12-04-2015, 10:16 PM
Comedy is incredibly and notoriously hard to write, and intelligent comedic characters hardest of all. These are excellent and well established comedy writers, and I can understand if they simply ran out of dialogue for Sheldon. It's just a pity the show couldn't have ended there, and perhaps the same chaps could have written a different show with Blossom etc, without having to repurpose Sheldon to fit around her inclusion. The old uppity noble alien that made the show famous, has been replaced by Forrest Gump. Who was a lovely chap, but he already existed. What television DIDN'T have (and now only has in syndication) and needed was Vintage Sheldon.
If you were reading a long-running serial in a newspaper (back in the Dickensian Gaslamp era, obviously), and after 4 “books” published of say, 24 chapters each, the author took a short break, and returned with a 5th book, where the hero suddenly spoke differently, and thought differently, and behaved differently, and dressed differently, and moved differently – in short, was almost unrecognisable – and there was no explanation offered, I think you'd be justified in choosing to consider the further adventures of this new character to be a completely different story.
This is vaguely how I feel about Original Sheldon/S1-4 VS New Sheldon/S5-9. They're not the same character, so it's not the same show, and ergo, nothing that happens now is "canon" in respect to the first four years. They can retcon all they like, and paint as many eyelids on ewoks and install as many CGI dancers in Jabba's palace as they want, and make countless sequels, and introduce a cringey, polarising character with an irritating, needy personality and a triple-name, but HAN SHOT FIRST.
As for the Amy fans being excited, well good. I'm genuinely glad. Nice that SOMEONE in this benighted fandom is happy for a change. God knows we're all miserable bastards most of the time. Personally I find Shamy quite artificial and mawkish, but if you don't mind original Sheldon being obliterated, I'm sure it's charming.
As a Sheldon fan, however, this is not a situation I would wish to occur in ANY "ship" involving him. Whether with Penny (ideally) or with Leonard, or with some random woman, in NO universe would I want the bugger to turn up wearing a normal suit, with flowers, and give sex as a present (instead of because he wants to) whilst wearing an undershirt by bloody candlelight. Nor would I want heirloom engagement rings, Proms, date nights, hand-holding, romantic dinners and cuddly nonsense…It's like something out of daytime television! It's also about as unSheldon as you can get. So why any self-professed Sheldon/Amy fan likes it is beyond me...
I can only assume, as Toad said, and as indeed we've always said, that there are TWO Sheldons, and current fans prefer the second, romancy, normal one, and we ONLY like the first, alien one, and never the twain shall meet. It'd be like crossing the energy streams!
Anyroad, it's all been very interesting on an academic level. Although I say academic very loosely as it's half past an ungodly hour and I can barely spell my own face at the moment...
If you were reading a long-running serial in a newspaper (back in the Dickensian Gaslamp era, obviously), and after 4 “books” published of say, 24 chapters each, the author took a short break, and returned with a 5th book, where the hero suddenly spoke differently, and thought differently, and behaved differently, and dressed differently, and moved differently – in short, was almost unrecognisable – and there was no explanation offered, I think you'd be justified in choosing to consider the further adventures of this new character to be a completely different story.
This is vaguely how I feel about Original Sheldon/S1-4 VS New Sheldon/S5-9. They're not the same character, so it's not the same show, and ergo, nothing that happens now is "canon" in respect to the first four years. They can retcon all they like, and paint as many eyelids on ewoks and install as many CGI dancers in Jabba's palace as they want, and make countless sequels, and introduce a cringey, polarising character with an irritating, needy personality and a triple-name, but HAN SHOT FIRST.
As for the Amy fans being excited, well good. I'm genuinely glad. Nice that SOMEONE in this benighted fandom is happy for a change. God knows we're all miserable bastards most of the time. Personally I find Shamy quite artificial and mawkish, but if you don't mind original Sheldon being obliterated, I'm sure it's charming.
As a Sheldon fan, however, this is not a situation I would wish to occur in ANY "ship" involving him. Whether with Penny (ideally) or with Leonard, or with some random woman, in NO universe would I want the bugger to turn up wearing a normal suit, with flowers, and give sex as a present (instead of because he wants to) whilst wearing an undershirt by bloody candlelight. Nor would I want heirloom engagement rings, Proms, date nights, hand-holding, romantic dinners and cuddly nonsense…It's like something out of daytime television! It's also about as unSheldon as you can get. So why any self-professed Sheldon/Amy fan likes it is beyond me...
I can only assume, as Toad said, and as indeed we've always said, that there are TWO Sheldons, and current fans prefer the second, romancy, normal one, and we ONLY like the first, alien one, and never the twain shall meet. It'd be like crossing the energy streams!
Anyroad, it's all been very interesting on an academic level. Although I say academic very loosely as it's half past an ungodly hour and I can barely spell my own face at the moment...
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"