Young Sheldon's Season 6 Finale Plot Twist Is Exactly What the Show Needed
Young Sheldon has been trying to rip our hearts out this past season, and it has definitely succeeded in the finale. Here's a reason why that is a good thing.
With so many genre tropes and clichés, it has become difficult to make viewers gasp like they used to back in the day. No one understands this better than the writers of a prequel.
Like any prequel, Young Sheldon is constrained by the established TBBT canon, though the creators have been playing fast and loose with some facts.
The season 6 finale has successfully managed to surprise us with a few plot twists, and it has been an emotional rollercoaster of the hour.
In the finale, we see a tornado come into play, which is only the second one in the six years of the show's run and the first to be so devastating.
Connie loses her house, Mandy and Cece subsequently do too, George is left to run the household without Mary, and Missy has her own teenage troubles to deal with.
Everything seems to be in shambles for the entire Cooper family, but let's look at this from another perspective.
Sure, a tornado is bad, and it has come at the worst possible time for everyone, but it is also a shakeup that Young Sheldon desperately needed.
The sitcom has been pretty predictable for a few seasons, with nothing that major (except for the birth of Cece) happening, and fans have grown critical of the show.
The same fans seem to have loved the finale and all the chaos it has brought, and now we are all eager to see how the events will unfold in season 7.
Will Mary and/or Sheldon come back sooner than expected? Will Georgie and Mandy get married soon? Will there be a time jump in season 7? So many questions, so few answers.
The tornado was a brilliant move on the writers' part. It's such a destructive, yet mundane event that it fits into the show's narrative in the most natural way, and no one wants to question whether it was necessary.
It has also opened up so many possibilities for season 7, and it's safe to say that we have no idea where the creators will take the show next (and we like not knowing).