05-30-2015, 09:04 PM
I don't totally agree with Simon Pegg. Culture reflects our development, if they only make safe nostalgia inducing remakes and prequels, films based on comic books, or programmes that only reference others, I don't know what will happen. I think what keeps adults in perpetual adolescence, is their parents. Adults are aware of being eighteen, and usually go through an initiation rite of passage. But what makes the parents let go, and stop treating their offspring as children! I see it in real life, and in the show. Usually the parents have something that the child/adult wants; Leonard needs to realise his mother can't love him, grow up, and stop trying to get his emotional high from substitutes. Howard living at home with his mother until (let's say) thirty! And then expecting his substitute to cook,wash and clean for him, grow a pair! And Sheldon will never get the recognition he so craves, his family have no comprehension of what he does. And they live in the past. It's the parents that need to let go!