Well, they really didn't. And having Jim and Mayim didn't sit well with me. Especially the way they played it.

I thought the "death scene" was something of a patch job. The previous episode was just under 19 minutes without ads, followed by just under 20 minutes. So maybe they had to rush to add the death scene in under 1 minute, because of how many commercial slots there had to be. And they kind of made a mess of it. Why not call Mary to come to the hospital or something?

Meanwhile, in the last episode, the only part I chuckled at was when Missy asks Sheldon "Are you going to remember me?" and Sheldon says "I have an eidetic memory, I have no choice." Missy says "Hah!" and Sheldon smiles a bit too.

And at the very end, and considering how Sheldon became "dummkopf" when visiting Germany, and he was bound to not be the smartest student at Cal Tech either, it would have been good if he ran into someone who had been at the school in Germany who greeted him "Hi there, dummkopf!"

@Knixon said:

Well, they really didn't. And having Jim and Mayim didn't sit well with me. Especially the way they played it.

I thought the "death scene" was something of a patch job. The previous episode was just under 19 minutes without ads, followed by just under 20 minutes. So maybe they had to rush to add the death scene in under 1 minute, because of how many commercial slots there had to be. And they kind of made a mess of it. Why not call Mary to come to the hospital or something?

Meanwhile, in the last episode, the only part I chuckled at was when Missy asks Sheldon "Are you going to remember me?" and Sheldon says "I have an eidetic memory, I have no choice." Missy says "Hah!" and Sheldon smiles a bit too.

And at the very end, and considering how Sheldon became "dummkopf" when visiting Germany, and he was bound to not be the smartest student at Cal Tech either, it would have been good if he ran into someone who had been at the school in Germany who greeted him "Hi there, dummkopf!"

If YS had continued, Sheldon would have been dumbed down even more. He'd been flanderized, with the big reveal that he had dyscalculia. He used his eidetic memory and his rules to hide this from everyone else. This would explain why he made so many mathematical errors in TBBT. There would also be the trauma he suffers from his father's death and its consequence. Deep inside, there is still a 'little scared boy' in Sheldon.

It could still happen in the spinoff.

I was very happy with the way they ended it and I didn't feel like the death scene was a patch job. With the show being primarily a comedy I don't think they wanted to focus too heavily on the actual death scene. Sometimes less is more and I think this was a case where that was appropriate.

@wonder2wonder said:

@Knixon said:

Well, they really didn't. And having Jim and Mayim didn't sit well with me. Especially the way they played it.

I thought the "death scene" was something of a patch job. The previous episode was just under 19 minutes without ads, followed by just under 20 minutes. So maybe they had to rush to add the death scene in under 1 minute, because of how many commercial slots there had to be. And they kind of made a mess of it. Why not call Mary to come to the hospital or something?

Meanwhile, in the last episode, the only part I chuckled at was when Missy asks Sheldon "Are you going to remember me?" and Sheldon says "I have an eidetic memory, I have no choice." Missy says "Hah!" and Sheldon smiles a bit too.

And at the very end, and considering how Sheldon became "dummkopf" when visiting Germany, and he was bound to not be the smartest student at Cal Tech either, it would have been good if he ran into someone who had been at the school in Germany who greeted him "Hi there, dummkopf!"

If YS had continued, Sheldon would have been dumbed down even more. He'd been flanderized, with the big reveal that he had dyscalculia. He used his eidetic memory and his rules to hide this from everyone else. This would explain why he made so many mathematical errors in TBBT. There would also be the trauma he suffers from his father's death and its consequence. Deep inside, there is still a 'little scared boy' in Sheldon.

I watched very little of the series overall, and never did see that.

It could still happen in the spinoff.

It seems likely that Sheldon will rarely if ever appear in the spinoff.

@Lemons❤ said:

I was very happy with the way they ended it and I didn't feel like the death scene was a patch job. With the show being primarily a comedy I don't think they wanted to focus too heavily on the actual death scene. Sometimes less is more and I think this was a case where that was appropriate.

They could have done a "less" just as well - perhaps even less (or more?) "less" - while having Mary called to the hospital, or maybe even the school.

Meanwhile, this suggests that while Sheldon isn't at his best "past bedtime" - something we knew from much earlier, really - this "dyscalculia" stuff is just the usual BS claptrap retcon nonsense that gets into too many shows, including Star Trek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX8pbGmkUKI