The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
WARNING : This article take spoilers forBel - Airepisode 8 !
Bel - Airsets up a twist on what happened to Will ’s father , Lou , which also think a major change to the most heartbreaking scene fromFresh Prince of Bel - Air . WhileFresh Princehad numerous episodes that tugged at audiences ’ heartstrings , the most famous good example from the sitcom was in the time of year 4 installment “ Papa ’s convey a Brand New Excuse . ” Will ’s beginner , Lou , occur back to see him after abandon him 14 year ago , with the two bonding before – just asJames Avery ’s Uncle Philexpected – Lou abandoned his boy yet again . TheFresh Princeepisode finish as Will break down to Uncle Phil and asked why his father does n’t want him , with the scene concluding as Will sobbed into Uncle Phil ’s arms .
Will ’s daddy , Lou , was never seen again onFresh Prince , butBel - Airis beginning his storyline very early into the series . InBel - Airseason 1 , episode 8 , Vy come to visit for Will ’s seventeenth natal day , telling Viv and Phil that she plans on enjoin Will the the true about his don . Viv and Phil are adamantly opposed to this , not just because Lou could harm the procession Will has made , but because the three of them had done something mysterious but clearly bad to Lou to keep him aside . Bel - Airdoesn’t break what Vy , Aunt Viv , and Uncle Phildid , but Viv suggests that if they told Will , he would get angry and most likely detest them .
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AlthoughBel - Airepisode 8 ends without divulge what Uncle Phil and the Smith sisters did to Lou , it suggests the cause for his absence in Will ’s life sentence is very different fromFresh Prince . InFresh Prince , Lou was a bozo who just could n’t be a father , so he leave Will as a child and never came back . Bel - Airmakes it appear that abandonment was n’t the genuine reason that Lou leave Will ’s sprightliness , but that he was really a really bad guy , or at least hire in dangerous activities . Vy , Viv , and Phil then had to do something unpleasant in Holy Order to keep him away from Will . As such , if Will break down toBel - Air ’s fresh Uncle Philabout his Church Father , it wo n’t be a repetition of the heartbreakingFresh Princescene about him feeling undesirable . Instead , Will ’s reunification with his dad may find him feel highly betrayed by Phil , Viv , and Vy rather than by his dad .
WithBel - Airhinting that Viv , Vy , and Phil purposefully drove Lou away with whatever they did , Peacock ’s reboot may introduce a change in which Lou actually did need to be a founder to Will all of these years . Vy suggests that Lou owed money to a lot of different people and create terrible messes that she always had to clean up , but does n’t state whether or not he was a unfit father toBel - Air ’s Will . Rather than an exact repetition of the deadbeat dadstoryline fromFresh Prince , Bel - Airis adding a level of drama to Will ’s most heartrending storyline that may turn out everything he thought about his father was a lie .
Since the mystery of whatBel - Air ’s characters did to Lou is go under up as a mystery inBel - Airseason 1 , the reboot is suggesting that the sore news report with Will and his dad is apt to see more than a one - instalment arc . Phil equivocally separate Geoffrey to “ do what he ask ” to Lou even though Geoffrey was morally opposed to it , soBel - Airmay seeFresh Prince of Bel - Air ’s heartbreaking scene wrick back on Uncle Phil as a betrayal to Will . Bel - Airepisode 8 end with Will ask Geoffrey to cut across down Lou for him , even though this would stand for go behind Phil ’s back , to which Geoffrey agrees . With an imminent reunion between Lou and Will as well as the inevitable reveal of what Viv , Vy , and Phil did to him , Bel - Airseason 1is making the sad story of Will and his don far more complex .
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Bel - Airreleases newfangled episode Thursdays on Peacock .
