The Big Bang Theory Season 7 Spoilers: Sheldon disappears in finale episode

The Big Bang Theory has just a few episodes left until its Season 7 finale, and new information from one of the show's stars reveals the sitcom will continue its recent habit of sending someone away by the end of the final episode.

Here's what Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper, had to say in the "Ask Ausiello" column at TVLine:

"Question: I will happily take a Big Bang Theory season finale spoiler. -Kerry
Ausiello: And I will happily give one to you. Jim Parsons is confirming what CBS' official finale logline strongly hinted at: Sheldon goes AWOL by the end of the episode. "He gets the hell out of there and I have no idea where he's going or what he's planning," the Emmy winner tells me. 'I won't know until I come back and read the first episode [of Season 8].' What Parsons does know is the reason behind his alter ego's fast break. 'All the [personal and professional] changes that are taking place finally start to come home to roost for him as problems,' he explains. 'It was very interesting to read it for the first time and then to play the final episode because it really gets at the crux of something that is perhaps his defining characteristic as a character on television - which is his resistance to change. If you look at it through that lens, so many of the things he does, the things he says, the places he sits, etc, have everything to do with the fact that this is the way it's done, this is the right way to do it and this has served him fairly well as a human. They've got him in a situation now, the writers do, where it's not possible to carry on without some of these changes.'"

Consider that a few episodes ago, Penny and Sheldon visited a psychic, who told the physicist that Amy was the key to his problems, and it's a safe bet that this departure will have something to do with her.

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