SPOILERS: What fresh hell is this? - S9

[Ratman77]

SEASON 9 COMETH...



Something is rather off in this photo...Sheldon looks half a mile wide...

More of the same old ambiguous Sheldon & Penny relationship, that the folk in charge of the photoshoots use over and over again. Sheldon & Penny, and Sheldon & Penny, and Sheldon & Penny...

BUT DON'T SHIP THEM!

So odd.

Anyroad I'm not complaining.

Sheldon & Penny are the heart of the show. We know it, the bulk of the audience knows it, in addition, anyone with any degree of artistic subtlety knows it...so it shouldn't be surprising that the photographers (or should I say photomanippers?) also know it.

What I AM going to kvetch about is the normal suit. Dear god, would it kill them to break out the plaid again?

At least put Sheldon in BLACK!

(Yes, I know. It is a little bit late to comment this picture, but……well).
Really!
This cover is indeed not a revelation of innovative arts-skills.
The background, a library. Hmm, okay. For a series which is playing in the world of the academics, it is not a bad idea. Point for them.
BUT the characters!!!
UUHHRRRG!!!
Sheldon looks like a bored college-professor who cannot wait to get in pension finally.
Amy looks like something that we in German call “graue Maus”-“grey mouse”….and that in a very exemplary way.
Howard is sitting in the foreground, and Bernie have her typical “nice, but not naughty”-look…..but the kind of Howard, how he is sitting there-with her behind him- looks like if she is presenting him as the result of an experiment, a project. (And a little bit of a puppeteer is also there). Poor boy. (A    for the writers that they have ruined Bernie’s character).
Leonard…….No commentary.
And……oh yes, sorry. Raj is also there! They have put him so aside, that you could overlook him. Really not fair, how I think.
The only good one of this character-gallery is Penny. Her dress, the color of it and her smile…..
There is a trace of her original-character to recognize.
So…..two points for them. Penny and the background VS…..the rest.
And it is really not to deny that the whole picture looks very very cheap.
At least it is good that they have decided to not use it, haven’t they?
PS: “Idle Miscreant”, how you has written, the putting of Penny and Sheldon side by side, the resulting signs and hints of their attraction and their possible (romantic) relationship…….and the statements that the “Shenny” not would come on the other side………
Sometimes I could go to the ceiling.