10-14-2015, 10:41 AM
Quote:I had a terrible thought whilst watching this. What if we got everything we wanted from this show, everything we keep complaining about as lost, came back, and then Sheldon himself let us down?
Quote:This is not growth, or regression, or anything related to character (for once). This is a continuity problem.
Wow. Somehow I feel like these are very significant points. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that JP was actually *told* to incorporate his own mannerisms. He was, wasn't he? How do you even do that? I don't think I'm aware-enough of my own mannerisms to describe them to someone else.
But yes, if it's a continuity problem, then that overrides the pro-Canon argument* about "development" or "evolution" or "growth." This is a whole new angle from which to examine this issue. People don't change this much because they met a girl. They don't change this much unless they're Phineas Gage and they took a metal beam to the brain...
*unless you're someone who simply dismisses the early seasons or has never watched them, of course.