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Barbara Windsor is furious with SOC
She is furious with SOC for axing Ronnie and Roxy. He should listen to Ms Windsor. Axing them is a mistake!!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2049362/eastenders-legend-barbara-windsor-slams-new-boss-over-ronnie-and-roxie-mitchell-axing/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2049362/eastenders-legend-barbara-windsor-slams-new-boss-over-ronnie-and-roxie-mitchell-axing/
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Especially if its some ridiculous swimming pool stunt as reported.
Eastenders is absolutely appalling at the moment and im not buying this crap about a 'transition' period. BBC need to step in before we have another Birkwood saga.
Yes, Eastenders is demonstrably shit right now. But no, Windsors opinion counts for nothing.
Characters get axed all the time, Roxy and Ronnie are not golden characters who make the show, they bore the life out of me and I can't wait for them to piss off
Of course the actresses don't want to leave. Where else are they going to get payed that much money to act badly and take extended breaks every few months? EastEnders is stale and needs an overhaul of cast and writers. No point keeping played out characters just to make up the numbers. Spend that BBC cash where it's needed. There's a risk with axing established characters but sometimes they just come to the end of the road and it's flogging a dead horse to keep them around. Perhaps some people will quit watching now that R&R are leaving but I can't see it being a big enough portion of viewers to cause a significant decline in ratings. Ronnie hasn't been popular for years and I don't think Roxy was ever a huge draw for viewers.
To be fair, Phil, one of my previous faves, has truly become tedious to watch and I'd understand the decision to write him out at this point. At the very least someone should give him a really good kicking and put him in his place because he's been begging for it for ages.
oh how id like to see her putting that one in her pipe and smoking it
I agree.
In the 90's if a character left it was usually assumed it was for good. It added to the tension and drama of their exits. Little did we know most of them would come back repeatedly forevermore:D
I think it's time to start slamming the door shut on returnees. They've brought back pretty much everyone who could conceivably return anyway. Exits and returns of the same characters every few years loses impact in both cases. It's taken years for Sharon to become halfway decent again after a flop 2nd comeback and if I never see Bianca, Kat and Alfie again it'll be too soon. Just move on ffs, EastEnders! You've got most of the important characters like Stacey, Martin, Ben, Sharon, Kathy, Ian, Dot, the Philth (if we must), etc. who are relevant to current day EastEnders so don't dredge up Bianca and Kalfie again! Let those ships sail away into oblivion!
I'll make an exception for Janine. And Chrissie Watts. And maybe David Wicks but that's it!>:(
Agree. They are stale characters who have gone round in circles, she really thinks so highly of herself and the Mitchells.
As Much as I love Babs I think your right especially after she announced that she wanted to kill off Peggy and when they did she announced that she wanted to return
So it's an actual swimming pool what they die in? I thought it meant they would be using a pool for the stunt.
EE seems determined to rest on the laurels of its past glories. Can you think of any decent memorable NEW characters that have come into the show in the last 5 years, because I struggle. The show needs to move forward and not, as you rightly say, keep undermining characters' exits. I firmly believe when a character serves their purpose they should go, and stay gone. Some characters are just not meant to be long-term.
Agree completely about Sharon, her return has been very choppy, as has Kathy's.
Just because we now have an EP who doesn't worship at the alter of the Mitchells.
Broken Arrow, Cor Blimey Guv'nor you tell it like it is!
She can thank her friend DTC for putting the final nail in Ronnie's coffin. You can't murder and arrange to crush a couple of guys and then hang around playing happy families. Then there's how she got rid of her poor husband.
If SOC kills them off it will just show arrogance.
Why hasn't Tina, Donna, Sylvie & Shakil being axed?
Dreadful characters.
Ronnie has one expression , and unfortunately it's her "resting biatch" face
Roxy . I couldn't endure another "She's here, she's gone, she's a druggie, she's 'cured' , she's an alcoholic, she's recovered (but still boozes), she's off to find herself but finds herself back in Walford three months later . Rinse and repeat over and over . Time to ditch the dead wood and make room for Max and any potential noobies in Jack's flats .
Jacqueline jossa will never be axed she is still by miles the most popular character with younger viewers
I personally think the Mitchells have had their day. Not that they should all be axed but they're not what they were.
I think Babs has struggled to let go for ages now. Now that's she's finally cut the cord she should probably stop weighing in on current storylines. She's looking a bit obsessive.
Exactly EE is full of characters who are in the same boat as Ronnie and Roxy.