Right? I feel that they should have kept that scene since it kept the integrity of the original since it matched the event when Bobbie goes haywire. Plus we would get to know exactly what modifications the wives had as robots.
What I don't get is that the way the film ends implies that all those women are perfectly content and completely back to normal after the brain chip reversal in those robot bodies with all those crazy features we see in the one scene. Especially someone neurotic like Bobbie. It just leads to a lot more questions, like will they need to be updated/repaired and who would do it, would they outlive their family members and stay looking young forever, did they lose all the unique things about their original bodies (like how in the original film Joanne's replacement body had a bigger bust) etc. They should've kept the original ending
That's why the scenes where deleted. They were more consistent with the original movie that had a much darker ending. Where the women didn't escape and were actually murdered and replaced with robots. But in the newer version it's just meant to be their human bodies with the brain chips. That's why all the deleted scenes show them to be more like actual machines (sparks, body mods, etc). My guess is that they wanted to make it like the original but then wanted a happy ending instead so they had to make it more believable that the women were able to continue on. In the original Joanna was replaced and the movie ended with the grocery store scene
The one with Bobbie as the robot should have stayed since it kept its integrity to the original scene when Joanna stabs Bobbie with the knife and she goes haywire similar like in the 1975 film when she was going haywire
Obviously realized that the "Inspector Gadget" angle was inconsistent with the "it's still our wives but with brain chips" angle and tried to remove it. Problem was the Inspector Gadget approach was built in to the scene where Walter finds out about Stepford's Secret, so they left THAT in, leaving the film's plot inconsistent.
The first time I watched this I’m pretty sure it was on cable and some of these scenes were in the movie itself. Whenever I watch it now on streaming services they took all the good scenes out. I wonder why it gives so much more nuance and it’s so interesting.
This version of the movie was a mess. They screened the movie with all those scenes in it. After presenting it to a test audience and after terrible ratings, they rewrote the script and changed the story with massive reshoots inluding the ending. That’s why the ‘finished’ production didn’t make any sense anymore.
