SPOILERS: What fresh hell is this? - S9

[Idle Miscreant]

Sheldon doesn't give a damn about Penny's appearance, therefore he alone likes her for who she is.
Penny doesn't give a damn about Sheldon's genius, therefore she alone likes him for who he is.

Their main "weapons" don't work when they're together, either against each other or against themselves. If Penny's looks and Sheldon's intellect are redundant, then they like each other for the right reasons. It's a completely honest relationship, and one of the main appeals of Sheldon/Penny, along with them challenging the other.

I frequently see baffling comments from Fowler fans on facebook/tumblr that Shenny is a superficial thing to ship, because "it's just two pretty people". Apparently it's fine for ONE member to be pretty though...

All these comments tell me if how those particular fans see Penny. As no more than a pretty face. So just like most of the Leonard/Penny shippers see her then.

Shenny fans seem to be the only folk who give a damn about Penny's actual character.

I must learn not to get uppity about people who claim that Sheldon and Amy's manipulative, Sheldon-destroying relationship is "pure" and a "relationship of the mind" and "unlike anything on television" (for good reason. It's unbearably naff) because it "doesn't revolve around sex" whilst simultaneously parking COITUSISCOMING!!!! at the end of every sentence, and obsessing over whether Amy is wearing stockings or not.

Anyroad, the coitus IS coming. Either this episode or the next. Probably with Sheldon renouncing science, and being rewritten as a corny "horndog", now that he's been miraculously cured of his asexuality and singular focus, and everything that made him Sheldon, then there's the proposal, then the WACKY ADVENTURES of Amy planning her wedding, whilst Bernadette's pregnant, and her husband takes lamaze classes with her...

Oh look, I was right.
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/the-big-bang-theory-sheldon-amy-sex-season-9-1201643232/

Thank fuck they got the horrible spectacle over with. There was something deeply creepy about the build up over five years.

Anyroad, they're not our characters, it's not our Sheldon, it's not our show. Our show vanished 4 years ago. Vintage Sheldon is secure and untouchable. They'll never destroy that magnificent fellow.