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Usually once a TV series starts approaching the 10 season mark, each new season is a case of diminishing returns. The show rehashes familiar beats and starts dragging its feet. The Big Bang Theory isn't one of the more dynamic or progressive comedies on TV as it is. With such a large, steady fanbase and a renewal through the 2016-2017 TV season, what incentive does the show have to take risks and shake up the familiar formula. But while the show did seem rest on its laurels for a good portion of Season 8, the show is no better or worse than it has been in recent years.
Season 8 got off to a fairly rocky start in the beginning as it dealt with the cliffhanger from Season 7. Here the show had a chance to welcome evolution and change as Sheldon dealt with the frustration of seeing Leonard and Penny move closer to marriage and his comfortable little world turned upside down. Instead, "The Locomotion Interruption" did little more than restore the status quo. Sheldon returned home (in a manner oddly similar to his previous flight from home in the episode "The Bozeman Excursion") and life returned more or less to normal for the whole gang. It wasn't a great way to kick off the new season.
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Usually once a TV series starts approaching the 10 season mark, each new season is a case of diminishing returns. The show rehashes familiar beats and starts dragging its feet. The Big Bang Theory isn't one of the more dynamic or progressive comedies on TV as it is. With such a large, steady fanbase and a renewal through the 2016-2017 TV season, what incentive does the show have to take risks and shake up the familiar formula. But while the show did seem rest on its laurels for a good portion of Season 8, the show is no better or worse than it has been in recent years.
Season 8 got off to a fairly rocky start in the beginning as it dealt with the cliffhanger from Season 7. Here the show had a chance to welcome evolution and change as Sheldon dealt with the frustration of seeing Leonard and Penny move closer to marriage and his comfortable little world turned upside down. Instead, "The Locomotion Interruption" did little more than restore the status quo. Sheldon returned home (in a manner oddly similar to his previous flight from home in the episode "The Bozeman Excursion") and life returned more or less to normal for the whole gang. It wasn't a great way to kick off the new season.
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