Young — Sheldon Total Seasons Better

Sheldon scoffed. "That’s a non-scientific data point. Andy Taylor didn't have to resolve his father's death, his own social stuntedness, and the origin story of a roommate who eats cat hair."

"Total seasons, Mother. And a funeral. We'll need a really good funeral for Dad."

He wrote a new scene in his head: a flash-forward. Young Sheldon, now old Sheldon (Jim Parsons, of course, because narrative symmetry was mathematically beautiful), sitting alone in his Pasadena living room. The audience thinks he's about to say something profound about physics. Instead, he looks at an empty chair where his Meemaw used to sit, or a football his father never got to throw. young sheldon total seasons

He showed his work: Season one: the prodigy's isolation. Two: the fracturing of family. Three: the rise of Meemaw. Four: the tragedy of the father. Five: the long goodbye. Six: the forging of resilience. And finally, Season Seven… the launch pad. The final 14 episodes that would resolve the mass, energy, and emotional velocity required to transform a weird kid in a bow tie into the man who would one day say, "Bazinga."

"Seven what, honey?"

But then he noticed a variable he had missed. L , for Legacy.

His mother, Mary, poked her head in. "Sheldon, dinner's in five. And wash your hands. You’ve been erasing again." Sheldon scoffed

"Total seasons," he announced to the empty room.