7.16 The Table Polarization

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It just can't get any more ridiculous. Sheldon of all people had no personality prior to Amy? So the fans watched the show because Leonard was so superbly entertaining? Sure, sure...
Man, I really don't know what TPTB are smoking. Must be some crazy strong pot, which apparently they are not handling very well.

Ugh. On one level it's just a typical sitcom throwaway line. Typically for the show that TBBT has become it's a depressingly mean spirited (and stupid) thing for one character to utter at the expense of another. On a deeper and more disquieting level though it's a particularly egregious example of revisionism or negationism - trying to sell the premise that Sheldon was NOT the self-sufficient, perfectly content, and powerful, albeit strikingly unconventional, individual we saw in Seasons 1-3. Quirky and unconventional is now being redefined as incomplete; ergo Amy completes Sheldon.

I don't know about you guys but I didn't become besotted with Sheldon because he was a character that liked some shows.