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VinegarLips wrote: ↑

9:36 - May 15

Jamie Fowler's little heart is gonna burst at that Bobby and Jay moment. I know this because mine did as well.

Bobby is absolutely adorable. His exit was easier to swallow when he wasn't having any screentime but now he's back telling adorable jokes in adorable costumes asking adorably stupid questions and now my heart has broken all over again.

Nothing lifts my mood like a Jay appearance I wasn't expecting!

Maybe let's not have Jaden do too many shouting scenes. He isn't any good at it. What I do think is really working here with Denzel, Amy and Nugget is that it's very clear that ultimately all 3 of them are just acting out of insecurity so while they are all going about things in the wrong way you also feel sorry for all of them which isn't necessarily an easy thing to do.

Is there anything more tiring than a homewrecker calling a cheater a scumbag or vice versa? They're both scumbags and need to own their own actions. You don't get to absolve blame from yourself by making it out like the other person is the bad one. They may be bad and have been willing to cheat on their partner or seduce you to cheat on yours but they ultimately didn't make you drop your pants. The second you do that you lose any right to say anything. Unless someone cheated on someone with you and you genuinely didn't know they were taken that is.

Junior is absolutely shameless. A married man trying it on with two women in as many days in broad daylight where anyone could see. Now there's a scumbag.

Well I've always believed Whitney is the dumbest character on the show and she continues to prove it. What else does she think might make Lauren act this way? Zack's not good enough for you. I can't say. Looks incredibly shifty. Come on now man. What else could this possibly mean. 

Poor Tommy is there anything more cringe at that age than watching your parents flirt.

NevermindMe wrote: ↑

7:42 - May 15

Colin Salmon is a great actor. George as landlord of The Vic should and will feature heavily. The character should have a family built around them, because that’s the role of the family of The Vic. The stories on paper are strong - exploring his heritage, his adoptive parents harbouring a secret, his estranged son coming back on the scene, him still feeling connected to his ex wife. These are all valid stories and they fit seamlessly.

But the delivery of them is off. The Knight family are just not hooking me. I’m sad about that because they’re an expansion of Cindy, who is great (albeit needing a story of her own). Something just isn’t clicking. I’m not seeing the spark in any of them - George, Gina, Anna or Junior. It’s all quite lifeless.

With the Whitney strand also being so dull and boring, and Denzel and Amy’s woes interesting me about as much as dust under a coffee table, I have lost interest in the stories right now.

I want Stacey, Martin, Billy, Honey, Kat, Alfie, Kathy, Cindy, Ian, Sharon, Suki, Eve, Jack, Denise, SeriousKim, Felix, Bernie, Jean, Harvey, Ravi, Chelsea - bring back the characters that have that ‘spring in their step’ when holding a scene.

I agree with everything you’ve said about George and the Knights. I realise how I feel about him is how many people felt about Mick during the Carter-domination years. I just can’t get behind the family. There is no chemistry among the actors (which interestingly many people had predicted would be the case based on their very first promo pictures). Anna is a terrible character played by an actress who seems to be catering towards a CBeebies audience with her choices. Gina is a better character but I just don’t feel like she has the integrity to be truly interesting. Francesca Henry is a decent actress though. George doesn’t work for me at all. I can watch Colin Salman act and know he’s doing an objectively good job but I feel absolutely nothing as a viewer. The relationship with Elaine is a joke. There is negative chemistry between Colin and Harriet. There is at least *something* between Colin and Michelle that half convinces me that George and Cindy/Rose had a history but I can’t be bothered with an affair or anything like that. I don’t care enough about any of the characters involved to justify going down that old road again.

The Knights exist as a unit to tie the past to the present. I just think that if you’re going to have a family that stretches all the way from Cindy Beale to Elaine Peacock they need to be able to stand alone as a successful unit if they have any chance of achieving the extra responsibilities of tying two hugely contrasting central families and worlds together in an extremely coincidental bow. Not one of the three central Knights come anywhere near close enough for me. I was shocked when I learned that Crenshaw and his team had been dreaming up the Knights for a whole year before they debuted.

Dalton wrote: ↑

10:56 - May 15

I actually can’t tell if Linda’s drunk or not.

I couldn't tell either. Maybe they need to bring back the cup. [hides]

Just an observation. The family have spent the last few weeks rallying around George because he was slowly killing himself through engaging in dangerous behaviour. Yet Linda is doing the exact same thing and no one gives a shit.