01-25-2014, 01:13 AM
(01-24-2014, 04:48 PM)WITCHDOCTOR FANTASTIC Wrote:(01-23-2014, 06:03 PM)Tuesday Pajamas Wrote: 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.
Yes, in the golden days of the show, if Sheldon cocked something up I'd still be on his side going: "Aww, leave him alone. He didn't mean it in that way." Now I'm just thinking "SHUT THE FUCK UP, SHELDON." The first time I noticed this shift in his character was in the episode featuring Leonard's school bully. Horrendous episode, horrendous revelation about Sheldon's weird personality shift. I suddenly thought: "Hang on. He's actually being a straight up annoying dick in this episode."
I agree with the both of you: he's annoying and malicious, the same deadly concoction that's poisoned the show as a whole. It's gotten to the point where I sit so stone-faced during the new episodes that I begin to wonder if I've lost my funny bone because I just don't *get* why such blatant cruelty among supposed friends is supposed to be funny. Since Sheldon is such a complex and delicate character he's like the canary in the mine.
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