EE: Am I the only one who loved the Baby swap storyline?
It was gripping throughout and it was a good way of showing how desperate Ronnie was to have a child after losing Danielle. Things like this have happened in real life and it's great that TPTB brushed up on that.
And can I just say that because I enjoyed the storyline doesn't make me "sick" or a "horrible human being", I simply loved the way it went and I don't believe it deserved so many complaints. It's a fictional television show, trying to blend into reality.
And can I just say that because I enjoyed the storyline doesn't make me "sick" or a "horrible human being", I simply loved the way it went and I don't believe it deserved so many complaints. It's a fictional television show, trying to blend into reality.
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I enjoyed it too.
What was the original ending?
I didn't mind it at all. I thought the controversy was a fuss over nothing, an excuse for BBC bashing by its media rivals.
From what I gather the main problem was how Ronnie was being depicted as a grieving, mentally ill woman with poss postnatal depression.
Yet we didn't get a storm of protest over "mad May" & that depiction of mental illness just a few years earlier.
I do wonder, if Dean is being depicted as having mental health or self esteem issues whether a similar situation might arise after the upcoming rape storyline is aired.
Sometimes people with mental health issues do bad things, it's the truth.
Other times they don't. To be fair I think soaps are able to depict this both ways.
It also allowed me to appreciate Jesse Wallace much more an actress who gave some heartbreaking performances throughout it all. Especially in the aftermath.
I think the backlash over it was ridiculous personally.
I also hated pretty much ALL the key players of the baby swap story and for me it totally finished Ronnie as a character.
Yes! She was one of the "smarter" ones on Albert Square. Painful to have watched her morph into a pathetic, desperate sorry sap.
Whilst I didn't complain and wouldn't have stopped watching over ut, I did understand why so many viewers found it so upsetting and was glad they cut it short - even though it did pretty much bugger up the rest of the year as they didn't have viable storylines to replace it for kat, Alfie and Jack.
I thought replacing it with the masood's and yusef was done brilliantly.
I'd assumed that storyline was always going to have happened since Yusef first appeared in Jan 11 at the same time as the baby swap started.
One thing you can maybe explain to me though, how did Kat and Alfie not notice the baby who'd died wasn't theirs? Surely you'd recognise your own child? Did they never interact with Ronnie and see their baby was alive and with her?
I know babies look a bit similar, ie bald, chubby, but you'd know your own surely?
I agree.
Well the babies were only a day old and Kat had spent most of it in hospital with post birth complications and Alfie stayed with her so they hadn't actually spent that much time the Tommy.
Kat did claim that it wasn't her baby shen she saw the corpse but the they were told that was a normal reaction of a giving parent so nobody believed her and fairly soon she accepted that argument.
I don't know what the original ending was but I am sure in an interview with Shane Ritchie just before the episode aired he mentioned that the climax wouldn't happen for at least a year. I think in that time we would have seen Ronnie either struggle like we did or she would have bonded with the child and denied everything.
I found the storyline very sad instead of unbelievable. I am not saying every mother who loses a child wants to kidnap another but the overwhelming emotions of her wanting to comfort a baby made her lose her senses. They could have done so much with Ronnie & Jack in that time.
I think that was the problem, hearing the story wasn't going to end for a year. Obviously stories that are resolved too quickly do lose credibility but there is a balance and although it's a very serious subject it is a soap at the end of the day and it went on for far too long and that was why there was the backlash with people wanting it to end sooner. The Lucy Beale story is going the same way and I am tired of it already. Eastenders seems to be drowning in doom and gloom again at the moment and it needs some moments of light relief too. It just gets too depressing.
You do know the Baby Swap isn't going on anymore... right?