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re: Why does "How I met.." get love, but "The Big Bang..." gets hate?
Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:12 am to Freauxzen
Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:12 am to Freauxzen
I think Big Bang gets hate now because, in my view, it has ascended to a far wider mainstream audience due to syndication. It's on TBS 24/7. My grandparents now talk about how it's the funniest show on TV when, at the time seasons 1-3 were originally airing, not a lot of casual TV viewers were that into the show.
How I Met Your Mother, while also now in syndication, has just never grabbed the casual viewer like Big Bang, Friends, Seinfeld, Raymond or any other widely syndicated show. The hate is the natural backlash to mainstream, which seems to always be a thing to a certain group of people.
How I Met Your Mother, while also now in syndication, has just never grabbed the casual viewer like Big Bang, Friends, Seinfeld, Raymond or any other widely syndicated show. The hate is the natural backlash to mainstream, which seems to always be a thing to a certain group of people.
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Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:14 am to lpgreat1
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How I Met Your Mother, while also now in syndication, has just never grabbed the casual viewer
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like...Friends
which is good for them, otherwise all the friends viewers would say, 'hey this is the one where they do the same thing friends did, over and over.'
Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:16 am to lpgreat1
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The hate is the natural backlash to mainstream, which seems to always be a thing to a certain group of people.
It got far less smart than it used to, it relies on sex jokes more often, and it stopped with the REAL references to nerd culture.
They used to make Grand Moff Tarkin jokes, now it's all Leia in a bikini jokes, which have been done better and far more often. It is a vastly different show than it used to be.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:38 am to lpgreat1
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How I Met Your Mother, while also now in syndication, has just never grabbed the casual viewer like Big Bang, Friends, Seinfeld, Raymond or any other widely syndicated show. The hate is the natural backlash to mainstream, which seems to always be a thing to a certain group of people.
Man, I'm sick and tired of this line of argument. "Oh, you just hate anythign mainstream." That's completely BS, mainly because HIMYM is pretty f'n popular. It's on CBS and has had ratings to justify a nine season run. It's about as mainstream as you can get. The difference is popularity between the two shows is marginal.
I swear, the next person to mention "hipsters", should be punched in the taint repeatedly. It's such a lazy argument. If you think BBT is better show, argue for its quality, but spare me the strawman of "people hate things that are popular." Maybe that's true for a small subset, but most of us are adults and don't give a crap about that stuff.
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