mardi 27 mars 2018
Mark's Death Will Be Addressed a "Couple of Times" in the Roseanne Reboot
Roseanne is returning to ABC on March 27 after being off the air for over two decades - and the writers had quite a task in reconciling the show's controversial ninth season with what the series looks like in the present day. The writers also had the unfortunate responsibility of figuring out what to do about Mark Healy, Becky's boyfriend-turned-husband from the original series, because actor Glenn Quinn sadly passed away in 2002 from an accidental drug overdose at the age of 32.
In the original Roseanne, Mark was actually in two different positions, depending on whether you were referring to "real life" or what Roseanne had supposedly been writing all of those years.
The nine seasons' worth of episodes are revealed in the two-part series finale to actually be Roseanne's writing. So Roseanne tells the audience via voiceover that Mark is actually married to Darlene, but she "writes" him as being with Becky because she always thought they were a better couple (and same goes for David and Darlene; David is actually with Becky, but Roseanne writes him with Darlene).
Confused? Yeah, so was the audience at home.
It is also revealed in the series finale that Becky and Mark are expecting, but since that "reveal" is part of Roseanne's creation, it would also appear to be untrue. However, the reboot is basically ignoring the entire final season of the original show. When the show returns, David and Darlene have always been together (though they are now separated) and Becky was always with Mark - that is, until he died.
The writers told me at the 2018 TCA Winter press tour that in light of what happened to Quinn, they couldn't see any other choice than having Mark be deceased in the revival.
"From the writing standpoint . . . when you have a show that's so naturalistic, we had to deal with that and that Becky was going to be single," said executive producer Bruce Helford. "We all had great affection for Glenn. We really wanted to say something. He comes up a couple times. It isn't just [the premiere episode]. He comes up a couple times in the course of the nine episodes."
"We all missed Glenn so much, because he was just a great part of the show, and it's not something we wanted to just gloss over," added star and creator Roseanne Barr.
"It allowed us to pay tribute to him in the show," said Sara Gilbert, who reprises the role of Darlene in the revival.
What exactly happened to Mark, however, has not been revealed yet. All we know is that Becky is single when the show picks up and she doesn't have any children (so their baby from the being-ignored ninth season is not part of the show). But based on the producers' comments, the show will give Mark's death its proper screen time at some point in the nine-episode first season.
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