11-15-2016, 06:36 PM
That's cool man. 
And I quite agree. Just not sure what it has to do with gender?
As an HQ mod (a very useless one) for three years, I think it's just that most folk here (myself certainly) see gender as completely irrelevant to character, or don't give a shit about babies and marriage as an artistic decision. Maybe in life, but it's boring as art.
Also, nothing wrong with a female led show. Ab Fab is fucking spectacular. And many many others. Romcoms are just generally terrible. But it's bugger all to do with gender, it's just romcoms are mawkish, hackneyed soap-opera piffle.
Sheldon has absolutely been reduced and ruined, as you said, but surely it's his mind that was destroyed. His dignity and his independence. Not his masculinity. His gender is neither here nor there. He's arguably more "traditionally" masculine now. And definitely more sexist. That horrible bloody Egg Salad episode...
But aye, I get what you mean about TPTB trying to please more people, by adding romance and normalising Sheldon, or rather, by turning him into a buffoon. That's the whole mantra of HQ! (miserable bastards that we are
)
It's just that the crowd they've won isn't the PC crowd (er...me), if anything it's the more stolidly conservative crowd. The more active "PC" pals of mine wouldn't touch the damn thing with half a mile of fucking organic quinoa.
The show has lost all its old vaguely "cult" clout. It's still very clever writing, and the acting is top notch, no mistake, but the characters aren't anything intellects or outsiders can relate to anymore.
And that's bloody sad.
Ach well, we'll always have the Vintage years eh?
Eh.
And I quite agree. Just not sure what it has to do with gender?
As an HQ mod (a very useless one) for three years, I think it's just that most folk here (myself certainly) see gender as completely irrelevant to character, or don't give a shit about babies and marriage as an artistic decision. Maybe in life, but it's boring as art.
Also, nothing wrong with a female led show. Ab Fab is fucking spectacular. And many many others. Romcoms are just generally terrible. But it's bugger all to do with gender, it's just romcoms are mawkish, hackneyed soap-opera piffle.
Sheldon has absolutely been reduced and ruined, as you said, but surely it's his mind that was destroyed. His dignity and his independence. Not his masculinity. His gender is neither here nor there. He's arguably more "traditionally" masculine now. And definitely more sexist. That horrible bloody Egg Salad episode...
But aye, I get what you mean about TPTB trying to please more people, by adding romance and normalising Sheldon, or rather, by turning him into a buffoon. That's the whole mantra of HQ! (miserable bastards that we are
)It's just that the crowd they've won isn't the PC crowd (er...me), if anything it's the more stolidly conservative crowd. The more active "PC" pals of mine wouldn't touch the damn thing with half a mile of fucking organic quinoa.
The show has lost all its old vaguely "cult" clout. It's still very clever writing, and the acting is top notch, no mistake, but the characters aren't anything intellects or outsiders can relate to anymore.
And that's bloody sad.
Ach well, we'll always have the Vintage years eh?
Eh.
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