08-25-2018, 12:23 AM
Wonderful first post. You’ve explained things very clearly and it reminds me of that uncomfortable feeling I had during those first few seasons of Shamy. There’s a sense of enabling some pretty disturbing behaviour within both canon ships, enabling a stalker and then rewarding that manipulation with the love of the person they targeted. It’s seriously wrong on so many levels. What baffles me is how it’s been accepted and even seen as endearing to millions of fans of the show. It’s as though we are being asked to pretend we don’t see these flaws. And it sells. Look at how huge the show is. Yet if Sheldon were a woman I really don’t think they would have got away with it.
As far as I’m concerned the Big Bang was 3 and a half seasons. The rest is just a long winded money spinner for the executives and an unwillingness to let go. There are peppering of decent material here and there throughout some of the later ones but the decision to stretch things out and create this “romantic” story arc for Sheldon was driven by a desire to stay on air for as long as possible and not from any creative impulse.
Nowadays they have Sheldon willingly wanting to have coitus with Amy. The battle is won. She got what she set out to get. Sheldon’s love and sexuality. We’re are supposed to believe that he feels all this for real now. I just so clumsily done. And yes I would have despised Shenny if it had been written like that. Where are the media in all this? I’m continuously surprised by the lack of insight over this show and the direction it took.
As far as I’m concerned the Big Bang was 3 and a half seasons. The rest is just a long winded money spinner for the executives and an unwillingness to let go. There are peppering of decent material here and there throughout some of the later ones but the decision to stretch things out and create this “romantic” story arc for Sheldon was driven by a desire to stay on air for as long as possible and not from any creative impulse.
Nowadays they have Sheldon willingly wanting to have coitus with Amy. The battle is won. She got what she set out to get. Sheldon’s love and sexuality. We’re are supposed to believe that he feels all this for real now. I just so clumsily done. And yes I would have despised Shenny if it had been written like that. Where are the media in all this? I’m continuously surprised by the lack of insight over this show and the direction it took.