TV revivals can be a double-edged sword! We're diving into the world of reboots that either brilliantly fixed long-standing plot holes or accidentally created even more confusion in beloved franchises.
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00:00I didn't know there'd be a test.
00:03A test?
00:04Welcome to MsMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the TV reboots and spin-offs that
00:10retconned their narratives for the better, and the ones that just complicated the storyline.
00:15For this list, we're also including small-screen continuations of movies.
00:20Goodbye, Princess. May the Force be with you.
00:245. Fixed – Will & Grace
00:29In the first series finale, Will Truman and Grace Adler's friendship is on rocky ground,
00:35which isn't new. But this glimpse into the future reveals the two will reunite
00:39after not speaking for years.
00:49Their marriages and children apparently got in the way of their friendship.
00:52Longtime fans disliked this development.
00:55Fate brought us together, and fate was gonna keep us together.
00:58I even remember back in college, Will saying,
01:01it's destiny. And I totally agreed.
01:05It just doesn't gel with everything they have been through, and feels more like an
01:10underdeveloped twist than a true character development. Well, those fans are in luck.
01:15If we had kids, then the show would be about Will and Grace's parents.
01:19And if we ignored the kids and just focused on the four of us,
01:23then we would be bad parents. And no one wants to see Will and Grace be bad parents.
01:28The revival series finds Will and Grace having divorced their partners and living together again,
01:34sans the children introduced in the original finale.
01:375. Created – The Golden Palace
01:41This is the man who's my secret lover.
01:49Just pointing out that things could get worse.
01:52A weird Season 6 storyline of The Golden Girls saw Rose Nyland's boyfriend, Miles Webber,
01:58revealing he's actually a mob informant in the Witness Protection Program.
02:03The Golden Girls mostly sweeps that story under the rug, but one thing fans couldn't stomach
02:08is how the show's ill-advised sequel series, The Golden Palace, ended their relationship.
02:14Sweetheart, I didn't mean to fall in love with two women, but I did, and I'm very confused.
02:20Rose, I don't know what to do. At my age, I can't afford to make the wrong choice.
02:26Miles not only cheats on Rose, but he was apparently having an affair
02:30during the events of the first show. He even has his wedding in the hotel Rose runs,
02:35with Blanche and Sophia. Given all we know of them, it just doesn't make much sense.
02:41Honey, I'm so sorry about this.
02:43Well, this just doesn't make any sense. Miles loves me. I know he does.
02:48And no, it doesn't seem like his new wife knows about his past in Witness Protection.
02:52Number 4. Fixed – Star Trek Enterprise
02:56There must be some kind of mistake.
02:59What is it?
03:00According to his biosignature, he is Klingon.
03:03This is a tricky one because there's a lot of lore to cut through with this franchise.
03:08The Klingons' appearance changed drastically after the original Star Trek. Other franchises
03:13tiptoed around the issue, but the spinoff found a novel way to explain the lack of
03:18forehead ridges in the 1960s version of The Klingons.
03:22Millions of my people will have to live with this disfigurement. It'll be passed on to our children.
03:30Life won't be easy for us.
03:31Between Enterprise and the events of the original series,
03:35the Klingons were exposed to a virus, and the cure allowed for genetic mutations seen later on.
03:41Essentially, there was now a canonical explanation
03:44why there are two very different groups of Klingons running around.
03:48I'll need to find a new specialty.
03:53Perhaps cranial reconstruction.
03:56Number 4. Created – Twin Peaks
03:59Given the surreal atmosphere of Twin Peaks, it's hard to know what's the plot hole and
04:04what's just a loosey-goosey approach to time and space.
04:10Through the darkness of future pasts, the magician longs to see.
04:16When David Lynch and Mark Frost's metaphysical murder mystery returned after 25 years away,
04:22it seemed to revel in raising questions rather than answering the ones its 1991 finale left open.
04:29When is this show supposed to take place?
04:31What year is this?
04:34What exactly does The Manhattan Project have to do with all this?
04:49Where has Josie Packard been?
04:51Did Audrey survive the original series finale?
04:54Are you going to stop playing games or do I have to end your story too?
04:58What story is that, Charlie?
05:05Can Laura Palmer be saved?
05:07The revival doesn't answer these questions, and if anything, it confuses us even more.
05:19Once again, Twin Peaks proves it's not a show you can approach with the goal of solving it.
05:26Fixed.
05:27Cobra Kai.
05:28Wait, is this the karate guy?
05:30The guy from the tournament?
05:31Oh, this is the guy whose ass she kicked.
05:34For years, fans of the original Karate Kid movie had a big burning question.
05:38Daniel LaRusso triumphed over his bully and rival karate student,
05:43Johnny Lawrence, using the crane kick his teacher, Mr. Miyagi, taught him.
05:48Fans swear up and down this move is actually grounds for disqualification,
05:53and the movie shouldn't have ended with Daniel's win.
06:04Even actor Ralph Macchio says the move was against the tournament's rules.
06:09Whether or not that's true, Cobra Kai addresses the years of speculation head-on.
06:14In the TV revival and semi-retelling of the movie series,
06:18Johnny challenges the legitimacy of Daniel's win, making this alleged plot hole canon.
06:24It was an illegal kick.
06:25Oh, illegal? Really? Come on, what about that elbow to my knee?
06:28Yeah, I gotta warn you, you got the wind.
06:30Number 3. Created.
06:31The X-Files.
06:43After over a decade away from the small screen,
06:45Mulder and Scully returned to their extraterrestrial investigating ways.
06:49One leftover storyline from the first go-around became a bigger issue in the revival.
06:54My original name was William. I've come to learn.
07:00That's what my birth mother called me. Dana Scully.
07:04Baby William, the child Scully gave birth to in a controversial storyline
07:08late in the show's original run, has grown up after the two abandoned him for his safety.
07:14The contradictory, constant rewriting of the baby's origins were made worse in the revival,
07:19and angered fans as Scully's actions just don't square with everything we know about her.
07:25He was an idea, born in a laboratory.
07:30You were his mother.
07:31As so much of the last season focused on the grown William as a character,
07:35it made the holes even harder to ignore.
07:38Number 2. Fixed.
07:39Obi-Wan Kenobi.
07:40Disney Plus' miniseries brought Ewan McGregor back to the role he played in the Star Wars prequel series.
07:47Well, if you ever need my help again, you know where to find me.
07:53The top that day never comes.
07:55It also cleared up a strange logic gap that those movies created.
07:59In the very first movie, the captured Princess Leia calls Obi-Wan Kenobi her only hope.
08:04Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
08:08But the prequels tell us that Kenobi has been thought dead between the two trilogies,
08:13so how would Leia even know he was alive to help her?
08:16Not everything in a story has to be explained, but Obi-Wan Kenobi fills in this hole with a
08:22story about Kenobi rescuing Leia from a kidnapping plot as a young girl.
08:26Will I ever see you again?
08:29Maybe. Someday. If you ever need help from a tired old man.
08:35Some fans were annoyed that this opened up a few more questions,
08:39but it was fun to see the connection made.
08:42Number 2. Created. Gilmore Girls. A Year in the Life.
08:46Nine years after the show ended, Lorelai and Rory Gilmore returned in a four-part Netflix miniseries.
08:53Fans were eager to see a lot of the wrongs done in the last two seasons made right.
09:01Welcome home, Mrs. Hayden.
09:03They were disappointed Richard Gilmore actor Edward Herman's off-screen death left a void.
09:08At the character's funeral, Lorelai is put on the spot to share a good memory with her father,
09:14and she doesn't have one.
09:15I'm 10, and I asked Dad to play hide-and-seek,
09:21and I went and hid in his steamer chunk, and he left and went to Holland.
09:27It actually takes her four episodes to remember one. People grieve differently,
09:31but the first series is chock-full of moments where the two reconnect.
09:35It seems like a willful rewrite of their dynamic for the sake of giving Lorelai something to do.
09:42Your father was a great man, a pillar of the community, a man amongst men.
09:47I know.
09:48Can you dishonor him today like this in his own house?
09:50I didn't mean to dishonor him.
09:52Number 1. Fixed. Roseanne.
09:55I thought you were dead.
09:56I'm sleeping.
09:59Why does everybody always think I'm dead?
10:01Roseanne Barr and company delivered one of the most frustrating
10:05and controversial series finales of all time. In voiceover, her character, Roseanne Connor,
10:10told us that most of the series was actually fictional events in a book she was writing.
10:15My sister, in real life, unlike my mother, is gay.
10:19She always told me she was gay, but for some reason, I always pictured her with a man.
10:23In just one of the many changes, her kids' spouses were switched,
10:27which opens up a huge can of worms and rewrites entire histories.
10:32But her husband Dan's devastating death by heart attack was the final gut punch.
10:38I lost Dan last year when he had his heart attack.
10:41When the show came back in 2018, it did away with the entire ninth season storyline
10:46and most of the revelations made in the 1997 ending,
10:50restoring the family to the dynamics we remembered.
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11:09Number 1. Created, Young Sheldon
11:12Reintroducing the fussy but brilliant Sheldon Cooper for a new generation,
11:16this Big Bang Theory prequel made a few alterations to our understanding of Sheldon's childhood.
11:23My father's wisdom touched me deeply, which is why to this day, no matter what I'm going through,
11:28I am never irritating or abusive to any of my friends or loved ones.
11:33The show's portrayal of his father, George Cooper Sr.,
11:36is radically different from the anecdotes about him in the first show.
11:39Adult Sheldon portrays his deceased father as an alcoholic,
11:43borderline abusive Rube, who resented his son's intelligence.
11:47You don't need to seek revenge.
11:49Are you sure?
11:50Every time my dad stayed out all night, my mom would put hamster poop in his chewing tobacco.
11:55On Young Sheldon, George is understanding and genuinely good to his family. In fact,
12:00many of the terrible things he was said to have done
12:02are addressed as misunderstandings in the prequel series.
12:06Do you like what you see?
12:10Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:15Some fans say this demonstrates Sheldon's unreliable narration.
12:18But this rewriting of his own past just makes him seem cruel.
12:23What's a TV revival that you think got it right? Tell us in the comments.
12:28You're rich, stands alive, both single, no kids.
12:33Got it.
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