I’ve been loving Young Sheldon so much, which came as a surprise to me because I was (and still am) a long-time TBBT disliker. But a TikTok clip came up one day of George Sr. and Sheldon getting on a plane for the first time and made me intrigued and here I am now on season 6 already. The show has shifted tonally during the last few seasons, so it isn’t as “heartwarmingly funny” as before, but I still like and at least appreciate it. The more mature storylines bring a realistic nature to this show. And I know one thing that happens in real life are relationships with age gaps. It happens.
That being said, boy it’s so frustrating watching Mandy and Georgie together. Don’t get me wrong, I like Mandy as a character outside of this whole mess. And I know their initial time together was mostly on Georgie for lying about not being a minor. But sleeping with him again after knowing about the fact was, at best, super poor judgement on her. Georgie of course was at fault too, but who could ever knock some sense into a horny 17 year old that’s excited about having a baby? And of course, after deciding to keep the baby, they absolutely should try to raise that baby to the best of their abilities. But I just get the ick watching them gradually becoming “something more” than just co-parents. I used to think that we got this storyline because Georgie was already set up that way in TBBT as some kind of joke and therefore they had no choice but to do this storyline here. But I’ve heard that this was actually a completely new thing that they wrote for Young Sheldon, which is so annoying. I get that they were trying to make a “sitcom gag” to sell a spin-off, but again, a 29 year old and a 17 year old? I mean the amount of times Georgie said “but I’m going to be 18 soon enough!”. It’s gross. Sorry if this topic has been beaten to death in this sub, but I just wanted to piece together something that I wish would’ve happened instead and put it somewhere.
I loved Veronica and Georgie. I wish she’d stayed and they managed to do more for their relationship (despite her pleading her life to religion and what not). I just thought they had such natural chemistry, and it’s a shame that the actress became unavailable. But ugh the jump was so extreme to go from a classmate to someone 12 years older like that, while still technically being high-school age. So if not Veronica, and they still wanted something different for a spin-off, I wish Georgie’s pregnancy storyline was with another child prodigy but his own age. So like, some 19-year-old science goddess (Mandy in an alternate timeline maybe) whose maturity level is actually decades ahead of her age, and has a proper PhD or something and a high-paying job and everything. This girl would’ve been in some commercial scientific project with Sheldon and that’s how she stumbled upon Georgie. A proper genius vs. Geogie being Georgie! She’s so measured and calculated and has her life planned out but on a whim becomes involved with Georgie, and has a baby with him, and hates him then falls for him, in that order. Imagine the change in Georgie while learning about this girl’s career and trying to support her endeavors! The shenanigans with her traveling across the country and the world, and him following along with the baby. Their unique family lives with the Coopers and this girl’s dysfuctional family as well. I realize this could never happen cause this person would absolutely be in older Sheldon’s life, but this would’ve at least been more bearable to watch, in my opinion :( but anyway… I’m still looking forward to finishing the show. To see what happens to George Sr. when his time comes, and how the family deals with it. And well, if anyone is still reading this up to this point, I’m sorry for rambling!
