01-30-2014, 07:50 AM
It’s the dignified and comfortably aloof observer of society’s foibles that I miss the most. We haven’t seen this expression and stance since the fourth season.
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Whether he’s being mournfully pessimistic, repulsed or bewildered by society, it was always his detached presence and outsider status that leant a certain gravitas and validity to his opinions.
He has now BECOME a member of the society he once held in disdain, and is no longer interested in observing it. Which rather renders his purpose moot, as far as I’m concerned. If he’s no longer an Outsider offering a unique perspective, no longer one of the finest minds of his generation, no longer distinguishable from the 99% of the world who allow “romantic” entanglements to dictate their actions, and above all, no longer single-mindedly in pursuit of scientific truth, and enamoured of its beauty alone, then what the devil is his Point?
Strip him of these things and he’s just an ordinary man, and nowadays a rather irritating, wholly selfish one, with no redeeming virtues whatever. Along with all his idiosyncrasies (routines, 0000, food specifications, germ phobia, font of factoids, not to mention all his specific mannerisms) they appear to have removed his charm and loyalty as well, to say nothing of his emotional regression. In essence, Sheldon has had his higher circuits removed. What’s left is a dithering imbecile, with a few dwindling scraps of Self.
Whether he’s being mournfully pessimistic, repulsed or bewildered by society, it was always his detached presence and outsider status that leant a certain gravitas and validity to his opinions.
He has now BECOME a member of the society he once held in disdain, and is no longer interested in observing it. Which rather renders his purpose moot, as far as I’m concerned. If he’s no longer an Outsider offering a unique perspective, no longer one of the finest minds of his generation, no longer distinguishable from the 99% of the world who allow “romantic” entanglements to dictate their actions, and above all, no longer single-mindedly in pursuit of scientific truth, and enamoured of its beauty alone, then what the devil is his Point?
Strip him of these things and he’s just an ordinary man, and nowadays a rather irritating, wholly selfish one, with no redeeming virtues whatever. Along with all his idiosyncrasies (routines, 0000, food specifications, germ phobia, font of factoids, not to mention all his specific mannerisms) they appear to have removed his charm and loyalty as well, to say nothing of his emotional regression. In essence, Sheldon has had his higher circuits removed. What’s left is a dithering imbecile, with a few dwindling scraps of Self.
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"