8.16 The Intimacy Acceleration (Feb 26)

[devilbk]

Sheldon and Penny spoke to each other the way that I always imagined them speaking, like I try to get them to speak in my stories. Some keep obsessing over the tag and the brother/sister thing (guilty as charged) but I keep coming back to the conversation itself, where Penny and Sheldon reveal their vulnerabilities to each other honestly and with obvious affection. The other characters are incapable of doing that without being mawkish. And Leonard reveals his vulnerability as a ploy to get laid. No, I still take 8.16 as a win. TPTB will never be able to match the level of real affection Penny and Sheldon (and Kaley and Jim) have for each other with any other pairing.