What they SHOULD have done

Introducing Sam was so bad and forced I hate Scream 5 because of it, because it just gives us a layer of backstory that was never needed. Billy did not have a daughter nor was she even a thing until now and we have to buy she was there the whole time. We don't even spent the movie journeying with her to discover she is the daughter, it's kind of already out there who she is and she already knew years before the events of the movie.

I generally hate these last-minute family additions but the journey would have at least been more of a natural way of even bringing in a child and there's a way they could have done it better in my book. But instead of Christina, I would have had the mother be Sidney since we see her and Billy have sex. My thing is always carry on what we SEE and KNOW already, don't be creating never-before-seen or heard about details to the mythology. I HATE THAT. So Sidney being the mother of any child of Billy seems reasonable than an unseen character that didn't even exist. We would have had flashbacks throughout the movie where we follow a de-aged Neve Campbell months following the original where she is pregnant and she hides it. Meanwhile in the present, we follow another story where Sidney is living her life and interested in relocating to her former home after her dad dies that is now on the market and, in a Halloween-like scenario, becomes the target of an escapee patient from a sanitarium who is labeled the real-life Michael Myers and stalks her around.

Nah, I like the whole trilogy angle where they went back to the beginning to tie it all together. I just think instead of the whole Roman thing, it should have been Hank who wanted to avenge for his son and wife and eliminate Sidney to ease his mind of the whole Prescott family drama that plagued his family. Leaving a series off at a second installment is just weird to me. Do a third and finish it out properly.