08-03-2017, 12:16 AM
Not to knock Jim, but maybe a good deal of why the audience "forgave" Sheldon when he was despicable, difficult and hard on his best friends was that the writing was GOOD! It was witty and smart. And we accepted Sheldon because his character demanded from the audience the same thing he did of his friends--"This is me. Take it or leave it. But you still have to drive me to the comic book store, regardless."
To say right off the bat that you can't make Young Sheldon like early Sheldon isn't a case of age. It's a case of laziness. What's so bratty about building the CAT scanner or the Nuclear reactor? Having a boy throw a tantrum because his parents had the audacity to buy him a dirt bike for his birthday present is a unique spin. It's this uniqueness they don't want to create. They've lost their edge as BBT went on--that the audience numbers remained high told them that they didn't have to work hard to please the masses. Now they're taking what they learned and applying it whole-hog to a new show.
This will be a real test case to see if the later-seasons pablum we witness on BBT could stand on its own if it didn't have the solid writing/character building of the early seasons to support it.
To say right off the bat that you can't make Young Sheldon like early Sheldon isn't a case of age. It's a case of laziness. What's so bratty about building the CAT scanner or the Nuclear reactor? Having a boy throw a tantrum because his parents had the audacity to buy him a dirt bike for his birthday present is a unique spin. It's this uniqueness they don't want to create. They've lost their edge as BBT went on--that the audience numbers remained high told them that they didn't have to work hard to please the masses. Now they're taking what they learned and applying it whole-hog to a new show.
This will be a real test case to see if the later-seasons pablum we witness on BBT could stand on its own if it didn't have the solid writing/character building of the early seasons to support it.
Let's go exploring!