For The Big Bang Theory's twelfth and final season, enthusiasts had been surprised when Kaley Cuoco's persona, Penny, introduced her pregnancy after Cuoco herself had been adamant about that not being the ultimate story.
Fans were given the solutions to all their questions and proven glimpses into the characters' long term lives in the sequence finale. But, the show writers additionally threw in some last-minute surprises—one being Penny and Leonard having a baby.
Although many fans have been extremely joyful, most were left feeling at a loss for words. Penny had expressed no longer in need of kids, and the writers even went so far as growing a couple of tale arcs based totally on Penny's aversion to kids.
What The Show's Producers Really Thought About Penny Being Pregnant
Executive Producer of The Big Bang TheorySteve Molaro told Glamour, "We couldn't help but go back to the pilot when they met—which was such an early structural piece of the entire series." He continues, "And Leonard says that someday their babies would be smart and beautiful. It seemed to be a landing place that was satisfying."
With Penny's ideas and emotions being mentioned in detail all through past seasons, this will have felt like an absolutely out-of-character factor to have to occur. But Molaro states how they thought about how those past arcs would come into play with the decision to make her pregnant.
"At the same time, we still tried to honor her feelings about having been against it earlier in the season," he said.
When speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, government manufacturer Steve Holland mentioned the decision truly got here down to Leonard's line in the pilot about their kids being "smart and beautiful." Holland stated, "Their relationship was really the jumping-off point of this whole show, and it felt important to us to honor that relationship. I love them together, and I wanted to know that they were ending in a happy place."
The manufacturer also printed the idea for Penny to be pregnant was pitched through Molaro. He felt like this used to be a very powerful decision in the couple's lives, "I like that we were able to jump over a lot of the pregnancy tropes and learn after the fact that Penny is two months pregnant. We did that [two-month] jump in time, and she's still wrapping her head around it because Penny wasn't sure how she felt about it."
How Did Kaley Cuoco Feel About The Decision?
Molaro and Holland each said how Cuoco and her fellow costar Johnny Galecki, who performed Leonard, had been proud of the couple's ending.
However, Cuoco doesn't agree with her character's send-off. Three years after the ending, she spoke of her true feelings in the e-book The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series.
Cuoco says, "I actually wished that they did not [make Penny pregnant] because I loved that message [of Penny not wanting kids] so much." She is going on to say, "I was actually voting for her not to [get pregnant]."
Many fans felt the same as Cuoco. The couple—Penny and Leonard—have been disagreeing all season lengthy about having kids; it felt like the decision used to be taken from them, and the argument was by no means resolved as a result of she had a wonder pregnancy.
Do The Producer's Regret it?
Holland and Molaro have not made feedback about regrets; they both admittedly beef up their decision to finish Penny's tale with her being pregnant.
However, in The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series, the show's creator Chuck Lorre spoke about his regrets about how Penny was portrayed. "One of the most underwritten characters in the show early on was Penny. It was really obvious immediately that we hadn't developed the character beyond the pretty girl next door, and Kaley was certainly capable of doing a great deal more than what was asked of her."
Cuoco has expressed her emotions on how Penny was once overtly sexualized and made out to be the stereotypical dumb blonde. Penny was intended to be a three-season personality, but showrunners stored her after fan improve, they usually realized what Cuoco could succeed in as an actress.
Lorre said, "We had to make the character more fully realized. Not just for an episode, but always." He persisted, "[Over time] Penny had an intelligence about people, about relationships, and about sussing out a situation and understanding the dynamics of what's going on in a room."
Penny used to be a fully fleshed-out persona with thoughts and feelings that were deeply explored in past seasons. The decision to end her story with one thing the character were very a lot towards felt like a betrayal to enthusiasts.
But Cuoco—even supposing she disagrees with the finishing—said, "It was cute how the writers did it at the end with Penny's surprise pregnancy, and all in all, I'm glad."
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