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which finale disappoints more?

posted 3 years ago by ADBruno1985 (3482)
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Original or revival?

Honestly I think I prefer the original finale. They both make missteps, but since we had reason to hope the revival would improve on those mistakes, it's all the more disappointing. The original is an hour long, nice to dive into. The revival is only half an hour. On my first viewing, I had a Sopranos moment, because I honestly thought it was going to be an hour, and with how it ends, it took me a few minutes to figure out I was wrong, because the ending felt like the midpoint of the episode. In either version, the characters are generally happy at the end. But having to deal with a pregnancy *again* just felt both forced and missed. Plus the palpable awkwardness of the two ladies not wanting to interact. And at least in the original, the two leads were in a more certain place in life.

I'm not one to get *upset* because what *I* wanted didn't happen, I just expected... better. But the final revival season felt like such a mess anyway. Greater the expectations, greater the disappointment I guess.

[–] DevonteHuntley (229) 2 months ago

The revival finale was way more disappointing. It was simply a cheap rehash of the original and even sillier because you had Grace once again pregnant but isn't she like in her 50s now? What sense did this make do have her go through that this late in her life? And then we have the typical "moving out of the house/apartment" angle most finales can't bear to stem from like we NEED to see that. Yawn, getting old.

The overall revival was a letdown while the stories and comedy was on point, but I really wish they respected the continuity and tried to follow on from where the show left off. But given how it ended, trying to revive it in 2017 while respecting how the finale went about would be tricky given the time frame is still too early. Will and Grace haven't seen each other yet until their kids began college in 2024 (the current year as I write this). I had an idea of the revival starting out in 2024 and Grace wishing she could go back and reunite with Will when she felt the need to have him in her life again and she travels back to 2017 to start a new path in her life. But we see her and Will with their kids and we move on from there.

Now that's one way it could have worked PROPERLY. Another way would be to simply let the show not kick back again for a few more years UNTIL 2024 and then resume things following the finale and that time frame. I'd prefer that more and wish they could have gone a third round with another revival this year and accomplished that, basically ignoring the events of Seasons 9-11.