05-19-2017, 02:28 PM
(05-19-2017, 07:21 AM)Idle Miscreant Wrote: It seems charming, and good luck to them.
Makes me a little sad though, so I'm going to keep my own impression of Sheldon's childhood. The horrifying and surreal glimpses we got of it throughout the early seasons have crystalised in my brain as little artistic gems. The house that keeps falling off the tinder blocks, the threat of ground glass in the meatloaf, George Sr. fighting a bobcat for licorice...not to mention Sheldon's early villainish tendencies. Death rays and attack griffins.
This is entirely too middle class and conventional (for that image). Doesn't mean it won't be amusing or admirable, but as the backstory for character whose original conception (for four years) was this uppity, alien, Spock-like creature, it doesn't seem QUITE accurate. But as pointed out in the Grumblebox, the show's probably developed from New!Sheldon (goofy, sentimental, Forrest Gumpy) rather than our beloved cranky character.
Also, if it's going to be full of "teaching moments", where little Sheldon learns to be a normal human, I will have to be apoxy resined to a chair to make me watch it.
The gleeful beauty of Sheldon was that he didn't give a damn about what other people thought, or what the accepted response was.
Why does he have to show his father he loves him in the NORMAL way? Why does Sheldon have to change? He should have kept his bloody mittens on and built his father a death ray to vanquish his enemies.
100%!! TOO MIDDLE CLASS.
You totally said what I was trying to. It's an impression of Molaros Sheldon not Pradys Sheldon. I bet you won't see the bourbon that was supposed to linger on his fathers breath either. They are 'nice' people.