The Official "Bel-Air" Thread (Season 2 Is Now Airing)

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Going back and forth, between CoCo Jones, New age Aunt Viv, and Nadine Ellis in multiple episodes is like eating a big bowl of ‘Death by Chocolate’ ice cream and I would savor every spoonful :shaq:

I keep saying that this version of Ashley is their version of Michael Evans from Good Times except with the LGBT+ spin. It could be a slick way and/or ‘Here nikka damn’ to check the LGBT box. I know in the OG version she was the most grounded, but rebellious out of the Banks’ children, but she is borderline annoying in this version. Out of the reimagining and repackaging characterizations, Ashley repackaging suffers the most thus far, IMO.

I can't speak about what they've done with Ashley because I only watched season one, but in the OG series, she was the least developed of the Banks kids. Not to say she didn't have any personality, but she was essentially the cute kid in the first few seasons. They kept making jokes about her going through puberty because characters like her stop being entertaining once they get older. The writers don't know what to do with cute kids once they become teenagers, and most of them never learned how to act, so when you add that to their lack of character, they just fade into the background for the rest of the series.

To be fair, they tried keeping Ashley in the mix, and Tatyana was a good actress, so her scenes rarely felt off. But the most they could do with her is make her into a younger Will, because he influenced her the most and got her to see life outside of Bel-Air. It had a side effect of turning her into an a$$hole, and it gets worse in the later seasons when she's just a bratty teenager. Then they tried turning her into a feminist and she would have these weird moments where she would get on her soapbox about things, so you can tell they were trying whatever they could with her to keep her around.

Carlton and Hilary already had established personalities you could do a lot with in a dramatic setting. Ashley was more of a blank slate, so it sounds like they just took some of her negative qualities from the OG series and inserted them here.
 

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I'm sorry but I'm starting to hate the whole let's do 4 seasons or less and quit. For example, Insecure could have had more seasons. Snowfall , Black AF only got one season
I feel you breh but this is really some "back in my day :flabbynsick: " ass thinking. All the shows we came up on(OG Fresh Prince, Martin, Living Single) only had like 5 seasons, and we don't even acknowledge the final seasons for most of them because of behind the scenes shyt tearing them apart. You could argue practically none of the 90s shows actually had fulfilling endings, primarily because they rarely had the time/space to write a cohesive ending to the narrative. Most of these shows didn't even have a true narrative, just a setting the characters interacted in. I'm thankful we didn't get a final season of Snowfall where Leon was leaving Wanda voicemails every episode because the actors couldn't be on set together, or another season of Insecure where Lawrence's son is randomly 8 years old overnight because they ran out of story. I want more of my favorite shows too, but I want a complete narrative even more :manny:
 

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I feel you breh but this is really some "back in my day :flabbynsick: " ass thinking. All the shows we came up on(OG Fresh Prince, Martin, Living Single) only had like 5 seasons, and we don't even acknowledge the final seasons for most of them because of behind the scenes shyt tearing them apart. You could argue practically none of the 90s shows actually had fulfilling endings, primarily because they rarely had the time/space to write a cohesive ending to the narrative. Most of these shows didn't even have a true narrative, just a setting the characters interacted in. I'm thankful we didn't get a final season of Snowfall where Leon was leaving Wanda voicemails every episode because the actors couldn't be on set together, or another season of Insecure where Lawrence's son is randomly 8 years old overnight because they ran out of story. I want more of my favorite shows too, but I want a complete narrative even more :manny:
I disagree. Bel Air is fire, they have way more stuff they could flesh out.
 

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The ending of Moesha isn't talked about enough in terms of outrage but I could be wrong tho.
shyt was egregiously terrible :scust:

The nostalgia clouds our memory of late 90s-2010 media. Every single sitcom got cancelled with some shytty wrap up because they were never telling a full story with a beginning, middle, and end.
I disagree. Bel Air is fire, they have way more stuff they could flesh out.
It is fire, but you're not gonna make Game of Thrones out of a reboot of a show filmed in front of a live audience breh :yeshrug: you want 10 seasons where we end up with Nicky getting drafted to the NBA and Uncle Phil running for president while Will slaps the Olympic judges for not giving Lisa the gold medal in swimming? Nah. Wrap it up, B.
 

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shyt was egregiously terrible :scust:

The nostalgia clouds our memory of late 90s-2010 media. Every single sitcom got cancelled with some shytty wrap up because they were never telling a full story with a beginning, middle, and end.

It is fire, but you're not gonna make Game of Thrones out of a reboot of a show filmed in front of a live audience breh :yeshrug: you want 10 seasons where we end up with Nicky getting drafted to the NBA and Uncle Phil running for president while Will slaps the Olympic judges for not giving Lisa the gold medal in swimming? Nah. Wrap it up, B.
I for damn sure didn't say 10:stopitslime:
 
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