i can’t stop thinking about how dirty they did dewey on scream (2022) and as a big fan of the character and scream in general i think i should share my thoughts because i just feel like i watched a different movie instead of the one everyone talking about.

for context, riley has always been a sweet and goofy character, a little bit fearful but never a coward, a brave man as gale said. back in scream 2 and 3, both aren’t in woodsboro. on the second one, dewey appears up on sidney’s new city because he wanted to make sure sidney was okay and safe. on third one, dewey lives peacefully in a trailer at hollywood helping on stab’s movie. on scream 4, we’re back to woodsboro, honestly, dewey is a little bit cranky but had a development close to the end and promises gale that he would never left her again

“no more on you on, it’s you and me forever”

now having this acknowledgment, we look to dewey on scream 5 and see a totally different character, still sweet but less goofy, way more mature and smart - but living his worst life in a smelly trailer because he left gale in the middle of the night, couldn’t handle staying with her on new york city. he also became a drunker and left the forces.

now i ask: why?

woodsboro was for sure important to dewey, but he left the town amount of times and was okay with it - now, they made him 'not handle staying out of the town' and broke the promise he made to the woman he loved during all those years without a strong reason, just because he couldn’t handle being out of woodsboro when he have been out for less two times?

they also made him a drunker, another character choice that’s hard to believe since dewey was absolutely not this type of guy, on scream (1996) they changed him smoking a cigarette to an ice cream because it would fit better the character - now, he’s a drunker?

so basically all the character development and choices were ignored, bringing dewey in a lonely dramatic storyline to kill him in the middle of the movie for shock value, because it would give an “emotional thing” for the movie and it was “the only way” to bring sidney back. plus, his death ended becoming a plot hole - the killers had no intentions to bring the legacy cast for their movie, even tho amber freeman mentioning that he had to die, there was no plan for that and his death was accidental and so does sidney appearing on the city.

honestly, i think david arquette made a great job because of the wonderful actor he is. i just feel bad about the fact he accepted be on it without reading the script and when he read he had to deal with all those things and yet his character dying. he even tried to ask the directors to remove the drunker thing part, got ignored. courteney cox warned the directors to film a shot that dewey survives because wes craven would do that, they ignored. neve campbell already said she will read the script first and see how she feels about it to join scream 6, and we all know why she’s saying that. i feel bad for what they did to dewey and i feel bad for those actors who played these characters for so long and now someone new shows up and do this to them, yet using wes craven’s name as mershan “#for wes”.

anyway it was a fun movie but my concerns about it are larger than my hype for having another scream, full of nostalgia just to stuck me on it - i wish i was hyped enough to not see those things.