01-30-2014, 08:16 PM
(01-30-2014, 07:20 PM)SpaceAnJL Wrote: Yeah, the episode where Sheldon ends up rocking in the corner and singing 'Daisy, Daisy...' is definitely coming.
I'm afraid this exactly is the kind of image that has been coming to my mind for some time now whenever I try to picture Sheldon's fate and his future.
(01-30-2014, 07:20 PM)SpaceAnJL Wrote: (Incidentally, the evil controlling supercomputer in 'I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream' was called AM. There's also a character called Benny, who was once a brilliant, handsome scientist, who has been mutilated and transformed by AM so that he resembles a grotesque simian with gigantic sexual organs. Benny at some point lost his sanity completely and regressed to a childlike temperament. Sound familiar?)
I didn't know about this short story so I checked its Wikipedia page, and in the description section for the Benny character it also says, "His former homosexuality has been altered; he now regularly engages in sex with Ellen." Replace 'homosexuality' with 'asexuality' and 'Ellen' with 'Amy' and sadly it seems that the fate of the Benny character is a precise description of Sheldon's future. (Oddly enough, the Ellen character also claimed to "once have been chaste but apparently AM altered her mind so that she became desperate for sexual intercourse...and now she finds pleasure in sex only with Benny, because of his large penis.")
It's as if The Big Bang Theory's writers were taking a lot of their material right out of the dystopian sci-fi stories indeed.