Steve Hollan reveals the end of the penultimate episode of the prequel to ‘Young Sheldon’
In what there are just a few days left to see the end of ‘Young Sheldon’, with its season 7, the (previously) penultimate episode of the spin-off (the last one will be two in one) of ‘The Big Bang Theory’ has given us caught with a twist that, not because it was expected (it is known that it was going to happen in some way in this prequel) has turned out to be less effective. By the way, spoilers from here on out..
I mean death, out of shot, of George Cooper, Sheldon’s father interpreted by Lance Barber, after suffering a heart attack in high school. News that leaves the family devastated and that forever marks this final stretch of the series.
A touching moment that was on the to-do list in the ‘Young Sheldon’ writers’ room. This is what he assures Steve Holland, its showrunner, who assures that Barber always knew that the series had an expiration date… and that they also tried to postpone the moment as long as they could. Of course, time is ticking and the final season was the right place.
Catch people off guard
“We wanted to do it in a way that was, hopefully, a little surprising”Holland tells Variety, “That’s why it happens at the end of the [episodio 12]”We thought it would catch people off guard.” Furthermore, the scriptwriter assures that part of “It’s Chuck Lorre’s fault” that it was in that episode, the co-creator of the franchise, who didn’t want to end on too tragic a note:
«We always knew that we were going to try it this season. We always knew we were going to make it to the funeral this season. And we always knew that George’s death would happen off-screen, that we didn’t want to witness it. It was a matter of when. There was a version of this, as we discussed before, where it would have been: The end would be death and the funeral. I think it was Chuck [Lorre] who said “This is, above all, a positive and optimistic series. Let’s not leave the audience grieving. Let’s see the family starting to put themselves back together and end with a little hope.” So that changed when we were going to do it.”
On the other hand, the scriptwriters sought to make the previous moments as normal as possible, with George going to work as always: «We kept taking things away [de la escena] so that no one would have their moment”Holland acknowledges, “They don’t even say goodbye.”
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