Particularly in this case, Becky and David were actually one couple, while Darlene and Mark were the other couple, which did make a slight bit of sense, given everyone’s personalities.
But the revival won’t keep that going, and it was announced recently that Darlene and David’s children were being cast, and if TVLine’s rumor turns out to be true, it will seemingly tip its hat to Mark’s in-show death being how things play out.
As fans remember, the Roseanne finale flipped everything on its head by revealing that Roseanne Conner was actually writing the whole series, with some family details not at all how we’d believed them to be.