After trying to start watching it properly on Comedy Central and failing (who knows what sort of series pattern they're working with) I brought the first season on DVD and ten days later I’m half way through season 2. I have to say when I first started watching I was worried it would be a little bit too tame for my tastes but I was completely wrong. Yes it isn’t as dark as Curb Your Enthusiasm but it’s less sugary then Modern Family (not better just less soppy) and I think it’s bloody brilliant. I really can’t believe I’ve never watched it before.
The thing is though I’m not a seasoned Two and a Half Men Fan. I haven’t been there from the beginning, I haven’t seen every episode and I have no idea what happens in the next six and a half seasons. I don’t know how the characters evolve and I don’t know if the shows takes a FRIENDS like dip in form half way through. I also don’t know the correct abbreviation for the show, do we always say Two and a Half Men or can we just say Men. I don’t know the lingo. I am a Men (is that right?) novice. So I may not be well informed enough to make this point but I’m going to do it anyway…
There is no way and I mean NO WAY they can continue this show without Charlie Sheen and they really can’t continue this show with the overrated, over actor which is Ashton Kutcher.
I know this is a moot point because that is exactly what they are going to do but there is no way I will be watching. If anything I’m outraged! I understand Charlie Sheen went a bit over bored (that may be an understatement!?) but to replace him with Ashton Kutcher could be the biggest mistake in comedy history!
And now this morning I’m reading season 9 is going to start with Alan and Jake finding out that Charlie drove his car off a cliff. That’s right there going to kill off Charlie. Now I know that’s what Sheen wants (he’s told us many a time in his torpedoes of truth) and it’s definitely what Chuck Lorre wants (as it means he can never come back) but I cannot stress how much of a mistake that would be. It’s one thing to fire him, but to kill him would be to kill the show.
Having someone die in a sitcom defeats the whole point of a sitcom. It’s meant to be funny, it’s meant to be a situation comedy and having Charlie Harper die will not be funny. Harper is not Sheen. Charlie Harper loves his nephew, his brother and to some extent his mother. He is not a crack addict practicing polygamy with a bunch of porn stars. There is no way you can make Harper dying funny. You also can’t have Jake and Alan moving on from his death after only a couple of episodes. That’s not how real life works and whenever it happens in TV shows (Marissa in the OC) it usually means the show wont last much longer.
They also want to introduce Kutcher as a guy who wants to buy Harpers house. Now I don’t know about you but I’ve never known someone buy a house and let two people carry on living in it with them. I know it’s a TV show but that’s just farcical and the moment that happens people will stop watching.
I’ve heard that some people are going to give the next season a go but I won’t be one of them. I suppose I’m lucky I get to watch another hundred or so episodes, but for most people the show is already over. Who knows perhaps I’ll change my mind when I’ve finished season 8, like I said I’m a novice but at the moment I don’t think I will.
I’ll finish this post by telling you how I think it should end – with Charlie and Rose moving to France together and living happily ever after. That way we can still have email updates from ‘Charlie Harper’ and it gives Sheen the chance to get his act together to come back in season 10 after the disaster, which will be season 9. I know season 9 hasn’t even started filming yet so there is no way I can know it will be horrendous but just trust me on this one.
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