Could there be a more blatant grab at female audiences than wedding and pregnancy storylines?
While I don't care for the baby story AT ALL, if you had bothered to watch last night's episode, very little of it was really about the wedding. The wedding was just a backdrop to get the characters together.
Also, are you saying they are trying to grab NEW female viewers, or hang onto the ones they already have, with these stories? Because at this point, I don't see many 'new' viewers coming to the show, at least not enough to make any real dent in the ratings.
Chuck Lorre is one of the bigvest sellouts known to mankind.
Who exactly is Chuck Lorre 'selling out'? His job is to produce shows that bring in the most viewers. He's rather successful at that.
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ewd76-944-910685
8 years ago
Who exactly is Chuck Lorre 'selling out'? His job is to produce shows that bring in the most viewers. He's rather successful at that.
I think that's pretty much the definition of selling out. Producing stuff that isn't that great for a lot of money when all things being equal, you'd really rather be doing something else.
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censorshipsucks06
8 years ago
I think that's pretty much the definition of selling out. Producing stuff that isn't that great for a lot of money when all things being equal, you'd really rather be doing something else.
Since that's all he's ever done, I don't get the 'selling out' part. You ASSUME he'd rather be doing something else. There's no evidence of that. Plus, that would mean that essentially every producer on TV is a sellout.
It's not like TBBT was some cutting edge new comedy that morphed into a standard sitcom. It was ALWAYS a standard sitcom - just funnier than most.
If people are going to lash out at the show, and/or Lorre, that's fine. I just think when terms are tossed around, they should at least be valid.
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TheHuronPhish
8 years ago
It may not have been cutting edge but it was unique and had its own charm at one time. It's no longer that. It's "Friends," which they aren't even trying to hide anymore. I'm not saying Lorre was ever a paragon of integrity but he had no problem adopting many cliche tropes to what started as its own thing to ensure a rise in female viewership, which has always been a more lucrative demographic in TV. Since he had already amassed obscene wealth when he made this pivot, I have no problem calling him a sellout.
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AmericanLarry
8 years ago
I'm glad Kathy Bates is playing a villain again, Madame LaLaurie was more interesting than her other characters.
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Kyumonryu
8 years ago
I'm glad Kathy Bates is playing a villain again
Are you lost?
...but they hung him anyway.
Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
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censorshipsucks06
8 years ago
FYI - if you think Larry makes no sense - he doesn't. He's stalking me from another board. Just another pathetic IMDB mental case. Very sad actually.
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Death163
8 years ago
He's selling out the core audience who made the show a success if it wasn't for us comic book and nerd fans who started watching the show before it went mainstream there wouldn't be a show now we get no nerd themes we barely get comic book or video game jokes or mentions in the series anymore that's what made the big bang theory it's completely turned it's back on its core audience and completely changed Sheldons character he used to be obbossed with comic books and video games now he doesn't mention either despite both having the biggest years either has ever had???? For God's sake they live in an apartment with comic book and nerd collectables everywhere yet they spend more time arguing about relationships????? That's not even close to following the characters why not take all the comic book memoberia away and just make it bland like this shows became????
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MurphAndTheMagicTones
8 years ago
If the show was strictly about comic books and games, it never would have made it to air in the first place. And the only reason it survived its first few years was because of CBS' Monday comedy block, well-protected by HIMYM and Two and Half Men back in their glory days.
The show is about two disparate social circles finding common ground. Always was, always will be.
Oh, and if you want nerds, Bernadette and Amy are just as nerdy as the guys, just for different topics. And if you can't see that, then you never should have watched the show in the first place.
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"I do know what to say...let's get me WAXED!"---Amy Farrah Fowler, The Big Bang Theory
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Death163
8 years ago
The show centered around comic books technology and sci fi in its early seasons and up until now that's what it's back bone as always been that's what made it different now how is it any different then friends???? Or how I met your mother???? It's just a shallow carbon copy of every other sitcom btw comic books technology and sci fi are allow trillion dollar industry's now and have been for along time now there's a reason 99% of the early seasons focused on those things and why they still have apartments and houses filled with items related to those things
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krp-7
8 years ago
The name of the show is The Big Bang Theory The "big bang" is what happened when Leonard first met Penny.
The comic books and video games were just the props to set the stage for Leonard's "Big Bang"
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kerryedavis
8 years ago
Naw, the big bang didn't happen until the start of season 3. After they got Sheldon to come back from Texas.
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Death163
8 years ago
And Bernadette and Amy are not nerds there scientist they have little knowledge of anything in the nerd relm outside of science and technology
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