9.13 The Empathy Optimization

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What I'm don't get, is why they don't use this as an opportunity for Amy to take care of Sheldon. Now it's not something that I would watch but it seems very selfish of her to high tail it out of town, even though she put Sheldon through a fake illness for over a week, when this is a man who had serious phobias about illness. She doesn't even care enough to stay and take care of him because it's too much trouble. She's just had sex with the guy after five years of whining and huffing about not getting any. He's made this huge gesture to her!! You'd think she'd care enough to look after him when he needs her. Not good.



The writers are so hell bent on making Sheldon PAY for all his past misdemeanors that they don't even consider using a different character for a change. How about Leonard getting sick and everyone taking care of him. Sheldon going to extraordinary attempts to avoid him?

Penny took care of Sheldon even though she barely knew the guy. I love the conversation as they come up the stairs, Sheldon had no trouble asking his extremley attractive neighbour to give him a sponge bath.

Penny: Okay, sweetie, I’ll take care of you, what do you need?
Sheldon: Well, my mom used to give me sponge baths.
Penny: Okay, ground rules, no sponge baths, and definitely no enemas.

He seeks her out at the cheesecake factory.



Asks her for a sponge bath...



Then all this...






Then she gets her own back...



And lets not forget her making him soup when they are both sick in Large Hadron...



So, in conclusion, Shenny is still so much better. They do a much better job of creating funny, brilliant [potential] ships when they aren't trying too.

Plus does anyone else think the name of the episode doesn't fit? The Empathy Optimization

No one is optimising empathy.

Thank you, “Tuesday Pajamas” for this pictures of the good old times (and the best moments of the whole show). It is really nice to see them again.

I think this episode is concise in two ways. The producers had declared that the rest of the season will have other
priorities and main-topics than the “Shamy”, right?
Well, it proves-for me- that they have no ideas how it could be go further after the coitus. So they have the choice to put Sheldon and Amy together by side (not possible because Sheldon is one of the icons of the show) or try to separate them in the storylines.
And that is not possible too without a dramatic implausibility or to show someone of this two-like in this episode Amy-as selfish and egotistical. At the beginning the ”Shamy”was –as relationship for me-an illogical road to nowhere. Now, it seems, it is a dramaturgical “Dead End”.