01-11-2014, 07:49 PM
I keep banging on about the comparison, but 'Harrison Bergeron' definitely resonates. Sheldon also fits right in with characters like John the Savage, or Sam Lowry, or Winston Smith. I can see a genuinely dystopian finale for the show wherein Sheldon is a lifesize toy, broken of all will or higher thought process, and Penny is a Stepford style shell with a brittle smile and no life behind her eyes, both of them merely existing to be mauled at will. This will be a happy ending, according to the show as it stands. It frightens me that that isn't disturbing more people.
There's something terribly chilling in the fact that the show has such pathetic standards for conformity. Aspiration is ruthlessly crushed, unless it involves sex - not even happy, healthy relationships, just the act, as if the achievement confers some kind of social acceptance.
There's something terribly chilling in the fact that the show has such pathetic standards for conformity. Aspiration is ruthlessly crushed, unless it involves sex - not even happy, healthy relationships, just the act, as if the achievement confers some kind of social acceptance.