Lyndon Ogbourne to leave Emmerdale
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s12/emmerdale/news/a265457/lyndon-ogbourne-to-leave-emmerdale.html
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I love him and Nathan. But I'm glad to see that the "door will be left open for him to return"
So he won't leave by going to prison then. Maybe Nathan, Will and Maisie will get to move away and start again
It makes sense though. What with Natasha and Maisie leaving, I don't know how they could have taken his character on any further.
but Nathan,
He's a devious, handsome bad boy and theres no telling what he would of done next- with Natasha and Maise gone (his only reasons to show his "kind" side was his family)
theres no telling how bad he would of become..
I will miss him
When they say that, when someone is sacked, it just means the producer is bored with the character and the writers don't want to write for them anymore. It's a nonsense excuse to say the character has gone as far as it can,, seeing as some soap characters have been in a soap for over 30 years and still keep getting storylines.
So NO character has ever 'gone as far as it can' as long as the writers want to write for them and the producer still wants the character there.
So Nathan could still be there in 10 years if he hadn't decided to leave and if the producer still wanted Nathan there. It's the producers choice, nothing to do with a characters longevity.
This of course was illustrated perfectly when Corrie's Janice was sacked,with the same excuse given - gone as far as the character can. Then the producer that sacked her left and the new producer liked Janice so she got her job back!
[highlight]WOOHOO!!![/highlight]
The character is so flawed that I always felt he had a definite shelf life. There was a limit to how far he could go without a major personality change and then he wouldn't be the Nathan we all love to hate any more.
I do get what you're saying.
Maybe it's just that I can't see Hathan staying on without his family... I haven't been watching ED that long, so the only storylines I've seen him in have been with the Wyldes and the Lambs. Oh, and Cain I suppose!
He just strikes me as being really different from most of the ED characters, like he wouldn't really fit in if his family weren't there too.
But then, as you say, the production team could make it work if they wanted to...
I absolutely agree! There is no such thing as a character which has run its course - just bad writers.
In this case it is a little weird, since Lyndon was recently broadcasting in interviews and on Twitter that he would be with Emmerdale for a long while yet. But I suppose the producers just want to make a clean sweep and get rid of the family? (Although it would be hilarious if Will hung around on his own!)
But he has clearly quit. His own quote and the producers make that clear. There is no talk of character having no where to go. The producer says the opposite if I remember rightly?
Exactly. I was just making a general point,
And someone like Sally in Corrie is a great example of what the writers do with a character, She's been in nearly 25 years and she's had quite a few personality changes over the years, so it can be done with a character whether they're a goodie or a baddie!
Couldn't agree more. But kind of hard to do that if an actor has chosen to leave.
The boy who plays Will had better prepare himself to leave aswell then.
Totally summed it up for me!
Poor Will. Best Wylde of the lot.
One thing the character does love is his brother and sister. With Maise gone i asumed will would go to either Nathan or Ryan. I hope they don't make him leave with Maise.
With nathan going maybe Ryan will take in will.
A shame as i think a long running feud with Nathan would also be good for Ryan's character to bounce off. Now when ryan is inevitably freed with either spend his days fixing cars and the odd romance, or maybe he will announce a departure soon too.
Just go.
This is exactly what I was going to post. I did enjoy watching the character, some times (especially in the beginning), but I'm just bored of him now. I can't help but feel that the writing team spent so much time making him "evil" in recent months that they forgot to give him the kind of depth that could have kept him in the show for years. After all the Wylde drama is over and the rest of the family has left, what would they do with him? He won't have any family or friends (I'm assuming Will won't be staying, but who knows) and I'm guessing he won't have a business or a home either. Characters like Nathan come and go all the time in soaps.
I don't see how Nathan can stay when a large part of story is driven forward by character interaction, Nathan has limited interaction with anyone outside his family and I don't ever see him as a character lowering himself to talk to those that he thinks are beneath him. The only option was to write him out also, by making him so nasty with ne redeeming qualities the writers backed the character into a corner with no way back. If he'd shown flickers of guilt or remorse then it might have been possible to turn him around but he's out and out evil, all soap villians have a limited shelf life as once their plotting is revealed there's nowhere else to take them as nobody wants to know them anymore.
In real life, would a man be allowed to take over the care of a 10 year old (or however old he is) just because he's his half-brother, who he didn't know existed a year ago?
I know they don't bother with things like that in soaps, but I just wondered!
But.. i do think, with his family going, he had to, because they have backed his character into a corner.