Season 6
So obvious why this was the last season, it is not good at all!
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I think, had the show gone any further that season six was more or less a transitional season so that Whitley and Dwayne got a proper sendoff and the series would put the new "kids"(Lena, Dorian, Charmaine, Gina, etc) center stage.
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I thought season 6 was still good. The producers of the show were shifting the focus away from the older cast members to the younger ones. This show never had a bad season, but it did have a few bad episodes here and there.....
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I find it odd Jaleesa is not mentioned ONCE in the whole season and you have her married some one who is still a regular on the show.
They did to Jaleesa as they'd done to Carl Dixon on Good Times. LOL
In retrospect, they could have taken a risk and focused Season 6 on Gina (my fave of the new kids), Lena, Charmayne, Dorian and maybe Terrance. Mr. Gaines and Col. Taylor would have provided consistency. Even if it had tanked, it pretty much tanked anyway.
Better a show about students at Hillman than one about deadbeats who graduated but keep hanging around campus.
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Can't remember my My Dinner with Theo comment, meaning it was redundant and/or not interesting. Might have been something about schools having multiple deans, one per department.
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Slacked off, sorry!
I would say, however, they really made a meal out of Denise leaving Hillman. Not only does she tell Theo she might not go back, in "Claire's Last Stand" Denise is warned to straighten up or else. In the episode where Denise and Dwayne go out for sushi the last day of school 😢she strongly hints she's not going back. Then Dwayne goes up to visit her in New York because of the letter she sent him over the summer and she point blank tells him she's not coming back. It was as if they thought the show couldn't survive without Denise which was so not true.
It was super annoying when Claire came back AFTER Denise was written out. I mean, really? The show didn't need any connection to the Huxtable family by that point. Take the "Business Etiquette Seminar" one where Vanessa and her friend visit campus.😒Clearly Alvin Pouissant and William H. Cosby, Ed.D. were in "teach" mode. The one where Claire videotapes them (another job-seeking/career guidance/each one teach one episode) fares slightly better, mostly because Jaleesa is Little Miss Perfect. Paraphrasing here, "After graduation I plan to enter the management training program of a major corporation, in five years become a vice-president, and in ten years have a beach house in Sag Harbor." Yeah, more like marry Col. Taylor in two years, get pregnant and run a temp agency out of her living room. 😜
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Better a show about students at Hillman than one about deadbeats who graduated but keep hanging around campus.
Well remember that in the final season Dwayne, Freddie and Kim were all grad students (plus Dwayne was teaching). Whitley and Ron were the only two "hanging around campus," but even then they were visiting either their best friend or significant other.
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For me, Season 6 had too many After School Special dramatic episodes, which was why I just sleepwalked through watching it.
shareI actually liked that there were a couple of seasons on the show that allowed us to see what Dwayne, Whitley, Kim and Freddie were doing after they graduated from Hillman. With that said, it was probably best the show ended when it did because I'm not so sure it would have done as well with Lena, Charmaine and the younger students as the lead characters.
shareLena, Charmaine, Gina, Dorian, and Terrell had great chemistry together; still, I don't know that I would have been interested in watching them as lead characters, either. Out of the five of them, Jada was the only actor who had a real presence; and honestly, the only character (Lena) I found likable to the extent that I actually cared about what happened to her.
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