The rest of Season Grate (Eps 8.07-8.15 and 8.17)

[Idle Miscreant]

The S/P christmas episode worked, and was saved from being mawkish, because it was weird. A napkin that Leonard Nimoy has wiped his mouth on presented as a gift, and the terrifying shriek of Sheldon realising he can clone his own Leonard Nimoy as a consequence (healthy ovum permitted), followed by the pincering steps, and fervent yet still alien hug, was all charming yet very odd. It’s why it’s remained in the public consciousness.

Giving Sheldon Meemaw cookies…that’s just…nothing. No zinger, nothing unusual (in fact it’s been used numerous times in fanfiction). It’s just straight up schmoop. And there’s nothing Sheldony about his gift to Amy either. It was a very common christmas gift. Which he was giving just to be an arsehole, as I understand it…

Sheldon sits there in an unSheldonlike, normal posture, in his normal suit, with a normal smile, and gives a normal gift, and we're supposed to celebrate this? That Sheldon is just like everybody else now? (Except ruder)

As for Amy, they seem to want to simultaneously have her be a cartoon (can’t open her legs more than 25 degrees? A divot in her spine? “Comical” amounts of pubic hair? Dandruff? Rice-Sheldon? Scenting? Gerard? Etc. She’s Maris!) AND have S and A act out all these humdrum, ordinary clichéd moments so the audience can live vicariously through them, as they (the audience) are now NOT strange at all.

And who is this audience? Women who identify with Amy, apparently. They’ve lost all those men and women who (previously) identified with Sheldon. I’ve seen nothing but disgust and disbelief from Sheldon fans. (and no, fancying Jim Parsons does not make you a Sheldon fan. Neither does only paying attention to Sheldon once he was hooked up with Amy, and not liking him before, and for himself. Or losing interest in a plot because there’s no “Shamy” in it. That makes you a Shamy fan or shipper, not a character fan. There is a bloody difference.)

I’ve never seen so much squeeing in my life as on those FB pages…Sheldon’s becoming normal! Just like us! Squeee!

You can stick your normal up your jean-clad jacksie.

By the way, was Penny in this episode at all? I think I saw a cardboard-cutout of her standing in the kitchen next to Leonard in one photograph…Did they move the cardboard around at all? Did it speak?