I hate the big band theory with a burning passion. Now usually I am very open when watching TV shows especially ones that are not current or were made in a ‘less tolerable time’ but the big bang theory is just about one of the worst shows I have ever put my poor eyes through the burden of watching. The fact that there are 12 sessions consisting of 279 episodes around 22 minutes long blows my mind.
There are 5 original main characters, though others were added later in the show to ‘main character status’. The characters are Leonard, Penny, Howard, Rajesh and Sheldon.
The most well known character, who even earned himself a spin off a couple years before the original show's end, is Sheldon cooper.
I hate Sheldon Cooper. Here are 5 basic reasons that don’t even scratch the surface as to why I hate him so much.
1. He is arrogant
The way this character is portrayed with such high ego and so full of himself makes me want to scream.
2. He is not a likeable character
Aren’t the main characters of a show meant to be likeable... or at least tolerable?! The fact that he is meant to be a protagonist of sorts but he is so unlikeable makes me furious. The writers have written him in to be this mean, uncompromising and down right rude character
3. He is dressed badly on purpose
Just because you struggle with social cues and are really smart does not mean you have no sense of style.
4. He has no character arch
He doesn’t get nicer, or less egocentric, or even a touch more likeable as the show goes on.
5. He is autistic coded
This is the main reason why I don't like this show. I myself am autistic and I would like to say I am none of these things. Sheldon's character is coded as autistic and even if the creators were not meaning to do this it is how it was perceived since the show's beginning. When creators and other people on the show were given an opportunity to have this character be an openly autistic one they shut it down saying that they didn’t want to pathologize their characters or medicate them. In some aspects I understand that you don’t want to put borders around the things your character can and cannot do, it just makes everything much harder to do however other shows have managed to code their characters as autistic, be open about it while still not restricting their characters. My favourite example of this is Entrapta from the Netflix original series SheRa (Which I will do my own review of later) once the show was aired fans began to suspect Entrapta of being autistic and when the writer of the show Noelle Stevenson was asked about this she said a writer on her team who worked on Entrapta's character a lot himself was autistic and so a lot of his mannerisms rubbed off on the character. The autistic community (Myself included) took this amazing character in stride and she is to date my favourite representation of autism in a cartoon.
Another issue I take with is the laughing track. Do I need to be followed around by a bunch of recordings of dead people laughing. Not to mention the jokes aren't actually funny
However if every time I made a joke a laugh track played it would never stop playing because my whole life is a joke. The use of a laugh track just proves that the show has no creative humour. The humour relies on shock factor and random = funny humour.
From *Gay panic* jokes to the way women are only seen as objects or forms of hilarity to the racist stereotypes pushed on any POC. this show really lacks any form of humour that isn't just funny to 12 year old boys.
So is my main issue with this show about Sheldon Cooper and how he is a horrible character? Yes. Am I sorry? No.
have a nice day,,,
Bazinga
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