[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Braden

Lisa Fowler is the queen of iconic returns. Remember when she caught the bouquet of flowers at whoever's wedding it was?

Kate's wedding to Phil. After everyone assumed Lisa had been murdered by him in Portugal as he came back with Louise with no sign of Lisa. Kate was the undercover cop working with Marsden IIRC.

I loved that era, how all the major storylines didn't just spring up out of nowhere and disappear just as quickly, they all actually flowed and affected one another. One story directly caused the next etc. Like it was all one massive arc.

The show kind of got that back a little with DTC, like now you could say Max's story has been one big arc from 2013, then right through the Lucy stuff. But it's nowhere near as brilliantly written and plotted.

[Marsh.]

Sonia is BUGGING me.

"Why are you being so stubborn!"

Dot's not being stubborn, she's asking you to stop making decisions for her, ransacking her house, interfering in her business and inviting people to live in a house that isn't yours.

Awful, insufferable character.

[Ross.]

Not Fi finally doing something worthwhile after being on the show for like 4 months

[Marsh.]

I feel we're supposed to be shocked that Max and Fi are involved?

It's been obvious since before she even arrived.

[Marsh.]

Spoiler:

Also, apparently the "event" which involves all of the characters occurs in September. Apparently, a protest begins against Weyland and Co and their gentrification of the area and Max and the Chairman hire people to hijack the protest and a riot breaks out across the Square.

A Teri Hatcher and ha liver tea.

[Firewire]

Lauren to die in the crush?

[Ross.]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Spoiler:

Also, apparently the "event" which involves all of the characters occurs in September. Apparently, a protest begins against Weyland and Co and their gentrification of the area and Max and the Chairman hire people to hijack the protest and a riot breaks out across the Square.

A Teri Hatcher and ha liver tea.

DON'T START with your DS rumours again!

[Ross.]

Originally Posted by Firewire

Lauren to die in the crush?

Abi would be here for it

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Ross.

DON'T START with your DS rumours again!

Walford Web actually you aggressive pig.

[Wizard.]

Well seeing as Lucy was very reluctant to return I think they're doing a Peggy and said they'd kill her off letting her never have to return again.

[Firewire]

Originally Posted by Ross.

Abi would be here for it

Abi is Julie

[Marsh.]

DS Poster 1: Ooh, I thought it was going to be Mel.

DS Poster 2: But Mel would be knocking 50?

Erm, as is Fi, Carmel and Max???

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Riley.

Well seeing as Lucy was very reluctant to return I think they're doing a Peggy and said they'd kill her off letting her never have to return again.

I don't think she's ever been reluctant to return.

She just said she always wanted to come back with a story rather than floating about.

Which considering she was a huge part of Who Shot Phil? I wouldn't want to settle into a longterm role of buying sandwiches from Honey in the Minute Mart either.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

She's always clearly had mental heath issues, through Phil's alcoholism and abuse of her, her using Mark Fowler when things were bad with Phil, being worn down to the point of shooting him, and Phil even almost drove her to suicide in Portugal.

They've never actually focussed on it as its own story though, like for example Stacey's bipolar.

It's an interesting and good way to take Lisa if they wanted to bring her back, but the fact she's only back a couple of weeks makes me think what's the point as they can't really go that in depth with it.

Hopefully though, it allows Phil and Lisa to bury the hatchet for good and them to make peace and Louise can have a relationship with both, going to see Lisa off screen.

She's dissociating, that much I can tell. I know dissociation can cause memory gaps (amnesia) so that would explain the 'lie' she told her therapist. Phil's obviously a traumatic trigger for her.

Dissociation's just a broad phenomenon though. The extreme version of it's split personality but they're obviously not covering that type of illness in three weeks. It's hard to see an exact disorder at this stage.

[Marsh.]

I just assumed she was lying, rather than believing it herself.

But it makes sense, in times of high stress she'd probably really convince herself everything was fine and going well to try and calm herself down.

[Redway]

Yeah. Like I say she's not gonna be splitting alter egos for two weeks. I wouldn't be surprised if she's a case of complex PTSD.

That's if they follow it up correctly. If it turns out to be anything like Lee's depression it'll just end up being a crock of poorly researched shit. I don't trust Easties to do a good job anymore where mental health's concerned.

[Marsh.]

Why has Whitney stolen Kat Moon's old wardrobe and scalped her?

[Marsh.]

Also this Lisa plot is already moving way too fast.

In contrast to everything else moving at a glacial pace.

2 weeks isn't sufficient to tell this type of story. They should've asked Lucy back for a lengthy stint.

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Why has Whitney stolen Kat Moon's old wardrobe and scalped her?

First she tries to be Linda and now Kat Moon

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Also this Lisa plot is already moving way too fast.

In contrast to everything else moving at a glacial pace.

2 weeks isn't sufficient to tell this type of story. They should've asked Lucy back for a lengthy stint.

She'll most likely be sectioned and that'll be the end of it for a year or whenever they can convince Benjamin to stay for more than three weeks.

[LukeB]

i had a feeling Whitney is lying about getting engaged to woody

[Cal.]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Kate's wedding to Phil. After everyone assumed Lisa had been murdered by him in Portugal as he came back with Louise with no sign of Lisa. Kate was the undercover cop working with Marsden IIRC.

I loved that era, how all the major storylines didn't just spring up out of nowhere and disappear just as quickly, they all actually flowed and affected one another. One story directly caused the next etc. Like it was all one massive arc.

The show kind of got that back a little with DTC, like now you could say Max's story has been one big arc from 2013, then right through the Lucy stuff. But it's nowhere near as brilliantly written and plotted.

Corrie does this well. You could argue the Platts are STILL feeling the effects and going through stories caused by Nick and Kyle sleeping together on Christmas Day 2012.

[LukeB]

Screaming, Michelle's bench was stolen like 3 weeks ago and shes only just decided to look for it

[Marsh.]

Apparently...

Spoiler:

Abi rings Tanya who shows up on the square for one episode.

Spoiler:

The riot results in Linda, Johnny and Jack on their way to hospital in an ambulance, which subsequently crashes.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...-horror-crash/

[Denver]

Linda looks pregnant there