Beverly Hills, 90210 (TV Series) The Next Fifty Years (1991) User Reviews

The One Where Scott Die...

[taylorkingston · 7/10 · 26 May 2015]

I think this episode is really sad. I liked the character of Scott and I think the way he died is just really depressing. I think the episode is good, but just a little bit of a tear-jerker.

In this episode, it's Scott's 16th birthday and his Mother gave Donna and David the responsibility of getting everyone over to his house for a surprise birthday party. They do, but things don't go as planned. Especially when Scott is showing off to David, whilst twirling a gun, he accidentally shoots himself, and he dies.

Overall, I give this episode a 7 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Great.

The Next Fifty Years (#2.14)

[ComedyFan2010 · 9/10 · 30 October 2015]

This is a pretty tragic episode when they kill off Scott. I guess it means that David will now be more part of the group and they didn't know what to do with Scott, so they decided to kill him.

I must say they did it in a great way. Not just the shocking element of how he died but all the issues surrounding it.

He was that uncool kid who didn't have many friends. One really was sad for him about his birthday party, how it was done, how nobody wanted to come and then were there kind of laughing at it and wanting to go away early. And his mother didn't make it easier by making him look even less cool.

And the story of him and David was good. David was not as big friends with him anymore because he wanted to be part of the cooler crowd. And after his death one can see how he is regretting it. What he said to Brandon with the whole school listening was really well done. Brian Austin Green was really doing some great performance there.

One of the first true quality episodes

[jdollak · 9/10 · 26 December 2020]

Watching 90210 is sequence, the show has struggled to handle serious issues well. So how can they manage killing off a character in a dramatic way? More importantly, how can they kill off a character that no one cares about?

This is where they episode does a great job. Scott's death happens fairly early on - I think at the end of the first act. Most of the remainder of the episode is taken up with David's conflicted emotions about this. David functions as a stand-in for the audience in this episode. He knows he's supposed to care about Scott's death, but honestly, Scott no longer was a big part of his life. This is also reflected in the school. Everyone pays lip service to Scott, but there's almost nothing about who he was, what he was like. Dylan has to be reminded who Scott was.

The audience isn't going to miss Scott. He was a dork in the worst sense - socially inept, but also fairly stupid. As David says in the episode - "Look, Scott accidentally shot himself in the stomach because he liked to play with guns." But David feels obligated to feel badly about the death. Instead, he feels... a sense of confusion. This is probably the most realistic way to handle a death of this type.

There are other aspects of this episode that are really pleasing. Donna and David move a little closer, and it plays beautifully. Donna is helpful to David, and acts as a friend. Her behavior isn't over the top. And David gets to move on from being a horndog punchline.

The Real Tragedy

[coreycitn63 · 9/10 · 11 April 2022]

Sadly in every high school there is a boy or girl like Scott Scanlon. A teen who becomes a social outcast. When David becomes accepted to the popular clique which is the gang he shuns his former friend Scott. In desperate to help Scott to become accepted David and Donna sort of force the gang to go. Unfortunately this is where it goes extremely downhill. Scott's mother throws him a child's party which was unwholly inappropriate cause Brandon and Emily goes to a bedroom and make out which Scott's mother to kick them out and the gang follows. There in his father's den Scott plays with his father's gun which goes off and kills him.

The next few days teens walk on eggshells in how to deal with the tragedy and Dylan completely forgot who is Scott is. It all culminates when David rightfully explodes on Brandon's radio show and reveals out of everyone he was the worst cause he was Scott's best friend and he shunned him. Sadly Scott's story was not the first or last and that is the real tragedy.