Personally, I think that was the best thing they did with the show. It gave the characters more purpose and depth beyond the "socially awkward guys who like non-adult things" jokes they kept beating like a dead horse. It's actually become a better show the more it progressed. Sheldon has especially gotten slow character development in the past few seasons. I'm just thinking those who do nothing but bash the show only watched the first season. And it did kinda... well... it wasn't as good, let's just say.I know that a lot of people have been bashing The Big Bang Theory, because they've added more women and storylines, but I love it. The earlier seasons were great with the guys just being nerdy and girlfriend-less, but I really enjoy seeing how they've changed and grown. The character development is excellent and doesn't seem forced. Even when they did the unthinkable and gave Sheldon a girlfriend, it's slow progression is very Sheldon-like. It is one of the many shows that I own on DVD and plan on continuing to buy each new season.
As I've said many times before, my beef with the show is how oversexed the characters are. I mean, honestly, anytime I've looked up while the show was on in the background, all I ever see is the characters in bed with each other. It's bad enough that all TV shows have to be about the sex nowadays, but it's worse when you take a typically asexual group of people and turn them into sex maniacs (is Chuck Lorre seriously a sex addict who likes to live out his fetishes and fantasies through his characters or what?). I can get behind wanting to break away from the typical socially awkward, obsessive fanboy stigma - I know not all nerds are like that - but when I was growing up, I can tell you from experience that sex was one of the farthest things from nerds' minds. In fact, during my high school years, my best friend and I had a classmate who was the embodiedment of Eddie Haskell, only he had a very perverse sense of humor . . . we often would sarcastically remark how much fun it must be to have him in Human Anatomy. I really wouldn't mind seeing a show that was genuinely about nerds, as opposed to a show about sex maniacs that happen to have neurotic tendancies and personalities. Mainstream nerds today come off as depraved and deranged people . . . now that I think of it, suddenly, the old stigma of socially awkward fanboys seems a lot more ideal.I'm just thinking those who do nothing but bash the show only watched the first season. And it did kinda... well... it wasn't as good, let's just say.
That's an interesting perception of the show. Compared to some of the other sitcoms I enjoy (Friends or How I Met Your Mother for example), Big Bang Theory isn't nearly as sexual as those shows.As I've said many times before, my beef with the show is how oversexed the characters are.