The show's initial pilot, developed for the 2006-07 television season, was substantially not the same as its current form. The only characters from the initial pilot that were kept for that reshot pilot and series were Leonard and Sheldon (portrayed by Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons respectively). The cast was rounded off by two female leads: Amanda Walsh as Katie, "a street-hardened, tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable interior" who the boys meet after she breaks up with her boyfriend and enable to reside in their apartment (Katie was effectively replaced by Penny within the second pilot);and Iris Bahr as Gilda, a scientist colleague and friend from the boys who was threatened by Katie's presence. The initial pilot used Thomas Dolby's hit "She Blinded Me With Science" as theme music.
The series was not picked up, however the creators were given an opportunity to retool the show and produce another pilot. They introduced the rest of the cast and retooled the show to its final format. The original unaired pilot has never been officially released, but it has circulated on the web. About the evolution from the show, Lorre said "We did the 'Big Bang Pilot' about 2 . 5 years ago, and it sucked... but there were two remarkable stuff that worked perfectly, and that was Johnny and Jim. We rewrote the one thing entirely, and then we were blessed with Kaley and Simon and Kunal." Whether the world is ever going to see that original pilot, maybe on a DVD, Lorre said "Wow that might be something, we will have. Show your failures..."
The delightful sitcom The Big Bang Theory revolves around a personality type rarely seen on television: The alpha geek. Physicists Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) obtain lives shaken up when an attractive young woman named Penny (Kaley Cuoco) moves in to the apartment across from theirs. The important thing to the show, though, isn't that both of them fall haplessly in love--Leonard does, but Sheldon remains impermeably aloof and caustic about anything resembling romance or romantic relationships generally. As the push and pull of Leonard's yearning for Penny motivates a lot of the series' ongoing plot, the show's real drive comes from Sheldon's fantastic combination of obsessive-compulsive neurosis and grandiose obliviousness. He's an excellent comic creation, imperious and dorky, a seamless collaboration of clever writing and an inspired performance by Parsons. Whether Sheldon loses his project for insulting his new boss, or finds his ego bruised with a child prodigy, or finds himself unable to bear being part of a lie that Leonard has told, he attacks the world having a relentless have to assert his supremacy--and the outcomes are deeply funny
The triumph of The Big Bang Theory is that everyone is written with genuine affection; what might have been a lifeless parade of stereotypes--Two Nerds and a Hot Chick--becomes instead a charming collision of cultures. The familiar stuff (computer games, comic books, social incompetence) has got the grit of specificity; the show understands the difference between Halo and Halo 3, knows exactly what the Bottle City of Kandor is, and grasps the infinite variety of ways in which a conversation will go terribly awry. (Penny gets less nuance, but Cuoco still gives her a distinctive personality.) Kudos as well to supporting players Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar, who bring their own variations on geekiness to the table, and to great appearances by a number of Galecki's former cohorts on Roseanne--Sara Gilbert as geekette Leslie and Laurie Metcalf as Sheldon's fundamentalist mother. Overall, one of the most winning sitcoms in years. --Bret Fetzer
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