfully sexist but a man likes what he likes. The entire series is based on a big, busty, beautiful blonde spacy actress who for some reason in this universe is attracted to a scientist. What "everyday" man doesn't this speak to? That's why the show is so successful. So, now she gets married, changes her name, gets a pixie cut and some horrid coloring in real life and, in the premise of the show, now works for a pharmaceutical company. What the hell happened? Every time I see the name change in the show, the show becomes real in the sense that I know Kaley Cuoco is an actress on a show and she doesn't really love Leonard. She's married to someone else in real life. Now, as ridiculous as that sounds, that's what you buy into in a show - you're not reading the credits on a daily basis, but when the names you read, if you watch TBS up to six times a day, all of the sudden change, you are swept out of the universe they have created. That is problem number one, Penny changing her hair and not playing the kind of "damsel in distress" anymore is problem number two. I understand that in real life this would be a welcome change for anyone, but this show is pure fantasy. I want the fantasy to stay alive for all the years left in syndication.
Take a show like Friends. Its staying power is quite phenomenal. Besides maybe when Joey liked Rachel for a season, the show stayed its course and even improved when Monica and Chandler got together. There are no seasons on Friends, even some 20 years later, that make you say, "this is where everything changed." The same can be said for Seinfeld. The Big Bang Theory should have just pulled the old classic aging sitcom move of getting a new younger kid to boost ratings like cousin Oliver in The Brady Bunch or Olivia in The Cosby Show.
With her smart, adult, responsible haircut and new job, Cuoco and her character, Penny, have ruined what was the fun of the show. It makes sense that the Penny we see now might marry Leonard. The show and cast are committed for two more guaranteed years. Unfortunately, I guess we now have to hope for Cuoco and Sweeting's marriage to disintegrate. At that time she may reflect her character and go back to the same fictional character we've learned to love in our little fantasy. In reality, as a woman, I suppose - good for you Kaley for changing it up.
Listen to my podcast here: http://ift.tt/1tVOKpn
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