21 TV Storylines That Were So Unnecessary In These Revivals, Reboots, And Spinoffs, They Kind Of Ruined The Original Series
We recently asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which TV reboot and revival plotlines were so bad, they should've never happened. Here are some of the best responses:
🚨There are some pretty big spoilers ahead! 🚨
1.First, when The X-Files returned and in Season 11 the show implied that Mulder and Scully started sleeping together.
"The will they/won't they made their relationship so good. As soon as I saw the first scene of them in bed together, I was done."
2.When Veronica Mars thought it was a good idea to kill Logan in the final minutes of Season 4.
"They did Logan so dirty not just by killing him off, but killing him off in a way that made Veronica look like a sloppy and careless detective. The reasoning behind it was some sexist BS, too. And to somehow make it worse, no one was there for Jason Dohring’s last day on set, including Kristen Bell. No one to see him off and pay respects for his character and for him as an actor. Despicable. I legitimately can’t watch the show again anymore because of how everything went down."
3.And then, when Veronica Mars tried to make the argument that Logan had to die in order to make Veronica more "gritty" and take away her happiness.
"The revival really took a sharp turn away from all the reasons the series was enjoyable in the first place. Nobody WANTED another hardboiled loner being a dick to everybody all the time; Veronica's appeal was that she was always barely hiding a giant heart behind a thin veil of minor snark and would do literally anything for a member of her little group of loved ones. I have enough TV shows where the detective is snide and everything is dark and sad. Veronica was plucky and scrappy and funny in spite of it all, and losing sight of that was...not the choice I woulda gone with."
4.When The Golden Palace thought it would be a good idea to have Miles cheat on Rose.
"Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely treasure the incredible chance to get basically another season of Golden Girls, and Don Cheadle is a true gem. However, they completely changed Miles character — he went from being Rose’s king of kings and ride-or-die boyfriend in the original series to literally cheating on Rose in the reboot, and he MARRIED the new gal IN ROSE’S HOTEL that she owns so she had to watch it all go down. Unforgivable."
5.When the new Gossip Girl took all the fun out of guessing who Gossip Girl is by reveal their identity in the first episode.
"The Gossip Girl reboot didn’t exactly destroy the original show, but it destroyed the concept. The entire point of the show is not knowing who Gossip Girl is and they told the audience in the very first episode."
6.And, when the new Gossip Girl decided to make Gossip Girl the teachers, which is just very creepy.
"The fact that Gossip Girl is the teachers of all people is so gross."
7.When Dexter returned with Dexter: New Blood and the season ended with Dexter's son Harrison killing him.
"Then, because Harrison was a murderer, he was forced to leave town and all his friends behind, to live a life on his own again, just when he was finally happy. It felt the same as the original ending: Dexter 'escapes' and Harrison is left behind. They did us dirty twice!"
8.When And Just Like That had Samantha move away in order to address Kim Cattrall's absence from the revival series.
"And Just Like That should’ve just killed off Samantha or found a better way to address her absence. How they wrote her character off was so stupid, after all her and Carrie went through together for their friendship to be over for a ridiculous reason was beyond dumb. I understand they want to keep it open for Kim Cattrall to return but after everything that happened in real life I really don’t think that's very likely."
9.And, when And Just Like That basically tried address every criticism about Sex and the City not being diverse enough and lazily created not great characters.
"The whole podcast crew. It’s like they took every criticism about SATC not being diverse enough and put them all into the podcast staff: Asian, LGBTQ+, wheelchair user. Inclusion matters, and it’s just lazy to lump them all into one scene."
10.Also, when And Just Like That had Miranda cheat on Steve with Che just so she could explore her sexuality, but it hurt Steve's character in the process.
"I love Sex and the City and I am enjoying the revival, but I can't get over what they did to Steve. I get it's about changes in life and aging and blah...but Steve is such a lovable guy and its infuriating he has to be hurt so Miranda can grow."
11.When the iCarly revival happened without Sam and the show should've just never happened without Jennette McCurdy.
"As much as I liked seeing the show come back, Jennette McCurdy's absence almost made it feel empty. I totally understand why she quit acting though. I'm glad they didn't write her character off completely and still mention her at least. It would have been worse if they just ignored it."
12.When the new Charmed kind of got rid of some of the amazing magic moments that made the original so special.
"They vanquished their first demon with BAKING SODA…Baking soda. They took the magic out of a show about magic. I really wanted to like it because OG Charmed is my favorite show ever and I love anything to do with witches but baking soda to vanquish a demon was ridiculous especially for the first one."
13.When Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life had Rory cheating on her boyfriend Paul with Logan, who had a fiancé, and basically every other decision Rory made during these episodes.
"Ugh Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life. I try to block that out."
14.And when Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life had Paris and Doyle get divorced.
"Paris and Doyle getting a divorce is really coming to mind for me right now since I’m fresh off a rewatch of the original series. They were so sweet together and a perfect match — I can’t understand why the revival would feel the need to undo a relationship that so many fans were passionate about."—jenniferabidor
15.When Netflix's live-action Fate: The Winx Saga unnecessarily changed a lot of the beloved characters, but especially Stella.
"There are a ton of changes between the original Winx Club and Fate: The Winx Saga that I could rant about (like the whitewashing and the treatment of Terra) but the thing that really grinds my gears are the changes made to Stella's character. In the original, she's very hyper-feminine and popular, but she's also incredibly kind and a good friend. In the reboot, Stella's character revolves around being more of a stereotypical 'mean girl,' which just feels mega regressive given what a celebration of femininity the original was."—natashajokic
16.When the 90210 spinoff tried to incorporate beloved characters like David, Kelly, and Dylan, but completely abandoned their original personalities and made them inconsistent with the original.
"In the newer 90210, David never came back to check on Silver — and instead Donna did — when she was going through all of her stuff. Also, Kelly should have never been a school guidance counselor. She would never. And, Dylan would have never abandoned his kid either. They were very sloppy working the old characters in. However, they did it right in Episode 1 when Andrea's kid showed up and someone remarked that she looked 30 LOL."
17.When Will & Grace simply tried to undo their original last episode by saying it was all a dream.
"I loved the original show but would like to forget the reboot ever happened. It was painful to see that the characters had not grown at all. I hated the 'dream' excuse to undo the paths they were on when the series originally ended."
18.When the JAG characters made an appearance on NCIS: LA and we found out Harm and Mac never even got married and barely spoke to each other now.
"This is niche and not a full revival, but the main characters of JAG made a few appearances on NCIS: LA, 14 years after JAG ended. The show had ended with Harm and Mac finally getting together and getting engaged after nine seasons. However, on NCIS: LA, we found out they had never even gotten married and in fact, had not seen or spoken to each other in years. It was such a huge letdown to fans who were expecting to see what was new with these characters we hadn’t seen in years, only to find out they were apparently pulling the same crap they had been 20+ years ago."
19.When Degrassi: Next Class undid a lot of character development that Degrassi: The Next Generation did, especially for Miles and his relationships.
"I'm a bigger fan of the Next Class era than a lot of people, but a few of the retcons they did between Season 14 of The Next Generation and Season 1 of Next Class annoyed me. For example, when TNG ended, Miles and Tristan were broken up and both seemed to have moved on. Yet, in Next Class, they're suddenly not over each other even though their relationship had only lasted less than a semester. Worse, they tell us that Tristan has always been there for Miles when, in reality, it was Maya who supported him through all his hard times in TNG. I wasn't even a big Maya/Miles shipper, but Next Class acting like their relationship never happened just so they could make it seem like Tristan was more important was frustrating."—kellymartinez
20.When Fuller House made all of the characters we grew up loving very cringy and low-key unlikeable.
"Fuller House made me hate all the characters I grew up with."
21.And finally, everything — literally everything — about the Arrested Development revival on Netflix.
"For years I wanted Arrested Development to come back, and then it did. Be careful what you wish for, folks."
"I didn't make it past the second episode of Season 4. Just awful. I can never go back."
