No, I'm not sassing you in Eskimo talk.
Nov. 28th, 2011 02:56 pmIf I ever get a new house and move -- which is looking less and less likely -- I am totally going to dedicate a room to board gaming. I'm going to have a gaming table and have shelves filled with awesome board games. My dreams are small.
I have discovered the beauty and wonder of The Big Bang Theory. I love Sheldon to pieces. It took me a season and a half to like Penny. She was just so generic early on, and plus was such a stereotype, that it was hard to like her. But she's finally grown on me, and I actually like her and Sheldon's interactions (not necessarily in a romantic sense) the best... because they are truly opposites, and neither of them are sexually interested in the other, so their relationship stems truly from growing to like each other in their own ways. I also really like Koothrappali. Harold is meh, and I pretty much despise Leonard. They're both fairly shitty friends -- maybe that's what I don't like about them. The only thing that rubs me the wrong way about the show is that they continually perpetuate various stereotypes, particularly that no attractive woman could possibly be into science, video games, or science fiction/fantasy TV/movies. Maybe I find that particularly grating/insulting given how I nerded out above re: board games, but I know plenty of attractive, intelligent women who are interested in such topics. We don't all have to be dumb blondes who work at the Cheesecake Factory. (Also, I wish they'd created a fictitious place for Penny to work, because where she works is SO not the CF. Every CF looks the same, they have a distinctive interior design, and their uniforms do not look like they belong in some local diner.)
I found out a spoiler about S4/S5 (I'm only midway through S3 at the moment), so ( spoilery commentary here. )