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Emmerdale: Katie's funeral otherwise fantastic?
Danny_Francis
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Finally caught up with Thursday's episode, I thought it was a really strong episode Emmerdale performing at a high-level. Anyone else think, if it wasn't for Eastenders' 30th Anniversary week that it would've received more positive reviews?
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A lot of Jai and Priya. Two tedious horrid characters i'd be more than happy to see drive over a cliff. More embarrassing tripe with the deeply unfunny Jimmy. Another funeral *yawn*. A couple of minutes at the end when we knew neither Andy or saint Aaron would top themselves.
The reason the episode didn't get the acclaim you think it deserved is not because it clashed with EE. The whole Katie, Robert, Aaron story has been a complete disaster from start to miserable finish. A long term character killied off for no point and no gain. A total embarrassing shambles from Kate Oates.
Not begrudging EE, it's just a shame for ED that it's always getting upstaged.
Yet viewers have been turning off in large numbers while EE have been going up
Wait until all the fanatical excitement over EE this week has died down..then we will get the true figures ..once a show has peaked there is only one way to go...
Of course the ratings will drop back from what they've been hitting but at least the show can produce stories that capture the immagination of the viewers and give a big boost to the ratings which is sonething Kate Oates completely fails to do. At this time of the year there is no excuse for ED's rubbish ratings.
I've decided the best thing to do with Spunger's rants is to ignore them. He will never get over his obsession with Kate Oates and ratings.
Give it up spunger - ED was on good form last week and I can't wait for what's coming up soon.
Still, I'm delighted you've finally found a soap you admire. Maybe you'll spend more time watching that now, instead of ED and giving us all a break from your anti-KO bile.
I decided that a long time ago and yet here we are again.........
Last time I checked ratings are down about 500k on last year, which isn't dreadful.
Especially when you have to factor in On Demand, Live Online Streaming etc. I mean sure it might not be beating one or two of the other soaps (I'm not bothered with ratings so I don't really pay attention), but I think once everything is factored in it's not doing bad at all.
How else were they going to write Katie out? Sammy Winward wanted to leave. Katie wouldn't have left the village without Andy just weeks after their wedding. Even if Katie and Andy had fallen out it wouldn't seem logical for her to leave just like that after their years of history together.
To me it only made sense to kill her off - though I actually liked her character.
I liked the episode as well. I didn't like the Sharma bits. It didn't fit in well with everything else that was going on. The Jimmy and Nicola stuff was a bit of lighthearted inappropriateness on the side. It was quite funny.
Of course it was abvious that neither Andy nor Aaron were going to commit suicide. But I still liked their part a lot. It was well acted and narrated.
I really like Emmerdale at the moment and I'm looking forward to the next weeks.
You'll find I rant about the crappy Carters as much as I do about ED's inept producer.
The DS FM's can continue to kiss the bum of Kate Oates. The dire ratings under her shows how out of touch they are. I've been right about her all along and continue to be so as of today.
Oh goodness me, I've never seen anyone as full of rubbish as you. You're acting like it's rating as well as Hollyoaks. Emmerdale can still pull in 6 million viewers regularly. It always dips to around 5 million during the summer months, and I'm sure you'll be making up stuff about 'record lows' then as well.
I agree with you
Exactly and he never comments when the ratings go up - only when they go down.
Got to agree, especially the bit in bold.
I could have slapped Aaron when he jumped up in the middle of the funeral. Only Aaron could make someone else's funeral and someone else's suicide attempt all about him>:(
Yes exactly! It was great seeing Andy get some really heartbreaking material, and Kelvin Fletcher aced it. He was so good.
Also agree that Aaron had no place in those Sugden scenes. He just took away from the drama, rather than adding to it. >:(
A more interesting exit would have been Katie ending up in a coma.
She woild have been a dark cloud hovering over Robert and Aaron with them worrying about her making a recovery one day. As it is, the story is now done and dusted and has been pretty pointless with no real long term consequences for any character, apart from Katie.