Young Sheldon Season 6’s Tragic Twist Reveals A Perfect Show Trick

Sheldon’s database idea developments had unforeseen consequences, causing surprising reactions and Young Sheldon succeeding with a perfect trick.

Young Sheldon season 6’s scientific grants database developments made an unexpectedly sad story possible, and to do so, it employed a perfect trick, considering what the CBS show parent series The Big Bang Theory had already set up. Throughout The Big Bang Theory seasons 1 to 12, many of Sheldon’s close relatives were introduced, with his mother, Mary, and siblings, Missy and Georgie, all making cameo appearances multiple times in the show. Although Sheldon’s father was often solely mentioned, it became clear that he had made a lasting, negative impression on Sheldon, who often described George Cooper as a good-for-nothing father in The Big Bang Theory.

Young Sheldon starting with a nine-year-old Sheldon guaranteed that some of the heaviest, most tragic events of his life would have to be portrayed in the Big Bang Theory prequel. Only previously heard about through Sheldon’s words, George’s cheating scandal will appear in Young Sheldon, along with his untimely passing one year later. He revealed all this to Penny in The Big Bang Theory season 10, episode 5, “The Hot Tub Contamination.” However, it’s unclear when the tragic events will happen, making audiences wait for the moment they’ll appear onscreen, which in contrast made one Young Sheldon season 6 seemingly innocuous storyline much sadder than expected.

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How Young Sheldon’s Future Tragedy Makes Season 6 Plots More Surprising

Considering how he will not only have to go through seeing his father cheat on his mother but also George’s sudden death without hashing it out with him beforehand, it’s apparent that Sheldon will deal with struggles he never really faced before. However, as George’s actions and death were known to Young Sheldon’s audiences from before the show began, they were always thought of as the big tragedies to wait for. Having the scientific grants database idea impact Sheldon so much made George’s death sadder considering Young Sheldon season 6, as it shocked the boy, which the audiences couldn’t have expected.

Sheldon realized that no matter what his idea could have meant for scientific progress, those around him were more interested in the money involved. This made him effectively lose his innocence. Young Sheldon season 6, episode 9’s database developments brought him closer to The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon, a more jaded version of the protagonist that doesn’t trust other human beings and often resorts to contracts to handle conflicts easily. The unpredicted hefty impact that the database idea’s consequences had on Sheldon proved to be Young Sheldon season 6’s perfect trick, as audiences wouldn’t have expected such an event to kickstart Sheldon’s transformation, always having other known tragedies in mind.

Young Sheldon Season 6 Is The Most Interesting Part Of Its Timeline

With Young Sheldon season 6’s almost-teen Sheldon reaching 12 years old, the moment of George’s affair and his subsequent death is approaching. This makes every storyline possibly begin that chain of events or veer toward other narrative developments. Never had Young Sheldon been less predictable, as George’s health scares might have impacted Sheldon and his family, but audiences knew that his death couldn’t have happened at that moment, making the storyline less affecting. Instead, Young Sheldon season 6’s timeline pushing George’s actions and death closer makes for a better TV show, delivering intriguing storyline surprises that feel new, different, and impressive as they set up The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon.

Young Sheldon season 6 returns Jan 5 on CBS.

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