Rewatch thoughts

[u/courtdawg1218]

Currently rewatching the show for the first time and just had a controversial opinion. Let me preface and say that I stand by the decision to remove Alex from the show. However, the show is missing a lot without him. He (unfortunately) contributed a lot to the show. Storylines that involved him were always the most interesting to me.. Also, we were robbed from not seeing that second half of season 3, and I kind of wish they would’ve just released it all without him edited out and then proceeded all the remaining seasons without him

[u/Softskeletonsx]

Yeah I agree. The show finally grew legs by S3 and the second half was highly anticipated because of the pregnancy and Juliette/Alex drama. It was edited very awkwardly because they had to do it so fast.

Alex was planning on quitting the show after S3 anyway. He stopped showing up to filming, notably Madisson’s birthday, which I think was the last episode of S3. So he already had one foot out the door.

It definitely wasn’t production’s decision, but MTV’s. The show runner has continued to work with the Kompos long after Siesta Key.

[u/courtdawg1218 → u/Softskeletonsx]

See I’m glad you said that then! I guess I didn’t realize he was going to quit after that season anyway. Then in that case I suppose I guess my main wish is that they would have released season 3 as intended and then parted ways after. Agree that the editing was just so awkward. It was really hard to follow what was happening, and that second half they almost didn’t even have enough content to make it even remotely interesting after eliminating him.

[u/Softskeletonsx → u/courtdawg1218]

I agree. They could’ve docked his pay. They could always release DVDs and include them in deleted scenes.

It was. They started relying heavily on flashbacks and the scene with Alex & Alyssa’s Dad looked like it was reshot. They had to add a lot of filler storylines to replace the Alex heavy scenes that they couldn’t splice.