It helps it in the sense that without the 16-24 year old crowd the show is doomed to fail. I can deal with the small storyline inconsistencies if it means it stays on the air and has a chance to find it's "sense of self". :)

The reason why Wil is being presented as the son of Shea and nephew of Flick is more than streamlining. It should have been presented that way in the books as well.. Brooks, at the time, had attempted to write a next gen book that was outright scrapped by DelRey so he decided to hop a generation. A small re-write…