Young Sheldon paints a happier portrait of Sheldon Cooper’s (Iain Armitage) childhood than how The Big Bang Theory’s grown-up Sheldon (Jim Parsons) remembers it.
As for the issue of George dying when Sheldon is 14, as established by The Big Bang Theory, the show has plenty of time to get there, if it ever does.
“The darkness that we’ve discussed on The Big Bang Theory comes further down the road.”
But while the George Sr. of Young Sheldon has his flaws and his tensions with his wife Mary (Zoe Perry), he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would hurt his family like that.