11-09-2015, 10:31 PM
Thank you for this! 
But how ridiculous is it that we have to, once again, bring up these moments, iconic moments to boot, in order to refute this calumny?
It's one thing for the canons to perpetuate the myth - cold, emotionless robot-man redeemed by the love of a good woman seems to be the shiny new engine propelling their ship at the moment - but for the writers to be complicit in this as well is damn near criminal! (Not to mention them essentially throwing Spock under the Growth bus. For shame!)
They created him, for pete's sake! They know, they SHOULD know, what's in his makeup. That a large part of what makes Sheldon memorable and relatable is how the intellectual, logical and orderly side of his personality is so often overwhelmed and overruled by his emotional side. It's the grist for much of the comedy. The facade of logic and orderliness crumbles, revealing a man who can be enraged, anguished, overjoyed, etc. etc.
Just because someone prizes logic doesn't mean he or she has no emotional core. So it is with Sheldon. Just because he admired Spock and sought to emulate him doesn't mean that he was particularly successful at it. In fact I'd wager we could quickly fill up a thread with Sheldon emoting all over the damn place if we wanted to. But Proof That Sheldon Is Not A Cold Emotionless Robot-Man is too cumbersome a title, and hopefully we've made our point anyway.
But how ridiculous is it that we have to, once again, bring up these moments, iconic moments to boot, in order to refute this calumny?
It's one thing for the canons to perpetuate the myth - cold, emotionless robot-man redeemed by the love of a good woman seems to be the shiny new engine propelling their ship at the moment - but for the writers to be complicit in this as well is damn near criminal! (Not to mention them essentially throwing Spock under the Growth bus. For shame!)
They created him, for pete's sake! They know, they SHOULD know, what's in his makeup. That a large part of what makes Sheldon memorable and relatable is how the intellectual, logical and orderly side of his personality is so often overwhelmed and overruled by his emotional side. It's the grist for much of the comedy. The facade of logic and orderliness crumbles, revealing a man who can be enraged, anguished, overjoyed, etc. etc.
Just because someone prizes logic doesn't mean he or she has no emotional core. So it is with Sheldon. Just because he admired Spock and sought to emulate him doesn't mean that he was particularly successful at it. In fact I'd wager we could quickly fill up a thread with Sheldon emoting all over the damn place if we wanted to. But Proof That Sheldon Is Not A Cold Emotionless Robot-Man is too cumbersome a title, and hopefully we've made our point anyway.
OH PLEASE...