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There are still characters that need to go and I think the following should be axed-
Denise Fox
Kim Fox
Roxy Mitchell
Heather Trott
Shirley Carter
Jodie Gold
Poppy Meadows
we need some fresh blood too...
a new family unconnected to anybody else plus the return of Sharon Rickman is really needed after Pat leaves, a big time to bring back to the Square.
Denise Fox
Kim Fox
Roxy Mitchell
Heather Trott
Shirley Carter
Jodie Gold
Poppy Meadows
we need some fresh blood too...
a new family unconnected to anybody else plus the return of Sharon Rickman is really needed after Pat leaves, a big time to bring back to the Square.
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Agree with all those but Jodie and Poppy should at least stay another 6 months.
I agree with the rest of the axes apart from Shirley. Get her away from Phil and give her her own stories. She's not an appendage. She's much more than that and is being wasted.
There are a few others I'd axe including Christian. Awful character.
Would like to see Phil and Tanya go as well but it's never going to happen.
Kim Fox - Same as above. She needs a serious storyline though.
Roxy Mitchell - No. Roxy is good with the right material.
Heather Trott - She's a bore now.
Shirley Carter - She's terrible with Phil but great on her own.
Jodie Gold - YES!
Poppy Meadows - YES!
The best place for Syed is anywhere that Christian isn't.
I think there's a lot of mileage in Roxy's character. She's in a lull at the moment, as you pointed out there's little for her to do right now, but I think Michael Moon is going to make things very interesting with Roxy and the Mitchells.
Plus, if we got rid of Christian, she'd have no-one to get legless with. Two birds, one stone!
i like Denise but she is a spent force now that her girls have left, i cant take Kim seriously, if they drafted Grace into their fold and teamed her up with Patrick that could create a unit.
Shirley is wasted at the moment, get her away from Phil, i suspect Rainie will end up with Phil anyway.
Heather, Jodie, Poppy all need to get the boot.
but please BK bring back SHARON...
Been saying for ages that Kim should be Grace's daughter and Grace and Patrick would be good together. They have the ability to be the new Jacksons
Anyway, I would axe Heather but not really anyone else. I want Shirley to split up with Phil and she should become a crazy motorbike maniac! I think that once Darren's gone then Jodie could have some great storylines and Poppy has only been in a few episodes so I can't judge her yet.
I also think that Tanya's upcoming storyline will be really hard-hitting and interesting. I'm wondering what Max is going to do once Vanessa leaves because it's not been confirmed that Greg is leaving so I doubt him and Tanya will get back together and if they do it would be pretty dull. I think Roxy needs a dramatic storyline to make her seem less pointless. Michael Moon is a great character and Steve John Shepherd plays him excellently and he has so much potential.
I'm going to make a prediction that Jay and Abi get back together but Jay sleeps with Lola and she becomes pregnant. It just seems like that's where it's heading...
I really like Kim and Shirley though, but if any of the others went I wouldn't really care. But I would miss Harry Hill's Heather impressions if she went!
I agree with your list, except I'd keep Heather and Shirley. I like Shirley and her friendship with Heather and I think she has the potential to be used more. With regards to Heather, I think she's actually one of the most interesting and three dimensional characters on the Square. She's not like the other female characters who are usually strong, fiesty and independent - Heather is the complete opposite. She relies on Shirley and has low self esteem which is rooted to her childhood and how her mother treated her. She's a genuinely nice character who you feel sorry for in bad situations, but you really root for her to do well and improve her circumstances.
Denise is played by a good actress, but I feel like the writers don't know what to do with her. The emphasis on her love life is very boring... I'd get rid as she's gone stale. Kim Fox is just annoying... she's meant to be "funny" but she really isn't. The comedy should come naturally from a three dimensional character, but with Kim it's as if she's the "comedy" character, in which all the contrived comedy is forced upon her and there's nothing else to her. Time to get rid of her too.
Roxy is just really annoying and I find her pointless without her sister.
Jodie and Poppy are OK, but I wouldn't miss them if they left.
I think if they got rid of Denise, Kim, Roxy, Jodie and Poppy then Bryan could replace them with a brand new family who have no ties to the Square.
Look how many Corrie characters can go months, sometimes even years, without a big storyline. Imagine if they'd axed Sally Webster during one of her wane periods, likewise Gail Platt.
Denise has been in EE for five years and, unfortunately, this qualifies her as a long term cast member by EE's standards. Diane is one of the best actors in soap and Denise is a great character. A great character isn't so much about having dramatic storylines all of the time, that's what leads to burnout.
It's bad enough that the EE producers are axe-happy and get bored so easily with characters without so-called fans calling for this character to be axed and that character to be axed every five minutes. How is the show supposed to build up any longevity when you all want characters axed the minute they don't have a big story going on?
Axings are pointless if the characters brought into replace aren't all that and this is more often the case with EE. I would sooner they built up the longer term additions of the cast than get rid. Familarity is so important thesedays and EE has so little of it without axing the few long serving characters it actually has left.
Roxy still has Amy and her friendship with Christian. And, she will always have a bond with Jack because of Amy. I don't think she should be axed.
Denise is fine in the background until they find something for her.
I agree that Shirley, Heather, Jodie and Kim should go. Poppy I wouldn't mind if she stayed. We don't know much about her.
It would be nice if they brought back Peter and Lucy played by different actors. Sharon coming back would be good as well as she still has friendships with Ian and Phil. I wouldn't have minded seeing Kate back too - Kate was good in her time. I actually read an interview with Aaron in Inside Soap. Aaron said he's willing to come back as Steven any time though it might be a bit soon - maybe in a couple of years he could buy one of the buisinesses - then Ian would have to put up with him being in the same area.
Everyone else is workable. Denise still has bucketloads of potential IMO - just because her kids are gone and she's had 27,000 dodgy husbands and boyfriends in the last 5 years doesn't mean she should be for the axe. She's a great actress - but this quiet year she's had was required after everything with Lucas last year. Kim, so far, is just a comedy character. They should try build her up a bit - bring in another member of their family and flesh out some backstory.
That said, concentrate on the Beales. Bring back Peter and Lucy. I kind of liked the sort of good twin/evil twin thing they had going on before the actors left.
George Michael comes and takes her away ,, end of Heather
Roxy Mitchell remains to be seen what direction they take her in without ronnie. if they just persist with occasional p!ssups with christian, then she might as well go.
Heather - yes fine, heather can go. Again missed opportunity to develop heather as a mum. Completely rushed the carbon monoxide s/l imo, it could have been interesting watching Heathers struggle rather than simply over the space of a week discovering heather living in squalor and practically neglecting George. Followed by the ridiculous custody thing with Darren & Jodie it made Heather into even more of a joke than they already portrayed the character as. Shame.
Shirley's not great with Phil right now, but I do think there's potential in that relationship, they should make them more of a team instead of how they are right now which just has me wondering what was the point of putting them together.
Jodie & Poppy they grate on me, but tbh I can see potential in them if they toned it down a bit.
I'd add to the list Tanya & Max purely because the latest affair is proof they have run their course as an interesting soap family - they have no more ideas for them. Also Jack, its unrealistic he would stay around after everything imo.
Heather appears to be a very unpopular character so why is she still there? does BK listen to the audience? Kim is not funny and annoying and needs to go but if Denise has some storylines then she should stay.
I think Mo is terribly underused and bringing some extended members of her family would be good.
dont forget Jane is coming back and maybe Glenda too, but what is happening with Ben, Lucy and Peter? are these characters returning or not?
I agree with Denise, Roxy, Heather and Jodie
Denise is a lost character now feels like they don't know what to do with her so just cling her to other characters, sad but true I think they should of axed her when Lucas's storyline came to a end, Roxy's the same deadwood, no offence to Rita Simons but she only work well with Ronnie on her own I never really rated her as a character think she should have left when Ronnie got send down, pointless keeping her when both her sister, father and mother are gone.
Heather well don't think I have to explain that one same reason everyone else thinks she should go.
Kim I think is really funny and adds such comedic effect that the show lacks, Shirley is better when she is on her own and not Phil's lapdog or carrying Hev all the time.
Jodie's a pointless character why they are axing Vanessa and Darren and keeping her is beyond me.
Poppy actually seems like she has potential without Jodie.
Does anybody think that Heather will actually get the boot this year?