04-23-2015, 08:34 PM
(04-23-2015, 08:31 PM)Idle Miscreant Wrote: This was the episode I was immensely looking forward to, and now cannot watch, alas. The finale and what it threatens for the remaining two years has become the Rancor at the end of the corridor...Difficult to remain chipper in the face of certain
Regarding Sheldon's "buffness" and new mannerisms, I found a wonderful description of Vintage Sheldon today...From a review of Season 2:
"The other development was the kind of TV alchemy that producers can’t predict: Parsons has become the show’s quivering, riveting center.
With a thin, bendy-straw body and a round ball of a head, Parsons is like a dandelion without the fuzziness. His Sheldon is grim and chilly; he speaks with impeccable, comically fussy grammar. (Penny: “Can I ask you a question?” Sheldon, in a flushed rush: “I would prefer that you not, but I won’t go so far as to forbid it.”) His supercilious demeanor is a defense against a world he does not understand, or declines to. You get the feeling that once the writers saw how Parsons could deliver stretches of dialogue with such precision, they started churning out more for him to do.
Prickly Sheldon has become a character to love, and Parsons is doing something rare on network TV: making intellectualism admirable, even heroic."
Sic transit gloria munfdi
RIP Sheldon Lee Cooper. Thus passes the glory of the world Indeed
“There are no scenes more fun to do, I feel like, than the ones between Sheldon and Penny. They are such a wonderful odd couple.” - Jim Parsons