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EastEnders storylines that should never have happened?
OwenFowler48
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I’m interested to see what storylines people thought were awful and should never happened. I think Ian and Sharon’s marriage was the the worst personality, very poor decision.
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I would’ve liked the aftermath of Denny’s death, whereby the truth was revealed to Sharon, resulting in a three-hander episode between Phil, Ian and Sharon, whereby they aired all their grievances, as opposed to Lady Macbeth, cooking up a storm, laced with arsenic, in the kitchen, and of course, Sharon Beale was such an awful plot twist, especially, seeing as her true intentions were blindingly obvious.
The Ruby/Stacey feud was utter tripe. Louisa Lytton managed to elevate it above the level that the script deserved to be at, but only just.
Chelsea/Denise/Lucas drugs storyline at the beginning of the year was complete garbage, barely saved by a few decent performances by Don Gilet.
Who Killed Archie. It wrote Stacey into a corner and made her really bloody unlikeable, whilst forcing other characters (cough, Max, cough) to go to absolutely ridiculous lengths to ensure she never had to pay for her crime. When you've got to the point where a father is perfectly happy for the whole community to be calling his son a murderer whilst knowing full well he is innocent, you know something has gone horribly wrong.
I agree about the Gray storyline...they should have kept it as a domestic abuse storyline instead of making it into this serial killer farce! The domestic abuse story with Chantelle was really good then they ruined it...
Could start with off screen revenge deaths such as Angie and Cindy.
The totally pointless and short sighted death of Pat.
Killing off both Mitchell sisters, an established family that was massacred.
The deaths of Ian's kids, although I'm on the fence with Lucy as it was such a great story.
The weird path they took Max down and killing off Abi.
Shifting the focus away from relatable characters and family, with a unique gritty vibe into a soap that could be set anywhere.
Sharon's kid being killed and Sharon going all weird with Ian.
Sharon discovering her birth father called her Princess and all that retcon stuff.
I could go on......
'Who shagged Kat' - considering her history as known to viewers, even more of a retrograde festival of joyless misogyny than it would've been anyway. Lumbering the character with her youngest two sons wasn't an improvement.
Killing off Pat, Denny, Mel/Hunter, and Kush were all hugely counterproductive and destructive. Not killing off Alfie Moon, offscreen, was a mistake - the vague threat of a return for any purpose is a dark shadow across my soul.
It was a hard hitting. Realistic storyline , on domestic abuse . They’ve turned it into a circus , it’s dragged on far too long , is borderlining on ridiculous.
Jay and Honey
Mo stealing from the Allotments when she got made to a recurring character.
Sharon marrying and then poisoning Ian.
Make Gray a killer at all and should have gone down the therapy route.
Shaneu.
Bring in Dexter’s dad at all let alone the kidney storyline.
The Vi secret son story.
Max and Linda
Hayley/Alfie
Keep Alfie alive.
All of the storylines involving Billy since 2015ish. He needed axing but atleast that late we’d still have Lola and Lexi.
Ted’s rushed exit
Iqra’s exit
Habbiba’s exit
Killing Ronnie and Roxy. It was unexpected and quite graphic. Maybe Roxy had mileage for more. It's done now, get over it. There probably wasn't much more Ronnie related misery either the viewers or Samantha Janus could've taken anyway.
Killing Abi. A miserable faced irritant and complete weirdo. From her mother to her sister to her dads girlfriends, the tale of a jealous frump embittered to the point of insanity by more popular women only needed to be told once. No interest.
Serial Killer Gray. I don't find it offensive. He was a domestic abuser, and something else too. Serial killers have to start somewhere regarding the first kill. I don't find it out of the ballpark that a very manipulative domestic abuser would go further.
I don't mind being in a minority of one. From thinking Gray was a bland pretty boy, and then suffering through the grim abuse storyline/public service scenes, suddenly he became gloriously bonkers. It's now one of my favourite current trajectories.
At the time, I loved seeing Cindy just make the Eurostar - and the next year in Italy. I'd rather Ian had failed to find her, and she was still out there, with two Italian raised sons. I don't want her back, I just wish the Italy stuff had led in that direction.
Killing of Abi
Killing of Steven
Killing of Roxy
Killing off Pat when she just wanted an extended break.
Sam’s 2009 return.
The presence of two sophisticated Anglo Italian actors, who'd grown up entirely with Cindy, would've livened the Beales up over the years - more interesting than meat free Monday storylines, or all the farfetched nonsense with Steven shooting his barren stepmother in the womb, before returning to impregnate the local bunny boiler.
Killing off R&R
Killing off Hev
Killing off Denny
Doing a repeat of Bradley falling off the roof with Abi & Lauren, I don't care that Abi is dead but it's completely ludicrous
I'd forgotten the human trafficking debacle. 2019 was just a complete disaster for Ben, what with that and sexually harassing Callum for months on end, before promptly dumping him five minutes after he'd left Whitney for Ben.
Who Battered Beale is another one - I predicted absolutely right that we would be expected to sympathise with Ian's attackers and want them to get away scot free.
That godawful storyline just after lockdown where Suki upped the rent on the Slater house, so Kat decided to team up with Phil to steal classic cars from a warehouse in order to pay it. The fact that Ballum relationship drama was bundled into the episodes made me realise we were actually supposed to be taking this nonsense seriously.
Steven! Where everyone forgot about his death five minutes later.
Oh, and poor Fatboy 😪
I must admit I did. It would've been a case of 'yes officer, I was sitting on this bench right outside but I didn't see a soul until you arrived - and before you ask me if I heard anything, I can only say I'd been thinking it was a remarkably quiet evening'.
Oh yeah Cindy’s death being another one. People really want her back and I don’t get why. But circumstances of how she died, I’m Switching off if they bring her back. .
The aftermath alone caused so much long-term damage IMHO which really left a bad taste in my mouth.
To this day I still loathe Weasel Ian and the Blessed Saint Jane as a result of it and always will no matter how desperately TPTB tried hard to try and continue to portray those 2 as the non-villain "goody characters".🙄
I don't even feel bad whenever anything horrible happens to them because as far as I'm concerned they deserved it and much worse.
Don't even give a toss about how crappy their exits were either.
I'd add Ben The Human Trafficker and Serial-Killer Gray too but others have already articulated perfectly exactly what's wrong with those so no need to add to those further.
Derek Branning, Kirsty Branning, Tanya Lauren and Abi. they should all still be in it.
Hayley and Alfie should be in it as well.
What happened to Mo? She just seemed to disappear?
Chantelle's death. Kush's death and Tina's.