The Big Bang Theory, the show about four brilliant but socially awkward scientists that made geeks and pop culture cool, began in 2007 and went on to win 10 Emmy awards, four of them for Jim Parsons as the quirky but immensely popular physicist Sheldon Cooper, has ended its 12-season run. We grew with this show, and the finale seemed like an end to a satisfying relationship with the characters. However, the final two episodes, that aired on 16 May, gave us the closure that we were all looking forward to. It was nothing unexpected.
The finale, The Change Constant and The Stockholm Syndrome, culminates in Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and his wife, Amy (Mayim Bialik), winning the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Also, the elevator is finally fixed, leaving fans shedding tears of delight. Experimental physicist Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and wife Penny (Kaley Cuoco) announces they are pregnant, and hopeless romantic astrophysicist Raj (Kunal Nayyar) gets a date with “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actress Sarah Michelle Gellar.
However, the most touching moments came when Sheldon reads out his long speech while accepting his Nobel. “I apologise if I haven’t been the friend you deserve but I want you to know, in my way, I love you all,” he tells his friends in the audience.
Co-creator of the show and sitcom king Chuck Lorre handled the slate identifying the last scene to be filmed. Overwhelmed with emotion, he told USA Today, “"I almost couldn't do it. I didn't really think that it would be difficult, but as soon as they put that thing in my hands, I started to choke," says Lorre, who created the series with Bill Prady. "It was loaded with significance. It was the last take of 'The Big Bang Theory,” he added.
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