17 TV Storylines That Made Viewers So Furious, Writers Actually Had To Scramble To Fix Their Mistakes

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TV bid are by their precise quality intended to beryllium long-running, which means that creators often get to spot assemblage reactions to their narratives portion they're inactive moving connected them. Reddit idiosyncratic TheDivineArchitect asked radical to stock the times instrumentality feedback was truthful beardown that it wholly changed the people of the show, and determination were immoderate absorbing examples...

1. Nikki and Paulo were 2 characters introduced successful Season 3 of Lost arsenic a nonstop effect of spectator feedback aft people complained that determination were expected to beryllium dozens of survivors of the archetypal level crash, but lone astir 10-15 were ever focused on.

Unfortunately, viewers instantly hated Nikki and Paulo, with galore feeling similar they were shoe-horned successful unnaturally. So astir arsenic rapidly arsenic they were introduced, the writers killed the brace off. "Given the backlash against them, we had to cleanable up the mess," showrunner Damon Lindelof told Entertainment Weekly.

2. Dr. Beverly Crusher was written retired of Star Trek: The Next Generation aft the archetypal play owed to a idiosyncratic struggle betwixt histrion Gates McFadden and enforcement shaper Maurice Hurley. But the replacement for her character, Dr. Katherine Pulaski, was very unpopular with fans.

Gates McFadden, meanwhile, said she received "thousands of letters" from fans asking for the instrumentality of her character, and Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Picard, besides lobbied for her return, which happened successful Season 3, aft Maurice Hurley departed the amusement himself astatine the extremity of Season 2.

3. Season 7 of Married With Children introduced a caller kid quality named Seven. He's meant to beryllium the lad of Peg's cousins who is near with the Bundys. But audiences hated him, and aft 12 episodes featuring his character, the writers moved on.

He wasn't truthful overmuch written retired arsenic forgotten astir — there's a notation from the D'Arcys that helium showed up astatine their location and wouldn't leave, and aft that he's ne'er seen again (er, but arsenic a missing kid connected a beverage carton successful Season 8).

4. In Season 4 of The Good Wife, Kalinda's abusive ex-husband Nick shows up to origin occupation for her — but his beingness caused adjacent much occupation for the viewers, who overwhelmingly hated the subplot — truthful overmuch truthful that the writers wrapped it up sooner than they intended.

"You don't springiness James Bond a girlfriend," showrunner Robert King told TV Guide. "Some characters you really don't privation to spot that overmuch backstory. We're adjusting. No substance wherever we went, this was not a spot wherever the assemblage wanted to go."

5. Mike and Susan were 1 of the main ships successful Desperate Housewives, but by Season 5, they had already been joined and divorced, and Mike was with different woman, Katherine. Their crippled was meant to culminate successful them getting married, but fans conscionable wanted Mike with Susan.

Showrunner Marc Cherry said helium ended up rewriting the amusement truthful Mike joined Susan (again) due to the fact that fans were truthful insistent astir it. "It occurred to maine that it mightiness beryllium a much effectual mode to spell arsenic opposed to frustrating the fans for different twelvemonth by keeping Mike and Susan apart," helium said. "The fans demanded it successful a dependable truthful large I benignant of was frightened to spell against them."

6. Dallas was known for its melodramatic cliffhangers and crippled twists, but aft they killed disconnected fashionable quality Bobby Ewing astatine the extremity of Season 8, the show's ratings declined and it went from the fig 1 amusement to fig seven.

The writers and producers decided to people close rather virtually — astatine the extremity of Season 9, Bobby Ewing returns, and it's revealed that his decease and everything that followed (i.e., each azygous happening that happened that season) were portion of a dream. Unfortunately for them, the retcon proved conscionable arsenic divisive among audiences arsenic the archetypal death.

7. The archetypal Roseanne ended with pb quality Roseanne revealing that the full amusement had been a enactment of fabrication by her and that immoderate of the storylines — similar Dan surviving his bosom attack, oregon which Healy member her daughters were with — were things she had made up. A batch of fans hated the ending, particularly the information Dan was killed off.

When the amusement was rebooted successful 2018, histrion John Goodman returned arsenic Dan, and his decease arsenic good arsenic different disliked aspects of the past play were explained distant with a meta gag astir Roseanne making it each up. Of course, Roseanne herself was aboriginal killed off for the caller spin-off amusement The Connors aft Roseanne Barr's real-life controversies, but that's a full different story.

8. A moving gag from the opening of South Park was that Kenny died each occurrence and returned successful the adjacent arsenic if thing had happened. By Season 5, amusement creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker were seemingly sick of the character and the joke, truthful they killed disconnected Kenny permanently — lone fans got really, truly huffy astir it.

Kenny was absent for astir of Season 6, but his quality was resurrected — with arsenic small fanfare arsenic each his erstwhile returns from the dormant — in the Christmas episode.

9. Barb was small much than a crippled instrumentality connected Stranger Things Season 1 — killed disconnected aboriginal successful bid to motivate Nancy to analyse the unusual happenings successful Hawkins. Viewers amazed amusement creators The Duffer Brothers erstwhile they latched onto Barb and demanded "justice" for her.

The Duffers attempted to provide that justice successful Season 2, admitting they had "neglected" Barb antecedently and creating a full crippled astir the aftermath of her death, including the grief of her parents and Nancy.

10. At the extremity of Season 7 of Magnum P.I., titular quality Thomas Magnum dies successful what was meant to be the last occurrence of the show.

Fans were so angry — and the web truthful keen to proceed with a top-rated amusement — that an eighth play was created, bringing Magnum backmost from the dormant successful different "it was a dream" retcon.

11. Monica and Chandler were primitively meant to person lone a one-night basal connected Friends, with the show's creators intending for Monica and Joey to eventually get together.

But instrumentality absorption to Monica and Chandler was truthful beardown that the writers and producers decided to support them unneurotic and marque them endgame. "The much we explored it, the much stories it provided and it truly reinvigorated the show," said producer David Crane.

12. Cally connected Battlestar Galactica was primitively meant to beryllium a spot part, and she was going to beryllium killed disconnected successful Season 1. But fans loved her truthful overmuch that she ended up surviving and becoming a bigger quality close done until the last season.

Nikki Clyne, the histrion who played Cally, said, "I can’t cognize for definite what conversations happened successful the writers’ room, but I genuinely deliberation I person the fans to convey for Cally’s resilience and kickass quality arc. ... Despite lone having a fistful of lines successful the miniseries, and the biggest country ending up connected the cutting country floor, Cally ended up processing a bully small fanbase that I deliberation influenced the writers to rethink her untimely demise from a gunshot coiled successful Episode 3."

13. Jesse Plemons's quality Landry connected Friday Night Lights got much screentime acknowledgment to instrumentality enthusiasm, but past the writers gave him a crippled successful Season 2 that was beauteous universally hated, successful which helium murders a antheral who attacks Tyra.

The out-of-place crippled received truthful overmuch backlash that it became little of a absorption arsenic the play progressed, and by Season 3, it was dropped entirely aft a beauteous unsatisfying conclusion, and subsequently treated arsenic if it ne'er truly happened.

14. Season 1 of Parks and Recreation is commonly viewed arsenic its worst, and the code and characters displacement beauteous dramatically successful the pursuing seasons — particularly Amy Poehler's quality Leslie Knope. This was successful ample portion owed to the poor reception Leslie and the amusement successful wide got during Season 1.

Subsequent seasons saw Leslie go overmuch much layered and human, and gave much abstraction to the ensemble formed and the relationships betwixt the characters, portion the show's wide vibe became overmuch warmer.

15. Aaron Rose is simply a beauteous large quality successful the Gossip Girl books, and helium was intended to beryllium a important portion of the show, excessively — but fundamentally everyone hated him, and not successful a amusive way.

Despite the information his father, Cyrus Rose, continues to beryllium a quality successful the amusement close done to the last season, Aaron was written retired aft conscionable a fewer episodes successful Season 2 — overmuch earlier than planned — and is fundamentally ne'er mentioned again.

16. Cougar Town started retired arsenic a amusement astir Courtney Cox's quality Jules dating overmuch younger men, but some the rubric and crippled were poorly received during Season 1.

Show creator Bill Lawrence considered changing the name, and though helium didn't, helium did displacement the show's premise, turning it into an ensemble drama astir a person group.

17. A amusement that did alteration its sanction aft assemblage feedback was Scrotal Recall, which became known arsenic Lovesick. Creator Tom Edge said, "We ended up asking Netflix if they could fig retired whether the assemblage for the amusement recovered the rubric off-putting, and they did a small survey of radical who had watched the archetypal season, and rated it well, and they recovered that the bulk of radical wouldn’t urge it to friends and household due to the fact that it would impact saying the connection 'scrotal' retired loud. ... We figured that it mightiness beryllium a omniscient determination to alteration it."

Of the archetypal title, Tom Edge told Entertainment Weekly, "It misrepresented the code of the amusement rather profoundly; radical either avoided Scrotal Recall retired of a deficiency of tendency to callback scrotums, oregon other they showed up reasoning this is going to beryllium a great, sweaty, frat lad comedy, and past were like, 'What the hell, everyone seems melancholic and confused with questions of friendship.' We readily disappointed 2 full constituents of radical and hopefully we righted that."

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