Spin-offs are mostly a curse to the original series, and the best example is The Big Bang Theory. Chuck Lorre is once again banking on almost every character from the series in the latest show, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.
Stuart, played by Kevin Sussman, was once a man struggling to pay his rent, starving, and barely keeping his comic book store alive. Now, he’s on a Star Trek-style journey to save the universe. But the real question is why Stuart? He has never had main-character energy and hardly feels like someone who could lead an adventure beyond the stars. The choice to make the saddest, least awe-inspiring character as your lead is questionable at best, boring at worst. First airing in 2007, The Big Bang Theory ruled television sitcoms till 2019 with a total of 279 episodes. Every character in the series got their own arcs, subplots and eccentricities, but they all somehow came back to Sheldon (Jim Parsons), making him the unique centre of their world. There is an episode where Sheldon doesn’t get a ticket to Comic-Con, so he starts his own comic convention. Another episode explains why the apartment building’s elevator never works throughout its 12 seasons, something fans wondered about since the pilot. Honestly, there is nothing left in The Big Bang Theory universe that people want to know about.
