Talk:Unaired Pilot/@comment-2.229.30.35-20131201204455/@comment-67.173.244.66-20140102030432

I finally gathered the guts to watch the episode, and I gotta say, it was both cringing and at times difficult to watch (not necessarily in a bad way. Mostly because it felt so weird and wrong watching these characters i used to know act so out-of-character.) As well as interesting and sensible. Actually, the part I liked most was Katie's character (although after 7 seasons I much prefer Penny, I do wish Katie had at least been a friend or some sort of story-arc type character at some point.) I agree with you in that Katie felt like she had more room to grow than Penny. Penny feels so limited in that she feels like a slut because she's so focused on sex and alcohol. She depends too much on her looks, she's pretty selfish in that she sees herself and knows herself to be extremely beautiful to the point where it feels like she might sometimes take advantage of it, if not ubconsciously so. This can be on the guys, or on other guys. Katie felt like she had a lot of heart and potentional, and she didn't feel to mean to the guys (although i wish she'd been more respectful and thankful after all they'd done for her.) All in all, i feel like Katie had a lot of potential for growth and she felt more realistic as a character, but i'm a lot happier with the way things turned out, especially with the introduction of Howard and Raj, as well as the slight changes in Sheldon.