I don't get the hate for the show either. Why would people spend time saying how much they hate a show. I love the BIG BANG THEORY. It is one of my favorite shows and I have a huge crush of Kaley Cuoco.
The show is enjoyable and a good sitcom. Getting angry Internet whiners riled up is just an added bonus.
I'm not sure viewership is a reliable indicator of quality. Arrested Development, a network comedy, got horrible ratings. NCIS is the top rated show on TV, and while I'll catch a rerun on USA from time to time, you'd have a tough time convincing me that it's one of the ten best dramas on TV. Hell, the Walking Dead annihilates Breaking Bad in the ratings, but can anyone who watches both shows say with a straight face that it's better written or acted? I'm not really trying to make an "it's too mainstream" type of argument, but shows that are designed to appeal to the masses aren't typically the smartest ones on TV.
with shame i must admit, i love this show. i love it in a "i will eventually find the reruns comforting and ever-watchable" kind of way, like king of queens, newsradio, seinfeld... hated it forever, just didn't think it was funny at all - just not a fan of the standard sitcom/laugh track shows anymore (30 rock, workaholics, sunny, community, & parks & rec are the faves), but man i got into it, even started to really like howard (leonard is always and forever on my sh^t list). of course, i find sheldon and amy compelling to watch, as well as amy/penny, sheldon/penny and anything with bernadette. jim parsons is simply the best. oh and, christine baranski as leonard's mother...heh. love that character.
you sound pretty anal to me. you seriously have to JUDGE whether something is of the right quality before you will bless it with your viewship?
If I told you that I just made a 4-hour movie starring my action figures would you watch it or would you JUDGE that it is not of the right quality to bless with your viewership?
You sound like someone with reading comprehension issues. I wasn't commenting at all about my criteria for how I pick which shows I watch. But yeah, since I only average about an hour of TV viewing a day (not including sports), I generally try to pick shows that aren't regarded as ****ty before I start watching them. Sometimes I'll give a show liked Revolution a shot because the premise seems interesting (though I gave up on that particular piece of crap after two episodes).
who judges if they are ****ty or not? see, the difference is: i alone decide if I like a show or not--based on my own tastes, while you, it seems, have to be told it is good before you watch it. That, to me, is anal.
I love that show. Went through school with a bunch of people like the characters. I have a couple of friends who behave very similar to Sheldon (mild Asperger Syndrome). Nerd humor is awesome.
You know what? I had a really long response to this typed out, detailing the kinds of shows I like and dislike, but what it really comes down to is yeah, I generally have to hear something good about a show or be interested by its premise to start watching it. I don't watch a lot of TV. I guess I could spend hours in front of the television watching each new series and decide whether or not it's a keeper, but I really don't have the inclination to do so.
Never watched or will watch 2 1/2 Men even though I've been a Lynskey fan since that murder movie she did with Winslet. I get a kick out of 2 Broke Girls, partly because I liked Dennings in Charlie Bartlett and Nick & Nora, but also because I remember having no cable back in the '90s or in college, memorizing the Murder She Wrote theme song and slogging through Almost Perfect, Becker or Touched By an Angel and Walker, Texas Ranger before MAD TV and SNL came on. And the mid-week stuff they had that was actually popular, like the Nanny, was just ****ing unbearable.
I don't watch any of network sitcoms. I've seen most of them once or twice, but never watched again. The only sitcom I watch is Workaholics. It's silly, but it makes me laugh.
