Way Too Much About The Big Bang Theory
Nov. 10th, 2013 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quarter_to_fiveSome friends moved apartment, to a Bialik street, which necessitated: a. a trip to IKEA (TINY PENCILS!) b. watching The Big Bang Theory in the background while we put together the furniture (SQUARE THINGS THAT FIT TOGETHER SQUARELY!) so now I'm all vaguely sad.
(That said, you will drag my dead corpse in there the next time I go to IKEA on a sabbath-night. That said further, I've been in Jerusalem too long, because the crowd looked almost foreign. It honestly slips my mind sometimes that there's bits of this country that are not like Jerusalem.)
I think I would be way less fannish about TBBT if I could find one corner of the internet that agreed even vaguely with my reading of it. Seriously - i'd have watched it, been bemused, read a bit of meta, nodded my head and gone home. But I can't, because apparently no one can see what I see. It's extremely frustrating and somewhat making me doubt my faculties and my taste in fiction.
There are broadly three reactions to TBBT, that I can find:
1. The Identity Politics: Show is anti-nerd, anti-women, terribly made, not funny and generally offensive to the point of being rage-inducing.
2. The Shipping: Show is pro-nerd, is sweet and funny and adorable, with strong characterization and excellent acting, and is also the most romantic thing ever, by the by.
3. The Thoughtful Criticism: Show has surprising flashes of (2) but they are buried under the tired, cheap sitcom humor and convention of (1), which is possibly something of a shame.
ALL OF THESE REACTIONS ARE INCORRECT. (IMO.)
Me, I think TBBT is just heartbreaking, and its poignancy comes not despite its cheesy sitcom stylings but entirely because of them, and its characters are at their most interesting and compelling precisely because of the shows unwillingness to not be unkind to them.
I dunno.
(That said, you will drag my dead corpse in there the next time I go to IKEA on a sabbath-night. That said further, I've been in Jerusalem too long, because the crowd looked almost foreign. It honestly slips my mind sometimes that there's bits of this country that are not like Jerusalem.)
I think I would be way less fannish about TBBT if I could find one corner of the internet that agreed even vaguely with my reading of it. Seriously - i'd have watched it, been bemused, read a bit of meta, nodded my head and gone home. But I can't, because apparently no one can see what I see. It's extremely frustrating and somewhat making me doubt my faculties and my taste in fiction.
There are broadly three reactions to TBBT, that I can find:
1. The Identity Politics: Show is anti-nerd, anti-women, terribly made, not funny and generally offensive to the point of being rage-inducing.
2. The Shipping: Show is pro-nerd, is sweet and funny and adorable, with strong characterization and excellent acting, and is also the most romantic thing ever, by the by.
3. The Thoughtful Criticism: Show has surprising flashes of (2) but they are buried under the tired, cheap sitcom humor and convention of (1), which is possibly something of a shame.
ALL OF THESE REACTIONS ARE INCORRECT. (IMO.)
Me, I think TBBT is just heartbreaking, and its poignancy comes not despite its cheesy sitcom stylings but entirely because of them, and its characters are at their most interesting and compelling precisely because of the shows unwillingness to not be unkind to them.
I dunno.
