Sheldon Cooper’s Looks in Young Sheldon Is a Tardy Response to TBBT’s Backlash

Seems like it’s a definite wrap for Sheldon Cooper’s life story after Young Sheldon ’s finale that aired last week. The prequel that had a 7-season-long run recounting Sheldon’s earlier years in Texas before he moved to California reintroduced Jim Parsons as the beloved character’s adult version, proving that he’s already far from being the same Sheldon fans have always known.

While Young Sheldon’s ending made it quite clear that Sheldon’s TV story is officially over now, fans couldn’t help but notice some big changes in the character’s appearance. As it turns out now, Sheldon owes such an upgrade to The Big Bang Theory ’s long-standing fans.

In Young Sheldon’s finale, the character’s adult version is somehow not what fans ever expected to see. Apart from the fact that Jim Parsons’ Sheldon now intentionally looks older (it’s quite clear that years have passed since we saw him in The Big Bang Theory finale), he also appears to have given up on being a fan of superhero T-shirts.

According to Young Sheldon’s producer and co-showrunner Steve Molaro, the show had a whole new mission to introduce Sheldon as a completely different person with different priorities.

Molaro recalled that the crew “didn't want Sheldon in the typical comic book store shirts. He's a dad now, and we wanted him to be a little more mature.”

Such a decision surely didn’t come just as a way to show a time jump in regard to The Big Bang Theory’s events, but it was most likely seen as a chance to finally make it right about all the criticism the original show’s Sheldon has been facing for years of the series’ run.

Back in the day, fans were quite vocal about the character’s unseriousness and even infantility that mostly manifested itself in his passion for superhero comic books.

According to them, many couldn’t connect the dots while seeing a grown man and a respected physicist wearing childish superhero-coded T-shirts (though it surely was the character’s zest that was purposefully exaggerated, but fine).

Now that this problem seems to be resolved years after The Big Bang Theory came to its end, fans can sleep well knowing that Sheldon finally got past his infantile era.

Source: Glamour