Why I Am Against the "Will and Grace" Revival
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Why I Am Against the "Will and Grace" Revival

The return is a bad decision.

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Why I Am Against the "Will and Grace" Revival
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I'm sorry to disappoint any of the fans who have hope in the Will and Grace revival, but I don't think it will be great. Originally, I was going to keep my mouth shut since it hasn't premiered yet, but then I read the news that it already got renewed for a second season and they will ignore the events that occurred in the original series finale. So now is my time to speak up.

The show's original ending brought the audience into the future of all the characters from the show. When I first heard the news about the revival, I had trouble thinking how this show could return after seeing how their futures turned out. After reading that they will ignore those events, I was speechless. As a person who hopes to write for television in the future, series finales are one of the most important things to me. Finales are the drive for the fans to continue watching every week. They keep wondering what will happen to their favorite characters and how it will end for them. They serve a show justice. If you mess up a finale, you mess up your entire show. When I was younger, I used to watch this show and I considered myself a fan. I thought the finale was bittersweet. It was worth everything it built up to be. Imagine you heard that in eleven years, the writers plan to renew the series for another season and pretend the finale never happened. That's a cruel way to dishonor a series. Finales prove that all good things must come to end and be appreciative of what happened from this creation, not reinvent it.

Vanishing the existence of a finale proves the writers didn't like how it ended or they needed an excuse to bring back old characters into this new generation. If they were against how it ended, then they shouldn't have ended that way. If they wanted to bring back old characters to television, they should have done it in a way that a storyline could work for them and finish anything that wasn't complete in the original series. Don't just make the characters return so they could return. That's what the Farrelly Brothers did when they gave Dumb and Dumber a sequel. Originally, I thought they had a good storyline for the sequel. One of the characters found out they had a child, and he goes on an adventure to find her. That's a meaningful way to give a character purpose. Whoever didn't see the sequel, I'm about to spoil it. Sorry! Towards the ending, the character found out, the child wasn't actually his because he never had sex with the mother. This shows how the sequel was a silly excuse to bring back two characters from the dead after twenty years. The Will and Grace creators are pulling the same scam for this revival. They're bringing characters who are acting the same from how the series premiered in 1998 and ignoring how they and grew developed as the show continued. This isn't Seinfeld, so the lack of character development is unacceptable. They're disrespecting something I once loved by ignoring everything they went through from that time.

The decision to renew this show for a second season was a dangerous move from the executives at NBC. I think they should've waited for the ratings after the premier to make that decision. Perhaps the first season could be successful, but could they stay successful in the next season? The only reason they were confident towards that decision was because it's "Will and Grace." The show everyone loved from 1998 to 2006. It's the same reasonFuller House is about to hit season three. That spin-off isn't as strong as their original series but the fact that it revolves around the same characters we used to love, it would disappoint many fans who was invested in the show to cancel it. Though bad success is still considered success. Even though I am against this revival, I will still watch it. At least the first episode because of curiosity. I want to see how things turn out and what the characters I used to love are like now, even if they're pretending the finale didn't happen. I'm sure Fuller House had some haters, but they still watched the first episode to see how everything turned out. This proves how the power of bad success could to take leap on Will and Grace.

Since it hasn't premiered yet, I might be too quick to judge. This is my nerves speaking. Something worse than a bad finale destroying a great show, is a bad spinoff or revival. We will find out if my opinion is true when it airs on September 28th, 2017 on NBC.


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