03-04-2014, 03:24 AM
Also, what do you want to bet that he has a cologne just like her father wears? He certainly knows how to push buttons. I still remember that little smirk on his face after he manipulated Sheldon over Missy when she visited, there was something nasty about that. And he deliberately sabotaged Stuart's second date with Penny. He isn't a nice person, there's no way around that.
Most of the characters seem quite adept at that sort of thing. Bernadette knew how to snap Sheldon out of his funk - by pretty much acting like a scary drill-sergeant, which is the show default for 'mommy character'. She uses the same tactics on Howard. Amy - well, just Amy. Beverly literally wrote the book on the subject. Raj and Howard and that damn dirty sock have a lot to answer for.
Then you have Penny, who threatened to open one of Sheldon's mint comics and draw on it. She responded well to chocolate. I can't help wishing that Sheldon had kept that water-spray, and the courage of his convictions.
Really, you have a group of people that seem to think that the only way the world will give them what they think they 'deserve' is to either sneak it or shout it out of people. They can see the strings and levers, but they don't get the basic humanity behind it. Perhaps that's why we as the audience see them increasingly as puppets.
Most of the characters seem quite adept at that sort of thing. Bernadette knew how to snap Sheldon out of his funk - by pretty much acting like a scary drill-sergeant, which is the show default for 'mommy character'. She uses the same tactics on Howard. Amy - well, just Amy. Beverly literally wrote the book on the subject. Raj and Howard and that damn dirty sock have a lot to answer for.
Then you have Penny, who threatened to open one of Sheldon's mint comics and draw on it. She responded well to chocolate. I can't help wishing that Sheldon had kept that water-spray, and the courage of his convictions.
Really, you have a group of people that seem to think that the only way the world will give them what they think they 'deserve' is to either sneak it or shout it out of people. They can see the strings and levers, but they don't get the basic humanity behind it. Perhaps that's why we as the audience see them increasingly as puppets.