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12-25-2022, 05:02 PM
https://www.looper.com/1144760/why-redditors-think-that-70s-show-wrapped-up-in-all-the-wrong-ways/
Fans think Season 8 feels artificial and uncharacteristic
In 2005, "That '70s Show" aired its season seven finale, "Till the Next Goodbye," (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0720193/?ref_=tt_ep_nx) but it wasn't a goodbye to the series. Despite multiple cast changes, the show returned later that fall and wrapped up in 2006. The series finale was set on New Year's Eve 1979 and featured an odd plot twist where Jackie (Mila Kunis) decides she has a thing for Fez (Wilmer Valderrama (https://www.looper.com/1126817/the-important-lesson-that-70s-shows-wilmer-valderrama-wants-to-teach-his-kids/)) after rebuking him throughout the series and dating his pals Kelso and Hyde (Danny Masterson).
Some think the show should have skipped that storyline and ended when Eric Forman left. In a Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/zm30e0/comment/j099zbd/), one fan wrote, "With Eric and Kelso exiting they should have wrapped it up..." Another commenter (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/zm30e0/comment/j0brott/) agreed, adding, "Yeah the last season or two was pretty lame — Kelso replaced, Donna gone and Fez was just kinda getting creepier to me." While one Redditor thought (https://www.reddit.com/r/That70sshow/comments/gnxjkz/comment/frcklrv) that the show's writing ruined the finale, most agree that the show wrapped up the wrong way — and it's not just fans that hold this belief.
In an interview with Today (https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/wilmer-valderrama-fez-70s-show-ended-jackie-rcna2443), even Valderrama admitted that something was off with the Fez and Jackie love connection. "I think at that point we were like, 'I mean, what else are we going to do? We kind of ran out of everything ... so that's why we're like, 'What would be the most random thing we could do? And I feel like that was it."
Fans think Season 8 feels artificial and uncharacteristic
In 2005, "That '70s Show" aired its season seven finale, "Till the Next Goodbye," (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0720193/?ref_=tt_ep_nx) but it wasn't a goodbye to the series. Despite multiple cast changes, the show returned later that fall and wrapped up in 2006. The series finale was set on New Year's Eve 1979 and featured an odd plot twist where Jackie (Mila Kunis) decides she has a thing for Fez (Wilmer Valderrama (https://www.looper.com/1126817/the-important-lesson-that-70s-shows-wilmer-valderrama-wants-to-teach-his-kids/)) after rebuking him throughout the series and dating his pals Kelso and Hyde (Danny Masterson).
Some think the show should have skipped that storyline and ended when Eric Forman left. In a Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/zm30e0/comment/j099zbd/), one fan wrote, "With Eric and Kelso exiting they should have wrapped it up..." Another commenter (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/zm30e0/comment/j0brott/) agreed, adding, "Yeah the last season or two was pretty lame — Kelso replaced, Donna gone and Fez was just kinda getting creepier to me." While one Redditor thought (https://www.reddit.com/r/That70sshow/comments/gnxjkz/comment/frcklrv) that the show's writing ruined the finale, most agree that the show wrapped up the wrong way — and it's not just fans that hold this belief.
In an interview with Today (https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/wilmer-valderrama-fez-70s-show-ended-jackie-rcna2443), even Valderrama admitted that something was off with the Fez and Jackie love connection. "I think at that point we were like, 'I mean, what else are we going to do? We kind of ran out of everything ... so that's why we're like, 'What would be the most random thing we could do? And I feel like that was it."