It’s all about him, and even when a very hurt Leonard confronts him about his lack of excitement for his friends, Sheldon’s first reaction is to question if it’s even good news. When Leonard and Penny decide to tell him the truth to calm him down, he’s calmed, but fails to offer so much as a “congrats” before heading back to his seat. Sheldon thinks she’s gotten some sort of bug, which may get him and his fellow Nobel winners sick. Penny and Leonard have put their own life-changing news on hold - Penny’s pregnant! - so as not to steal the Nobel thunder, and on the flight to Sweden, Penny’s spending a lot of time in the bathroom. Howard and Bernadette have left their children alone with Stuart and Denise so they can accompany Sheldon and Amy to Sweden to see them accept their Nobel. In the second half of the series finale, after he has yet again failed to step outside himself - something that, to be fair, his relationship and subsequent marriage to Amy has helped along slowly but surely - to recognize the important life events of those around him, Sheldon’s friends have had it with him. He knew even less about how to listen to them, connect with them, and empathize with them. Even then, Sheldon, who once bragged to Penny that he had a “working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains” simply didn’t know how to talk to people. Sheldon, of course, was the most socially challenged of them all, unable to read the most blatant examples of sarcasm, and even more unable to behave gracefully in interactions with other humans that involved anything other than something science-related. And in the earliest days, not so much as a group, either. That’s what you hope any set of characters does throughout a series, especially one that runs for this long, but it’s especially poignant that this group did because they were each not-so-socially-adept on their own in the beginning. Congratulations, Shamy.īut the real point of The Big Bang Theory’s two-part series finale, and last week’s episode, and the whole series for that matter, is that this group of friends who’ve become, as Sheldon sweetly said during his Nobel acceptance speech, family, has grown and evolved in ways big and small across 12 seasons. Yes, yes, yes, Sheldon and Amy won the Nobel Prize for their super-asymmetry work, which means that story line that sometimes stretched our patience throughout the final season paid off in as grand a way as it could.
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