Sheldon's recounting his interpretation of his childhood memories as an adult is one of the rather fascinating things overall about Young Sheldon and likely applies to most of us. Sheldon was never very good as telling things as most people would remember them. Many, many times during the BBT when Sheldon told his version of 'what happened' it rarely had much resemblance over what we actually saw and what everyone else said happened. Even if he got the details perfect, his interpretation of why it happened and the meaning of what happened were often radically off base.
Esp if the next year or two has some bad things happen it could easily have colored Adult Sheldon's recounting of events further. Same thing with Adult Sheldon telling stories about his Brother and the completely different Georgie we actually met as a rather successful businessman later in the show. Mee-maw isn't quite as perfect as Sheldon's stories in BBT seem to indicate. I find a lot of the Mother and Sister stories seem to fit though he obviously had much more affection for all the family we've seen than he even indicated in BBT -- again not an interpretation Sheldon at any age would be very good at telling
Things like how much drinking constitutes being an Alcoholic, his constant derision of his perception of the inadequacies of Leonard's Research or intelligence, or esp non PhD Howard despite both of the latter being Top 1% of most people are just par for the course, his various bosses over the years, his dismissal of Kripke and Leslie Winkle. In letting us see the real events in Young Sheldon, it's pretty obvious that Sheldon as the Unreliable Narrator in BBT is all that much clearer.
The way BBT and Young Sheldon are constructed is really very strangely compelling. The writing is stellar so far. It is somewhat interesting that as much as Sheldon quickly became the more interesting character in BBT instead of Leonard, Missy seems to be developing into the more interesting piece of the puzzle in Young Sheldon.
It's rather interesting that as often as we see Sheldon in BBT completely botch a story/memory, that most of us just sort of assumed the stories he told of his childhood were fairly reliably accurate (even if somewhat exaggerated). Having a lot of that turned on our head seems to be a joke the writers are having a lot of fun poking BBT fans with.
Esp if the next year or two has some bad things happen it could easily have colored Adult Sheldon's recounting of events further. Same thing with Adult Sheldon telling stories about his Brother and the completely different Georgie we actually met as a rather successful businessman later in the show. Mee-maw isn't quite as perfect as Sheldon's stories in BBT seem to indicate. I find a lot of the Mother and Sister stories seem to fit though he obviously had much more affection for all the family we've seen than he even indicated in BBT -- again not an interpretation Sheldon at any age would be very good at telling
Things like how much drinking constitutes being an Alcoholic, his constant derision of his perception of the inadequacies of Leonard's Research or intelligence, or esp non PhD Howard despite both of the latter being Top 1% of most people are just par for the course, his various bosses over the years, his dismissal of Kripke and Leslie Winkle. In letting us see the real events in Young Sheldon, it's pretty obvious that Sheldon as the Unreliable Narrator in BBT is all that much clearer.
The way BBT and Young Sheldon are constructed is really very strangely compelling. The writing is stellar so far. It is somewhat interesting that as much as Sheldon quickly became the more interesting character in BBT instead of Leonard, Missy seems to be developing into the more interesting piece of the puzzle in Young Sheldon.
It's rather interesting that as often as we see Sheldon in BBT completely botch a story/memory, that most of us just sort of assumed the stories he told of his childhood were fairly reliably accurate (even if somewhat exaggerated). Having a lot of that turned on our head seems to be a joke the writers are having a lot of fun poking BBT fans with.
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