\If you’ve read my stuff you know how much I have raved about “The Big Bang Theory”. I discovered it in the middle of the shows 3rd and 4th seasons and just loved it. It was really funny and all I wanted was to see more. I loved this show a point when I thought I was done with TV (little did I know the DC TV universe was coming). Three years ago they announced that the show would be renewed through Season 10. That sounded cool, a nice fitting run for a good show (despite what some think. Seriously what is up with the hate this show gets? It’s not nerd blackface!!)
This season that is now ending is that 10th season. And a few weeks ago it was announced that the show would get two more years after this. And I just have to ask, why???? The show is not what it used to be, though I can’t go so far as to call it awful. What started as a show about four nerds and the pretty blonde across the hall has moved way past that. I didn’t object when Amy and Bernadette joined the cast and the show evolved into the Friends knock off its become. But after all this time we have Leonard and Penny married, Howard and Bernadette married with a child, Sheldon and Amy living together and have even had sex, and Raj has overcome his problems talking to women. So, what is there left to do??
Now one could argue you can still do stories about the group raising their own kids. They’ve already started this with Howard and Bernadette. And forgetting that is about as far from the original premise that you can get, even if I accepted that what else is there? Besides having Leonard and Penny fight, again. Or Sheldon and Amy fight, again. Or maybe actually let Raj have a female that lasts for once. Oh I know let’s bring other characters in like the annoying Stuart or Bert who was in tonight’s episode. He was such a minor character that I had no idea who the heck it was when I saw the episode description. I guess we’re supposed to care about this guy now? I talked before about how it’s always a bad sign when show’s begin to create new characters for us to care about, it means even they know that there isn’t much left for the original characters anymore.
I’ve talked before about when good TV shows just don’t know when to walk away. Course this is par for the course for Chuck Lorre, whose Two and a Half Men went on far longer than it needed to. Some shows are smart enough to know that it’s enough and to end before they have totally drained it dry (MTM, MASH, Seinfeld, Friends, ELR). Others refuse to give up until the network kicks the show off the air, and usually by then the show is so lame it’s just painful (Coach, Will & Grace, Mad About You, Murphy Brown, Who The Boss, 3rd Rock…this list goes on awhile). And often those shows start to have trouble coming with new ideas, and we end up with wonderful things like the 9th season’s of Scrubs and Roseanne. And let’s not even get into why The Simpsons is still on!
Of course I could be wrong and the creators will come up with the big idea for next year that will reinvigorate the show and make it good again. But I have my doubts. So far all we’ve had this year is Raj having to move with Leonard and Penny which not only makes no sense but the creators have zero with it. Oh Leonard and Penny are arguing, great we haven’t seen that yet! And while Sheldon living with Amy has opened up some new ideas that also hasn’t really lived up to its potential. And obviously I have no clue what the final episode will be, but I’m sure they’ll retcon the cliffhanger like they do every year.
I wish the show had ended this year with a big final episode while people still care enough about it to actually watch. The reason I say this? This season has been soooo boring. The episodes have just been dull and the plots too reminiscent of previous episodes. And that’s what happens when the show refuses to acknowledge it’s time to pack up and move on. I will give credit to the actors for taking pay cuts to keep some of the actors on there, that’s pretty cool and shows there’s no ego involved, but really…end already! Not because it “isn’t funny” and not because “it’s stereotypes nerds”, but because the show had reached the point where there simply isn’t anything left to do with it. Hopefully in two years the finale will be worth it, though how the show will end is anyone’s guess since they hit all the character goals already as I mentioned. I guess there’s always the classic “we need to move away” cliche with the whole cast standing in an empty apartment hugging. Haven’t seen that one yet!
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