SPOILER WARNING: Shenny : Season 10
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(09-28-2016, 07:55 PM)Idle Miscreant Wrote: Sheldon was the reason I was drawn to the show, Penny was the reason I stuck around. Her response to his oddities was exactly the thing I've always admired in reality; the challenging, pisstaking, yet loving reaction to a thing beyond our ken. Acceptance above all.

Not to MOCK the thing misunderstood, not to demand it CHANGE, but to accept it, if you love the damn thing.
Sheldon and Penny always accepted each other, even to infuriation.

Their relationship was the solitary glory of Big Bang. A unique event surrounded by the usual circumstantial sitcom chaos and charm. It didn't ask for anything, it wasn't selling anything, it just leapt out as a unique event. Bizarre and extraordinary.

When Amy turned up I lost that. She seemed to hate him. She saw him as a cutout "boyfriend" and a substandard one, that she took because she had no other option. His role was reduced to "idiot manchild who doesn't put out", rather than extraordinary, otherworldly genius, flummoxed and annoyed in the land of social ventures.

I don't watch the show now, because I can't stand to see that beautiful character being dragged through the dross.

The writers are exceedingly clever, the owners are sharp, but there is a abyss between what they think is noble and worthy of artistic continuation, and what they are producing.

But again, perhaps this is indeed our own sufferance, forcing itself upon their device. Perhaps they think it poetic? If so, there is nothing else to do than back away and weep, quietly.

Perhaps it is glorious! Perhaps!
Hello!

Inspired by "Idle Miscreants" post I want to take the chance to declare how I came to "TBBT", and how I became a "Shenny".

How mentioned in another post there were already Nerds in other series, but only as sidekicks. "TBBT" gave them at first the mayor-parts.

(There is a similarity to "Spider-Man" who was the first comic-figure by wich the main-charcter was a teenager,  whereas at comics previously teenager were only next-characters. Like "Robin" for example)

One of my motivations and hobbys is it to read "between the lines". Like "what was the intention of Gene Roddenberry when he conceptualized his Star Trek? What for a philosophy rules the Star Wars-saga? What for hidden meanings are at Battlestar Galactica?
 
(In my weakness for the SF, horror-literatur and movies, for example "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" was for me the philosophical question "If a man have a special gift or talent, how he/she would use it rather? Altruistic or egoistic?" Or my personal definition of "Planet of the apes" is " An accusation against religious bigotry as a political medium for purpose."And so on.The most of my related people are thinking that I am a little bit stupid because I am interested in such questions)

To read between the lines there where very much opportunity at "TBBT".
But beside of that I have of course my sense for the fun about that. And so I could identify with the guys. My eyes went larger when I saw the "Time-Machine" and the "Morlocks". Or the "Gorn" on the couch. It was to meet old friends and this-fictional- characters seemed to be related to me.


(Regarding hobbys. How mentoied I am not a nerd but more childish. I have no "island-talents" and I would give my right arm to have a little bit of the intellects of this figures.)
 
Why Sheldon became my hero, is because he was the loner of the loners.
He was a little bit like a comedy-version of the main-characters oft the movies of John Carpenter. He had his own rules, habits and goals. He believed in nothing-except the science- liked his friends but at last relied only on himself. What, I think, is important for the popularity of Sheldon in general: At the most of the cases he was right. His kind might sometimes seem arrogant.....but he was-because his IQ- like untouchable. So sometimes his friends seems more  envious. And so, I think, everybody would to be a little bit like Sheldon. Alpha-natured, independently, untouchable.

(And also he had the most coolest shirts. The black one with the "Batman"-logo in varied blue-touches was always my favorid one).


And than Penny. This awsome female being. Heart  I think every man could imagine to have a neighbour like Penny. That Leonard was interested was claer. Also in which kind. But at the first two season Penny and Sheldon came closer and closer. In this nice warm and thrustfull instance. It was simply nice and exciting to watch that this two so different characters had from the first moment on this bound,...that they understood each other in this special kind.

How mentioned "Panty" was for me the special episode. And so I was looking at the net to see this scenes again and found so much of fanvids and also the term "Shenny", and saw that I was not alone with my "weakness". That there was/is a base of the viewers which have the same oppinnion.

And so I was sure-regarding the extraordinary of the show too- that THIS two would come together and not Penny and Leonard,.... because that would be too much conventional and ordinary.
Also this thing with Amy. The show was-at the beginning- so made against the mainstream I was convinced that her and Sheldon would not come together, excactly because she was-at the first view-introduced for it. I was sure that she would get interrestet in one of the other guys. Leonard or Raj.
 
(Another potential "Oohhh"-event of the show.)

And so longer this "Lenny" and "Shamy"-stuffs went on the frustration was greater. Sometimes at the beginning I was unsure. To "fight" for that two fictionally figures would come together? But it is right. Because not only bacause this two nice characters-and my special male-weakness for Penny- but also it would be such a great chance in TV-history.  A pair-constellation the people would still speak about after decades. About "Shamy" and "Lenny" no one would be speak after five years after the show had ended.

And so I am a "Shenny" and I will alsways be a "Shenny".
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Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 08-27-2016, 01:43 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 09-03-2016, 12:33 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 09-15-2016, 08:19 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 09-21-2016, 08:00 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Shellsyke - 09-22-2016, 09:09 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by QueenOfShebaSays - 09-22-2016, 09:12 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Ratman77 - 09-22-2016, 12:15 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 09-22-2016, 05:28 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by QueenOfShebaSays - 09-22-2016, 12:27 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 09-25-2016, 03:58 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 09-28-2016, 04:18 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Idle Miscreant - 09-28-2016, 10:54 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 09-28-2016, 02:42 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by QueenOfShebaSays - 09-28-2016, 05:00 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 09-28-2016, 07:41 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Idle Miscreant - 09-28-2016, 07:55 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Ratman77 - 09-29-2016, 08:00 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by SpaceAnJL - 09-28-2016, 08:03 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by CTR69 - 09-29-2016, 01:57 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Idle Miscreant - 09-29-2016, 06:44 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by QueenOfShebaSays - 09-29-2016, 07:29 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Ratman77 - 09-29-2016, 08:03 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 09-30-2016, 07:22 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 10-06-2016, 07:42 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Ratman77 - 10-07-2016, 05:54 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 10-08-2016, 04:23 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by CTR69 - 10-08-2016, 07:31 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 10-12-2016, 01:58 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by lovealways21 - 10-25-2016, 12:38 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 11-07-2016, 08:03 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 04-13-2017, 04:51 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 05-05-2017, 08:16 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Idle Miscreant - 05-07-2017, 05:34 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Tuesday Pajamas - 09-12-2017, 05:41 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Ratman77 - 09-12-2017, 11:47 PM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Nutz - 09-12-2017, 05:57 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by QueenOfShebaSays - 09-12-2017, 08:02 AM
RE: Shenny : Season 10 - by Ratman77 - 09-12-2017, 11:48 PM

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