I don't think that their getting together is what ended the show, it was their lack of sex for me. I mean, they waited 8 long years to get together and then they still wanted to wait until they got married to do the deed. I think her ex-boyfriend Geoffrey was getting more from Angela than Tony was and Tony was the love of her life! Pitiful way to end the series. I mean they weren't virgins.
Zina ( The Original Princess)
I agree. I think the first few seasons the sexual tension was fun and kept you coming back to the show but after that it just became tedious. I mean come on! they loved each other, they lived together and its a hard sell to have everyone believe that they could sleep across the hall from each other and ...nothing! I think they should have married early on in the sitcom and played off of that.
shareI see your point, but consider the old standby for this kind of thing, Moonlighting. People have constantly bashed that show for years about getting them together too soon. They probably did not want to risk that chemistry of the will-they, won't-they tension by actually getting them together. The characters themselves would often mention not wanting to break up their family if they did date and it went wrong. People would have been mad either way, I think, so they just took the path of not getting together. They did end the series differently than expected though, instead of doing a wedding episode, leaving the sitcom open-ended. That was a little different I thought, than a traditional sitcom. It's a tough decision when you build a show around the male/female leads on how to proceed, and I think their decision was OK.
shareI like that we didn't see them overly be sexual, but instead we got many enuendos. They were SEXIER that way. Also, WTB came on durng the "Family Hour"...therefore kudos to them for keeping it somewhat wholesome still.
“Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with” –Brian to Tracy in Mahogany
I agree. I think it came on at 8pm and it was nice back then for a kid to be able to turn on the tv without seeing crap. That was back when cable tv was new and all the smut came on much later at night, after kids were in bed.
sharein an interview awhile back, Judith Light said she was all for Tony and Angela "doing the deed" but Tony went over the writers heads to the producers and put a stop to it. He said "that wasn't what the show was about" and apparently the producers agreed with him. so they had to scrap half the writing for season 8 and change it.
shareMy problem wasn't really with them not having sex. Although I wouldn't have had a problem if they would have had sex and agree that eight years is a long time to have that sexual tension with no real payoff. It did seem a little strange that two grown adults who were suppose to be so in love never really got that physical with each other. But my biggest problem was they never really seemed to even have a real relationship. Even after they were engaged, they still felt like just friends to me. Sure there were kisses here and there, but it just seemed like there should have been a little more romance and passion between the two of them. I never got the we're IN love vibe from them...just that they loved each other as friends. And actually a lot of the sexual tension from the early seasons was lost in the later ones. It just became really monotonous that they never felt like they were moving forward even though the show told us they were with their engagement and such.
shareThere were episodes where Tony and Angela each showed the green-eyed monster, jealousy! And it wasn't the kind that friends show.
I have to admit I didn't see all of the later seasons, so I cannot really comment about those, and I had quit watching MOONLIGHTING well before the ending season, (pesky little thing, j-o-b).
That all said, if you have been watching the series CASTLE, (currently in season six), the interaction between Castle and Becket (main characters) is a LOT like WTB. Castle is a mystery writer with a young daughter and a red-headed mother-in-law, and his wife had died, (sound at all familiar?), and Becket is a police Detective, unmarried, and attractive.
In at least one episode, it is clear that Castle has seen Becket naked (non-sexually, of course). The first was when a bomb blew up Becket's apartment. She was just out of the bath when she got a warning, and got into the antique cast-iron bathtub, saving her life. Then Castle found her there, and lifted her, unconsious, out of the bathtub.
In that series, they have apparently gone farther, and even moved in together, but Becket was offerred, and took a job in another city... I believe that has been resolved, but I haven't been able to catch all the episodes, so I am waiting for the DVD set to come out.
And that seems MUCH more likely than WTB being out on DVDs. **SIGH**