{"id":3217,"date":"2016-03-05T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T07:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2016-03-05T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T07:20:32","slug":"the-big-bang-theory-season-12-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3217","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye and Good Riddance, The Big Bang Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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ack in 2007, when the pilot of <\/span>The Big Bang Theory <\/span><\/i>aired on TV, it introduced us to the brilliant mind of senior theoretical physicist, Sheldon Cooper. It was the DNA of this emotionally handicapped geeky megalomaniac that its creator Chuck Lorre exploited to present a crossover between science and comedy. And while it didn\u2019t take him more than Sheldon\u2019s \u201cYou\u2019re in my spot\u201d or his incessant knocking to achieve that sweet spot, 11 years and 12 seasons later, <\/span>TBBT <\/span><\/i>has ended up being a show we can\u2019t wait to bid goodbye to. The <\/span>show <\/span><\/a>comes to an end in 2019. <\/span>\n\nThe first season of <\/span>TBBT <\/span><\/i>was unlike anything we\u2019d seen on TV: A group of loserly science nerds headlining a show. It didn\u2019t just make science cool again, but also acted as a clever commentary on how little <\/span>men <\/span><\/a>\u2013 even those who seem to have all the answers about the universe \u2013 actually know about women. <\/span>\n\nThe show revolved around the uneventful lives of three physicists (Sheldon, Leonard, and Raj) and a dude with a masters degree (Howard) who have one thing in common: they all suck at social situations. Raj couldn\u2019t talk to women without consuming <\/span>alcohol<\/span><\/a>. Leonard suffered from low self-esteem. Howard dressed and behaved like he time-travelled from the 1960s. Sheldon needed more mollycoddling than a bunch of babies at a nursery.<\/span>\n\nTwo seasons down, <\/span>TBBT<\/span><\/i> became the only show that recognised the potential of geeks and mined their culture into mainstream situational <\/span>comedy<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s unfettered popularity stemmed from the fact that it felt like a show that was for the outcasts who felt under-represented on TV. <\/span>\n\nAnd yet, somewhere down the road, <\/span>TBBT<\/span><\/i> lost its fans. Today when news about the 12th season being the show\u2019s last one surfaced, I am one of those elated by the development \u2013 although I am wondering why the elevator from season 1 still hasn\u2019t been fixed. And just like that <\/span>joke<\/span><\/a>, at this point, the show feels like a generic joke that has been dragged on for way too long. It\u2019s only natural that no one\u2019s laughing anymore.<\/span>\n\n

As multiple viewers have pointed out, the show\u2019s half-arsed appropriation of nerd culture, while simultaneously trying to stay relevant for a mainstream audience has earned it enemies everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nThings started getting pretty bizarre from the show\u2019s fifth season. It started off with a mind-boggling reveal: Penny, the hot waitress who lives across Leonard and Sheldon ended up sleeping with Raj, the only guy from the group who can\u2019t talk to <\/span>women<\/span><\/a>. It was only the beginning of the show straying away from its core plot. New characters were introduced, multiple subplots manufactured, and a girl-gang was formed (their duties however were only relegated to drinking wine). <\/span>\n\nOver the following seasons, Sheldon\u2019s toxic ways continue to be romanticised (how long can a grown man not being able to sleep alone be funny?) and the show depended heavily on <\/span>stereotypes<\/span><\/a>. As multiple viewers have pointed out, the show\u2019s half-arsed appropriation of nerd culture, while simultaneously trying to stay relevant for a mainstream audience has earned it enemies everywhere. <\/span>\n\nReddit users have spoken out against how the show appears to condone rape across multiple episodes. In a <\/span>discussion thread<\/span><\/a> from five years ago, one writes about \u201cthe episode where the stone-cold sober Leonard has sex with the falling-down drunk Penny who\u2019s previously indicated she\u2019s not interested in him. She is then presented as \u2018in the wrong\u2019 for her sexual assault because she sent her ex-boyfriend \u2018misleading messages\u2019. We have the episode where Howard and Raj use satellites to spy on the girls in the <\/span>America\u2019s Next Top Model<\/span><\/i> house as they sunbathe topless on what they thought was their private rooftop patio.\u201d<\/span>\n\nAnother viewer <\/span>ranted<\/span><\/a>, \u201cThere are bad jokes, and sexist jokes, in all manner of programmes, from <\/span>F.R.I.E.N.D.S.<\/span><\/i> to <\/span>How I Met Your Mother<\/span><\/i> to <\/span>Outnumbered<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>The Big Bang Theory<\/span><\/i> manages to be worse than a lot of its competitors… In real life, those four guys wouldn\u2019t just be harmless and hapless. Indeed, a lot of the things they say wouldn\u2019t feel at all out of place in the controversial <\/span>Google memo<\/span><\/a> \u2013 written by a disgruntled Google employee, a polemic against diversity in technology fields.\u201d And <\/span>The Big Bang Theory<\/span><\/i> normalises these views by setting them to a laugh track.<\/span>\n\nOf course, with great popularity comes great condemnation and some of the censure heaped on successful shows is <\/span>fashionable<\/span><\/a>. Yet, in the case of <\/span>The Big Bang Theory<\/span><\/i>, it somehow feels objective. At this point, <\/span>TBBT<\/span><\/i> is looking like a mediocre version of <\/span>F.R.I.E.N.D.S.,<\/span><\/i> with some mathematical equations thrown in. Even the best things must come to an end \u2013 and<\/span> TBBT <\/span><\/i>is far from it. This goodbye is six seasons too late, but we\u2019ll take it. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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