Sure, she's cute and very down-to-earth, but she's... yeah, okay, she's dumb.
I don't think she is dumb, per se, I mean, not like Joey from Friends material. Probably a normal highschool education. It's just that she hangs out with geniuses all the time so her intellect pales in comparism. But she is usually perceptive - Sheldon, for all his brilliance can be incredibly dense in getting a clue - and she has a good memory - I loved the scene where she recited how and why Sheldon chooses his spot on the couch to Bernadette from what Sheldon told her years before.
And she is usually a pleasant person but when she gets really angry, she also lashes out and gets really mean. Deriding Leonard for liking his comic books and figures was one example. I don't think she really looks down on it all so much as she was just angry because the hobby - the timemachine clocking up the stairwell - had led to a really bad day on her part.
Her telling Howard he'd be alone and miserable forever was another of those lashing-outs and despite Howard being an obnoxious perv a lot of the time, I found that incredibly cruel. Like someone would say to her no guy would be interested in her other than as a bed-bunny and that for just a few more years.
So, yeah, she definitely has her moments of meanness but I generally like her. I just don't think her and Leonard really fit together. It just seems geek wish fulfillment to have them be a couple.
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Date: 2010-02-27 10:35 pm (UTC)I don't think she is dumb, per se, I mean, not like Joey from Friends material. Probably a normal highschool education. It's just that she hangs out with geniuses all the time so her intellect pales in comparism. But she is usually perceptive - Sheldon, for all his brilliance can be incredibly dense in getting a clue - and she has a good memory - I loved the scene where she recited how and why Sheldon chooses his spot on the couch to Bernadette from what Sheldon told her years before.
And she is usually a pleasant person but when she gets really angry, she also lashes out and gets really mean. Deriding Leonard for liking his comic books and figures was one example. I don't think she really looks down on it all so much as she was just angry because the hobby - the timemachine clocking up the stairwell - had led to a really bad day on her part.
Her telling Howard he'd be alone and miserable forever was another of those lashing-outs and despite Howard being an obnoxious perv a lot of the time, I found that incredibly cruel. Like someone would say to her no guy would be interested in her other than as a bed-bunny and that for just a few more years.
So, yeah, she definitely has her moments of meanness but I generally like her. I just don't think her and Leonard really fit together. It just seems geek wish fulfillment to have them be a couple.