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re: Why does "How I met.." get love, but "The Big Bang..." gets hate?
Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:16 am to lpgreat1
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.
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Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:25 am to Freauxzen
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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.
In the limited episodes I've seen, it always seems like we're supposed to be laughing at the nerds because they're nerds, not because they're funny. I'm not really a fan of that.
I don't know how nerdy I would consider myself, but I'm at least nerdy enough to post about TV shows on a message board, so a show that is actively making fun of me and people like me is not one that's going to hold my attention for very long.
You can be a nerdy show and not make fun of nerds, you can actually celebrate them if you do it correctly. See Psych, Chuck, and Community (and probably some other shows I haven't seen yet).
Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:42 am to Freauxzen
quote:You're right. I like BBT, but I just started watching it a few months ago on TBS. I think the first few seasons are a lot better than the newer stuff. The writers have decided all the males need a female, one of which is annoying and not funny. Plus they have done what a lot of writers do. They have streamlined all their characters and made them very one dimensional. Scrubs was perhaps the worst offender of this I can ever remember.
It is a vastly different show than it used to be.
I still watch them and enjoy them. But they aren't on the same level as Frasier. Whose episodes I can see dozens of times and not get tired of them.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:50 am to Freauxzen
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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.
The nerd thing was played out after season 2. There is only so far you can go with a premise like that before you have to actually make the characters into 3 dimensional people and not a gimmick.
If they were still doing Moff Tarkin jokes by season 4 people would be bitching.
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