Talk:The Opening Night Excitation/@comment-158.227.191.4-20151127210720/@comment-1298029-20151208174054

''"How much later?! It's been almost half the entire length of the show that he has been with Amy!" ''

Right on! Yes, nothing ever happens with those two, and then there's suddenly an entire half-season almost entirely about them, and it seems the development they both kinda need to have a stable relationship is happening in weeks instead of months or years. But then again, they've both been waiting to do this a long time, and sometimes on these less usual personal development paths people manage some things quicker just as they might've taken years to try them at all. (I could support this with developmental psychology research, but I'm lazy to look up the references.)

As for "much later", unless you want it to be the show's finale, how long would you really put it off? The show's on its ninth season now, and I'm guessing the writers want to get two or three more rich years out of it rather than hold ideas back for even more distant seasons, as if they do that those seasons would likely never come; they might not anyway, but at least this way the seasons they will get done will be memorable.

(I realize that some people don't much like the way the show is now and would rather have back what it was in the first three or so seasons. I like it a lot better in its current state, as I think that there's only so many times a joke at a smart person's expense can be at least funny-mean before it becomes just mean, and I think those limits were reached long ago on the show; that's probably why the writers moved to other things. I get that some people might not be interested in what the show has now, but I also don't think there was any potential left in continuing without change as it was at the beginning.)