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Yeah, season 8 is . It's the only season I didn't bother to buy on DVD, and I don't know if I've even seen every episode. Definitely doesn't hold up to the others. I still technically consider it canon even if I don't like everything that happened, but to each their own.
The direction they took with Fez in that season was just really weird in general. He suddenly became a ladies man. I wonder if that was secretly their plan for him all along - to be suave and getting the ladies by the end of the series. Yeah, I love Buddy because I love Joseph Gordon-Levitt . He and Topher had the first male-on-male network TV kiss, which, I agree, is pretty cool! Another example of the T70S writers/showrunners being progressive. |
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I would have liked to see more of Buddy too.
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For me, it goes beyond not liking what happened. It's that none of the characters behave like themselves. Their S8 behavior and attitudes contradict the previous seven years that came before it. S8 breaks the fictional dream of the show, and if a novel's last chapter were to have the characters change so drastically without any setup in the previous chapters -- without any subtext, either? That novel would be rejected by agents and publishers. For instance, I don't like that Jackie goes back to Kelso in season 3, but it's in her character to do so. So I consider that canon. But Eric wouldn't have broken up with Donna while in Africa. Hyde never would've married a stranger. Fez wouldn't have become a Kelso-like misogynistic playboy (he treated the ladies who slept with him pretty badly). Donna wouldn't have chosen Sam over Jackie, to the point of being a total bitch to Jackie, saying she doesn't know why she ever became friend with Jackie. Nothing that happens in season 8 follows the canon or characterization of S1-S7. The characters' names may be the same with the same actors, but they're different characters. Unrecognizable. Even David Trainer (T7S's director) called S8 an "alternate reality" -- in other words, not canon. Quote:
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Fez trying to kiss Red, one scary and funny scene!
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Fez is like he came away with his life. He's also lucky Red let him inside the house after that -- just 'cause this is Red we're talking about.
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I think Fez probably hung out at Kelso's house often, we just didn't see it.
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Kelso would've had to protect Fez from his brothers. And his sister from Fez!
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I think Kelso's sister should've been freakin' awesome -- to the point of people questioning if she were really a Kelso. I'd also want her to be overweight, as the guys claimed she was and have it be totally irrelevant to how cool Eric, Hyde, and Donna think she is. Eric and Hyde's POV would shift on judging someone's attraction factor based on weight (that was a really bad moment on the show) -- and maybe they'd be shocked she falls for Fez.
...And then they'd realize she's a Kelso. Kelsos all eventually love Fez. Casey would have, too, if he'd spent enough time with him. __________________
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