Ship Zone [Spoilers] Shamy: Season 10

[mirs1]

5 hours ago, serena_1995 said:

I don't think I ever said that it is a bad thing, in the first place. On the contrary, I want Amy to get more screen time. The only reason I brought up Sheldon's struggles was because, if I want to see Amy get more screen time and more focus like Sheldon does, it would be nice to see Amy  get a similar journey as Sheldon, full of great and not so great moments. I don't want Amy's stories to become a plot device to teach Sheldon more life lessons and further Sheldon's character development. The writers should just let it be about Amy's character development , leave Sheldon out of it- maybe give Sheldon a plot with Bernie or Raj, for a change. 

Oh, absolutely, I like the idea of some plots just about Amy and her life, as well as the one about unusual pairings. I think one of the reasons Amy was written so well this season is that she was allowed to interact more with other characters. She had some very funny moments with Penny, but this time Amy's attitude towards their friendship was a perfect mingle between naiveté and sassiness, she seemed much more self-confident and less dependent. Also Penny seemed more at ease with her, it was finally an equal friendship. Then there was the Lamy interaction in 10.5, I think this pairing should be explored more. Allowing Amy to have plot which are (semi)-independent from Sheldon and possibly involve other characters might help construct her character and give her the development we all want. Of course, that is just wishful thinking on my part, we are all well aware here that she is not a main character, so her screen-time is in a sense limited, but I think that could improve the show. One of the complaints I've read more often on-line about the show this season is that there was a very strong division in the plots between PALS and Howardette+Raj, sometimes it seemed to watch two different shows. If the second part of the season goes as the second part of S. 9 went, and so the rhythm will slow down and there will be a bunch of "filler" episodes (whatever that means, LOL!) probably I'd love to see Sheldon and Amy having some independent plots here and there, with different pairings, and mixing things up a bit, as you suggested. Possibly Amy and Bernie could end up working together on something, that would allow to deepen both characters more, with Amy's struggles in an environment which is different from the academic one and Bernie facing the difficulties of a working mum. Then, Shamy can be a very nice background to all of that, with eventually Sheldon being supportive. Again...wishful thinking, but since we have no "fresh" news to discuss, it's fun to throw ideas out there and to express what we would want to see on the show.

Edited December 29, 2016 by mirs1

[Jonny]

6 hours ago, serena_1995 said:

I don't think I ever said that it is a bad thing, in the first place. On the contrary, I want Amy to get more screen time. The only reason I brought up Sheldon's struggles was because, if I want to see Amy get more screen time and more focus like Sheldon does, it would be nice to see Amy  get a similar journey as Sheldon, full of great and not so great moments. I don't want Amy's stories to become a plot device to teach Sheldon more life lessons and further Sheldon's character development. The writers should just let it be about Amy's character development , leave Sheldon out of it- maybe give Sheldon a plot with Bernie or Raj, for a change. 

I think we are largely in agreement here.

The whole discussion came from floating some ideas out there but at the end of the day whatever storylines they come up with, how they are constructed and the reasoning behind them can't be judged until they are on screen. They may give Amy a career storyline at some point down the line and if they do I expect all of us will do what we should do, watch it and then give our thoughts.

Edited December 29, 2016 by Jonny

[spidergirl]

40 minutes ago, mirs1 said:

Oh, absolutely, I like the idea of some plots just about Amy and her life, as well as the one about unusual pairings. I think one of the reasons Amy was written so well this season is that she was allowed to interact more with other characters. She had some very funny moments with Penny, but this time Amy's attitude towards their friendship was a perfect mingle between naiveté and sassiness, she seemed much more self-confident and less dependent. Also Penny seemed more at ease with her, it was finally an equal friendship. Then there was the Lamy interaction in 10.5, I think this pairing should be explored more. Allowing Amy to have plot which are (semi)-independent from Sheldon and possibly involve other characters might help construct her character and give her the development we all want. Of course, that is just wishful thinking on my part, we are all well aware here that she is not a main character, so her screen-time is in a sense limited, but I think that could improve the show. One of the complaints I've read more often on-line about the show this season is that there was a very strong division in the plots between PALS and Howardette+Raj, sometimes it seemed to watch two different shows. If the second part of the season goes as the second part of S. 9 went, and so the rhythm will slow down and there will be a bunch of "filler" episodes (whatever that means, LOL!) probably I'd love to see Sheldon and Amy having some independent plots here and there, with different pairings, and mixing things up a bit, as you suggested. Possibly Amy and Bernie could end up working together on something, that would allow to deepen both characters more, with Amy's struggles in an environment which is different from the academic one and Bernie facing the difficulties of a working mum. Then, Shamy can be a very nice background to all of that, with eventually Sheldon being supportive. Again...wishful thinking, but since we have no "fresh" news to discuss, it's fun to throw ideas out there and to express what we would want to see on the show.

Indeed! I like the idea of Bernie and Amy working together very much, it could be an interesting plot for showing more details about what these lovely ladies do for living.  I also would like to see a glimpse of the impact of Bernie be a mother who also work out of home , it could work in some realistic and funny situations.

Btw, if there was a storyline about Bernie and Amy working together, it could allow more interactions between Howard and Sheldon, maybe because both be back late at home? It would be nice to see guys dealing with that and maybe we could see those two guys getting along, as through the years Sheldon and Howard have not been always nice to each other... a glimpse of both character  growth could be interisting and funny, as they might improve a bit with each othet but still be the same guys we care about. 

Edited December 29, 2016 by spidergirl

[Desdemona]

6 hours ago, spidergirl said:

Indeed! I like the idea of Bernie and Amy working together very much, it could be an interesting plot for showing more details about what these lovely ladies do for living.  I also would like to see a glimpse of the impact of Bernie be a mother who also work out of home , it could work in some realistic and funny situations.

Btw, if there was a storyline about Bernie and Amy working together, it could allow more interactions between Howard and Sheldon, maybe because both be back late at home? It would be nice to see guys dealing with that and maybe we could see those two guys getting along, as through the years Sheldon and Howard have not been always nice to each other... a glimpse of both character  growth could be interisting and funny, as they might improve a bit with each othet but still be the same guys we care about. 

I would love to see Amy and Bernadette working together. As I said once, it could be interesting if Bernadette´s company would hire Amy for a research project, because she is a well reputated neurobiologist. I wouldn´t be surprised if Zangen would offer Amy a very well paid job. Amy could either accept it, because the job is interesting and she can do finally not only do tests on animals but on living human beings as well and supervise the development of the project.

Or Amy could ask Bernie for help, because she is working on something which requires her knowledge as a microbiologist.

Showard might not have been nice to each other, but they had some very intense and touching moments. (Boy for someone who didn´t like physical contact in the past, he had some acute moments of physical intimacy with Howard. LOL)

These are my favorites (Aren´t they cute? )

 

[spidergirl]

7 minutes ago, Desdemona said:

I would love to see Amy and Bernadette working together. As I said once, it could be interesting if Bernadette´s company would hire Amy for a research project, because she is a well reputated neurobiologist. I wouldn´t be surprised if Zangen would offer Amy a very well paid job. Amy could either accept it, because the job is interesting and she can do finally not only do tests on animals but on living human beings as well and supervise the development of the project.

Or Amy could ask Bernie for help, because she is working on something which requires her knowledge as a microbiologist.

Showard might not have been nice to each other, but they had some very intense and touching moments. (Boy for someone who didn´t like physical contact in the past, he had some acute moments of physical intimacy with Howard. LOL)

These are my favorites (Aren´t they cute? )

 

True! Oh man , I laughing hard again for first photo, lol! It was a memorable scene!

[spidergirl]

While we wait for more news about our favourite couple and for new episodes/ taping reports and because this year is ending , I am doing this for fun. Twelve  shamy moments for the twelve months of the year, as a year includes part of two seasons.

January

One of the shamy moments I most love in second half of season 9 was the litle hearted talk they had in Valentine's day.  The love they felt for each other was almost palpable and the way Amy looked at Sheldon as he spoke about people being in love was just wow. Damn the interruption made by two certain cupids, lol!

 

February

How fun was seeing shamy spending a weekend out ? Loved how Amy said shameless how Sheldon rocked Amy's world! They began to be so relaxed with each other and more with another people around. A prelude for the fantastic s10 we are having so far!

March

Season 10 started with shy steps for shamy but then the chance for they do a cohabitation experiment happened and it was the best thing ever! Love the fiery way they look at each other in a midle of a science argument: they realy know what make their motors running and that is so cool! If there were doubts about randy Sheldon, this episode killed them all, lol!

April

This season has been filled of sweet displays of affection between shamy. How cute was this bedtime kiss? They now do this, every night *sigh*

May

Compromise is the key. Finaly Sheldon started to feel ready for compromise about some things for his and Amy relationship go to up levels. And it is running so naturally, thank you writers!

June

The once in year thing lasted but surely it won't repeat again...

 The attempts have been a few and our shamy seemed to be more confortable to develop moods...often, lol!

July

They are so "married", and it is so cool! For better and worse, to share a life together

August

And Sheldon found how fun cosplay can be...altogether with coitus! Once in year, what?

September 

When shamy got that level of intimacy that a look means 1000 words. 

October

A perfect moment for both do a MRI! Go Sheldon 

 

November

Any chance of Shamy not be the best couple ever?

 

December

Will shamy be together forever and ever, with or without ring?

Happy shamy year!

Edited December 29, 2016 by spidergirl

[joyceraye]

Yes to the idea of Amy getting a job with Zangen ! According to an article by Mayim Bialik, and to my goddaughter who's been a neuroscientist, neuroscience is a field of study which moves so quickly, it's more or less impossible to return to if you've had any time away. Married women in particular have to consider carefully where their career might go if and when they might want to do something else for a while. I've wondered in that case what Amy would do after taking five to ten years off to look after Sheldon and a family. Looking to the future,taking a job now with a firm that she knows she could return to eventually, even if part-time at first to fit round children, would give her more options. If we get another three series we could see her at work doing something interesting with Bernadette before we see her at home with kids, enjoying the type of domestic stuff she's good at. Three more series after that could see her and Sheldon wrestling with geniuses they can barely keep up with.

[mirs1]

12 hours ago, joyceraye said:

Yes to the idea of Amy getting a job with Zangen ! According to an article by Mayim Bialik, and to my goddaughter who's been a neuroscientist, neuroscience is a field of study which moves so quickly, it's more or less impossible to return to if you've had any time away. Married women in particular have to consider carefully where their career might go if and when they might want to do something else for a while. I've wondered in that case what Amy would do after taking five to ten years off to look after Sheldon and a family. Looking to the future,taking a job now with a firm that she knows she could return to eventually, even if part-time at first to fit round children, would give her more options. If we get another three series we could see her at work doing something interesting with Bernadette before we see her at home with kids, enjoying the type of domestic stuff she's good at. Three more series after that could see her and Sheldon wrestling with geniuses they can barely keep up with.

Why should she quit her job to start a family? Most of my friends, who work in different fields, both in private firms and in academia, have been successful in managing a family and their works. Of course, you need a lot of help from your partner, family and day care for doing so, but it's possible...Plus, private companies are for sure not as accommodating as you imagine. No firm will air a person who has been unemployed for years to raise a family or will accept to give you 5 years maternity leave or even a part time, if you are aired in a responsibility position. Neuroscience is a field which moves quickly (as many other fields in science...) but it moves quickly in academia as well as if you work in a private company, if Amy is left behind, she is left behind, no matter where she works. Amy (and Bernie, on that account) were introduced in the show (also) to present a positive image of different kind of female scientists, and they are a positive message for women in STEM. I wouldn't consider a positive message for Amy to leave everything for a child, unless of course it's what she wants. But not once I've heard her saying that her dream is to be a stay-at-home mother; every time she mentions her job she seems proud of it, really I don't see her quitting it at some point. 

Anyway, guys, the promo is up! Shamy are cute as ever, the promo starts with PDAs and casual touching between them. There is a very fun joke between Sheldon and Bernie

S. "I was being odd on purpose"

B: "You can control it?"

which makes me laugh so hard and there is the part about Sheldon piercing his ear that is priceless. Amy has her usual WTF face all the time, while Sheldon...well...is being Sheldon, those piercing guns are 100% painless, I've tried them and, even if I am as scared as Sheldon is of pain and needles, I felt absolutely nothing. So, maybe it's the hiatus-nostalgia talking, but I start to be excited for the next episode, even if on paper it's not really the best possible...

Edited December 30, 2016 by mirs1

[spidergirl]

38 minutes ago, mirs1 said:

Why should she quit her job to start a family? Most of my friends, who work in different fields, both in private firms and in academia, have been successful in managing a family and their works. Of course, you need a lot of help from your partner, family and day care for doing so, but it's possible...Plus, really private companies are for sure not as accommodating as you imagine. No firm will air a person who has been unemployed for years to raise a family or will accept to give you 5 years maternity leave or even a part time, if you are aired in a responsibility position. Neuroscience is a field which moves quickly (as many other fields in science...) but it moves quickly in academia as well as if you work in a private company, if Amy is left behind, she is left behind, no matter where she works. Amy (and Bernie, on that account) were introduced in the show (also) to present a positive image of different kind of female scientists, and they are a positive message for woman in STEM. I wouldn't consider a positive message for Amy to leave everything for a child, unless of course it's what she wants. But not once I've heard her saying that her dream is to be a stay-at-home mother; every time she mentions her job she seems proud of it, really I don't see her quitting it at some point. 

 

This! Amy has always showed how proud she is for her career anchievments, how passionate she is about her researches and also we can sense how ambitious she is in therms of evolution in her job, and her field of research is really something dynamic and hard working, which needs hours and hours of dedication. Amy did not denied she wants a baby with Sheldon but surely when it happens, she would adjust both things, motherhood and career. And I also can see Amy talking with Sheldon for both  being involved on that, as most of workers who are also parents do nowadays. Our adorable dorks are scientists but they are also people who are affectionable so I see them doing their best in their careers and being the best parents for their children. Hardly we will see it on screen but I hope we can know how it was in some way before the show ends 

 

38 minutes ago, mirs1 said:

Ayway, guys, the promo is up! Shamy are cute as ever, the promo starts with PDAs and casual touching between them. There is a very fun joke between Sheldon and Bernie

S. "I was being odd on purpose"

B: "You can control it?"

which made me laugh so hard and there was a part about Sheldon piercing his ear that was priceless. Amy has her usual WTF face all the time, while Sheldon...well...is being Sheldon, those piercing guns are 100% painless, I've tried them and, even if I am as scared as Sheldon is of pain and needles, I felt absolutely nothing. So, maybe it's the hiatus-nostalgia talking, but I start to be excited for the next episode, even if on chart it's not really the best possible...

I know , I laughed hard too!

Yeah, it was priceless! It doesnt hurt at all! But Sheldon is the master of geting hurt,lol!!

I am with you on this. Even this episode would not be one of the best of this season, it has a side of shamy relationship, their interactions with their families, in this case with Sheldon's family, that I always love to know more about. And then there are those promo photos of them that show them so more involved with each other, I mean the way they were looking at each other, their shoes touching as they were sat close to each other, their smiles,   you know, after more hanky panky in previous episode?

They are really a complete couple right now! Excuse me being repetitive but it makes me SO happy! *fans self*

Edited December 30, 2016 by spidergirl

[Soopysue]

I love the promo !! Gentle Shamy touch ahhhhhh *heart eyes* !
Btw I saw online yesterday that the episode airing on 12th Jan is the "passionate kiss" for Shamy & RA for Lenny episode !!! Woooohoooo can't wait !


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[Jonny]

19 minutes ago, Soopysue said:

I love the promo !! Gentle Shamy touch ahhhhhh *heart eyes* !
Btw I saw online yesterday that the episode airing on 12th Jan is the "passionate kiss" for Shamy & RA for Lenny episode !!! Woooohoooo can't wait !


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Yeah just saw the promo myself. 

Loving the way they look at each other and the gentle subtle touches, you can really feel the love between them this Season! It's quite striking especially when you compare it to previous seasons. Striking in a fantastic nice to see way of course! 

Edited December 30, 2016 by Jonny

[mirs1]

5 minutes ago, Jonny said:

Yeah just saw the promo myself. 

Loving the way they look at each other and the gentle subtle touches, you can really feel the love between them this Season! It's quite striking especially when you compare it to previous seasons. Striking in a mega fantastic nice to see way of course!

I've also noticed something about Amy...When she is on the couch in 4A, she usually tends to sit very straight, with her hands on her knees. In the promo she has a very different attitude, she looks very relaxed and "casual"; I remember last season we used to notice those change in composure in Sheldon, maybe this year is Amy's turn to "get loose", LOL!

Edited December 30, 2016 by mirs1

[spidergirl]

11 minutes ago, Jonny said:

Yeah just saw the promo myself. 

Loving the way they look at each other and the gentle subtle touches, you can really feel the love between them this Season! It's quite striking especially when you compare it to previous seasons. Striking in a mega fantastic nice to see way of course!

Indeed!

BTW, your signature photo is so lovely! The way Sheldon is looking at Amy melts my heart everytime I read a post from you!

6 minutes ago, mirs1 said:

I've also noticed something about Amy...When she is on the couch in 4A, she usually tends to sit very straight, with her hands on her knees. In the promo she has a very different attitude, she looks very relaxed and "casual"; I remember last season we used to notice those change in composure in Sheldon, maybe this year is Amy's turn to "get loose", LOL!

Yeah. They are both getting so loose, so proud of them! The cohabitation experiment should win the Nobel prize!

Sheldon is also more relaxed as he is sitting on his spot, not so "centered" on it, you know. Maybe we might see soon Amy "casually" siting there and he would not bother at all.

Edited December 30, 2016 by spidergirl

[Jonny]

3 minutes ago, mirs1 said:

I've also noticed something about Amy...When she is on the couch in 4A, she usually tends to sit very straight, with her hands on her knees. In the promo she has a very different attitude, she looks very relaxed and "casual"; I remember last season we used to notice those change in composure in Sheldon, maybe this year is Amy's turn to "get loose", LOL!

Yeah I had noticed that a little as well, just happy with life at the moment and feeling relaxed I guess? When you are feeling happy and content it can be projected in things like posture and your body language.

6 minutes ago, spidergirl said:

Indeed!

BTW, your signature photo is so lovely! The way Sheldon is looking at Amy melts my heart everytime I read a post from you!

Why thank you! 

Well I needed something to put there especially as I can't seem to settle on an avatar I like at the moment lol. It's my favorite Shamy scene/moment this season followed closely by the hallway scene in Veracity Elasticity.

With the way this season is going if we get another top 10 moment list to do during the hiatus as we wait for Season 11 to start Season 10 will have a fair few entries in people's top 10's I reckon. 

[spidergirl]

Anyway, I left a New year greeting in DT but I would like to share with you, my dear shamy fellows, a special greeting with all my heart. Thank youso much for these  4 months of joy and valuable thoughts as we speak about our adorable shamy.

I hope everyone has a very happy 2017 filled with everything that make you happy. Hopefully we will continue speaking about shamy and about the show for upcoming  years. *crossing fingers*

Btw, this girl would like to say hi!

 

 

This photo is protected by a spell that will make it disapear on January 1st!

See ya!

 

[kbp]

1 hour ago, spidergirl said:

Anyway, I left a New year greeting in DT but I would like to share with you, my dear shamy fellows, a special greeting with all my heart. Thank youso much for these  4 months of joy and valuable thoughts as we speak about our adorable shamy.

I hope everyone has a very happy 2017 filled with everything that make you happy. Hopefully we will continue speaking about shamy and about the show for upcoming  years. *crossing fingers*

Btw, this girl would like to say hi!

Happy new year to you and all the shamy followers hes to a fanastic 2017 for shamy and hopefully many more years to come

This photo is protected by a spell that will make it disapear on January 1st!

See ya!

 

 

Just now, kbp said:

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL THE SHAMY FOLLOWERS AND HEARS TO MORE FANASTIC SHAMY MOMENTS IN 2017  AND HOPEFULLY MANY MORE SEASONS TO COM HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE FROM AUSTRALIA 

 

[joyceraye]

16 hours ago, mirs1 said:

Why should she quit her job to start a family? Most of my friends, who work in different fields, both in private firms and in academia, have been successful in managing a family and their works. Of course, you need a lot of help from your partner, family and day care for doing so, but it's possible...Plus, private companies are for sure not as accommodating as you imagine. No firm will air a person who has been unemployed for years to raise a family or will accept to give you 5 years maternity leave or even a part time, if you are aired in a responsibility position. Neuroscience is a field which moves quickly (as many other fields in science...) but it moves quickly in academia as well as if you work in a private company, if Amy is left behind, she is left behind, no matter where she works. Amy (and Bernie, on that account) were introduced in the show (also) to present a positive image of different kind of female scientists, and they are a positive message for women in STEM. I wouldn't consider a positive message for Amy to leave everything for a child, unless of course it's what she wants. But not once I've heard her saying that her dream is to be a stay-at-home mother; every time she mentions her job she seems proud of it, really I don't see her quitting it at some point. 

Anyway, guys, the promo is up! Shamy are cute as ever, the promo starts with PDAs and casual touching between them. There is a very fun joke between Sheldon and Bernie

S. "I was being odd on purpose"

B: "You can control it?"

which makes me laugh so hard and there is the part about Sheldon piercing his ear that is priceless. Amy has her usual WTF face all the time, while Sheldon...well...is being Sheldon, those piercing guns are 100% painless, I've tried them and, even if I am as scared as Sheldon is of pain and needles, I felt absolutely nothing. So, maybe it's the hiatus-nostalgia talking, but I start to be excited for the next episode, even if on paper it's not really the best possible...

Obviously you know more about it than I do. Sometimes I forget I know nothing about employment conditions in the USA. 

I've minded and then homeschooled  children while the parents worked and I'm aware of the constant attention that's needed to stimulate a child to help develop his brain. In Amy's particular case if she wanted to continue her own career full time she'd have to pass that role onto someone with less expertise in this area than she has  herself.  I think she'd cope with the demands of being at home but would have the sense to think ahead about what she was going to go back to.  She might publish papers and write books like Beverley did.  It's different for Howardette and Lenny.

 

[mirs1]

6 hours ago, joyceraye said:

Obviously you know more about it than I do. Sometimes I forget I know nothing about employment conditions in the USA. 

I've minded and then homeschooled  children while the parents worked and I'm aware of the constant attention that's needed to stimulate a child to help develop his brain. In Amy's particular case if she wanted to continue her own career full time she'd have to pass that role onto someone with less expertise in this area than she has  herself.  I think she'd cope with the demands of being at home but would have the sense to think ahead about what she was going to go back to.  She might publish papers and write books like Beverley did.  It's different for Howardette and Lenny.

 

I'm not American, so I don't know that much about employment conditions in the USA; I'm just a bit more familiar with the conditions women face at work and how difficult is for them to plan a pregnancy while they have a responsibility position. 

I don't agree with your depiction of Amy, though. I mean, when she and Sheldon were thinking about a test tube baby, they were thinking to have it with a surrogate mother,  so she didn't have problems in "delegating" some tasks in raising a baby. Se has never said in the show she wanted to quit everything for a child. When she met meemaw, she proudly spoke about her career and when Constance underlined that that didn't bode well for her relationship, she asserted her will to work. Working full time doesn't mean she will not raise her kids properly, she can stimulate their brains even working, and Sheldon can and has to help with that. If at some point she expresses her will to be a full-time mum, then perfect, but at the moment nothing points in that direction. And, please, no books about her kids..."Needy baby, greedy baby" has ruined Leonard's life; even if Amy wrote in a more loving way about her own children, pretty sure it is not a positive thing for a person's development to see their life analyzed in a book....

 

Edited December 31, 2016 by mirs1

[joyceraye]

8 hours ago, mirs1 said:

I'm not American, so I don't know that much about employment conditions in the USA; I'm just a bit more familiar with the conditions women face at work and how difficult is for them to plan a pregnancy while they have a responsibility position. 

I don't agree with your depiction of Amy, though. I mean, when she and Sheldon were thinking about a test tube baby, they were thinking to have it with a surrogate mother,  so she didn't have problems in "delegating" some tasks in raising a baby. Se has never said in the show she wanted to quit everything for a child. When she met meemaw, she proudly spoke about her career and when Constance underlined that that didn't bode well for her relationship, she asserted her will to work. Working full time doesn't mean she will not raise her kids properly, she can stimulate their brains even working, and Sheldon can and has to help with that. If at some point she expresses her will to be a full-time mum, then perfect, but at the moment nothing points in that direction. And, please, no books about her kids..."Needy baby, greedy baby" has ruined Leonard's life; even if Amy wrote in a more loving way about her own children, pretty sure it is not a positive thing for a person's development to see their life analyzed in a book....

 

Good points !  Very true. In response to suggestions of Amardette working together, I was speculating Amy might soon, with an eye to her own career future if she was intending to stay at home for a few years eventually, divert from the neuro lab and take up a post at Bernadette's firm. I suppose  OTOH if Amy stayed at Caltech there'd be a very good workplace nursery staffed by experts used to brainy babies where she might leave a child when she couldn't have it with her in the lab. That would work.  Also it could be funny if we could see such a place this series.  If Howard is needed in person at any time for the guidance thingy while he's on leave, he'll have to drop Halley off somewhere : you can't have a baby into everything with the sort of things that they're making. I'm imagining funny scenes now of nursery teachers talking to him about pupils who've just solved quadratic equations while learning to crawl.  

The scenario you refer to about women's, especially mothers', work situation was the case here in England ( Don't have much experience of elsewhere in UK ) thirty of forty years ago. It's been usual since the nineties to equate domestic responsibilities with employment experience when setting on employees of either sex.

Beverley was hardly old enough to have got her M.D.  - she was aged 24 at the most - and might still have been a student when she had Leonard so she probably wrote her populist books like 'Needy Baby, Greedy Baby' to keep herself sane and make some money before she trained as a psychiatrist. Leonard never refers to nannies or childminders or anyone else caring for him in his childhood : if he'd had somebody giving him love and affection he'd surely have mentioned it. Perhaps they couldn't afford help or a nursery.  His father seems to have been focussed on his own work so goodness-knows how Beverley found the time. She fitted in two more children somehow too. I'd give her some credit, as cold as she seems to have been.

Amy OTOH has years of working experience and knowledge behind her, is already a published and respected scientist and she'd be well over a decade older than Beverley was. If she wrote while she was at home it wouldn't have to be about her kids. She surely knows how people like Christopher Robin Milne suffered in later life, not to mention Leonard.

Certainly, six years ago Amy was as robotic as Sheldon or Beverley, emotionally barely a young adolescent herself, and any progeny of theirs at the time would have thrived better with almost anybody else caring for him/her/them, anyway, even under strict brain-stimulating childrearing instructions. One can only imagine. Penny was right at the time to intervene/interfere. If I gave into the temptation to write a fanfic it would be about somebody at the fertility lab doing something illegal whereby a child did get born and raised elsewhere.
 

[Jonny]

Can't remember if I had wished everyone a Happy New Year when I had wished everyone a Merry Christmas last week or not...

Anyway Happy New Year to everyone! Wishing everyone a prosperous New Year and good health for all!

[veejay]

Yes, please, champagne for all Shamy lovers.
Happy New Year to all of you.

[April]

Happy new year, Shamies!! <3

[luminous]

This Lenny is sending a warm Happy New Year to all the Shamies.

Cheers!

[spidergirl]

13 minutes ago, luminous said:

This Lenny is sending a warm Happy New Year to all the Shamies.

Cheers!

Aww, Martin! It's  lovely!

This fandom is so awesome! Thank you for this shamy drawing, we really apreciate it!

Cheers Big Bang fans! Let's celebrating the new year is coming (in this side of the world is 8:00 pm yet! ) *does happy dance*

Happy New year!

 

Edited December 31, 2016 by spidergirl

[A Shamy gal]