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12-23-2025, 10:23 PM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2025/12/23/the-eight-best-the-big-bang-theory-episodes-of-season-twelve/
We finally made it to Big Bang’s final season — the series’ swan song thanks only to the good sense of Jim Parsons, who was ready to move on. Creatively, this farewell was long overdue; the show had stalled out by Season Seven, when it began delaying its leads’ premise-backed arcs just to buy itself time. Then, after concluding those arcs in Nine, Big Bang could only limp along, unable to freshly play to its situation in story beyond the guys’ collective definition as sci-fi-lovin’ scientists. That’s why this year’s main plotline is related to Sheldon and Amy’s career pursuits, as they collaborate on a physics theory… To be fair, I like that they do this together, for it suggests how Sheldon has grown so much that he can accept Amy as his partner in what matters most to him: science. But these stories are barely about their relationship, as there’s nothing interesting left on that topic. Accordingly, while the physics separates this idea from other mainstream ensemble shows, it nevertheless makes for a surface, uninspired, plug-in science-for-any-career version of this series. And outside of a finale that regresses Sheldon to emphasize an otherwise resolved thesis, Twelve offers no valuable studies of the characters or the premise, the core pillars of Big Bang’s situation.
We finally made it to Big Bang’s final season — the series’ swan song thanks only to the good sense of Jim Parsons, who was ready to move on. Creatively, this farewell was long overdue; the show had stalled out by Season Seven, when it began delaying its leads’ premise-backed arcs just to buy itself time. Then, after concluding those arcs in Nine, Big Bang could only limp along, unable to freshly play to its situation in story beyond the guys’ collective definition as sci-fi-lovin’ scientists. That’s why this year’s main plotline is related to Sheldon and Amy’s career pursuits, as they collaborate on a physics theory… To be fair, I like that they do this together, for it suggests how Sheldon has grown so much that he can accept Amy as his partner in what matters most to him: science. But these stories are barely about their relationship, as there’s nothing interesting left on that topic. Accordingly, while the physics separates this idea from other mainstream ensemble shows, it nevertheless makes for a surface, uninspired, plug-in science-for-any-career version of this series. And outside of a finale that regresses Sheldon to emphasize an otherwise resolved thesis, Twelve offers no valuable studies of the characters or the premise, the core pillars of Big Bang’s situation.