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Utterly brilliant!

(04-04-2015, 06:02 PM)Idle Miscreant Wrote: [ -> ]

Growth!!

Just LOOK at this superb alien! Parsons is a bloody marvel!




Spot Vintage Sheldon! (Season 2/Season 5)

Let's face it these male characters are kept adolescent, even infantile, for purely comedy purposes. In reality Sheldon would put his games to one side, and concentrate on making noteworthy breakthroughs. He would then probably live alone, have a lot of quirky habits, which the grads he taught, would imitate mercilessly. He's trapped in sit com hell! Sheldon has a hint of Oppenheimer, I think!

So I think what came to define Sheldon as a character is also his downfall. He's a monopath,>'monopath. It means a person with a narrow mind, a one-track brain, a bore, a super-specialist, an expert with no other interests — in other words, the role-model of choice in the Western world.' Sheldon has an IQ, an inquiring mind, an eidetic memory; and yet he continually watches the same shows and films repeatedly in different formats. No way! I've only ever seen him read a geology book, Pride and Prejudice(out of spite), and maybe a couple of language books. Comic books. Yes you keep all that, but you devour the thousand classic novels, and great films of the world, that's the real education. He needed to become a polymath, not only to succeed in his own field, but to really fire up those neurons. ' Science, for example, likes to project itself as clean, logical, rational and unemotional. In fact, it’s pretty haphazard, driven by funding and ego, reliant on inspired intuition by its top-flight practitioners. Above all it is polymathic. New ideas frequently come from the cross-fertilisation of two separate fields. Francis Crick, who intuited the structure of DNA, was originally a physicist; he claimed this background gave him the confidence to solve problems that biologists thought were insoluble. Richard Feynman came up with his Nobel Prize-winning ideas about quantum electrodynamics by reflecting on a peculiar hobby of his — spinning a plate on his finger (he also played the bongos and was an expert safe-cracker)[quotes from http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/anyone-c...-polymath/. Richard Feynman, the real inspiration for Sheldon was a polymath. This show promotes two stereotypes; attractive women can't be smart, and intelligent men are socially and culturally retarded.

It's funny but I always saw Sheldon as being a more sociable Dirac.

Yes, he's a generic scientist! Sometimes the superficiality of the show annoys me; the physics isn't taxing, the nerd culture is only discussed superficially. I think it would be possible to write a show that appealed to all levels of understanding. And maybe inspire some to look deeper.Also as media is propaganda, radical tribes(so called nerds for example) need to propagate a positive image, and insight. I like this clip for many reasons, but it does seem to confirm, that if we don't challenge our minds we loose the ability to create new connections. [I'm just saying, yes Sheldon has changed, can we understand why? Doesn't it seem strange that he obsesses over the same few concepts! I don't know!]

Okay we can't believe everything Sheldon tells us. Here he is Sheldor, threatening to decapitate Wil.

I was just thinking, it's easy to believe a character, take them at face value; but what happens if they're liars, or just exaggeraters Howard! Okay so Sheldon says ' The kind of mind that comes along once, maybe twice in a generation.'(S5e6), but I'm starting to wonder> ' That’s all. I’ve just been thinking about it. Now, I’m thinking about fractal equations. Now I’m thinking about the origin of the phrase train of thought. Now I’m thinking about trains.' and 'Now I’m thinking about Jell-O.' then 'Oh, I’m back to trains. Woo-woo'.(S4e20)