Hopefully Sonia "does a Cora"...speaking of which apparently she is coming back just not anytime soon :lol:

Cora was good in her day, but that day has gone.

Grant's return has proved that legend characters should probably remain in the past once they've left, unless there's plans to develop them and/or they are the sort of character that can be rested for a few years then brought back (like Janine or Sharon).

If Grant had done a 2 month guest stint that was uninterrupted, it would have been ok. Or if there's been planning. Phil owes him money? Dropped in seconds. Still in love with Sharon? Forgotten after one line.

I was thinking earlier, do you think the Denise being pregnant thing will have something to do with her wanting an abortion but a whole dramatic thing is made of the fact she was against Libby doing it earlier this year?

It's been quite clear that Denise has been searching for purpose this year. She was eager to help Jordan and that went wrong. She thought she would raise JJ and couldn't. Libby aborted her grandchild. She would definitely be torn by whether to keep the baby to give her life more purpose or abort it because it's Phil's. But if she did the latter, she'd be a hypocrite for the way she treated Libby.

Soaps tend to shy away from long running storylines where a character changes in such a way, like when Cindy Jnr had an underage pregnancy and the producers bailed on showing the effects of young motherhood by axing the story after a few weeks, or when characters suffer severe injuries/are paralysed and are fit and ready a month later, so I don't know whether they'll actually have Denise keep the baby. It sounds like too much perseverance for a soap.

She'll probably want an abortion, realise she shouldn't because of Libby and have a miscarriage or something like that.

I really want her to birth a Mitchell tho.

 

And the parallels it will draw with Mark jr. And Diane Parish won't f*** off and never return to acting so they can play it out better. If anything this storyline protects Denise from the axe.

everyone treating sonia with disgust*.*

I could watch hours on end of characters being horrible to Sonia.

 

It's very frustrating how no one has pulled any of the other Carters up on their neglect of Sylvie. I'd almost be on Sonia's side if she wasn't Sonia.

Good God, Sonia starting the episode AND getting the duff duff seems to suggest this will be a Sonia-centric week.

Hopefully she's leaving this week.

Hopefully she's leaving forever this week.

 

Sonia and go permanently but i would agree about the Carters, why should Sonia be left with all the burden. Carmel is the best one on the show right now, i always enjoy her and Bonnie is a wonderful actress and a pleasure to watch.

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ffs what a waste

Tbf this has been coming ever since March, at least now this gives good opportunity to have something really spectacular like we should have had ages ago.

 

At least Janine is back... :kink:

 

She's literally one of the best characters going but it was obvious this was going to happen. Characters like that have a shelf life (Babe's days could be numbered) and those awesome episodes in March came to nothing with that terribly messy follow up.

 

At least it won't be like with Grace Olubumni.

I wont miss Claudette too much, her character has just gone nowhere. I would say her character is written very badly as her storylines just dont add up alot of the time. I feel the exact same about Vincent and Donna to a lesser extent.

 

EastEnders needs a brand new family right now and a well thought out family. I would love a family to come into the show and make the impact the Slaters did when they arrived. I think the addition of the Slaters was handled superbly.

But whose boobs am I gonna stare at now? :(