11-19-2015, 06:52 AM
Oddly, I don't have a problem with Sheldon having sex. I think it could have fitted in with his Vintage persona quite well. Provided it was swift, and vivid, and PENNY, or someone else who challenged him. And provided he got straight back to his work afterwards, and didn't moon around.
What I DO have a problem with is sex as a placation, or present, rather than out of an instinctive wish for it. He's trapped in a corner. And the fact that it's been held over his head for the past 5 years, and by a rather unpleasant woman. If he didn't want to have sex with Amy in the beginning, or anytime over the past 5 years, then in truth he would never want to. So this is unnatural and OOC. And the ordinariness of it offends me (although half of me is glad that at least they didn't make it vulgar). Even this ersatz version of Sheldon shouldn't be this bland.
And no, "spicing it up" by making it kinky or passionate in future won't work either. The S/A relationship has been altered so many times in sitcom experimentation that it has almost no consistency whatever, but it has ALWAYS been toddleresque and timid, and as such they shouldn't have brought sex into it in the first place.
Jousting or competitive sex between Vintage Sheldon and Penny, or Winkle, would have worked. Experimental sex between Martha (or Lalita, or even that mad bint Ramona) and Sheldon would have worked. But sacrificial sex under emotional pressure? NO NO NO NO NO NO....
Anyroad, they've written it that way, and the moving finger, having writ, moves on...
I just ponder what's going to come of this. The die-hard Sheldon fans have long been offended and alienated, but nobody cares about us, that's fine. But what of the teetering Nostalgics who might find this the last straw? What of the poor Shenny fans, who not only have to deal with the L/P marriage, and the S/A sex and reunion, but also get NO scenes at all between Sheldon and Penny?
This seems unusually cruel. The Shennies have been around since Season 1, episode 1. If I were the show's producers, I'd be inclined to reward them for their loyalty now and then. Was that one episode in Season 8 meant to be enough? Is the dream Shenny kiss (with Leonard present) all Sheldon and Penny fans can expect in Season 9?
Because that's the thing, it's not just a non-canon "ship", it's a lot of folk's favourite comedy duo. Just look at the top rated IMDb episodes. Or the polls.
There was apparently a scene in 9.11 where Sheldon went to Penny for advice. But Bernadette had to be there. Which changes the Sheldon/Penny dynamic. They never seem to let those two have any scenes alone together anymore. It comes across as a blatant attempt to obliterate the past.
This is very melancholy to contemplate...
What I DO have a problem with is sex as a placation, or present, rather than out of an instinctive wish for it. He's trapped in a corner. And the fact that it's been held over his head for the past 5 years, and by a rather unpleasant woman. If he didn't want to have sex with Amy in the beginning, or anytime over the past 5 years, then in truth he would never want to. So this is unnatural and OOC. And the ordinariness of it offends me (although half of me is glad that at least they didn't make it vulgar). Even this ersatz version of Sheldon shouldn't be this bland.
And no, "spicing it up" by making it kinky or passionate in future won't work either. The S/A relationship has been altered so many times in sitcom experimentation that it has almost no consistency whatever, but it has ALWAYS been toddleresque and timid, and as such they shouldn't have brought sex into it in the first place.
Jousting or competitive sex between Vintage Sheldon and Penny, or Winkle, would have worked. Experimental sex between Martha (or Lalita, or even that mad bint Ramona) and Sheldon would have worked. But sacrificial sex under emotional pressure? NO NO NO NO NO NO....
Anyroad, they've written it that way, and the moving finger, having writ, moves on...
I just ponder what's going to come of this. The die-hard Sheldon fans have long been offended and alienated, but nobody cares about us, that's fine. But what of the teetering Nostalgics who might find this the last straw? What of the poor Shenny fans, who not only have to deal with the L/P marriage, and the S/A sex and reunion, but also get NO scenes at all between Sheldon and Penny?
This seems unusually cruel. The Shennies have been around since Season 1, episode 1. If I were the show's producers, I'd be inclined to reward them for their loyalty now and then. Was that one episode in Season 8 meant to be enough? Is the dream Shenny kiss (with Leonard present) all Sheldon and Penny fans can expect in Season 9?
Because that's the thing, it's not just a non-canon "ship", it's a lot of folk's favourite comedy duo. Just look at the top rated IMDb episodes. Or the polls.
There was apparently a scene in 9.11 where Sheldon went to Penny for advice. But Bernadette had to be there. Which changes the Sheldon/Penny dynamic. They never seem to let those two have any scenes alone together anymore. It comes across as a blatant attempt to obliterate the past.
This is very melancholy to contemplate...
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"