An Un-unravelable Web?

[Idle Miscreant]

They're also not more realistic now. They're more cartoonish. I had no trouble seeing Sheldon's "humanity" before. He was a highly sensitive character. Anyone who thought he was an "emotionless robotic asshole" (direct quote there) was evidently missing every third interaction or so, and is probably better off reading Mills & Boon, if they only think emotion relates to romance, sex and babies...
Vintage Sheldon was, if anything, MORE strung out by his emotions than any of the others, because he didn't understand their chaotic place in his universe. He was proud, hysterical, generous, possessive, passionate, inspired, brilliant....he's just a large cranky infant now, with learning difficulties...An infant who is somehow also supposed to have sex shortly, despite everything in his previous existence being above such concepts.
That conversation between Sheldon and Leonard whilst holding their girlfriend's purses (FFS) over "how difficult he is" was preposterously false and pantomime. Nobody talks like that, particularly not Sheldon.
He went from one of the most subtle and brilliantly scripted fictional beings to a slap-dash, ersatz mockery of this previous self, and it's heartbreaking.