12-10-2014, 11:05 AM
I’ve always found it mildly amusing (and a little bit embarrassing for Cuoco) that Kaley seems to have the same mental block as your average canon literalist. A relationship isn’t just sticking two characters together and keeping their interactions identical, it’s keeping the characters the same, but adding “impetus”. In this case, love.
The impetus in TBBT is that Penny is “in love” with Leonard (for whatever inexplicable reason, shored up by constant reiterations of this flimsy notion to the audience, because the audience still isn’t convinced, even eight years on) which apparently justifies why she’s getting married to a man with no discernable personality.
“Penny would kill Sheldon” sure, if they were merely put together in a constant “romantic” scenario (ie forced to share a bed etc) without love or reason to it.
Which is what Cuoco’s imagining. But if her character was written to fall in love with Sheldon, recognising his charms under his infuriations, then of course she wouldn’t bloody kill him.
It’s dreadful logic on Cuoco’s part. And on our friend Garble’s, actually, as that’s his favourite argument. “Penny would throw Sheldon out of a car if she were in a relationship with him!” Well then, why is she in a relationship with him in the first place?
Things which might otherwise be annoying, become delightful when one is in love with the person doing the annoying thing. Or if not delightful, at least more bearable.
And as it would be with Penny and Sheldon.
Penny and Sheldon aren’t together because they haven’t been written together. That’s it. Incredibly simple.
And Cuoco has done her character a disservice by not pushing for such a concept.
All Penny’s best scenes were with Sheldon. And vice versa.
The impetus in TBBT is that Penny is “in love” with Leonard (for whatever inexplicable reason, shored up by constant reiterations of this flimsy notion to the audience, because the audience still isn’t convinced, even eight years on) which apparently justifies why she’s getting married to a man with no discernable personality.
“Penny would kill Sheldon” sure, if they were merely put together in a constant “romantic” scenario (ie forced to share a bed etc) without love or reason to it.
Which is what Cuoco’s imagining. But if her character was written to fall in love with Sheldon, recognising his charms under his infuriations, then of course she wouldn’t bloody kill him.
It’s dreadful logic on Cuoco’s part. And on our friend Garble’s, actually, as that’s his favourite argument. “Penny would throw Sheldon out of a car if she were in a relationship with him!” Well then, why is she in a relationship with him in the first place?
Things which might otherwise be annoying, become delightful when one is in love with the person doing the annoying thing. Or if not delightful, at least more bearable.
And as it would be with Penny and Sheldon.
Penny and Sheldon aren’t together because they haven’t been written together. That’s it. Incredibly simple.
And Cuoco has done her character a disservice by not pushing for such a concept.
All Penny’s best scenes were with Sheldon. And vice versa.
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