This season has been pretty strong, with only a few episodes falling short, including a recent one with the great Bob Newhart guest starring. Penny came across as way too dumb for her character and it upset me, as that could have been a great episode.
So far this season, Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) are still going strong, though Leonard has decided to give up on proposing to her, instead, she needs to propose to him. Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Howard (Simon Helberg) are still happily married, and Howard even opted to burn a letter from his father in one of the best episodes of the season. Raj (Kunal Nayyar) begins seeing Lucy (Kate Micucci) who has many social anxiety issues of her own. Raj can only talk to women under the influence of alcohol. Meanwhile, Sheldon (the great Jim Parsons) is still being his normal difficult self who needs closure at any cost. He is also enjoying his odd relationship with Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik), though their relationship is gradually, at a snail's pace, growing slightly closer together. Amy does want more, though this relationship, despite the rarely touching each other is still extremely intimate for him and that's so totally true.
The finale concerns Raj trying to get Lucy to meet his friends and Howard recommending Leonard for a job in the North Sea performing an experiment for Stephen Hawking. But this means that despite his excellent relationship with Penny, he will be leaving for several months. Penny is happy for him, though she will miss him probably more than she'll admit.
For Raj's plot. Lucy decides to meet just one of his friends, and they spend some time argue over who it should be and finally, Raj settles upon Amy, but Raj is too demanding, truly wanting to put a label on the relationship, but that's just too big of a step for Lucy. The dinner doesn't go well and she once again escapes through the bathroom window. Then, he convinces her to come to Leonard's going away party, but she bails and dumps him through text message. I thought only guys did that. Raj's heart is broken.
Meanwhile, Sheldon feigns happiness for Leonard, though he gets horribly anxious at the airport because Penny is in the red zone which is illegal and Leonard is not worth going to jail for. Still, despite his constant interjections, Penny and Leonard nevertheless manage to have a heartfelt farewell and Penny finally says outright that she loves him. It was truly touching.
After dropping Leonard off, she stops by at Raj's apartment to see how he is doing. His heart is broken and Penny comforts him and the whole time I'm thinking, please don't do anything stupid, but she doesn't. Instead, she says that maybe the reason why he is so sad is because of the alcohol, but he mentions that he hasn't had a drink since last night, meaning he's sober and finally talking to women on his own volition. The look on Penny's face was priceless and Raj starts to cry for a whole new reason. The episode ends with Raj drinking water with the girls, all drinking wine and talking a mile a minute, Bernadette, Amy and Penny get more frustrated by the minute. That's how it ends. It was a letdown for me, which would be fine if it was the middle of season, but at the same time, stuff is up in the air, like how will Leonard's mission go and how will Sheldon survive without him? Now, that I would like to see, considering Sheldon can't even drive himself to work.
Still, the episode was funny and great lines were said by all. Each character was great and stayed true to their character. On the other hand, I was totally predicting that one of the female characters would become pregnant, but I certainly hope that that is not the case as each was drinking wine at the end and especially after last week's episode, I was hoping for something to happen with Shamy (Sheldon and Amy). Still, it was a great episode and I love Leonard and Penny together and she even got to tell him that there was a better chance of him ruining the relationship while he was still here, not far away. Season: A-, Finale: A-
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ReplyDeleteLeonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Cal Tech in Pasadena, California. They are colleagues, best friends, and roommates, although in all capacities their relationship is always tested primarily by Sheldon's regimented, deeply eccentric, and non-conventional ways. They are also friends with their Cal Tech colleagues mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. The foursome spend their time working on their individual work projects, playing video games, watching science-fiction movies, or reading comic books. As they are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with popular women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress originally from Omaha, moves into the apartment next to Leonard and Sheldon's, Leonard has another aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend.