02-08-2014, 11:47 AM
I’ve been trying to muster the testicular fortitude to watch the rest of the episode, but it eludes me yet. The hangover I’m currently “enjoying” also prevents me from adding a lengthy discourse on the desecration of the memory of Vintage Sheldon.
All I can say at the moment is what a ghastly day for anyone with any sense of aesthetic judgement or creative integrity.
How the devil can these writers wilfully destroy their own creation!
Infuriating that it’s considered reasonable to throw away six years of (albeit, increasingly slovenly) character continuity for the sake of pleasing the pundits. For one fucking moment too, because unless they intend to turn Sheldon into Casanova, or the cuddly-wuddly snugglepot that everyone seems so keen on distorting the poor fucker into, he’s going to go back into being a bastard in the next episode.
It truly is all bums on seats laddie, bums on seats. Because women fancy Parsons, therefore Sheldon needs a GF so they can all be goddamn titillated. It’s like building a Bride for the Monster. And equally unnatural.
What the devil is the world’s obsession with PAIRING THINGS OFF. What’s wrong with the Individual?
I reiterate what I said on twatter; Take 1 splendid solitary hero, remove core identity, fricassee with tropes, lace with convention, serve as a pap with croutons of despair.
And whilst I’m ranting, let me be clear on an odd matter here; It’s not the kissing perse that bothers me. Sheldon as a personality is, to my mind, not inimicable with either sex or romance. I have no difficulty imagining the early Sheldon having “angry sex” with Winkle, for example, or Penny, and then going straight back into another argument. Parsons has pretty much said the same thing about Sheldon and Winkle. THAT’S the sort of “romance” he envisioned for Sheldon, not this tepid, infantile play-date he’s currently engaged in. (and of course Parsons pushes the benighted thing, he’s obviously delighted to be getting to show off his romantic acting chops. And they’re considerable!)
No, Vintage Sheldon seemed, bizarrely, more capable of sex than this bumbling manchild we have now.
What DOES bother me is the entire construction of Shamy. HE SHOULD BE PASSIONATE about Amy. And right from the beginning. It does not work like this. You can’t have one or two “terribly deep and intimate” moments per year and have him treat her like a slightly annoying cousin or his nanny for the rest. If a bloody vacuum cleaner is more important to him, Swamp Thing is her equal, AND he equates spending time with her on date nights with boredom and claustrophobia, then I DON’T buy this abrupt switch into romance with a single kiss. Particularly as it’s their third for fucksake. There was no believable build-up, no precedent of this behaviour.
IF you must pair him off as though it’s the bloody Ark or something, then they shouldn’t have made him AMBIVALENT with regards Amy. Sheldon is a lot of things, but ambivalent certainly isn’t one of them. I’d go so far as to say ambivalence is antithetical to his nature. I haven’t “bought” the S/A relationship for a second because of it. And after three years, they can’t start making him “bivalent” now and expect it to be in any way realistic.
At least his fights with Penny were passionate. Passion is the blasted core of his character!
All I can say at the moment is what a ghastly day for anyone with any sense of aesthetic judgement or creative integrity.
How the devil can these writers wilfully destroy their own creation!
Infuriating that it’s considered reasonable to throw away six years of (albeit, increasingly slovenly) character continuity for the sake of pleasing the pundits. For one fucking moment too, because unless they intend to turn Sheldon into Casanova, or the cuddly-wuddly snugglepot that everyone seems so keen on distorting the poor fucker into, he’s going to go back into being a bastard in the next episode.
It truly is all bums on seats laddie, bums on seats. Because women fancy Parsons, therefore Sheldon needs a GF so they can all be goddamn titillated. It’s like building a Bride for the Monster. And equally unnatural.
What the devil is the world’s obsession with PAIRING THINGS OFF. What’s wrong with the Individual?
I reiterate what I said on twatter; Take 1 splendid solitary hero, remove core identity, fricassee with tropes, lace with convention, serve as a pap with croutons of despair.
And whilst I’m ranting, let me be clear on an odd matter here; It’s not the kissing perse that bothers me. Sheldon as a personality is, to my mind, not inimicable with either sex or romance. I have no difficulty imagining the early Sheldon having “angry sex” with Winkle, for example, or Penny, and then going straight back into another argument. Parsons has pretty much said the same thing about Sheldon and Winkle. THAT’S the sort of “romance” he envisioned for Sheldon, not this tepid, infantile play-date he’s currently engaged in. (and of course Parsons pushes the benighted thing, he’s obviously delighted to be getting to show off his romantic acting chops. And they’re considerable!)
No, Vintage Sheldon seemed, bizarrely, more capable of sex than this bumbling manchild we have now.
What DOES bother me is the entire construction of Shamy. HE SHOULD BE PASSIONATE about Amy. And right from the beginning. It does not work like this. You can’t have one or two “terribly deep and intimate” moments per year and have him treat her like a slightly annoying cousin or his nanny for the rest. If a bloody vacuum cleaner is more important to him, Swamp Thing is her equal, AND he equates spending time with her on date nights with boredom and claustrophobia, then I DON’T buy this abrupt switch into romance with a single kiss. Particularly as it’s their third for fucksake. There was no believable build-up, no precedent of this behaviour.
IF you must pair him off as though it’s the bloody Ark or something, then they shouldn’t have made him AMBIVALENT with regards Amy. Sheldon is a lot of things, but ambivalent certainly isn’t one of them. I’d go so far as to say ambivalence is antithetical to his nature. I haven’t “bought” the S/A relationship for a second because of it. And after three years, they can’t start making him “bivalent” now and expect it to be in any way realistic.
At least his fights with Penny were passionate. Passion is the blasted core of his character!
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"