05-27-2017, 03:41 AM
(05-26-2017, 03:31 AM)Daedaleopsis Wrote: I only saw a clip of the episode, but was anyone else screaming and throwing things at the screen when it showed Sheldon watching FREAKING SPONGEBOB on the plane?!? This is what Amy has reduced him to. This, from the man who used to listen to Richard Feynman lectures and read physics periodicals at the same time! That whole last scene just had a very "Forrest Gump" or "Rainman" feel to me, with Sheldon's blank, non-reaction to Ramona and his jerky, wooden movements as he walked away (like a man going to his own execution).
And how long was that stupid travel montage, just so TPTB could give us yet another miserable, coerced-feeling proposal scene? For God's sake, if Sheldon is really supposed to have an IQ of 187 and has had the ring for months if not longer, surely he rehearsed something for a proposal in his mind other than the completely bland, lame "Will you marry me?"
And why the hell was that a cliffhanger? Does anyone honestly think that frumpy, clingy leech will do anything other than say yes?
Ugh, Sheldon has devolved so far from the once brilliant but quirky character that we once knew and loved. Don't even get me started on the travesty of a sitcom based on Sheldon's developmental years... He was tormented by basically everyone his age, including his twin sister. His mother hit him with a Bible and forced him to keep secrets from his dad. His dad was a chronic alcohol and cheater. Both parents were verbally and physically abusive toward their son. Oh yeah, that's a barrel of laughs, right there.
I love everything about this post!!! I considered compiling all the information we know about Sheldon's early years and building a page to show what it would look like, in comparison to the Young Sheldon recon. They seem determined to mine ever last drop from Sheldon, a character which I'm more and more sure they didn't actually create themselves. I think he was accident, as do others here. Jim Parsons most perfect Sheldon drove the first few eps. They went with it, as creative waves often take all those with them. But he's not really theirs anymore. They lost him because they put their greedy fingerprints all over and it slipped away. I may be in one of those moods....
We still have him, he's with us now.