Heh I don't want them or Jeff/Annie as OTP. My ship is Troy/Abed and Peirce being the jealous third wheel xD. Idk I just really like them all as bffs. This may be the first show where I don't have a serious ship or couldn't care less about that. But I wish this fandom wouldn't do the whole lame ship wars thing. Let's all just multiship and go on our merry way. From the Paste interview: Paste: How much have you listened to fan feedback about the show’s direction? For instance, Jeff and Britta seemed set up as a relationship for the beginning but following very negative audience reactions that seems to have tapered off. Harmon: There are things that we did do because of that, we did react to that, but we never intended to shove Jeff and Britta down the audience’s throats. But we did perceive that they were feeling like we were going to, and we did not want them to feel that way... That’s a long way of saying that we would be able to get away with simply deciding that the reason you’re going to watch it right off the bat was some kind of sexual story. I never had that real intention. I just figured that would happen organically. But yes, absolutely we were completely conscious in the early stages that the audience was going, “Well they’re obviously setting this thing up that I’m supposed to care about and guess what, I don’t.” It was sort of a nightmare for me, because I knew they wouldn’t, I didn’t want them to think that I thought that they would. So one of the things that I did to send the message that I didn’t want to force anything down their throat was that I really started beating up on Britta, which was really easy to do because that character is an amalgam of a lot of ex-girlfriends of mine.
I do not get why people find TBBT funny or say crap like ~it speaks to my nerdery lol~ cos um I'm a nerd and I know scientists and students who are studying physics and they are not like that. But to my shame I actually sort of liked this show when it got paired up with HIMYM *hangs head* BUT I WAS YOUNG AND STUPID THEN!
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Date: 2010-05-28 01:13 am (UTC)From the Paste interview: Paste: How much have you listened to fan feedback about the show’s direction? For instance, Jeff and Britta seemed set up as a relationship for the beginning but following very negative audience reactions that seems to have tapered off.
Harmon: There are things that we did do because of that, we did react to that, but we never intended to shove Jeff and Britta down the audience’s throats. But we did perceive that they were feeling like we were going to, and we did not want them to feel that way... That’s a long way of saying that we would be able to get away with simply deciding that the reason you’re going to watch it right off the bat was some kind of sexual story. I never had that real intention. I just figured that would happen organically. But yes, absolutely we were completely conscious in the early stages that the audience was going, “Well they’re obviously setting this thing up that I’m supposed to care about and guess what, I don’t.” It was sort of a nightmare for me, because I knew they wouldn’t, I didn’t want them to think that I thought that they would. So one of the things that I did to send the message that I didn’t want to force anything down their throat was that I really started beating up on Britta, which was really easy to do because that character is an amalgam of a lot of ex-girlfriends of mine.
I do not get why people find TBBT funny or say crap like ~it speaks to my nerdery lol~ cos um I'm a nerd and I know scientists and students who are studying physics and they are not like that.
But to my shame I actually sort of liked this show when it got paired up with HIMYM *hangs head* BUT I WAS YOUNG AND STUPID THEN!