02-23-2015, 02:42 PM
As supplied by Dev, here is an article about the experiment Sheldon and Penny conduct in this weeks episode.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashio...-this.html
"The questions reminded me of the infamous boiling frog experiment in which the frog doesn’t feel the water getting hotter until it’s too late. With us, because the level of vulnerability increased gradually, I didn’t notice we had entered intimate territory until we were already there, a process that can typically take weeks or months."
This frog boiling quote Sheldon used last season to complain about how he had changed.
Those images above are so poignant....
Whether the writers choose to acknowledge the natural chemistry between Sheldon and Penny or not, makes no difference. It's their decision to ignore it but it's not going to change anything because that something special there, regardless of whether they use it or not.
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I've seen a lot of posts over the last week, claiming THIS episode 'puts a nail' in the coffin of Shenny. Which leads me to ask, "What Shenny?" There is and has never been a Sheldon and Penny relationship concept pursued on this show. The writers have done nothing but push the canon relationships, quite hard, for more than two years. So to suggest that they are in the mind to deliberately create an episode to 'kill' a fandom is absurd. And to suggest that TPTB, who write the most popular show on TV, need to pander in this way, would suggest they have no control over their own show. There was no reason for them to explore this episode with Sheldon and Penny other than the fact they wanted to do so.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashio...-this.html
"The questions reminded me of the infamous boiling frog experiment in which the frog doesn’t feel the water getting hotter until it’s too late. With us, because the level of vulnerability increased gradually, I didn’t notice we had entered intimate territory until we were already there, a process that can typically take weeks or months."
This frog boiling quote Sheldon used last season to complain about how he had changed.
Those images above are so poignant....
Whether the writers choose to acknowledge the natural chemistry between Sheldon and Penny or not, makes no difference. It's their decision to ignore it but it's not going to change anything because that something special there, regardless of whether they use it or not.
________________________________________
I've seen a lot of posts over the last week, claiming THIS episode 'puts a nail' in the coffin of Shenny. Which leads me to ask, "What Shenny?" There is and has never been a Sheldon and Penny relationship concept pursued on this show. The writers have done nothing but push the canon relationships, quite hard, for more than two years. So to suggest that they are in the mind to deliberately create an episode to 'kill' a fandom is absurd. And to suggest that TPTB, who write the most popular show on TV, need to pander in this way, would suggest they have no control over their own show. There was no reason for them to explore this episode with Sheldon and Penny other than the fact they wanted to do so.