despite the fact that i definitely would say i'm the target audience for the big bang theory
i never really sat down to give it a proper watch
i think about 10 years ago um you know i kind of made an attempt to watch it
but it just never really stuck with me so it's on netflix so i thought let's give it another go
i watched the first episode and then i watched about four or five episodes immediately after it's
really good and i know that's an understatement it's one of the most loved successful shows of
this century but i had to see it for myself to believe that and yet i'd seen this first episode
several times before but i'm trying to view it afresh forgetting everything i know about you
know what happens in later seasons and as an introduction it's i think it's great i think
you very quickly get to know the characters and what they're like i will say the very beginning
this will contain spoilers for this episode by the way at the very beginning when they're at
the sperm bank i find that very odd because it doesn't feel in keeping with the style of humor
that you find in the rest of the show i have now seen pretty much all the first season and
over the years i've seen episodes here and there when i've been in hotels and things
and it just doesn't feel like it's in keeping with the rest of it so i found that to be quite
a peculiar choice to kickstart the episode and to introduce us to the characters but after that
i think we get a really good introduction to who who will become the main characters
i have to say that this is directly directed by james burrows who is one of my
absolute favorite tv directors cheers frasier big bang theory of course so that was always
going to be a positive and i'm struggling to find anything else negative to say about this which is
fantastic because i'm sure you'll know that a lot of tv shows even very successful tv shows
sometimes have a rocky beginning in their first episode or maybe even their first season
just isn't that good but that's absolutely not the case here i think the introduction we get to penny
is particularly great she's she's kind of hard to identify to begin with because
on the one hand you want to think of her as the i guess i don't want to use the word idiot but the
not very intellectual stereotypical blonde character that you get in a lot of films
and tv shows but there are things about her personality that suggest otherwise that she does
actually have life experience and that she does actually know some things just obviously compared
to her next-door neighbors it doesn't necessarily come across so it's not immediately obvious what
kind of person we're going to get from her but it is obvious that she's not stereotypical
and i think that that's something that's quite refreshing particularly for a female character
with regards to leonard and sheldon straight away we know exactly what they're going to be like
and i think it's absolutely brilliant you get used to sheldon's neurotic personality pretty instantly
and i guess it's hard for me to say whether or not i liked his personality straight away because
i have obviously seen other episodes since this um over the years but i think i would have warmed
him quite quickly but leonard surfing me a lot more leonard is very likable with regards to
howard and raj um obviously we don't really get to know them too much in this first episode but
the introduction is there so we we are aware of the kind of setup we're having four boys one girl
not the best way to phrase it but you can tell you can tell kind of where this is heading and what's
what the style of humor is going to be like and that's something that i really appreciate
because again not every sitcom series will do that some of them will have a rocky start not the case
here really strong pilot i i thought it worked really well i haven't seen the original pilot
this is listed on imdb as the unaired pilot and apparently this was well i was going to
say released in 2006 completed in 2006 and if you know where i can watch it it's not on netflix um
let me know i'd be quite keen to see what it's like but there are some changes
apparently they have a female friend a scientist and it seems like she was going to play a more
prominent role in this and obviously we still have leonard and sheldon same cast but their
female friend uh well the penny character is actually a girl called katie who was played in
the pilot by amanda walsh and she was actually a drunk girl that leonard and sheldon invited
back to their apartment presumably to keep her safe and protect her and that's how they met her
yeah if she's not living next door i don't think it would have had the same setup and i don't
think it would have worked well so i'm curious to see what that's like but this first episode
i thoroughly enjoyed it and as i said even though i tried to watch it in the past and never really
stuck with it this time around it had a much bigger impression on me and i absolutely loved it
i would say if you haven't seen the big bang theory give it a watch but i'm assuming pretty
much everybody has seen this i'm late to the party with becoming quite addicted to it
but on the off chance that you haven't seen it or you've maybe tried it in the past and couldn't get
on board with it give it another go if the time is right i think it's one that you'll really enjoy