Discuss The Wonder Years
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**SPOILER**: Kevin and Winnie
posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on April 12, 2017 at 7:19 PM
What do you think? During the whole series the viewers were teased with them becoming a couple and then: nothing. Anyone disappointed?
Reply by tmdb13060682
on April 12, 2017 at 8:56 PM
It seemed very real. Who marries their childhood sweetheart?
Reply by genplant29
on April 13, 2017 at 6:13 AM
This was my favourite series, back when it was on. Yep: Always hoped they'd wind up together. Though, as Halberstram states, in real life that would be highly unlikely. (However happened in my niece's case, who she and her childhood sweetheart, since their respective ages 11, married five years ago, in their mid 20s; they've continuously been a couple since 11, and both now are nearly 30.)
Reply by MrCharmingMan
on May 17, 2017 at 1:56 PM
I'm going to be completely honest. I totally love TWY and Kevin is definitely a great, authentic character who has flaws as no one is perfect, but Winnie did play with his emotions a lot through out the show. I know the writers have to give Kevin the whole ups and downs of teenage love, and even puppy love, but she pretty much toyed with his emotions more so than he did to her.
She went from being his best friend able to play and talk about anything to just conveniently using him when she broke up with her other boyfriends or was going through drama with her parents and such.
Yes no one really ends up marrying their first love and if they do the statistics probably show they don't end well together, but I think Winnie was always the one Kevin would pine for and compare all his other girlfriends to. Obviously Kevin does end up with someone else, well at least has a kid with another woman as thats the final voice over audio that we hear.
I wonder had the show not been canceled early would they have written the ending differently. Word is the show did not know if they were going to get picked up for another season who they shot the last episode in away that could serve as both a final season episode and series finale and it seemed like with the voice overs they decided to go with the way they did?
Reply by MrCharmingMan
on May 17, 2017 at 2:01 PM
PS: Have you seen Winnie Cooper these days(the actress who portrayed her) she's looking hotter as she gets older LOL
Reply by wonder2wonder
on May 17, 2017 at 3:12 PM
and when she smiles...
Reply by genplant29
on May 21, 2017 at 7:11 AM
Absolutely, Danica McKellar sure did grow up to be gorgeous, and becomes more so the older she gets.
By the way, for those who don't know or recall it, her slightly younger sister Crystal was the girl who portrayed Kevin's vindictive little ex-girlfriend Becky Slater.
Reply by MrCharmingMan
on May 21, 2017 at 12:28 PM
Yeah talk about sibling rivalry! I heard Crystal went for the role of Winnie and then the producers saw Danica like over her shoulder and said hey why don't you try out too and so she won the role of Winnie and Crystal only got to be the nemesis who only was a recurring character.
Reply by tmdb43737777
on June 23, 2017 at 6:10 PM
I bet that caused trouble in the home. I think in some ways her brother dying in Vietnam followed by the divorced screwed Winnie up. Kevin always said he wanted to help her. Winnie never really got that until the last episode and going away to Paris probably helped her with encouraging letters from Kevin.
Reply by Dark_Sithlord
on November 21, 2017 at 3:14 AM
One of my favourite shows when I was a teen.
Hated that Kevin and Winnie never got together. In a way, it took a lot of guts to not give what the fans wanted. It's much more realistic, and I think most of us can identify with "the one that got away". I had a "Winnie" in my life but alas, things weren't meant to be.
Reply by MrCharmingMan
on November 21, 2017 at 6:52 PM
Hey I just made a new personal TWY thread please share if your own personal story if you can thanks: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/4500-the-wonder-years/discuss/5a13c9a8925141364f000c96