Well...... that was a bitter season opener.
I like how Raj's subplot from last season got no resolution.
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!Raj realized Emily's dark sense of humor wasn't really appealing to him, and wimped out of going through with a break-up.
Truth is that his story had a conclusion and we weren't Left Hanging. It's not going to end well for him in the long run but there was no immediate questions that needed a follow-up on the next day. The premiere was not exactly short on plot to begin with.
Not an especially hilarious episode as it has the same melancholic tone as the finale, but has a couple nice bits. Penny's improvised vow was the highlight, Kaley's comedic timing on that was flawless.
BTW, anyone find it almost Harsher in Hindsight that the season began with Penny and Leonard having issues with marriage so soon after the wedding.... and soon after the episode aired, Penny's actress announced she's getting divorced, after essentially a short marriage?
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!I didn't know about that, but it seems a Hollywood stereotype that celebrities get married and divorced on a whim, or for the publicity. After all, a high profile divorce gets you another cover story in People.
Maybe I'm just being cynical, but it seems a celebrity's celebrity needs to be fueled by things like weddings, divorces, sex tapes, court appearances, "coming out" and so on. Whatever gets the ink and the clicks.
Thinking back on Emily, it seems that she didn't have much of a character other than "pretty girl with a fascination for the macabre". I mean, I enjoy horror and dark stuff as much as the next person, but I like to think that I have multiple interests and aspects to my personality.
edited 29th Sep '15 12:23:59 PM by Lawyerdude
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.thing also is that if Raj break with her for creepying him out would be quite hipocrite seen one of the reason Raj dosent have a girlfriend is because he creepy them or drove them out with his needness.
Maybe but the gang where pretty one dimensional at first dosent it? Sheldon was very anti-social, leonard try to be "Normal", Howard the pervert and Raj the mute.
Those were their distinguishing characteristics at the outset, but we also saw them engaging in leisure activities, having conversations and so on. So we got an idea about their common interests. And of course as the series went on we learned about each character's background, job and outside interests. Of course, I'm not saying that Emily should have 8 seasons worth of characterization right at the gate, but maybe one or two other distinctive character moments would have been nice.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.There are a lot of reasons divorce seems high among celebrities, but the biggest factor is actually the random and demanding schedules. You could not see each other for months at a time, all the while knowing the pitfalls of celebrity gatherings and paparazzi doing their "expert speculation."
On Emily, her sadist streak didn't manifest until well into her and Raj's relationship. Beforehand she seemed like a normal girl, not even a doctor. Several episodes of season seven was dedicated to exploring what girl Raj should start dating, one of them hinted at was the veterinarian.
On this latest episode, I'm not that big of a fan. Most of the jokes didn't land very well, including Leonard's Catapult Nightmare of Penny and Sheldon making out. Jim and Kaley obviously threw everything they got into the joke, but I think it was telegraphed way too far ahead. The one bit I actually liked was Leonard's talk with Mandy about their kiss. The actress just nailed the character type they were going for. And Leonard using her as a free psychiatrist was a funny joke too.
The bachelor party episode was the first really good episode this season, and to me a good "back to basics" episode.
Wild Mass Guessing: Penny's father made up the whole " I accidentally killed your pet" thing as retaliation for not having a more formal wedding.
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!I liked the Chuck Lorre Vanity plate at the end. "Yes, that really was Richard Feynman's van. No, we did not actually destroy it."
Dammit, the writers have no balls.
Status Quo Is God needs to be hung, shot, gutted and run over.
You lost!Interesting that Emily apparently still is on the show, and her actress now has her name in the opening credits.
Kinda strange it took four episodes for her to show up with no mention in between.
I kinda related to Sheldon's rant towards the end of the episode. And, this coming from someone who views him as a self-centered Jerkass.
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!The thing about Sheldon is that he isn't just a Wacky Guy with all sorts of unrelatable quirks, but he is someone who has ten times more difficulty navigating a normal life.
His rant about friends leaving him and only seeing them at big events is a major concern for a lot of people. It's also been made clear that Sheldon is emotionally dependent on Leonard, to the same degree as his own mother. Whatever happens to Leonard is a big concern for him.
Fridge Logic regarding last night's episode: How did Barry get Amy's phone number?
Also, when Barry said "retreat", I kept thinking he was saying (due to his speech impediment) "re-tweet" at first.
Disappointing thing: A few TV guide entries stated that one of the plots involved Amy, Penny, and Bernadette helping Stuart with making himself not be creepy with women anymore and get a girlfriend. Ok, that sort of came up in the episode, but was barely touched upon, and nothing came out of it. Damn you, false advertising!
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!Amy is part of the university. Her personal cell phone is likely on file, not to regular students but to other personnel.
That synopsis of the episode is basically where the plot line was headed, but was not apparent from the start. I see that kind of technically false advertising a lot in places like Netflix, where the B story listed in the synopsis only happens in the last quarter of the episode.
As somebody who's been taking fencing for several years now, I think they missed out on a good opportunity for humor.
Since sport fencing comes from the French school, nearly all of the moves are named in French, which lacks the hard "R" sound. Since Kripke's Rhotacism keeps him from pronouncing the hard "R", I thought it would have been funny if he spent half the lesson switching into French with perfect pronunciation of words like "degage", "un-deux", "coupee", "touche", and so on.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.Pet Peeve I have regarding TV shows. They depict finding love or matches on dating services or dating apps, far too easily. Now, Stuart isn't unattractive (at least from my point of view, and I'm heterosexual, but the fact that he apparently got two "likes" so quickly was too far-fetched. In real life it can takes weeks, months, or even a couple years before someone catches someone's interest in a dating service.
That should be a trope: Unrealistically Efficient Dating Service, or maybe simply Magic Dating Service
edited 27th Oct '15 9:02:22 AM by Brandon
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!That's common with any story taking place in relative real time. When it comes to a major story like Howard's trip into space, they prepared ahead of time and gave a realistic time frame for him to go through training and passing qualifications. For the needs of a single episode, things that should take months or years are condensed into days or weeks.
In the episode's defense, Stuart isn't shown signing up and getting connections immediately. We're told retroactively that he's gotten some success from the app, giving enough vagueness that he could have signed up months ago. Not to mention that the time between episodes isn't always relative to when they air. Consider that the first two episodes of the season and the prior season finale all took place in the same week at most.
edited 28th Oct '15 5:26:47 PM by KJMackley
For me the best joke of the episode was Bernadette's line "It's kind of like taking your drivers license test in a school bus." It avoids the obvious joke while still implying it. Plus in the fourth season we met Glenn, one of Bernadette's exes who was 6'7.

I find it funny because I've seen some comments that Emily's morbid sense of humor clashed with the rest of the show, but considering her and Penny's dislike of each other and now this development in the finale it seems like that might have been intentional.
And I wouldn't call it Character Derailment for Raj, but full-fledged Character Development. The entire 7th season was him learning that beyond his selective mutism his desperation for companionship drove off almost any potential love interest. He has been dating Emily for over a year, her dark sense of humor apparent almost from the beginning, and now he's realizing he is just not as invested as he would like to be. It doesn't make him a horrible person (it's certainly not a Toilet Seat Divorce), but is actually a legitimate concern to have about a relationship. When Emily assumes he is about to break up with her she reacts rather maturely, the actress even plays it like Emily's been through this before.