Because this blog I made is almost purely Shenny thoughts, I’m going to write the three SP related things that came to mind when watching the last episode for season five of The Big Bang Theory:
1. How obviously great they look standing one beside the other. It’s not so much about the implication of them together or anything like that, it’s as simple as the plain, “nothing-is-going-on” Sheldon and Penny just standing there. Nothing more. It’s quite curious how big and grand they both look in comparison to their respective boyfriend/girlfriend. Look, in terms of visuals I don’t see the endearing/hot/lovely/cute/awesome side of LP. Especially with Leonard acting like he did. I swear, there are some flashes of that Leonard the writers wanted people to love, but in this episode, I didn’t see any of that Leonard nor do I see that Leonard much.That just DOESN’T help me reflect their characters/premises into their physiques.
Regarding SA. I would be lying if I said I didn’t find them interesting. I would go as far as say the geekiness they reek would just be a pleasantly contrasting side of the strange hotness I find in both of them together or standing just by themselves. Amy has been a great character, even if I found something very much “the-old-Amy” in this episode. I don’t apologise for stating this nor I feel I’m betraying SP fans because I know we SP fans are not that kind of fandom.
For all this “visuals” and “projections”, it has always been Sheldon and Penny that caught my attention.
2. I don’t know what’s wrong with the writers or simply what’s wrong with me, but why does Sheldon have to insist on the whole proposal thing with LP? My SP mind just told me he didn’t like that for some reason, but I’ve been considering I’m just trying to grab at straws here. Why does he have to be him though? Why couldn’t it be Amy after hearing it from Penny? Why couldn’t the writers just avoid that because it’s obviously not helping the LP?
The whole dialogue regarding the proposal just confused me because I did not see it as a way to make the viewers see the LP in an endearing light. Anyone in their right mind would know it was really NOT the time to ask, and then followed by Leonard’s obvious behaviour towards that… LP/SA/SP fans are always trying to look deeper into the characters, but casual viewers will just see his attitude as pathetic and Penny’s as annoyed or uninterested.
3. Confusing also that Sheldon seems to be pretty fine stating how happy he is by himself, and not only does he state it as clear as the day, but the emphasises it and uses it as speech for the wedding (he might not care much for them, but he still took the time to write it and he deemed it as deep and beautiful enough to say people would cry when hearing it), completely or conveniently forgetting he is actually not by himself, but has a relationship agreement with a dynamite girl right beside him. And then, at the end of the episode, he takes Amy’s hand and we see her hunched shoulders straightening up and her face shine (ugh, she makes me hurt so much).
What. The. Hell. Writers….
Contradicting.
Did they think that if Sheldon was more receptive to Amy’s involvement in his life when saying the speech and then the hand holding people were going to think it was too much too soon? Many people think that already, so it’s not like more damage can be done.
I would have preferred him alluding to the pleasantness she provides to his life as a person and a girlfriend in his speech (obviously with him being completely snarky and indirect) than the kind of cheesy ending with them all holding hands…
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Overall, I didn’t laugh much this episode but it could have gone worse. I didn’t mind the last scene at all even though it buried anything I might have seen about my OTP. The good thing is that I guess. The bad thing is because I think my lack of reaction is connected with my decreasing interest for the show. It’s like I can’t care enough to have a stronger, passionate reaction :/
