9.07 The Spock Resonance

[Idle Miscreant]

I watched the relevant scenes of this episode, and Jim indeed gave a great performance. It didn't remind me of Sheldon particularly, but it was very interesting and watchable.

Something that did strike me about this particular version of Sheldon (during his Spockumentary scenes) was how alert he seemed. I could certainly believe this chap was a brilliant physicist, unlike the infantile, gormless Boyfriend!Sheldon of Season 8 (and most of Season 9 up till now). Nowhere near as intelligent as the Sheldon of Season 1-3, but sufficiently so that I found him a believable character again.

He seemed like a highly intelligent and quite normal man. Am delighted about the former, but find the latter mildly upsetting...

Why is Sheldon "growing" and becoming normal seen as a good thing? Again, people who think so, evidently didn't like or understand Sheldon in the first place...

And I'm still rather baffled at the notion (as suggested by the show, and as reported in social media) that Sheldon is only NOW displaying emotions...(and because of a woman, and THAT woman, lord help us...)
What, prithee is this then?



Or indeed

Or


Or this?


In that one scene alone, he goes from smug, to concern and empathy, to hurt and bewildered, to RAGE in about 3 minutes...

He has always been the most emotional character of all, save for perhaps Penny. I don't see anything new in this level of emotion. The arctic betrayal nearly destroyed him, Penny's gift overwhelmed him, he cried for a broken killer robot for godsake.

It is worth remembering that Vulcans only used kolinahr and clung to logic BECAUSE of their intense and often unbearable emotions. They were not emotionless, they were simply in control of them. Sheldon has NEVER been in control of his emotions. He flails around all over the emotional shop. How are we supposed to forget this?

It only really supports my theory that the current audience only watches the current episodes. Because otherwise, thinking Sheldon was ever "robotic" is, as PJ said, bordering on idiotic. He had a C-3PO, protocol droid chirpy campness in Season 4, but that's as close as he ever got.