Young Sheldon’s Future Predicament

For those that watched The Big Bang Theory and paid enough attention to it, you would remember that a major theme of that show at some point was that Sheldon’s father George was dead. On the show of Young Sheldon, his father is alive in it with no signs, outside of one early episode, of having any major health problems. I don’t know if they revealed the reason behind George’s death and I won’t know if the time frame will match up at all based on what was revealed in the two shows already. But I do think that there is a future predicament that might have to be dealt with because of this.

It might have made more sense if Young Sheldon had just started with Sheldon’s mom as single. But then we would have no way of ever knowing who George was. It is nice to see a family that seems more like it is full and complete before tragedy strikes it. We have gotten a lot of insight into who George is and what he is like. We wouldn’t have gotten much, if any, of that if he was never a part of the show. But there still relates to the issue of what might happen with his character in the future.

Will they ever address the issue on the show? You’d have to imagine that they would or probably would have to based on what we already know and have been revealed about the future of the Cooper family. But Young Sheldon is a comedy. Could they deal with the serious topic of death when they don’t really need to? I see a catch 22. If they don’t ever address George’s future death, we will miss some of the key moments of the family relationships that happened because of it. If they do, could they handle it well and go without use of that character for the rest of the show? They might be doing fans a disservice by never addressing the issue while also creating a world they can’t go back to if they do kill him off before the series is over and done airing.

There might be a solution to this that could work. They could wait until near the end of the show to write the death in and have it lead off to the end of the series and Sheldon’s journey to being a man. Nothing would quite cause a kid to grow up like the death of a family member, even if it does happen at a younger age than he would like. They could do a special flashforward episode that skips a head for a bit in order to focus on George’s death and how it affected the family while having the rest of the show be normal and happy with George in it.

I think that addressing it at some point should be a given. What I don’t know is if they should go a long time without George’s character on the show towards the end of it. We could see great plots of people moving on and dealing with the loss like in 8 Simple Rules. Even when Marshall’s father died in How I Met Your Mother, they did it in a great way that respected him without losing too much of its focus on the humor of the show. I just hope that the writers have a way or idea of what will go on as this is a bit of an elephant in the room situation.

What do you think? For those of you who aren’t mad at a potential spoiler (but not really) of this show, I was wondering what you think the best way Young Sheldon can handle this death in the future and even if you think that it should be dealt with at all. The writers put themselves into a potential problem, but I hope that they can deal with it in a good way in the future.