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freckles_and_doubt) wrote2010-04-08 12:54 pm
freckles_and_doubt) wrote2010-04-08 12:54 pm
game over, moonpie
Oh, dear. I tried, really I did. Several of you whose taste I esteem have been raving about Big Bang Theory, and in my plaintive and temporary Castle hiatus I hauled out the first couple of episodes last night and gave them a try. It's not the first time I've sampled the series: I lasted about four minutes into the pilot several months ago. This time I gave it fifteen minutes, then I uncurled myself from my foetal ball of pain and randomly sampled through bits of the next few episodes in the vague hope that it Got Better.
Um, nope. Still a newt. This is embarrassment humour. It's badly overdrawn, which I admit worked for The Middleman but doesn't work for me here. It has a laugh track. It's so not for me. I can't get through the embarrassment enough to access all the geeky references which I am perfectly willing to admit are there, adding intelligence and layering and complexity and what have you. I'm not even able to hang on in the hopes of seeing the Wil Wheaton guest appearance in context, although Wil Wheaton being a bastard in The Guild seriously grooved my ploons. I fear that Big Bang Theory and I have parted, as they say, brass rags. (Which, by the Mysterious Power of Google, I now discover is yet another of those weird idioms which comes from 19th-century sailing ships, although I cannot tell a lie, I got it from P. G. Wodehouse).
On the upside, scientific pollage reveals that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
smoczek's unaccountable fondness for soggy waffles is a personal aberration, not a cultural trend of which I was ignorant. Fans of Big Bang Theory are kindly to place my lack of enjoyment of the series under the "soggy waffle" heading and forgive me my sins as I do Jo's.
Um, nope. Still a newt. This is embarrassment humour. It's badly overdrawn, which I admit worked for The Middleman but doesn't work for me here. It has a laugh track. It's so not for me. I can't get through the embarrassment enough to access all the geeky references which I am perfectly willing to admit are there, adding intelligence and layering and complexity and what have you. I'm not even able to hang on in the hopes of seeing the Wil Wheaton guest appearance in context, although Wil Wheaton being a bastard in The Guild seriously grooved my ploons. I fear that Big Bang Theory and I have parted, as they say, brass rags. (Which, by the Mysterious Power of Google, I now discover is yet another of those weird idioms which comes from 19th-century sailing ships, although I cannot tell a lie, I got it from P. G. Wodehouse).
On the upside, scientific pollage reveals that
smoczek's unaccountable fondness for soggy waffles is a personal aberration, not a cultural trend of which I was ignorant. Fans of Big Bang Theory are kindly to place my lack of enjoyment of the series under the "soggy waffle" heading and forgive me my sins as I do Jo's.