Who Killed Archie? - On reflection..
Now that Stacey has left, effectively completely finishing this story, do you think she was the right choice of killer? If no, who would you have liked to have seen killed Archie? And how would you have played out the story differently?
Personally, I'm not sure Stacey was the right choice. I don't think she shown enough remorse for her actions, in fact any at all. Yes, he raped her so obviously she will hate him, but I just didn't buy that the character would be so calm about living her life as a killer, especially tarnishing her dead husband's memory with the blame of the crime. It's been said that Peggy was the original choice, I don't know why they didn't just stick with her.
Personally, I'm not sure Stacey was the right choice. I don't think she shown enough remorse for her actions, in fact any at all. Yes, he raped her so obviously she will hate him, but I just didn't buy that the character would be so calm about living her life as a killer, especially tarnishing her dead husband's memory with the blame of the crime. It's been said that Peggy was the original choice, I don't know why they didn't just stick with her.
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I thought the most obvious one would be Ronnie.
But Peggy would be an interesting choice. Cause a family divide and that could have been het reasoning for leaving the square instead of just randomly walking away from her whole life.
Looking back now I understand why they made Archie rape Stacey so that they could add Stacey, Bradley and possibly Max as potential killers, however I don't think it made much sense for it to be Stacey. She was with Bradley and having the baby with him, and so to kill Archie jeopardised all of that. I did guess it was her though because she wasn't talked about as a suspect by DS.
Personally I'd rather it had been Peggy and that they had then killed off Peggy in the fire since Barbara isn't coming back. I didn't like the aftermath with Stacey getting with Ryan.
stacey still could of had a decent storyline by keeping Archie as the Father of Lily.
typo corrected....
This. I also hate how it's dragged on for this long, the storyline has just been tedious since the reveal imo.
This storyline should not have happened. No long-term thought had been put into it; and it was out of character for Stacey to kill Archie.
Perhaps they should've kept Danielle about, and made her the killer?
agreed, also we wouldn't have to see this bullshit baby swap S/L
It would of worked out better in the long run for Peggy's exit for her to kill Archie etc.
No disrespectful to Larry Lamb, but on his second stint in particular, Archie was a rubbish character. A complete paper cut-out plot device so they could have a big storyline for the 25th.
Maybe I wouldn't be so harsh on it if it had ended there, but thanks to their choice of killer, the storyline proceeded to ruin the rest of the year as well.
2010 has been a very mixed bag, and the poorer parts of that mix are generally down to the Archie stuff, the dragginess in January and February (due to the build up to the reveal), the lull and feeling of "filler" during March-April-May (which in part, it seems was down to focussing on the Archie reveal) and most recently the mostly dull Ryan/Janine/Stacey storyline and the ruination of Stacey's character.
Very glad this period of the show is finally over.