Sheldor the Conqueror

[FranEssi]

Yes and lovable to boot. People enjoy the odd characters on sitcoms the most because they are different but TPTB seems determined to tell us 'different' must be fixed...

Lovable indeed!
Yeah, it's a good thing the writers and creators of iconic and/or interesting characters like Sherlock Holmes and Monk actually loved, understood and cared about their own creations enough to never break their spirits in the name of character development. Just imagine how things would be if The Big Bang Theory writers wrote those characters: I bet Holmes would start failing at solving the cases, would get mocked as someone who had the illusion of being smart and in the last book, he would get married and have children, and Monk would suddenly get cured of his OCD and would get a girlfriend, and both Holmes and Monk would "grow up" and start learning that they needed to put more care and attention into their social lives rather than into their work and careers. *shudder*