19 Times TV Shows Brought Back Old Storylines

TV reveals are likely to overlook issues from previous seasons, resulting in dropped storylines and unanswered questions that may be actually irritating.

However each from time to time, they randomly choose again up a storyline from seasons earlier than, or make a nod to a disappeared character that tells us they did not truly overlook. Generally, it is just a bit reference to the storyline, and generally, they absolutely choose it again up.

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Keep in mind how Diego began out The Umbrella Academy as a vigilante? He was a way more severe character, and it appeared like this is able to be a significant plot level, however then it was simply form of…dropped.

However to not fear! As a result of the present lastly remembered the second in the course of Season 3, when Diego briefly mentions his previous to Allison.

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You most likely need to overlook, however I am positive all of us bear in mind El’s sister Kali from that one Stranger Issues episode everybody hates.

The writers well selected to not revisit the plot-line, however Kali did get a blink-and-you-miss-it reference two seasons after she appeared, when Henry briefly mentions a time when El and Eight (Kali) have been rising up collectively:

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One other character that primarily vanished into skinny air was Seven from Married… with Youngsters. He was launched in Season 7, however then a couple of episodes later, it was like he’d by no means even existed.

Till a quick second in Season 8, when you may see his face on the again of a milk carton. To me, this instance is much less cute than wildly creepy. It is actually one of many weirdest TV mysteries ever.

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One other character to primarily disappear was Rachel on One Tree Hill. After turning into a sequence common in Season 4, it was bizarre to not have her in Season 5. She did come again for a couple of episodes, throughout which Brooke vowed to assist her along with her drug dependancy. However then she stole cash from Brooke for medicine and left.

And that was all we noticed of her for 2 seasons!!! This was tremendous irritating as a result of not solely was she a principal character, however it appeared extraordinarily unlikely Brooke would not strive tougher to search for her after preventing so arduous for her. She actually is not even talked about for years. When she does come again, she apologizes to Brooke, however then that is principally all we see of the Brooke/Rachel friendship that was so enormous in Season 4.

Till lastly, Cordy and Wes are speaking about his emotions for Fred, and Cordy lastly brings up the truth that they as soon as virtually had a relationship. In Season 3, 4 years after their relationship first aired.

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One other relationship that appeared to vanish was Caroline and Nick’s relationship on New Woman. They get again collectively on the finish of Season 1 and plan to maneuver in collectively.

Jess would not assume Nick ought to go, and tries to cease him, however Nick decides to do it in any case…till he reveals up on the finish of the episode, making it clear he is modified his thoughts. Besides there’s actually no point out of what occurred between him and Caroline.

Till two seasons later, when Caroline randomly reveals again up and asks Nick why he left. Because the present preferred to convey again exes, I suppose this wasn’t stunning, however it was bizarre Caroline went so lengthy earlier than being talked about.

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This one was extra of a enjoyable reference to an outdated storyline, however I at all times thought it was bizarre that after Shelby and Winston broke up on New Woman, she was actually by no means talked about once more — particularly because the present did convey again numerous different exes.

However in rewatching the present, I seen she truly did get a fast reference in the identical “Exes” episode when Caroline comes again.

Six years later, the writers appeared to recollect their present was known as The Vampire Diaries. In Season 7, they lastly determined to convey diaries again, and have Caroline maintain a journal so Elena knew what she’d missed when she awakened.

And Caroline did! For an episode. Then…it was rapidly dropped once more.

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One other TVD storyline that was rapidly glossed over was Damon compelling Caroline right into a sexual relationship with him/principally being his blood bag. Which is fairly unforgivable.

However aside from Caroline telling Damon he “sucks” when she remembers this upon turning into a vampire in Season 2, and a series-long coldness towards him, it is by no means talked about once more. For years.

It is lastly introduced it up within the present’s remaining season, when Caroline enters Damon’s thoughts and forgives him for what he did to her. Even then, it isn’t talked about explicitly.

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That is not the one time a present appeared primed to deal with a severe situation…earlier than forgetting about it fully. In Gossip Woman, Blair’s bulimia was featured in a single episode. It wasn’t even named. After which the present solely forgot about it.

Till Season 4 — three years later — when Blair brings it as much as Serena after Juliet medicine her. Nonetheless, she calls it her “downside.”

There’s additionally a Season 5 reference the place Dan (after which Beatrice) thinks Blair is bulimic, however it’s performed for humor.

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Gossip Woman truly dropped fairly a couple of storylines. Like that point Serena’s dad pretended her mother had most cancers.

He actually flees from the police over this. Then he returns a 12 months later, and A) Rufus is the one one who appears to recollect what he did to Lily, and B) the truth that he needs to be on the run from the police is totally ignored.

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One final Gossip Woman one — Poppy, Gabriel, and the Ponzi scheme. The entire plot goes fairly unresolved on the finish of Season 2, when it is interrupted by some Serena/Lily drama.

We do have an especially transient reference to Georgina getting Dan’s a reimbursement and deporting Poppy, however it’s a reasonably unsatisfying conclusion to the arc. Till it is talked about once more 4 years/seasons later, when Poppy has a trend line, and nobody moreover Blair appears to care that, like Serena’s dad, Poppy needs to be on the run from the regulation.

To present credit score to the writers, each these storylines have been talked about extraordinarily briefly by Eric within the Season 4 finale, in considered one of my favourite GG traces ever that clearly pokes enjoyable at these wild storylines that all of us forgot about.

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One character who actually disappeared on a present was Marcie in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However I am much less involved with the truth that we did not see Marcie once more than with the truth that an FBI unit utilizing invisible folks to commit assassinations was clearly launched, then by no means talked about once more. Like, it is established that this entire invisibility factor is a standard incidence that’s exploited by the federal government. Then it is forgotten…

…for six entire years. In Season 7, we do lastly have it occur once more, although it’s extremely transient and unresolved, as Buffy will get distracted with different resurfacing points from earlier seasons.

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Again to a different huge character who form of disappeared on a present — Izzie on Gray’s Anatomy. Whereas her character did go away city in her final episode (Season 6, Episode 12), it wasn’t anticipated that she’d by no means come again on the present. She was nonetheless an enormous a part of quite a few characters’ lives when she left.

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Not solely was the character dropped, however so was the storyline the place she froze her eggs utilizing Alex’s sperm. This was introduced up in a Season 12 episode (seven seasons after it was final introduced up) when Jo finds out about it.

The storyline is as soon as once more dropped…till Season 16, when each Izzie’s departure and the destiny of her frozen eggs are resolved in a controversial storyline the place Alex left to be with Izzie.

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Generally, reveals truly reference the truth that they fully forgot a couple of character. Boy Meets World did this a couple of occasions. One concerned Morgan, Cory, and Eric’s joke-cracking little sister who disappeared after the Season 2 finale.

Nonetheless, halfway by Season 3, the present remembers her. Cory makes a humorous reference to her, and she or he reveals up once more — performed by a distinct actress.

Joking that she’s been in her room this entire time, she then turns into an necessary character on the present once more.

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The entire Mrs. Grunwald storyline on Fairly Little Liars was ridiculous, particularly as a result of PLL...wasn’t a supernatural present. And Mrs. Grunwald was a creepy psychic.

Fortunately, they principally dropped it after the supernatural spin-off Ravenswood failed…although they did not precisely give the storyline a lot closure. Then, randomly, three seasons later, Mrs. Grunwald reveals up once more to be creepy and go away city once more.

Most notably, she will get a bloody nostril when Noel, which is fairly explicitly supernatural. Did this imply the present was embracing the supernatural once more? Nope! It is as soon as once more dropped for the remainder of the present’s run.

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A giant focus of Ugly Betty Season 2 was Amanda’s seek for her organic father, and her perception that it was Gene Simmons. Nonetheless, it seems he isn’t her father, and the entire Amanda-looking-for-her-dad storyline form of disappears.

Till the final moments of the second-to-last episode of your complete sequence two years later, when a fast second reveals her dad to be Spencer Cannon. The storyline is hurriedly wrapped up within the sequence finale.

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And eventually, very like the notorious dropped storyline of Gendry crusing away on a ship, Sport of Thrones Season 3 featured a distinguished storyline that fully disappeared after that season: that of Osha and Rickon Stark.

After their story diverged from Bran’s, the 2 characters fully disappeared till Season 6. It was like there wasn’t even a youngest Stark. Till he is captured by Ramsay and killed. Which is form of underwhelming, since most of us had forgotten he existed and/or assumed he was already useless.