"This and his photographic memory that comes and goes"
It would be nice if continuity existed somewhere, but alas, it really doesn't. Also, what is 'told us' never matches what is 'shown us'.
It's not photographic memory, it's 'idetic memory', by the way.
Sheldon forgets a lot of things in the course of this show, so his memory is not really that good - except 'on paper' (what we have been told is again in contradiction with what we are shown).
A couple of other examples inglude 'Q' in Star Trek and 'Beyonder' in 'Secret Wars' (I and II).
Both are supposedly 'omnipotent' beings, but they are CONSANTLY 'surprised' by this and that, and they're constantly 'not aware of (this or that)'.
This would be impossible with omniscience - they would be aware of everything all the time, they couldn't learn anything new, and their learning process, in any case, wouldn't be long and painstaking.
Q would be able to see the consequences of his actions 8 zillion years before he even thinks of doing anything, but yet terrible things happen to him a lot.
Q would know exactly how everyone would react to his 'gifts', way before the TNG episode even begins. But nope.. omnipotent and omniscient on paper, but not in actual reality.
So in all these cases (and many more), we're always TOLD something is something (like 'Q is omnipotent'), but we're SHOWN that something is DEFINITELY not something ('Beyonder is DEFINITELY not omniscient').
It's so disappointing, but it has to do with the limited, boxlike 'imagination' (such as it is) of all these hired writers and 'artists'.
After all, they do it all for a paycheck, nothing more.
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