Jim Parsons loses, fumbles

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Was anyone else sad that Jim Parsons lost the Emmy on Sunday night? A lot of critics were rooting for him, too, but I felt like I was rooting for the unofficial ASD team. I had decided in advance that I would be only mildly disappointed if Alec Baldwin beat out Parsons. Baldwin is probably doing the most accomplished comic acting on television right now, after all. If his work on Season Two of 30 Rock had not been the most impressive extended acting turn I can remember on series television, it would have been impossible for him to disappoint with the outstanding work he did last year. But since Baldwin was much weaker than he been in the past, and Parsons has broken out in such an exciting way, and so much of the ceremony was a rerun of last year, it was disappointing.

I was not disappointed in Parsons, though, who proved that he is both exactly like and nothing like Sheldon Cooper. Like the Aspergian character he plays on The Big Bang Theory might, Parsons compounded the awkwardness of presenting after his loss by flubbing a line. Unlike Sheldon though, Parsons did not glower in that way that always makes me think Sheldon is hoping that just this once it will work and he will turn into a giant poisonous lizard. Parsons blinked and beamed shyly, clearly embarrassed but clearly amused and embraced by his co-stars.

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I wanted to hug him. I thought he should've won. (Well, I thought Jemaine Clement should've won, too. Either one of those two should've won!)

I'm bored by Alec Baldwin.

Alec Baldwin won out of default.

I wanted to hug him. I thought he should've won

But Alec Baldwin is awesome.