Homo Novus: Where Is He Now?

[Toad]

This vaguely reminds me of those lenticular rings I used to get when I was a child. The kind where if you held it a certain way you saw one image and if you tilted it a smidge you saw another.

Same with Sheldon. Only now the little points have been ground down to such a degree that only in certain settings *coughPennycough* can you still spy the dignified, autonomous, beautiful mind guy, and even then not so much.

For someone once prone to weep for the intellectual decay and attendant emotional chaos he saw swirling about him, I have to wonder what he would make of Future!Sheldon. Distracted, dependent... De-Sheldonized essentially. Given to unseemly spurts of maudlin sentimentality just so a portion of the remaining audience can "aww" in unison.

But, by all means, let's bend and contort the fellow every which way until he's barely recognizable, even physically and physiognomically, let's force him into the mating rites and rituals of a NORMAL, something he was patently disinterested in for most of his life, let's set him on the candy- and Tardis-lined path to Coitus where the quivering, and one assumes insatiable, loins of AFF await, and then let's all exult in his quote unquote growth as all the remaining vestiges of his character are subsumed into a gaping buffoon.