Six seasons just wasn't long enough.
For a show that good and was getting better I wish there were more seasons.
shareUH a lot of shows last about that time.
It could of been canceled after one season if the ratings were bad.
MovieChat Forums > The Wonder Years (1988) Discussion > Six seasons just wasn't long enough.
Quite true! I heard once if the show had one more season it would have ended during the time of Nixon's resignation.
shareWhile it's better to go out on a high note than overstay your welcome, The Wonder Years definitely deserved at least one more season. I mean, most shows go downhill after their fourth or fifth season but this show was still going strong. Plus, seeing Kevin's last year in High School would have felt more... complete.
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I stated on a different thread that the show was aet during the late 60s, early 70s era of hippies and protest. By July of 1973 love beads and bell bottoms were giving way to leisure suits and platform shoes.
In addition, the Paris
peace accords had been signed in January of that year marking the end of US soldiers in combat. Meaning the era of protest was largely over.
The show absolutely needed one more season. I really thought it sucked that we couldn't have seen Kevin go through senior year. For a show that is all about change and growing up, what better way to signify that then by ending on a note of Kevin stepping off in to the real world?
I do understand it, though. In six seasons, the show had come to say everything that it intended to say. We weren't really short-changed, because six seasons is a very solid run for a TV show. However, they could have had another season, and I'll bet it would have been really great. Hell, keep the same series finale, just change a few details about it to make it fit in with being a year later in time.
Good point! TWY was the last of the great shows for me.😊
"A real man would rather bow down to a strong woman than dominate a weak one"
The network screwed up. one more season should've happened or A least a TV movie to show Kevin graduate
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The network wanted the show to remain innocent and the creators wanted to go in a more adult direction. The network canceled it and that's why the final episode feels kinda sloppy for a series finale. I wish Netflix existed in 1993 because the story will always feel incomplete too me and the death of Jack in the 70's doesn't match up with what was said in earlier seasons.
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A very good fanfic. I enjoy both the short and longer versions. :-)
I spotted another story set in 1977 where an older Kevin Arnold babysit his nephew and they see Star Wars. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10909937/1/Kevin-His-Nephew-And-A-Galaxy-Far-Far-Away
Thanks.
I actually wrote the first draft well before the series ended, as a Spec Script that I fully intended to try to sell to New World Television. Unfortunately, they refused to look at it unless submitted by an agent, which I had no means of securing.
If they continue the show, they would have kept Jack alive longer than 1975. I don't think they would continue the show without that character.
shareWas the season 5 ending intended to be the series finale at one point? The "walk wown memory lane" felt lazy writing me. It also heloed to remind me that these two will never work out. Perhaps the only thing I liked about it was that Kevin and Winnie end up together, only to break up again soon. I liked that it "ended with how it began in the sense of hiw Kevin feels about her. The
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I am not a fan of flashbacks of previously seen material on shows. That's the lazy part to me. I watched recently, and it ends with Winnie and Kevin together, which is what he always hoped for. They will probably break up again, but it was an idealized ending, at least from Kevin's point of view. In that way I liked it better than the series finale because Kevin simply doesn't get a clue. Or several clues.
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Dude imagine doing a show for 5 or 6 years of your life with the same people you see everyday of your life you would get annoyed and want to quitvthe show so you can meet and do new things in your life.
https://youtu.be/evzGr5GYJfQ
Absolutely. It should have ended with Kevin's high school graduation.
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