Overall, I thought they did a pretty good job.

@censorshipsucks06 said:

Well, I haven't been here much lately, as my chat board days seemed to have crawled to an end, much like TBBT. I'll check the finale out on Saturday. I hope it's better than the last few episodes have been. I'll miss TBBT, but it is time for it to end.

If I don't make it back, it's been a pleasure talking with you guys over the years - especially the ones from IMDB!

Take care everyone!

Censorship I’m going to miss you so much !!!!!!!!!

The show and our old board were certainly very special! I'm thankful I got to be a part of it all!!

Me too! Really enjoyed last night. Still have to go back and watch the episodes from the start.

@poptop-3 said:

Me too! Really enjoyed last night. Still have to go back and watch the episodes from the start.

Do that by dvd or something, not the syndicated airings. Those get cut to run more commercials.

We watched the finale last weekend. I thought it was GREAT! It hit on all cylinders. It was funny. It was emotional. It closed up a lot of stories. And it left us wondering... what the future would hold. But instead of sitting in a jail cell like the abysmal "Seinfeld" finale, we see our gang enjoying each others company over a meal like we have so many times before. PERFECTION.

Series finales are TOUGH to pull off. And more times than not, they leave a bad taste in my mouth. But this one was great. Probably the best episode(s) in quite a few years.

It was, like the show in general, terrific.

The way it was done (without something like a time jump showing Leonard's and Penny's baby or something like that), the only improvement I can think of would have been for Sheldon and Amy to use part of their Nobel money to buy a nice dining room table, and have them all sitting around that.

@Knixon said:

The way it was done (without something like a time jump showing Leonard's and Penny's baby or something like that), the only improvement I can think of would have been for Sheldon and Amy to use part of their Nobel money to buy a nice dining room table, and have them all sitting around that.

You know Sheldon had had enough change by the end of the episode. You trying to throw him into a con-Knixon fit?

That was earlier. By the time he'd given the speech etc, seems like he could have gone for the table. And it would have been a significant gesture too, since "the baby won" before.

@Knixon said:

That was earlier. By the time he'd given the speech etc, seems like he could have gone for the table. And it would have been a significant gesture too, since "the baby won" before.

You really think that speech meant he was ok with change now? You crazy.

Maybe not okay, but he may have finally realized that his friends were more important than he'd allowed before, and so letting them have the table they'd wanted for years, wouldn't be so bad. Especially since it would be HIS choice, not something that came from "outside."

I never really argued that Sheldon COULDN'T change/grow, just that he HADN'T the way other people claimed he had. Because even if there was something in an episode that made it look like Sheldon had "grown," by the end of the episode he was always back to how he was in Episode One, and the "Sheldon Has Grown!" crowd seemed to ignore that.

@Knixon said:

Maybe not okay, but he may have finally realized that his friends were more important than he'd allowed before, and so letting them have the table they'd wanted for years, wouldn't be so bad. Especially since it would be HIS choice, not something that came from "outside."

I never really argued that Sheldon COULDN'T change/grow, just that he HADN'T the way other people claimed he had. Because even if there was something in an episode that made it look like Sheldon had "grown," by the end of the episode he was always back to how he was in Episode One, and the "Sheldon Has Grown!" crowd seemed to ignore that.

Then you should know better than anyone that by the end of his post-ceremony dinner of Swedish meatballs he was back to his old self.

Not that I dislike your table idea. I just don't think he really grew that much. And I liked that they were in their usual places for dinner. It's what felt familiar and it was a nice way to end the show.

Yes, there was a certain goodness to it ending up the same as it started. That's what I also said about the oft-protested pregnancy of Penny, which harkened back to "Our babies will be smart AND beautiful." But Sheldon didn't really change before, because the writers just didn't write him that way. The problem in the past was the people who claimed that Sheldon HAD changed, when he really hadn't. And it's possible that he did go right back to Episode One behavior after the great speech. But that wasn't necessarily the case, and it wasn't definitively written that way, and it didn't HAVE TO BE that way. The writers could have made it that Sheldon really did grow a bit. Such as just by having the table at the end, which would have shown it. And like Leonard pointed out in the clip I posted elsewhere, Sheldon was okay with the "change" of the new couch (instead of the patio/deck chairs they'd had before) because that's how he got "His Spot." So he COULD HAVE been okay with a table and chairs, especially if he and Amy did the shopping and addressed Sheldon's various phobias such as "used wood."

@Knixon said:

Yes, there was a certain goodness to it ending up the same as it started. That's what I also said about the oft-protested pregnancy of Penny, which harkened back to "Our babies will be smart AND beautiful." But Sheldon didn't really change before, because the writers just didn't write him that way. The problem in the past was the people who claimed that Sheldon HAD changed, when he really hadn't. And it's possible that he did go right back to Episode One behavior after the great speech. But that wasn't necessarily the case, and it wasn't definitively written that way, and it didn't HAVE TO BE that way. The writers could have made it that Sheldon really did grow a bit. Such as just by having the table at the end, which would have shown it. And like Leonard pointed out in the clip I posted elsewhere, Sheldon was okay with the "change" of the new couch (instead of the patio/deck chairs they'd had before) because that's how he got "His Spot." So he COULD HAVE been okay with a table and chairs, especially if he and Amy did the shopping and addressed Sheldon's various phobias such as "used wood."

I see what you're getting at. I just don't think that is a highly likely outcome with Sheldon.

That's all the feisty you get from me tonight Knixon. Occasionally I have to live up to the name Lemon Spice.

Personally, I don't really care about the furniture. It was good to seem them doing what they always did - and fade out. It worked. It was enough they fixed the elevator.