This episode was better than recent ones. Some good stuff. Love the HGttG reference and Bernadette’s dad. The good side of AFF was highlighted.
But this is by comparison to really crappy episodes. It still left me a little let down.
One thing you could see right away was that the table wouldn’t really be used going forward due to its awkward placement. So I was just waiting for the punchline saying why it was going to be abandoned.
As to the view out the window. There’s a TBBT web site out there with a forum and all that. One thread is devoted to tracking down the view out the window. People have gone up to the top of parking garages and such in Pasadena to take photos and compare. (I don’t remember the site name and I’m not going to Google it. It’s worse than TVTropes for time sink if you are a fan of the show.) Thing to note: the view shows the south side of the Pasadena city hall, but the address is north of it.
The people in this thread are only 1-2 on a scale of obsessiveness compared to the people in that forum. Those are people who are unhappy about Penny’s apartment sticking well out over the entrance to the lobby.
So I think the posters here who are complaining are very, very mild by comparison to others.
If you’ve seen Parsons on a talk show, you’d see that his voice and mannerisms are the same as Sheldon’s. He pretty much doesn’t get into character. He just says the lines. Not a lot of deep acting except for things like the weird facial expressions. I guess those are what got him 3 Emmys.
I saw Jim Parsons on Broadway in ***Harvey ***as Elwood P. Dowd. While he is no Jimmy Stewart, he did an excellent job of taking on the character and thankfully he was not Sheldon playing Elwood. His voice range is probably the weakest part of his acting, he does sound like himself in every role. But for Harvey he did a convincing Elwood P. Dowd with Jim Parson’s voice.
His SNL appearance Saturday was pretty weak, but average by modern SNL standards.