Sheldon feels lost after one of his favorite TV shows gets canceled too soon and Amy tries to help him get over his compulsive need for closure. Meanwhile, Raj discovers a secret about his new love interest, Lucy.
I think AFF is getting the best lines. And I really like her delivery and I think the best actor/actress on the show.
IRL she is a comparable age (37) to Sheldon (40) and Leonard (nearly 38), but she looks and dresses much older than them on the show.
Ok…did I just see that? Sheldon has an orgasm and tells Penny he loves her? Season-ending cliff-hanger here we come!
Or as close to an orgasm as Sheldon is capable of anyway. I really liked this episode. The Penny epiphany came a little too saccharine for my tastes but overall it used the characters well.
He once indignantly told Leonard that his genital were fully functional and aestheticly pleasing. I liked how he kept rhetorically asking Amy if she knew what it was like to have an urge constantly building up inside her that she could never satisfy. 
I think the scene where Sheldon went around completing things was, technically and comedically, wrong. He was starting things over, not picking up where he left off. He should have just run over to the white board and drawn one ‘O’ (was he 'O’s?), sung the last note, have the jack-in-the-box pop up right away, pour the dominoes on the floor, then collapse to the floor with a contented sigh.
Pretty good episode - especially the Sheldon/Amy scenes.
Like Sheldon, I was very disappointed when I found out that Alphas had been canceled- I considered it to be one of the better shows on TV, and certainly the best real-world superhero show. Luckily, it appears the next season would’ve sucked (according to Sheldon).
The Penny subplot was annoying. “Oh, I’m going to have a revelation about love, that will change my character in no way at all!” - It might have been dead air for all I cared (except that we got Bernadette in the scene - she always gets a yowza). If she had proposed to Leonard over dinner that would have been one thing, but as it is we just got the “nothing happens, next episode treatment”.
The Sheldon plot was great - both actors did a good job emoting how their character feels. Although I have to say, it was quite frustrating waiting for a lot of those things to finish.
Raj stays pathetic. Lucy stays desperate. When Howard is pointing out that creepy is in the rear view mirror, you know there’s a problem with the character.
I thought Howard had been maturing since being with Bernadette, but he seemed to slip into old Howard mode somewhat in this episode.
When I read the description of the episode, I assumed they were going to make up a fictional show for Sheldon to be upset about but the fact that they used a real show, Alphas (which I also happened to really enjoy) and even got the details right was surprising and funny.
And then they had Leonard accurately describe the real episode 2 of Buffy was just Nerdvana (the Buffy pilot was two episodes mushed together).
Didn’t much care for the episode but I’m with him on Alphas.
When Penny started on her epiphany I thought it was going to end with her being ready for Leonard to move in. “I’m going to be enthusiastic about you and my friends but not any of the stuff you and my friends are in to” is kind of a lame epiphany.
My Grades:
A - Amy, Bernadette
B - Sheldon, Leonard
C - Raj, Lucy, Howard, Chuck Lorre
D - Penny
(Not the actors, just the general hilarity of the characters/writing/direction/potzrebie)
Not so. It’s been shown before that when Sheldon gets interrupted (as when he was counting off the names of nearby galaxies while taking the stairs) he has to go back and start over again. And since Amy had erased the original tic tac toe puzzle, Sheldon simply drawing an O wouldn’t have been closure, it would have just been an O.
I thought it was cute!
He was interrupted once while knocking on Penny’s door, and only had to complete the third knock, not start over.
I just think the pace of it could have worked better. As shown, and edited together, Sheldon seemed much too composed. I think it would have been funnier if he’d had to rush through all the finishes a bit frantically.
I’ve mentioned before that BBT almost always gets the little things right, but this just made me so pleased.
The growth of the Penny character has been bad for years. If they don’t want her to be a successful actress, at least move her character along a little. Maybe have her stumble into a position as a buyer for a shoe company or something.
As the characters age, I see her less and less as the hot girl the nerds are lusting after, and more as a sad 30 something waitress who’s desperate for a sugar daddy. It’s a huge power shift in the dynamic of the characters, and not very good TV. I would like to see a story arc where she gives up the dream of being an actress and finds some success in the cooperate world.
She seems to cooperate pretty well with every guy she meets.
They sort of addressed the lack of success in this episode, she’s kind of lazy. She’s not even all that passionate about acting. Maybe they could find her some moderate success as an actress, more commercials, some small recurring role, or something like that. I’ve never found the romance between Leonard and Penny credible though, I don’t know where they can go with that. Maybe this episode intends to herald some personality changes in Penny. Big mistake IMHO, character development kills comedy.
I loved Sheldon’s comment "Firefly did a movie to wrap things up. Buffy the Vampire Slayer continued on as a comic book. Heroes gradually lowered the quality season by season until we were grateful it ended.”
So the first time Sheldon says “I love you,” he’s talking to Penny. Hopefully Amy won’t hear about this.