[reece(:]

A Louise kidnap story coming up.. and we're supposed to care?

[zrc]

Shame she wasn't Lucy Beale'd years ago.

[Rob!]

I’m starting to think that Oates’s new direction for Ben is to turn him into another male psycho that she loves so much so that she can keep doing her male mental health stories which is fine and all but Ben had his own mental health story happening before she decided to recast him.

[Gstar]

How many female Mitchells do we have left? All I can think of is Louise (and then there's Sam but.. yeah, let's stick with Louise for now)

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by Germyle

How many female Mitchells do we have left? All I can think of is Louise (and then there's Sam but.. yeah, let's stick with Louise for now)

Aunt Sal

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Germyle

How many female Mitchells do we have left? All I can think of is Louise (and then there's Sam but.. yeah, let's stick with Louise for now)

Ronnie and Roxy but they're living their best lives in Ibiza now.

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Ronnie and Roxy but they're living their best lives in Ibiza now.

Costa del Ongar

[zrc]

Originally Posted by Germyle

How many female Mitchells do we have left? All I can think of is Louise (and then there's Sam but.. yeah, let's stick with Louise for now)

Aunt Sal
Sam
Louise
Courtney
Amy
Janet
Glenda

[Wizard.]

How could you forget Sharon Mitchell oh and Lexi Mitchell

[zrc]

Lexi is a Pearce.
And Sharon will always be a Watts xD

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by zrc

Lexi is a Pearce.
And Sharon will always be a Watts xD

But Lexi's entire existence/purpose in the show has always been the Mitchell's.

And given that the Mitchell's were only ever created for Sharon to begin with, I guess she is comfortably the mother of them.

[Wizard.]

Originally Posted by zrc

Lexi is a Pearce.
And Sharon will always be a Watts xD

But her dad is Ben so she is a Mitchell? There’s no Pierce family on EE therefore she belongs to the Mitchell’s just as much as Amy does, cause she is more of a Branning now tbf. And Sharon will be whatever her fanny flutters at

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Riley.

But her dad is Ben so she is a Mitchell? There’s no Pierce family on EE therefore she belongs to the Mitchell’s just as much as Amy does, cause she is more of a Branning now tbf. And Sharon will be whatever her fanny flutters at

Very feminist of you.

[thisisdanny]

Honey's still credited as Mitchell

[zrc]

They're not divorced though are they? I don't watch regular anymore, so dunno.

[Tom4784]

The whole Ben storyline is so dumb, he's basically a completely different character and it's just to suit the purposes of a very uninteresting storyline.

[Marsh.]

I've realised though, everyone talks about the show needing storylines! Great stories!

It does but a lot of the time the storylines are fine, it's the characters that are useless.

So, currently the Sharon/Keanu stuff would be so much better if Keanu was a good character. But he's so uninteresting. Imagine the Dennis Rickman plot but without Dennis Rickman, with a wet lettuce of a character, it wouldn't work.

Similarly, this stuff with Louise being involved in it is subjectively a good idea. But Louise is so horribly written and acted it doesn't work.

[Redway]

Mhm, but those good characters can be surrounded by unnecessary baggage (Den, Zoe and Vicki). Didn’t take to Shannis till 2005.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Redway

Mhm, but those good characters can be surrounded by unnecessary baggage (Den, Zoe and Vicki). Didn’t take to Shannis till 2005.

Yeah but that's not really the point. That baggage still played its part in the story.

There's always going to be useless characters, smaller characters and characters we don't really like. But the main players need to at least look believable in the role they're playing. Louise and Keanu really don't.

I had no trouble believe Zoe was a whining cow and Den was a dirty old man.

[Ashley.]

Youtube video

Amazing television.

[Wizard.]

Feminist? What’re you talking about

[Redway]

According to your logic kids are always from where their dad’s from first and foremost. Because a woman always marries into a man’s family even in 2019 innit (and never the other way around). That’s what you’re saying.

[Redway]

Even if you don’t realise it that’s exactly what you’re saying.

[Wizard.]

Originally Posted by Redway

According to your logic kids are always from where their dad’s from first and foremost. Because a woman always marries into a man’s family even in 2019 innit (and never the other way around). That’s what you’re saying.

Well that’s what it is I wish I didn’t have my dads name as I have nothing to do with him but he’s the dad on my birth certificate so legally I have his surname, I don’t know many people who take their mothers name do you?

[Redway]

Maybe in legal practice but socially it’s an outed and sexist practice I’d like to think we’ve left behind.