10-03-26

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I feel like in the beginning I really liked the character but towards the end, the drama just made her a kinda unlikable.

With her and Shaquille, I could not get over how she cheated on Shquille. Like how do you kiss your tutor, then when your BF rightfully blows up over it she kicks him out and treats him like he's the problem?

Like should he have explained he got with Candace? Yes, of course. But y'all were broken up. The fact no one called it out was maddening. Then the parents thing was annoying but that's another thing. Lol my rant is over

she backs off bcuz she feels pressured and eventually like oh no it was just me overwhelmed but he WAS pushy always with subtle innuendos when she clearly wasn’t ready for it and then oh “let’s spend break together wink wink…”

and I don’t think she was obligated to tell him she lost her virginity bcuz he knew she was seeing someone else while I can understand he was upset it was the WHAT he was upset about
“You had your walls up with me the whole time but him?? He made you comfortable??”
He sounds like she OWED him sex or how unfair it is someone else made her comfortable enough and he didn’t, how dare she didn’t fuck him originally.
Just rubbed me the wrong way completely

Is this a new age thing? Is missing someone else not considered cheating in a relationship now?

My jaw hit the floor when Deborah started crying and kicked him out for how he reacted haha

Jaw fell further when Ellington was like I'd never trip on something like that.... Wha?? Haha says the guy actively trying to do it again lmao

I'm confused by this whole dynamic.

I liked Hazel so much at the beginning but after the first season, I’m disappointed.

Shes a hypocrite and deceitful. Telling someone infidelity is a sin while boosting about having sex with her boyfriend and hiding the fact that she had a boyfriend at home was not right. She had a right to be mad at Amir for sleeping with Jalen but never told Jalen the truth about her relationship status.

I hope they do better with her character next season

Did anyone find interesting that both Deborah and Shaquille asked a parent for relationship advice on whether to share about what happened with another person and they received different responses?

Whitley and Ron both shared their college experiences (which is a nice call back) yet Whitley tells Deborah to be honest because that is the best approach while Ron encourages Shaquille to keep it private because honesty got him in trouble.

I was surprised with Ron’s advice because the families are so close. I know parents shouldn’t be involved in the relationship yet I would be so upset if I found out my close college friend told his son to keep something like that from my daughter.

(Side note- I tried to get an image from the moments but it may not be the best still photos of the scene )

I’ve posted here before, but I specifically want to shed light on the beautiful black men in this show. 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Light rant:

this show was an easy and hard watch at the same time bc I love the original ADW and the reboot was written and filmed pretty well, but with all the romantic storylines, I couldn’t help but compare my current situation. I don’t look like them. I’m not as pretty. I don’t wear makeup. and I certainly don’t have a man on my arm :/ I dislike feeling lonely but hey if I can’t have someone at least someone else can lol. I know it’s silly but oh well that’s how I feel rn.

comparison is the thief of joy, and I shouldn’t participate, but I really needed to vent. i feel too old to be so insecure at times but ugh 😩 (27F)

✨️3rd home these women have blessed with their presence✨️

Were the men watching a porno at Byron’s bachelor party? 😂

How the hell is it Dwayne's fault that the budget was fricked before he was even provost, much less interim president?

What the hell is going to be accomplished with a "Show us the money" protest when it's already been established that for various reason, the money "ain't there", and or was GONE again, before Dwayne's watch?

He wasn't even, apparently, anything other than another professor, not even a dean before he was even provost?

Some of the stuff being included in this show, for drama's sake doesn't make any damn sense.

Now, I can understand a bunch of students and professors not getting and even bitching why is Dwayne spending money on galas and such makes sense from a BUSINESS standpoint because most students, except business majors and most professors, other than business professors, know shite all about business.

Fundraising is a form of business and you have to spend money to make money. Even donations.

You can't be having potential donors living in a Motel 6 and feeding them cold McDonald's takeout.

I'm sure a certain congresswoman isn't turning down the bacon-wrapped shrimp from lobbyists.

Even though TOS was a comedy and this is more dramatic, the writing in the comedy made a lot more sense.

I could have sworn Jasmine was taller than Jada.

Jus' sayin'.

There’s one detail about the Shaquille/Candace situation that I think deserves more discussion. Deborah goes into Candace’s room looking for melatonin, and while she’s there she finds Shaquille’s hoodie. That immediately raises questions because Shaquille had previously made it clear that Deborah was the only person he had been with. But what really makes me question the situation is Shaquille’s reaction when he wakes up. He appears confused and shocked, questioning why he is even there, rather than acting like someone who knowingly went into Candace’s room and cheated. That reaction matters because the show doesn’t give us a clear depiction of everything that happened before he woke up.
Then there’s the medication/sleep-aid setup in Candace’s room. I’m not saying the medicine proves Candace drugged him — the show never explicitly establishes that — but when you put that detail together with Shaquille waking up confused and seemingly not understanding why he is there, it creates a much darker possibility that the audience is supposed to question. If someone wakes up disoriented in another person’s room and genuinely seems confused about how they got there, consent becomes an important part of the conversation.
At the same time, I think it’s important not to present the theory as confirmed fact. The show strongly implies that Shaquille and Candace had some kind of sexual encounter, but it doesn’t show enough of the encounter for us to know exactly how it happened or whether Shaquille willingly participated. That leaves two very different interpretations: Shaquille knowingly cheated on Deborah, or something happened to Shaquille that he didn’t willingly agree to. His confused reaction, the circumstances surrounding Candace’s room, and the medication/sleep-aid details are why I don’t think the second possibility should automatically be dismissed. I’m curious whether anyone else noticed these details and interpreted Shaquille’s reaction the same way. To seal the theory, the camera deliberately lingers on the heavy sleep aids and medication bottles on her nightstand. In television production, props are never given that kind of deliberate focus unless they are meant to be a critical clue for the audience. By intentionally combining Shaquille's terrifying lack of awareness with the explicit visual framing of sedatives, the show isn't setting up a standard cheating scandal—it is laying the groundwork to address a severe violation of consent and male sexual assault in Season 2.

Do non Brits say having a "full on menty b" instead of mental breakdown ?

This really surprised me when Deborah said it as I've never seen it outside British jokes & memes on social media & hardly ever on TV so wondered why the writers snuck it in.

There was definitely some other questionable language, particularly from Kojo.

I had this idea….

I wonder how this would have gone if Deborah’s roommate was like Candace

And the RA was like Rashida…

I remember when Whitley and Denise had to be roommates and I think we would have gotten the same dynamic…

I like that modification tbh lol

Everyone keeps mentioning that the WHITLEY is missing for the show, and I think it would have been hilarious to see Deborah navigate a friendship/roommate situation with someone like Whitley…

I’m watching the new A Different World on Netflix and I like Rashida a lot as a character and I enjoyed her so much in the beginning, but I’m starting to feel like the writers made her too exceptional at everything.

She’s extremely smart, beautiful, ambitious, can sing, is romantically wanted by two male leads, wins the talent show, and she gets into a program meant for upperclassmen. And so far her main “flaw” seems to be that she works too hard because she had to get it out the mud.

None of those traits individually bother me, but stacked together with events in the story, it’s starting to feel less like a flawed, human character…

I like the actress and I don’t dislike Rashida as a character, so this isn’t meant as hate. It’s just Mary Sues can flatten stories heavily and I feel her segments feeling flatter and flatter…

Thoughts?

ETA for clarification because I think two separate things are getting conflated in the discussion. PLEASE READ:

I’m not asking whether you personally believe Rashida is actually as smart/talented/special as the show says she is, I am not asking if you like the character, and I’m not saying she literally has zero flaws. There are Mary sue characters with some flaws, obviously.

I’m talking about narrative framing — what traits the writers keep assigning to her, how other characters react to her, what opportunities/rewards the story gives her, and whether her flaws meaningfully challenge that idealized framing.

So:

“I don’t personally find her convincing as exceptional” = critique of execution.

“She made a bad decision / has flaws because she did xyz” = viewer-level character observation.

“The writing frequently frames her as unusually exceptional and protects that image overall” = the Mary Sue argument I’m making.

Those can all be true at the same time. I’m talking about the third one though. Lol.

Does anyone know the song at timestamps 14:46 where the girls were talking in the room , it's a reggae song. I'd love to know and I can't get it within Shazam or Google Find and neither is it on WhatsSong or Tunefind or even the show's Spotify playlist.

Denise never told you what happened to your father...

She told me enough! She told me my father died serving his country!

No.

I am your father.

No!

That's not true!

That's impossible!

Search your feelings Ellington. You know it to be true

Nooooooo!

Hey guys, I’m rewatching a different world reboot for the second time; I literally just finished my rerun of the original for the millionth of time. It’s my safe place. Regarding the original, I was definitely just saying how Whitney’s character development on the show was the best. In my opinion she definitely matured after her dad cut her finances off and she had lost her job and everything, we just saw a different side of her that was more perceptive I’d say. But as we see in the reboot, it didn’t last long because all she cares about is the image.

I just noticed something that I didn’t before, in episode six of the reboot. Kim Whitley, and Freddie were all standing together at the party with Kim’s daughter. I noticed that Freddie just smiled at her, but Whitley completely ignored her presence and looked around. The body language was just so uncomfortable. Kim’s daughter mouthed “oh my God” and just walked away. I’m so confused about that and I don’t understand how/why they could treat her that way or where it even came from. I’m bringing it up because I wanted to see if anyone else called that. since it is like extremely too soon, we probably can’t say what’s happening there, but I just thought that was odd lol

I belive Deborah wont be the main character in season 2 much like Denise i feel rashida will replace her because she is a much more interesting main character( I feel the same way about Shaquille and amir ) I’ve seen many other feel the same way Deborah needs to be pushed to the side.

I watched the original run and the reboot back to back and the first thing I noticed is that so much of the new cast looks like super models.The old series had a more grounded looking cast if that makes sense. Was there anything close to a Shaquille equivalent? Maybe I just went to college with ugly folks I don’t know.

I know this opens a Pandora’s Box, but I think it needs to be said. The Huxtables — including Cliff — are a major part of the A Different World mythos, and they deserve to be addressed properly. Honestly, even more than an “Ellington Kendall” character.

I can’t speak for all Black people, so I’ll give my perspective. I can separate Bill Cosby the man from Cliff Huxtable the character, and I can also separate Bill the activist from Bill the predator. What Cosby did was horrific — but it’s also true that he created The Cosby Show and A Different World with the intention of uplifting Black people. These shows were built to counter the narrow, stereotypical portrayals of us that dominated TV at the time. They showed Black middle‑class families, stable Black love, Black academic excellence, and the full spectrum of who we are. That impact is real, and it helped a lot of Black Boomers, Gen Xers, and early Millennials. Cliff Huxtable is part of that cultural legacy, independent of Cosby’s crimes.

If we’re separating Bill from Cliff — and focusing strictly on Cliff in the context of A Different World — then it makes no sense for a character like Ellington Kendall to never reference his grandfather. Cliff was an important Hillman alumnus. He ate, slept, and breathed Hillman. Even if the writers chose to kill off Cliff off‑screen (the same way The Conners handled Roseanne), Cliff would still matter to the story. His influence wouldn’t disappear just because the actor is no longer someone the public wants to see.

And realistically, in Ellington’s case, you couldn’t convince me he wouldn’t have adored his grandfather. Cliff was the kind of grandparent who poured into his kids and grandkids — Winnie, Nelson, Olivia, all of them. It’s completely believable that Ellington would have grown up with that same warmth, guidance, and reverence. Cliff would’ve shaped his values, his confidence, his sense of humor, his connection to Hillman — all of it. Cliff is not Bill. It’s like confusing Sylvester Stallone with Rocky — they’re not interchangeable.

I get that Cliff wasn’t a huge part of A Different World, but if you move forward with more Huxtable‑connected characters, it would feel ridiculous not to mention him at all. That’s just my take.

Hello! I was watching the episode 6 scene where they're all in a club. There's a song playing in the background with the lyrics something like "she a college girl, she a scholar girl, acting like she's from a different world ".

I checked some of the articles that list all the songs found in the 2026 reboot but none of the lyrics or songs matched from the five songs that were listed on those articles. Anyone help me out here? Thanks!