Young Sheldon’s Finale Plot Twist Makes This TBBT Relationship Even Better
However alienated he may seem to be, Sheldon still deeply cares for his loved ones’ feelings.
Young Sheldon ’s final season brought a lot of completely new events into young Sheldon Cooper’s life, securing his independent future after leaving for California and also contributing to The Big Bang Theory ’s storyline. Recounting Sheldon’s earlier years as a child and then a teenager, the show took a much closer look at all the atmosphere he grew up in, highlighting some major twists that will later on find their explanation in the words and actions of The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon.
Though the original show doesn’t really dwell on the character’s relationships with his family and especially with his mother, since Sheldon has lost his father at a young age, The Big Bang Theory still proves that the seemingly aloof quirky character has in fact pretty much deep feelings that he was just trying to conceal, and Young Sheldon serves as yet another proof for it.
In the prequel’s final episode, Sheldon’s mother Mary insists that he and his twin sister Missy be baptized. Since its very beginning, Young Sheldon has made it pretty clear that Mary has always cared a lot about her religious beliefs, yet her husband’s death surely made her dive deeper into it, looking for some additional consolation in a thought that her prayers will help George’s soul finally rest.
Given that the family patriarch’s death took everyone by utter shock not long before Sheldon was set to go to college in California, Mary felt like she was about to lose yet another loved one, though not that literally. Hoping that, in her absence, Sheldon will be guided by God, Mary eventually opts for talking Sheldon into accepting the faith just like she did years ago.
The Big Bang Theory fans are very well aware that Sheldon has always been skeptical about his mother’s religious beliefs, yet in Young Sheldon he agrees to fulfill her request and get baptized. This plot twist comes as some kind of proof for Sheldon’s words in the show’s pilot episode where, while talking to Mary, he says “I don’t believe in God, but I do believe in you.”
It thus suggests that he may not follow what God says, but will rather follow what his mother thinks he should do, even if it has a direct connection to the religion that she embraced.
Though it came much later than the original show, Young Sheldon nonetheless made a sweet tribute to Sheldon’s relationship with his mother that was shown in The Big Bang Theory before.
Some may still argue that the eccentric physicist never really showed love for Mary whenever she would appear in the series, yet the most devoted fans are reassured that Sheldon’s tolerance towards his mother’s firm beliefs is the biggest manifestation of love he could ever show.