03-13-2014, 11:26 AM
Good grief...I keep brooding over this news...
Personally there's not a Snowball's chance in a CAT Scanner that I'll be able to hack three more years if it's going to continue in the same relationship-heavy vein. If they were relationships that I could either believe in or found endearing in some way, then sure, perhaps I could learn to tolerate it. But they're not. They're terrible, tawdry, guilt-based, needy and manipulative relationships, artificially structured to fit a seasonal time-frame.
Anyroad, even in "real life" I do not wish to hear about my dear friends' relationship troubles constantly, nor be inflicted with a couple when I wish to talk to an INDIVIDUAL. This is what watching the show is like now, instead of spending time in the company of a group of charming independents, we are forced to witness the dirty-laundry of THREE separate groups of marital arguments/lovey-doveyness, with NO RESPITE and at the cost of the individual characters' nature and integrity.
I am not interested in "Sheldon the Boyfriend Goes Shopping With His Girlfriend". I am interested in Sheldon the unique and detached Observer of Mankind navigating his way alone through an alien landscape, in pursuit of the mysteries of the universe. Which is essentially what the first 3 seasons were for me. I did not buy into his current, wildly different persona, which directly contradicts his previous self, and makes that character look like a hypocrite. It's a classic bait and switch though, because having watched all of the first 4 seasons obsessively on DVD, before being aware of what was happening in Season 5, I feel I have been hooked into something I can not now escape from, even though I desperately wish to. They have no right to create a very specific character like Sheldon, wait till people are emotionally or intellectually attached to him, then change him utterly with no warning. And BAM! here's an utterly unlikeable Girlfriend for him as well. And fuck you asexuals, intentional singletons, and people who value intellect above all, who felt they'd found a Representative. Because NO ONE'S COMPLETE WITHOUT A PARTNER.
So infuriating...
Space's caption is obviously applicable here as well....
![[Image: 11078_900.jpg]](http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/spaced_up/60159252/11078/11078_900.jpg)
Personally there's not a Snowball's chance in a CAT Scanner that I'll be able to hack three more years if it's going to continue in the same relationship-heavy vein. If they were relationships that I could either believe in or found endearing in some way, then sure, perhaps I could learn to tolerate it. But they're not. They're terrible, tawdry, guilt-based, needy and manipulative relationships, artificially structured to fit a seasonal time-frame.
Anyroad, even in "real life" I do not wish to hear about my dear friends' relationship troubles constantly, nor be inflicted with a couple when I wish to talk to an INDIVIDUAL. This is what watching the show is like now, instead of spending time in the company of a group of charming independents, we are forced to witness the dirty-laundry of THREE separate groups of marital arguments/lovey-doveyness, with NO RESPITE and at the cost of the individual characters' nature and integrity.
I am not interested in "Sheldon the Boyfriend Goes Shopping With His Girlfriend". I am interested in Sheldon the unique and detached Observer of Mankind navigating his way alone through an alien landscape, in pursuit of the mysteries of the universe. Which is essentially what the first 3 seasons were for me. I did not buy into his current, wildly different persona, which directly contradicts his previous self, and makes that character look like a hypocrite. It's a classic bait and switch though, because having watched all of the first 4 seasons obsessively on DVD, before being aware of what was happening in Season 5, I feel I have been hooked into something I can not now escape from, even though I desperately wish to. They have no right to create a very specific character like Sheldon, wait till people are emotionally or intellectually attached to him, then change him utterly with no warning. And BAM! here's an utterly unlikeable Girlfriend for him as well. And fuck you asexuals, intentional singletons, and people who value intellect above all, who felt they'd found a Representative. Because NO ONE'S COMPLETE WITHOUT A PARTNER.
So infuriating...
Space's caption is obviously applicable here as well....
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"