‘The Big Bang Theory’ season 10, episode 14 preview: Sheldon’s new experiment

For the entirety of “The Big Bang Theory” as a series, the character of Dr. Sheldon Cooper has been incredibly imbalanced. His superpower is his incredible intellect, but in the process, his kryptonite is his inability to read other people and understand precisely what it is that they are talking about. He is an emotional person, but at the same time he’s not able to read and process the emotions of others. We don’t think it’s as simple as him being apathetic to the feelings of those around him. He does love Amy, and we know that he does value Leonard and Penny’s friendships greatly.

With all of this, there’s something that is inherently sweet about Sheldon trying to find a way to detect how his friends are feeling come Thursday night when the next new episode airs. However, in true Sheldon fashion, he has a tendency to take it a little bit too far. In the two sneak peeks below, you can get a sense of what we’re talking about here. He learns that there is a new MIT device that is going to enable him to better read and understand some of the emotions of those around him, so he is on the hunt to get this device and use it on his friends.

Despite the comical way in which the invention is presented, we do think that Sheldon is genuine in his motivation; unfortunately, this is probably going to blow up in his face. In life, sometimes ambiguity is good. If we really knew how everyone was feeling around us all of the time, it’d probably be hurtful more than helpful. You don’t want to know sometimes if someone is “just being nice,” just as sometimes people want the ability to let someone down easy. This could cause all of Sheldon’s friends to distance themselves from him, especially if this thing starts to become used as a metaphorical polygraph.

Maybe we’re reading into the idea of this story too seriously — but hey, that is something we tend to do here and there since there are serious undertones often to the silliness.

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