I didn’t mind them in college, because in essence they were still babies, aside from the ages of the cast playing them. Therefore, they were still dealing with the same kinds of issues. The series should’ve pulled the plug after the 7th season when they entered the real world. What really irked me was the epidemic of cast members leaving midway through production. It made the series seem so sloppy, which is why Luke Perry’s departure (ten episodes into the 6th season) and return (six episodes into the 9th season) didn’t seem so monumental, but instead random. This can also be said for Jason Priestly who left just five episodes into the 9th season. It’s like the producers didn’t give their fan base a chance to let it marinate, which is why new, departing, and returning cast members are better executed during hiatus when the fans had three months of anticipating who’s going to be added or removed from the opening credits. While I don’t know exactly when Luke Perry decided to call it quits, his riding out into the sunset on his motorcycle would’ve panned out for a more exciting upcoming season if the writers inserted that plot line at the end of the 5th or 6th season instead of during the 6th season.
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