01-08-2016, 06:20 AM
BTW I'd like to frame this part of your post:
"In the early seasons, I thought maybe tptb would soften Sheldon while sharpening Penny, with each other. While that did occur a bit, their writing forced a relationship that was not emerging from the natural character development. I assume tptb thought from the Shenny murmurings, that we wanted Sheldon to have a relationship, but he wasn’t allowed to have Penny, so we got AFF."
"In the early seasons, I thought maybe tptb would soften Sheldon while sharpening Penny, with each other. While that did occur a bit, their writing forced a relationship that was not emerging from the natural character development. I assume tptb thought from the Shenny murmurings, that we wanted Sheldon to have a relationship, but he wasn’t allowed to have Penny, so we got AFF."