06-17-2014, 07:41 AM
Have to go back to the episode that made me curse my poor telly--Amy, Wil and Sheldon doing Fun With Flags and the moral of the episode being 'even if your girlfriend attacks a friend of yours for no reason, you still have to stand up for her when the friend justifiably defends himself'. This was for me the defining moment when I realized that the lessons Sheldon was learning regarding relationships weren't just a little off-kilter or strange or odd but instead were absolutely fucked up. And even worse, it wasn't just Amy doing the manipulation but the writers themselves in a very heavy-handed script. I mean LeVar Burton agreeing that Sheldon had to support Amy at the end of the show? Just garbage.
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