Thread:Stolen5487/@comment-31330278-20190910190921/@comment-31330278-20190917212221

You might hate me for saying it, but I realized some grim things about Mary Cooper:

1. She isn't a good person. She loves Sheldon dearly, but only him. She calls Georgi, her best son who did all the sacrifices and raised his own mother for a couple of years, as "dumb as soup". She doesn't care about his devotion and being the real good son. She just invested everything in Sheldon, which she regrets, and doesn't talk with her own eldest son at all because she doesn't get along with his wife. I can totally see why George Senior cheated on her. You saw "Young Sheldon". She kept his head down for at least 20 years (she's the reason he was depressed), physically abused him for 7 months after Sheldon and Missy were born and dehumanized him just for doing the desperate thing. Cheating is bad, but not a cause for dehumanizing. The main reason she appears as nice in TBBT is because of the very low admirability standard. When most are utter jerks, a person with one redeeming quality seems like an angel.

2. She and Debbie Loomis are unidentical twin sisters. Not just because their actresses are related. It's because they have similar personalities, even though Mary isn't a psychopath. Debbie lost her marbles after Hank cheated on her and secretly knows her son's death is partly her fault. Mary secretly knows she invested everything in the wrong son, but she won't admit it because she doesn't want Georgi's wife to have the upper hand. As the adult Georgi is played by Jerry O'Connell, who also played w:c:Scream:Derek Feldman in "Scream 2", his wife is probably played by Neve Campbell. Mary and Debbie are genetically programed to hate girls who look like Neve Campbell. You might say they can't be sisters because neither of them ever mentioned the other one, except deep south families always denies their rogue relatives.

3. While being more tolerant than the usual Texan, she's still condescending. The worst part is that she's a Baptist (I have a lot to say against baptism) who respect people of other religions to an extent, but respond to Catholics with "I feel sorry for you". It's hating of her own kind.

4. When Sheldon was curious about religion overall, she wanted him to know only what she wanted him to know. Not very motherly of her.