06-08-2017, 07:44 PM
Sheldon's resistance to change in this instance is much like the immune system's resistance to infection. It fights and fights, but eventually is worn down, and dies a malingering, cankerous, ignoble death.
That metaphor is rather shonky, but it's late, I'm irritable, and the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
The very fact that a man who is passionate about so many things is so ambivalent, apathetic and indeed often belligerently resistant to this particular relationship has never won me over to the view that it's in any way natural or healthy. Surely, you know, if he loved Amy he wouldn't spend half his time bitching, or trying to finagle his way out of date nights. There's been bloody YEARS of that. Sometimes reluctance is because you're just not that keen, eh? You shouldn't have to be worn down into a screed before you marry someone. (*cough* Penny *cough*)
"Shamy" seems like a situation that he's had to unwillingly adjust to, and now cannot break free from, owing to his propensity for rituals and habit. He'd be a prime candidate for Stockholm syndrome, if it ever came to it. Indeed that's what leaps to mind when I see Amy manipulating him every episode...But, sure, call it love, Molaro.
Sheldon is a passionate character who leaps like a banshee into things that interest him. It wouldn't have taken 5 years to get this far if A) he was kept in character, B) he was genuinely in love.
It's all romcom bollocks for ratings anyroad. What happened to Sheldon's true love being science? That was a superb and noble thing. Why drag the blighter through the muck like every other character under the sun? Couldn't he have remained unique? And no, Shamy is not unique, it's had the most plebian, unsurprising arc on television. It's deliberately humdrum and conventional, presumably to offset the "quirkiness" of Sheldon. Well it doesn't work, it just diminishes his shine.
That metaphor is rather shonky, but it's late, I'm irritable, and the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
The very fact that a man who is passionate about so many things is so ambivalent, apathetic and indeed often belligerently resistant to this particular relationship has never won me over to the view that it's in any way natural or healthy. Surely, you know, if he loved Amy he wouldn't spend half his time bitching, or trying to finagle his way out of date nights. There's been bloody YEARS of that. Sometimes reluctance is because you're just not that keen, eh? You shouldn't have to be worn down into a screed before you marry someone. (*cough* Penny *cough*)
"Shamy" seems like a situation that he's had to unwillingly adjust to, and now cannot break free from, owing to his propensity for rituals and habit. He'd be a prime candidate for Stockholm syndrome, if it ever came to it. Indeed that's what leaps to mind when I see Amy manipulating him every episode...But, sure, call it love, Molaro.
Sheldon is a passionate character who leaps like a banshee into things that interest him. It wouldn't have taken 5 years to get this far if A) he was kept in character, B) he was genuinely in love.
It's all romcom bollocks for ratings anyroad. What happened to Sheldon's true love being science? That was a superb and noble thing. Why drag the blighter through the muck like every other character under the sun? Couldn't he have remained unique? And no, Shamy is not unique, it's had the most plebian, unsurprising arc on television. It's deliberately humdrum and conventional, presumably to offset the "quirkiness" of Sheldon. Well it doesn't work, it just diminishes his shine.
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"