I'm not going to do the "obvious" route in going by the high school years, college years, and post-college years.
*The Brenda Years (Seasons 1-4)
*The Valerie Years (Seasons 5-9)
*The Post-Brandon Years (Seasons 9-10)
This show had only 4 seasons. Period.
Glee had one season. Heroes had one season.
Some shows just dont know when to stop and are too greedy. They tell all important stories in one 1-3 seasons and then they just drag it to oblivion. This show was legendary in first few seasons. Then gang had to move to university and magic was lost.
Original show died when Brenda left. With some shows its better to watch good seasons and then pretend that show ended so not to see it painfully die into cancellation.
Basically yes--Brenda leaving was when show needed to have ended. Others don't get/don't understand there was no 'tie in blitz' of merchandise when Valerie etc came on for a reason. They made the show/network no money. The network tried ...but could never regain money with them.
shareNot true. 90210 maintained its ratings from S2-4 for S5, so to say they made the show no money is patently false. The ratings begin to decline at s6 and later but it still aired internationally until the end of its run.
sharejust bc it aired is not the same as 'merchandise money'
Studio gets cut from all the related product tie in items produced--and no there was nothing produced after Brenda left. . The studio stopped hyping it.
I doubt 90210 was making much money from merchandising in the first place, its not like its the Star Wars franchise. lol
shareSure it was...the only thing not produced was a breakfast cereal and a cartoon specifically about Beverly Hills 90210 (they did cartoon tie ins of live action tv shows and movies in the 80s and early 1990's like Punky Brewster, Alf...etc)
Other than that, it was easy to find everything else, like perfume, bed sheets, magazines, t-shirts, fan club, sticker. videos, dolls.
There's a reason why these images with Brenda sold first time...and why they still are valuable. People buy what is valuable.
Do you any stats that support you claim?
shareScan ebay for the asking price for these items even today--including 'damaged' items. They still command top dollar. If it wasn't valuable, people would not be able to sell it for a substantial asking price.
shareA lot of collectibles go up in value over time. That has nothing to do with your assertion that Shannon Doherty leaving lead to a decline in 90210 merch sales. I do agree that the overall popularity of the show suffered somewhat but that was bound to happen as the cast got older and the focus of the show changed. Im merely saying that SD leaving didn´t really affect the ratings, despite the show heavily declining in quality.
share...the show heavily declining in quality meant the people etc producing tie in merchandise knew when to pull up their own connections to the show and leave.
they were there for money, not producing merchandise for the sake of it.
Well season 1 was more episodic it was like watching a sitcom. where Brenda or Brendan had to learn a life lesson in each episode. it wasn't till Brenda with the pregnant story line was the turning point that happened so I don;t rate season 1 to be that good at all but season 2 to 4 were at it;s high. s
When Dillon left that is when the decline started. and headed south and never really head north again only slightly upon his return at the end. They tried to bring in 1 season wonder characters like Collin Joe Susan etc just to have a 'love interest' going but at the end of the season all of them had to all have a reason to leave. it just get messy. the show struggled when Brenda left then it was started dying when Dillon left. when Brendan left the final nail was in in the coffin
when all the walshes were gone it was pointless to still keep the show on the air.....ok everyone from that family is gone....so let's move into their former house?
And Dylan was retconned into a 'struggling student'. Okay people had to connect with him somehow. They could have shown him figuring out how to raise his sister--her scared by having been kidnapped. Maybe part of that was Perry's input, but they could show Dylan having actually learned something from his life of hard knocks after all.
He could have struggled/now brood with Erica on his hands--as an unconventional parent. Also since Carteris wanted out, this would cover that too. And since Erica was 'teenage' they could do those stories again.
Of course the Brenda years are the best, who would think otherwise? I loved season 4, the beginning of their college years, it was very entertaining. Then season 5 came. Eyeroll on the "Valerie" years. Now, watching this show without Brandon or Dylan would just be madness.
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