90210 : Network Execs Demanded Brenda Regret Sex With Dylan

[hewontgo]

'Beverly Hills, 90210' Creator Says Network Execs "Demanded" Brenda Regret Sex With Dylan https://t.co/DXLnS7VFQY
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 17, 2024
Darren Star attempted to lead the teen sex revolution in the early ’90s, and it was almost televised

Comments

[zibbydoo324]

These ignoramuses. NO ONE regrets sleeping with dylan freaking mckay.

[aleksie]

"Disclaimer: ontd only read the headlines"

At least we're making progress? From no reading to reading headlines- maybe if LJ is around in another decade or two, we'll be reading a few sentences in the article.

[zibbydoo324]

I ontd read occasionally. This headline had me so offended that I did not need to read anymore. I just had to say they were wrong. THAT is ontd in a nutshell.

[thatcovergirl]

How many of us will left wandering the halls of LJ/ ONTD in 10 years?

🤯

[lurkymclurkson]

Dylan and Brenda were my OTP, they were the best together. Once they broke them up and made the love triangle with Kelly, I lost interest in 90210.

[rainbows_are_ok]

This reminds me of my problem with shows in the 90s/2000s and how they dealt with sex and teenage girls. I've been getting a lot of George Lopez Show clips on tiktok and almost every clip is a scene where George Lopez is obsessed with his daughter being a virgin. One scene I saw is when she comes back after running away and all he cares about is whether she had sex with her bf. He even wants to take her to a hospital to get tested. Another is where he's livid that she's on birth control.The most egregious one I saw is when the son is peeping on her and her friend so she sprays him in the eye and she gets punished. It's insane. And don't get me started on how they wrote her character. It's infuriating to watch and I hate that I grew up watching that kind of narrative when it came to sex. It made me buy into purity culture for a long time.

[skeetertuskin]

Well Spelling was obsessed with his teenage daughter Tori remaining a virgin even though she wasn’t irl so one of his ultimatum to 90210 writers was that her character Donna remain a virgin until marriage. Sick.

[screw_reality]

Essentially commissioning fan fiction of his daughter with extra steps.

[ohshiny]

[skyler_white_yo]

90210 really did try to touch on topics the best way it could for its time. It’s been a while since I’ve watched the early episodes, but from what I remember, the show had a healthier attitude toward sex then other show aimed at teens. Usually it was the “very special episode” where they’d have a one off character be a pregnant teen, or a “save yourself for marriage” type message. Not to mention that the negative consequences of having sex squarely on the girl (pregnancy, being labeled a slut, etc), but for boys sex was marked as a right of passage.

[ashtrayrock]

I rewatched some recently and it was pretty ahead of the times. A lot of the sex talk, at least from what I saw on rewatch, was be safe when doing it. Not necessarily don't do it. They had an episode with a woman with HIV and even her stance was you're going to have sex but know who you are having sex with and be safe about it.

I don't remember much about Brenda having regrets and didn't get that far. But I did see the episode where her and Dylan have a mature and good talk about sex and how she isn't ready and it's sad to hear they have her regret later when they do have sex. It would have been more powerful to show hey this girl waited, in a relationship, until she felt comfortable and had a great time.

[skeetertuskin]

They did show Brenda waiting and Dylan being patient and attentive and not pressuring her into anything and her finally being ready to have sex with him after the spring dance in the final episode of S1 which was really a pivotal moment that showed what a truly bonding experience it was, only to have it spoiled at the start of the next season with a bullshit pregnancy scare even though they practiced safe sex. The studio got cold feet after receiving complaints from “concerned parents” so in order to avoid controversy they turned Brenda into a cautionary tale and Dylan into a callous asshole who wanted Brenda to have a quick abortion.

[ashtrayrock]

That's disappointing. I didn't get that far even but the first bit of the season had some good convos. Even with the girls themselves. Sad to see it went downhill from there.

[katej]

And yet no talk of the boy regretting anything because men are never required to regret sex on moral grounds. All these old misogynistic fucks hate girls who have sex, call them whores and sluts. Yet they get angry when there are no girls to have sex with and pressure them and call them prudes when they don't.