Young Sheldon Gets Roasted For Annoying Attempts at High Stakes Drama

And you can understand why. It is, after all, a comedy prequel. And it's primary throughline is supposed to be the character arc that led Sheldon Cooper to become the man we meet at the beginning of The Big Bang Theory.

One Reddit user wrote, "Personally, I enjoyed the show much more before the writers decided to make everyone cheat on each other to create drama and shifted the focus from Sheldon."

Now, the fact that George Cooper cheats on his wife Mary is no surprise to fans of TBBT.

We already know that Sheldon walks in on his dad in flagrante with another woman – and it's a pretty major part of the adult Sheldon's personality as it's the reason he always knocks three times before entering a room.

So, George's infidelity had to be addressed in Young Sheldon. And it had to be a fairly weighty storyline in order for it to be such an issue in Sheldon's later life.

But that doesn't explain Mary getting into an extra-marital affair with Pastor Rob – a story that is never mentioned in The Big Bang Theory. At least, not directly.

At this point in Young Sheldon, George and Mary's entire marriage is now a car crash and has fully imploded. It's a moment fans have been anticipating and dreading in equal measure.

But we all knew that when he turned 13, Sheldon was due to catch his father having some kind of affair while his mother was at Bible study. And why couldn't 'Bible study' be the excuse for Mary's affair with Rob?

It's plausible. It's just not what fans wanted or expected from the show. It was never supposed to become the story of the other characters around the young Sheldon.

Their part in the narrative was supposed to be to help explain the way he grew up. Naturally, that was going to involve each of them having their own story arc.

But what lots of fans are seeing now is a weak attempt to create drama that is actually taking the focus of the show away from Sheldon.

You might even argue that George and Mary are now the centre of the plot and that Sheldon is on the periphery.

Whether that changes now they are living apart – and the focus returns to the impact of these events on the life of Sheldon – remains to be seen.