The closure we got was almost for a different series, not the two seasons we saw on Showtime. Godchaux and Masius, who were showrunners after Fuller was ousted and wrote the last four episodes of S2, also wrote the script for the Movie. The extensive set up in S2 between Reggie and George was pretty much dropped and the DLM universe rules (especially about relating memories) were ignored to bring the two together in the Movie. It did show that the two characters would work well together both drama and humor.
Mason was always a flexible character, but that wasn't him on the screen. Same for Roxy. Daisy is odd because she was the only character created by G&M (the rest being Fuller's) and even if Laura Harris tried that character in the Movie script wasn't Daisy. G&M spent a lot of screen time crafting their Daisy character and Harris brought her to life. It didn't help that Sarah -commented in an interview - didn't try to do Daisy like Harris did.
The prettier unGeorge wasn't really new to the Movie. They stopped showing the unGeorge early on in the series. Even back in S1 after Fuller departed G&M were moving away from the reapers being fringe types in the gutter etc. By S2 George was dressed up nice and prettied up so they could expand the potential story lines. The Fuller George wasn't going to go to the country club and seduce Trip, not in this dimension or any other, but the renovated version created by G&M and finally shown to us in the Movie could.
This change tho was also embedded or hinted at in the first few episodes. Betty, whose double we never saw, certainly didn't come across as homeless person. When Fuller left taking Betty with him, Daisy was brought in and she from the first was portrayed as super seductive and attractive. George's appearance shift fit right in with this.
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