04-08-2015, 08:35 AM
Ricardo!
I can think of plenty of places they could have gone with Sheldon. Most particularly the one you very astutely mentioned in Sheldor the Conqueror. His eccentricities would have increased, not decreased, his passion for his work likewise. He would NOT have become a socialised, simpering boyfriend character. He would have become a driven, peculiar scientist. Like Tesla, not the buffoonish Adam Sandler/Honey Boo Boo hybrid he is now.
There's no question of Vintage Sheldon being "condemned to a solitary existence" (which, incidentally, sounds exactly like what the canons used to say to us to justify why everyone's in little ark couples. Remember?) as the character we knew in Seasons 1-3 HAD friends, that he showed the full spectrum of emotions with. What he DIDN'T need was a manufactured long-term "romance", particularly of the High School variety. They purposefully regressed him so they could put him through some godawful teen relationship for the benefit of an increased female audience. They bent his identity out of shape around a tertiary character, simply because they wanted to keep writing for that tertiary character. Why couldn't they have kept his original identity in this relationship? God knows.
I will never forgive them for exchanging the multicoloured Coopersuit for the grey, boring and human Coitusuit.
Never! *faces away into dramatic gust of wind* etc
Anyroad, the question wasn't whether Vintage Sheldon benefitted from Penny and Leonard's friendship between the Staircase flashback and the end of Season 3, it was;
1) Whether the current Sheldon could realistically have "grown" from Vintage Sheldon (no)
2) Is this current Sheldon BETTER or more mature than Vintage Sheldon (no)
If we are watching them "grow up" then why is Sheldon a ridiculous and unbelievable, infantile character in Season 8, and a sensitive, albeit very eccentric, adult in Season 1-3? Either he has regressed, or HE HAS BEEN REWRITTEN, as said.
Change itself is not my beef, it's that this is inorganic, inaccurate, horrible change.
I know you're just playing Devil's Advocate but stop it immediately or I'll have to challenge you to a duel behind the woodshed. We can slap each other with white silk gloves until one of us crumbles.
I find this all particularly painful because judging by the surreal philosophy frequently demonstrated in his Vanity Cards, Lorre is a brilliant fellow.
I LIKE the fucker!
Hence am suffering some sort of cognitive dissonance over all this...
Again, why destroy your masterpiece? And on the Sheldon and Penny front, why break up your show's greatest comedic pairing?
I can think of plenty of places they could have gone with Sheldon. Most particularly the one you very astutely mentioned in Sheldor the Conqueror. His eccentricities would have increased, not decreased, his passion for his work likewise. He would NOT have become a socialised, simpering boyfriend character. He would have become a driven, peculiar scientist. Like Tesla, not the buffoonish Adam Sandler/Honey Boo Boo hybrid he is now.
There's no question of Vintage Sheldon being "condemned to a solitary existence" (which, incidentally, sounds exactly like what the canons used to say to us to justify why everyone's in little ark couples. Remember?) as the character we knew in Seasons 1-3 HAD friends, that he showed the full spectrum of emotions with. What he DIDN'T need was a manufactured long-term "romance", particularly of the High School variety. They purposefully regressed him so they could put him through some godawful teen relationship for the benefit of an increased female audience. They bent his identity out of shape around a tertiary character, simply because they wanted to keep writing for that tertiary character. Why couldn't they have kept his original identity in this relationship? God knows.
I will never forgive them for exchanging the multicoloured Coopersuit for the grey, boring and human Coitusuit.
Never! *faces away into dramatic gust of wind* etc
Anyroad, the question wasn't whether Vintage Sheldon benefitted from Penny and Leonard's friendship between the Staircase flashback and the end of Season 3, it was;
1) Whether the current Sheldon could realistically have "grown" from Vintage Sheldon (no)
2) Is this current Sheldon BETTER or more mature than Vintage Sheldon (no)
If we are watching them "grow up" then why is Sheldon a ridiculous and unbelievable, infantile character in Season 8, and a sensitive, albeit very eccentric, adult in Season 1-3? Either he has regressed, or HE HAS BEEN REWRITTEN, as said.
Change itself is not my beef, it's that this is inorganic, inaccurate, horrible change.
I know you're just playing Devil's Advocate but stop it immediately or I'll have to challenge you to a duel behind the woodshed. We can slap each other with white silk gloves until one of us crumbles.
I find this all particularly painful because judging by the surreal philosophy frequently demonstrated in his Vanity Cards, Lorre is a brilliant fellow.
I LIKE the fucker!
Hence am suffering some sort of cognitive dissonance over all this...
Again, why destroy your masterpiece? And on the Sheldon and Penny front, why break up your show's greatest comedic pairing?
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"