11-19-2015, 04:12 AM
It's just Circus Maximus, as I said earlier. Forcing the unicorn to mate for a bored Emperor, and a lascivious crowd. But the way they did it baffles me. Like "Shamy" itself, the whole thing sounds like a 16 yr old girl's fantasy. And not a particularly original or interesting 16 yr old girl.
"What's the BEST birthday present? My silly (previously brilliant) boyfriend to sacrifice his silly space movies (previously his passions) to come and have sex with me." The candles are an extra touch of incongruity and banality. It's Sheldon Cooper (or WAS) for godsake...not even a Tesla Coil?
Any girlfriend of Sheldon should have WANTED to see the new Star Wars film. Who the fuck amongst the original target audience of this show DOESN'T want to see it? We're meant to cheer that one of sci-fi's greatest bastions is giving it up for sex? How original!
How completely unSheldon.
So the Star Wars episode is now about Amy, as the Leonard Nimoy episode was about Amy? Amazing. Sheldon denouncing Spock in the earlier episode is beyond belief. Couldn't be a greater kick in the proverbials of Sheldon fans if they tried. WHY are they doing this?
As folk are saying, it's difficult to get angry, because it's so far removed from the original plot, and Sheldon is so far from Sheldon by now that this doesn't even register as something happening on The Big Bang Theory. It's something happening on "The Amy Fowler Variety Hour".
I've never before this heard of a show contorting and altering their most popular character beyond recognition in order to keep writing for a minor one. Particularly one who came in AFTER the success of the show was established by the original 5. The core 15 million of TBBT's audience, ie the BULK, are there because of the first 3 years. They're not Amy Farrah Fowler fans. This isn't "Amy: Coming Of Age". Although apparently it is. I don't know why they don't just get rid of Howard and Raj, and the rest of the show, and focus a fixed camera solely on Amy Farrah Fowler's bridal preparations. Or her tilted uterus.
People loved Sheldon for who he was in the first 3 years. VINTAGE Sheldon is what the show will be remembered for. It's what the show IS. People will remember him solving equations in the ballpit, or "comforting" Penny in hospital, or singing the element song on stage, not this normalised bloke skipping Star Wars for sex. That's not growth, that's being stripped of character.
"What's the BEST birthday present? My silly (previously brilliant) boyfriend to sacrifice his silly space movies (previously his passions) to come and have sex with me." The candles are an extra touch of incongruity and banality. It's Sheldon Cooper (or WAS) for godsake...not even a Tesla Coil?
Any girlfriend of Sheldon should have WANTED to see the new Star Wars film. Who the fuck amongst the original target audience of this show DOESN'T want to see it? We're meant to cheer that one of sci-fi's greatest bastions is giving it up for sex? How original!
How completely unSheldon.
So the Star Wars episode is now about Amy, as the Leonard Nimoy episode was about Amy? Amazing. Sheldon denouncing Spock in the earlier episode is beyond belief. Couldn't be a greater kick in the proverbials of Sheldon fans if they tried. WHY are they doing this?
As folk are saying, it's difficult to get angry, because it's so far removed from the original plot, and Sheldon is so far from Sheldon by now that this doesn't even register as something happening on The Big Bang Theory. It's something happening on "The Amy Fowler Variety Hour".
I've never before this heard of a show contorting and altering their most popular character beyond recognition in order to keep writing for a minor one. Particularly one who came in AFTER the success of the show was established by the original 5. The core 15 million of TBBT's audience, ie the BULK, are there because of the first 3 years. They're not Amy Farrah Fowler fans. This isn't "Amy: Coming Of Age". Although apparently it is. I don't know why they don't just get rid of Howard and Raj, and the rest of the show, and focus a fixed camera solely on Amy Farrah Fowler's bridal preparations. Or her tilted uterus.
People loved Sheldon for who he was in the first 3 years. VINTAGE Sheldon is what the show will be remembered for. It's what the show IS. People will remember him solving equations in the ballpit, or "comforting" Penny in hospital, or singing the element song on stage, not this normalised bloke skipping Star Wars for sex. That's not growth, that's being stripped of character.
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"