Big Bang Theory: The Worst Part Of Leonard And Penny’s Relationship – Looper

There's one important thing to remember when you realize that Penny ends "The Big Bang Theory" pregnant she said repeatedly that she didn't want a child, and had done so after marrying Leonard, and often during the final season. She actually informs Leonard of this fact repeatedly (per Vulture), even though he hopes at least once that there will be a mistake and that she will become pregnant.Leonard reacts to her desire to remain childfree with disappointment, and since this is an adamant need of Penny's and he's so desperate to be a father he nearly donates sperm to an acquaintance, it proves to be yet another dividing line between them. He has long wanted to have children with her, and this display of baby rabies is reflective of the intense insecurity with which he approached their relationship before their first breakup. It's as if he needs to nail Penny in place for fear that she will leave him.

This is close to what happens; Penny becomes pregnant after forgetting to encourage Leonard to put a condom on after a long, drunken night with Sheldon at The Cheesecake Factory. That results in the audience feeling as if he's entrapped her, performing a mild form of partner coercion in the process.Penny compromises her ideals and dreams for an ordinary life with Leonard who, while he's finally learned that Penny isn't his cardboard dream woman, freaks out and tries to overcompensate. It points up a fundamental lack of compatibility that the show never bothers to fully solve or partially resolved and then failed to stick to.

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Big Bang Theory: The Worst Part Of Leonard And Penny's Relationship - Looper