Whether it was the zodiac or mental fatigue that inspired him, the actor now had the notion that he could move on from The Big Bang Theory, and it wasn’t a notion he was eager to get rid of.
But going into Season 12 set something off in Parsons’ brain that allowed him to conceive of a reality where he could leave Sheldon behind.
In any case, Jim Parsons finally reached a fork in a road that had previously only gone straight though, seemingly without any potential to change up.