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• The Big Bang Theory Review: Introducing the Chatterbox (5/18/2013)

  @Douglas Wolfe -- the comment I referred to was the first comment by @Mel
  

• The Big Bang Theory Review: Introducing the Chatterbox (5/18/2013)

  @Douglas Wolfe -- I'm probably missing what your conversation is about, but this episode is the second time Penny said she loved Leonard. The first was in the hallway and more along the lines of, "You know I love you ..." and then was acknowledged as an important moment when she realized it. So, I apologize if you're not talking about that -- and no one answered, I think, because it was already referred to in one of the comments.
  

• The Big Bang Theory Review: Introducing the Chatterbox (5/18/2013)

  Lucy's shyness semi annoys me. She earns a living. She supports herself. She must shop (and was in the comic book store when it was packed). To me she indulges herself petulantly more than would be real. I do understand extreme shyness and intimacy issues and even resenting Raj pushing her about their relationship, but I find it surprising such an individual wouldn't riskingly have already embraced what she has/had with Raj as a super serious relationship in her own mind. Shyness is fear, but, if anything, it makes one more vulnerable by wanting so desperately for good things to happen. A non-institutionalized shy person would sometimes accept being uncomfortable and afraid in social settings and, (I think) would have gone to the bon voyage party. I think this is a touching situation that has been comedied to an unreal joke. They missed a chance so far for a new interesting character!
  

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• Glee Season 3 Ratings Down (12/21/2011)

  My point of view is that I'm not so happy with the third season of Glee.  I wondered if ratings were down ... and they are, but still "good," although I'm not sure what that means and couldn't find actual rankings of all shows for all three seasons (meaning were they a top 10 show in the first or second year or a top 50 show out of maybe 80 or 90 total shows?).

   

  I don't know what these articles say (and they suggest difficulties and then suggest the suggestions are phony), but wanted to stick them where other Gleeks might look at them and maybe say something that will help me figure out what I think I can expect of Glee going forward ...

   

  Article: Why Is "Glee" Down In Ratings?

   

  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/08/us-glee-idUSTRE7B72PJ20111208

   

   

  Article: "Glee" Drama - Is Lea Michele Leading a Mutiny?

   

  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/09/us-leamichele-idUSTRE7B81YQ20111209

   

   

  Los Angeles Times Article: Has 'Glee' lost its grip?

  Softening ratings and grumbling over the Fox series' third-season direction are raising questions about its future.

   

  http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-glee-20111213,0,2540999.story

   

   

   

   

   

   

• I don't understand something (5/12/2011)

  I think it was the costumes and what the song was about -- but I was never sure either. If no one jumps in to say, maybe you can figure it out by finding the review and comments of that episode, although I'm sure I read them and still don't know (but then sometimes things go right by me). If you didn't notice, in "Home" there are a couple of thousand pages, and maybe you can look under shows and then reviews there.

• The Inconsistency of characters (5/12/2011)

  At the end of the 1st 13 episodes, the characters were all resolved.  those episodes were written to end the show (if the network didn't want any more episodes).  I read after they came back that they "reset" all the characters, since they'd resolved all their initial conflicts.  I think that created then and still creates the inconsistencies because they keep doing it.  Quinn is a bitch, Rachel is overly sensitive and vulnerable, Finn is a dumb jock, etc., etc.

  Other shows allow their characters to grow while still solving a crime every week, or healing their patient, or whatever the show is about.  Glee should.

  Quinn for instance began to grow as she dealt with her pregnancy to the point that when she asked Scheuster if he thinks she can get it all back, he says, "No, she can get something better."  Why can't they let her?

  I guess they want to keep the characters simple so they can plug them in as a stereotype and feature the songs (think about how so many songs are about the different aspects of love and maybe that's why all the partner-drama).