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Hollyoaks-has dougs character been ruined ?
dublintvfan
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has doug in Hollyoaks been complety ruined he had so much potential during the silas and Christmas period and was a good character
now theyv turned him into a sick love puppy after ste
which dosent even make sense for starters who on earth decided this would be a good way too bring the character they should have given him is own character journey after christmas rebuilding his life and a love story with Lindsey but that would just make too much sense:rolleyes:
now theyv turned him into a sick love puppy after ste
which dosent even make sense for starters who on earth decided this would be a good way too bring the character they should have given him is own character journey after christmas rebuilding his life and a love story with Lindsey but that would just make too much sense:rolleyes:
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Now it just feels like they are doing it for cheap thrills/lack of storylines they don't have too turn everyone gay who was once straight they can once in a while bring in a character that is gay I mean they like adding characters so it wouldn't of been hard.
Ste never learns, how long until he gets smacked round the chops again.
I won't get into the debate about how "realistic" his coming out was - frankly I found it insulting to viewers the way his whole history was wiped and he went from confused to gay and having always been that way in the space of about four episodes. I'm not denying some people quickly accept their sexuality and jump into a relationship but for a TV show you have to get the writing and the pacing right for it to be believable. Rushed doesn't even come close.
That aside, will he ever stop crying? He's being written as if he's an over emotional 13 year old girl. This is Doug the cool American, ex-drug dealer right? The same guy? When would a guy in his twenties ever say "I didn't know what happiness was until you kissed me!"? Straight out of a Clinton's card.
Saying that, this storyline has pretty much ruined Ste and Brendan for me as well.
The was no reason to turn him gay, him and Ste are more like brothers than lovers, but if they had to do it, why make him gay, why not bi? That way when they final realised that this wasn't working they could just forget about it. Why ruin his last year with Bex, why make his suicide a joke because Bex apparently meant nothing to him. He went from thinking he was gay, to knowing he is gay, to always knowing he was gay to loving Ste in just a couple of weeks.
Doug was one of my favourite characters and I was really looking forward to seeing Doug and Lynsey getting together, but instead we have this and I would be happy if Doug and Ste vanished into the background.. At most I would like to see Doug away from Ste, but I don't look forward to their scenes together.
Say that again at 7pm when Ste and Doug are back together. Crying probably.
Because I only really saw his name being mentioned in the gay business,(and only read those posts) I assumed he was a fairly new character, but it seems not!
I think Doug's been in Hollyoaks for nearly 2 years (since 2010).
That was a WTF?! moment for me. And it's all made worse by the stupid, inane decision to make him gay, instead of bi; this isn't some misguided story decision, this is TPTB making the conscious decision to make Doug gay, and insisting that he has always been this way. They're rewriting history has old as 6 months ago!
Now he's crying all the time, bawling his eyes out like Ste is this great love, like they're soul mates who have been through fire and ice to get to where they are now - talk about laying it on thick. All this doesn't feel like Doug; he's lost his backbone in the space of a couple of weeks. I don't think he's ruined, as most of this can be undone, with the (possible) exception of making him gay the way they have. The one plus is that PJ is making the material work the best he can; he's definitely giving is all.
Totally undermines sexuality in the assumption that a gay person can turn a straight person. What happened to Bex's the love of his life....
So bewildered by the whole thing.
Don't forget he new he was gay when a 12 year old friend Tommy gave him a hat which he couldn't stop wearing because he missed him so much!!!
But a day after being kissed by Brendan he was trying to hold his hand.
I'm not that fussed, I think the storyline saved Ste's lifespan on the show because the actor was worried about getting the axe before that storyline changed everything, but I do wonder how everyone seemed to accept Ste's change. And Ste was on the show longer than Doug!
hollyoaks writers decided that ste was gay too
that annoyed me
Took the words right out my mouth.
That's how I felt about this whole. For me it's not even the fact that he turned..it's Oaks..so I wasnt really surprise. I did hate the fact that when Bex came he was in love with her and was so distraught when he found out about her death and even threatened Brendan to seeing the newspaper with Silas and throwing it like he just didnt care about the person he once loved and was a victim. They could have did that in a different way. That's like Ste coming out and forgetting the fact that he had children. (lol I dont know)
He has been non stop crying since he started this sl hate to say it but I hope now that he is with Ste we dont see him cry again til whenever.
Ive always said this from the being.I dont think there's any going back from this. I was really rooting for Lynsey and Doug and I thought they was doing that obvi not.:mad:
It's hard for me to believe he has always been this way. If that was true they had many opportunities to show it. Ugh it is unrealistic but like Mojo said people realise this at different times of their life...but it's soap.But yea I cant really say if his character is ruined..I find him a bit annoying now..but Peej is a good actor.
I've said this before but I'll repeat it
Ste's "awakening" was done with a gradual build up of being manipulated and made to feel special by Brendan (and the whole father figure thing). He didn't label himself, he didn't claim he'd always know but that he'd ignored some feelings he'd had. For him and his upbringing I'd say it was probably realistic that he wouldn't have acted on them. You could understand him fancying Brendan because he was very predatory like that.
Somewhere along the line when they made him dress fashionably (and out of character) and say stupid things like "I don't know women but I know men" but at first they seemed to do it pretty well.
However, I do buy his 'lovesick, puppy dog' affection for Ste. He does seem to fall deeply and we have seen him struggle with his feelings (not always sexual). He seems like someone who would overthink things. He spent lot's of time with him getting the deli off the ground and rightly or wrongly I don't see Doug falling for Ste as a massive leap. BUT why make him gay? He could have just fallen in love with Ste, at the most they could have made the character bi. That way they didn't need the viewers to casually disregard the 'love of his life' Bex.