Insights for "Young Sheldon"'s new season

Hey, everyone. Just saw the first episode of the new season, and I have new insights about the franchise as a whole and the series in specific. If it will work, I might upgrade this blog to a blog about the whole season. If you hadn't seen the episode and have a problem with spoilers, pleas don't enter this blog yet.

Insights for episode 1

• The showrunners did a good job with showing Georgie's initiative and ambitious side with selling the snowdomes. His street wisdom, which Sheldon shall never have, was built up for a long time. George Senior had his doubts, Connie was upset that she couldn't use Georgie to annoy George Senior and the other were either careless or oblivious, but Georgie still made it. He learned his lessons and did the necessary changes. It might as well be the exact moment he evolved from a dumb teenager to a grounded and self-sustaining man. In a way, the bad/neglecting treatment he got helped to prepare him for the even harsher outside world, including his sacrifices and need to appease not so nice elements in his life.
• Sheldon and Mary's fallout in regard to mental illnesses war one of the most disturbing moments in the franchise, which means a lot. The most disturbing part is not just that Mary misunderstood Sheldon's autistic spectrum and considered him as a madman. The disturbing part is that Sheldon was closer to reality on that aspect. I won't say a thing about god, because I know this topic might be heavy for some people, but his comments about an imaginary friend who's encouraging vocal hallucinations are closer to the truth than Mary's refusal to acknowledge microscopic particles.
• I'm not sure Sturgis really deserves to be in a psychiatric hospital. He's Asperger, just like Sheldon, but without a neurotic almost single-minded mother to live around him. A couple of decades later, or in a different place, Sturgis could become more adjusted to society and live a full life. It's just that in the 80s Texas, Asperger people are seen as some sort of Lovecraftian horror. In Sheldon's offence, he's a highly annoying individual. Just saying that Sturgis might be hospitalized because he's at the wrong place, and not necessarily for an objective clinical madness.
• If Mary was investing in Georgie 10% of what she invested in Sheldon, Georgie could've been qualified for a serious show with actual admirability standard. But if she did what she should've done, I wonder where Sheldon would be...
• Georgie's independence made George Senior respect him more, but scared Mary. She feared from the day Georgie will grow up and choose his wife over her. Turns out she was right, because choosing your wife over your mother is what every man after a certain age is expected to do.
• Even the clueless Sheldon is aware that Mary doesn't love George Senior very much, and he was looking down for a long time due to Mary's best effort. Are they married because Georgie was an unwanted pregnancy?

Insights for episode 2

• Sheldon was always alienated from the world around him, but this episode is over the top about it. The opening sequence even showed him as an astronaut. When you think of it, the fact he never went to space, and a man whom he doesn't appreciate much did went, it a satisfying ironic karma.
• Why does Jeff feel the need to pretend he's a prune or something? He want Robin, and she clearly want him, so what does he earns from pretending he's upset? And on Mary's years no less. Is he secretly having a thing for her and feeling conflicted between what he have and a wish he knows he'll never make true?
• On the intellectual level, I can respect Sheldon's wish to learn about things he can't learn in class. On the common sense level, there's a solution for such problems. It called using the internet behind the teacher's back and stay quiet. I wonder if didn't know that because he grew up in Texas and had no computer, or because his OCD doesn't let him to do so.
• Mary's knitting as her coping mechanism, combined with her disparaging George once again, is an interesting symbolism to "Odysseus" story. Forcing himself to bow down to Mary for finishing the fight is similar to getting back from a perilous travel at sea, even if the wife waiting him at home is worse than the sirens. The knitting is like Odysseus' wife Penelope when she promised to her unwanted suitors she'll choose one of them when she'll finish, but untied it over and over again to keep them at bay.
• The Ouija scene is the saddest moment of this season so far. Less than 3 years from that moment, Georgie and Missy will play this game for real, hoping to reconnect their late father even for a split second :-(.
• I just know George Senior and Mary talked about Sheldon in plural to deny the obvious favoritism fact. At least George is man enough to admit he have criticism about all of his children. Mary is just hypocrite.
• With all of Jeff's faults, which he definitely have, I admire his ability to calm down a frighten child on the phone and make a woman propose to him at the same night.
• If I didn't know any better, I could think Sheldon was annoying on purpose to keep Linkletter at a safe distance from Connie. Considering Linkletter is who he is, Sheldon did the right choice on that one.

Insight for episode 3

• The alienated theme in the open sequence is assumingly permanent. I like it :-).
• I take back my last insight about episode 2. Sheldon wasn't annoying on purpose. He was just like always. I actually hoped he'll figure things alone and will annoy Linkletter on purpose. I guess he isn't such a genius after all. The least he could do is to lay low. Connie isn't Mary. He should've known it by now. Strangers aren't Mary either.
• "antreprenorial". What an interesting word for coming up with initiatives to earn money. Thanks, Veronica. Now I know a new word. Hope Georgie will remember the new word and not being too occupied with impressing Veronica lol.
• Missy was cold in this episode. I wanted to interpret her indifference toward Sheldon's departing because she doesn't really believe anything perilous will happen to him. I really did. But saying "damnit!" for knowing he won't end up in jail? Man :-(. So much for "I had to deal with the fact you were the special child of god for my whole life". Not loving Sheldon is one thing. But how is it possible to hate him that much? If Georgie was there when it happened, I know he would go suicidal about it and save Sheldon.
• While the miserable bus lady had some good points, she was wrong about the selfish person in the situation. Sheldon was selfish for being Asperger. Missy showed outright homicidal tendencies. Thank goodness Georgie was there, or else she could've become a serial killer. If not a homicidal psychopath, at the very least she could've become the rare and dreaded type of witches who press false charges for harassment as part of dehumanization processes.

Insight for episode 4

• The episode begins with another fact Georgie is no worse than most people. He specifically said in regard to Sheldon's insistence to solve mathematical equations at the restaurant "I told you to leave him in the car with an open window". Missy was content with forgetting Sheldon in the car and let him die there. Sheldon isn't easy, but at least Georgie is pragmatic and respective about it. I wish Missy wat that way too.
• Sheldon is quite arrogant with comparing himself to Isaac Newton and Archimedes, but he have a good point with getting inspiration anywhere.
• Does The Flash suit was meant to show that Sheldon feels he's too slow for this world, or that the world is too slow for him?
• "He's at war with his inner demons". How poetic. Well done, Mary. I have a lot of criticism about this woman, but she does have her positive moments.
• Does Missy knows that her father is aware to her ulterior motive? And does he ignore it because he see it as an opportunity to bond with his daughter, or because he know and prefer not to know?
• "That's sounds intellectually backdropped"? Sheldon really pissed me off right now. There's no justified reason to patronized over fantasy. I'm not even talking about the fact many of the greatest books, movies and tv series have fantasy in them. Not about the fact i'm a writer whose favorite genres include fantasy either. I'm talking about the fact that looking down on something as deep and creative as fantasy is being narrow-minded. A reversed obsession. Sheldon likes comic books but dislike fantasy? That's hypocritical. He want people to understand him and be open-minded about his antics, but is close and patronizing about things he refuse to understand. If it wasn't pissing me off, it would've make me sad. And now he judge harshly a masterpiece which he wouldn't touch less then a week before? How dare he? At least Missy is doing useful things with herself. Being obsessed about a book, as magnificent and it is, won't get anyone anywhere. Tolkien wouldn't approve it.
• Missy's anti-social disability to deal with rejection practically erased her character development. I wanted to hope she came to enjoy her quality time with her father. The fact she kept on doing it just to be able to hurt her love interest better makes it even worse. I know it's a cruel thing to say, but I liked her better when she was crying. You can't throw things at people just for rejecting you, Missy. You just can't. 7 years later and she could sit in jail for that. I choose to hope she became normal because she matured up, and not because she came to have legal responsibility.