10-29-2014, 06:29 PM
I said I wouldn't even look at this thread, on account of it having all the appeal of a packet of artificial sweetner. Sickly, potentially carcinogenic and devoid of nutrients. (Possibly not literally carcinogenic...)
But now that I have...
Isn't "Sheldon" in a tuxedo (rather than one of his eyeball-straining Coopersuits) the very epitome of what's wrong with the relationship they've given him?
For all the soap-boxing about what an unconventional relationship it is, ALL the milestones (as celebrated enthusiastically by the fans of this relationship) are entirely conventional and mundane. It's a sham I tell you! Asking her to be his "girlfriend" (in a cinema, of all pedestrian places), holding hands, "cuddling", a kiss (even if it was born of anger rather than desire), now we have an I love you too in a TUXEDO on a ROOFTOP? I'm sorry, is this fanfiction?
Bollocks that this is unconventional. Great sparkling BOLLOCKS. This is textbook teenage girly nonsense. (apologies to teenage girls, although we only have one here, and I suspect Doctor intends to obliterate the planet at some point...)
There's nothing new under the sun in any of this. There WAS at the beginning, when Amy was equally self-contained and dignified. Now the only reason it isn't like any other romcom romance is because there isn't any sex, and that's certainly not through Amy's lack of trying. If you take the issue of sex out of it, it's WHOLLY conventional. She hectors, he sulks. He tries to do things he likes, she dismisses them as weird or annoying (both canon there). Now we've added arse-slapping (great. How arcane) as a potentially regular occurrence, and some sort of Mills & Boon piffle.
It's a bloody insult is what it is!
Sigh. Back to wardrobe. I'd always hoped Sheldon would go the Doc Brown route as he aged. Not to be, apparently. Like everything else...
![[Image: Doc-BRown-back-to-the-future-23823055-530-768.jpg]](http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23800000/Doc-BRown-back-to-the-future-23823055-530-768.jpg)
But now that I have...
Isn't "Sheldon" in a tuxedo (rather than one of his eyeball-straining Coopersuits) the very epitome of what's wrong with the relationship they've given him?
For all the soap-boxing about what an unconventional relationship it is, ALL the milestones (as celebrated enthusiastically by the fans of this relationship) are entirely conventional and mundane. It's a sham I tell you! Asking her to be his "girlfriend" (in a cinema, of all pedestrian places), holding hands, "cuddling", a kiss (even if it was born of anger rather than desire), now we have an I love you too in a TUXEDO on a ROOFTOP? I'm sorry, is this fanfiction?
Bollocks that this is unconventional. Great sparkling BOLLOCKS. This is textbook teenage girly nonsense. (apologies to teenage girls, although we only have one here, and I suspect Doctor intends to obliterate the planet at some point...)
There's nothing new under the sun in any of this. There WAS at the beginning, when Amy was equally self-contained and dignified. Now the only reason it isn't like any other romcom romance is because there isn't any sex, and that's certainly not through Amy's lack of trying. If you take the issue of sex out of it, it's WHOLLY conventional. She hectors, he sulks. He tries to do things he likes, she dismisses them as weird or annoying (both canon there). Now we've added arse-slapping (great. How arcane) as a potentially regular occurrence, and some sort of Mills & Boon piffle.
It's a bloody insult is what it is!
Sigh. Back to wardrobe. I'd always hoped Sheldon would go the Doc Brown route as he aged. Not to be, apparently. Like everything else...
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"