Sheldor the Conqueror

[Wisp]

Even if they don't talk about it as much (considering he apparently can't read a table in a book correctly anymore) In the first 4 seasons they had Sheldon talk a lot about his eidetic memory. I can't imagine what that would do somebody growing up. To remember every drunken moment of your father, every prayer your mother made to god to make you normal, every "test" that was conducted when they thought you were crazy, every betrayal and hurtful comment like it had just happened.

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So true!! these days it feels like he's just being malicious. Previously, you could tell he was more inept, than petty. It made him so damn charming, even though irl no one could tolerate him.

I completely agree, the charm of Sheldon was he really just didn't understand what he was saying or doing could be hurtful, he was just telling the truth as he saw it and there was no malicious intent by anything he said or did. Even his prank war with Penny was very innocent in how he got back at her.

It's funny, I was really looking forward to the episode where he "got back" at Leonard by making him wear that sweater, but at the end, all I felt was really sad.

I didn't watch that episode. I have only seen 2 of season 7, because when I watch these new episodes it results in the watching of three episodes of a more resilient comedy, followed by reflective moaning about the decline of Homo Novus with only my slightly irritated and similarly dissatisfied family as an audience. The whole sweater thing looked a bit... meh. I trust it was curiously unsatisfying, was it? It annoys me that The Radio Times continues to give the show glowing reviews, even referring to current "Sheldon" (Ha!) as a "LOL machine." Sometimes I wonder if I'm going mad.