RC you got the new thread on your birthday...well done!
Welcome Bemma, I'm glad you decided to delurk and I'd have liked to see Syed be the one to bring it all out into the open too. Maybe there's less soapy type mileage in that though!
Originally Posted by Diamond:
“The Imam scene was one of the first real scenes I watched of Chryed and it was absolutely brilliant. I guess I expected more of these sort of scenes for Syed so that he was given the opportunity to verbalise his thoughts and subsequently alert the public to the graveness of his situation. It never materialised.
I really don't know what to make of this. EE have, in my opinion, made a massive mistake in that sense. I said yesterday, and I'll say it again, if it wasn't for Marc's ability to portray inner turmoil so effectively, all this would have been lost on the public.
It further frustrates me when I see the same characters being given excellent material to work with which makes the public more sympathetic to their cause.
Oh well...”
I did a copy and past quote I wanted to quote this so much!
I completely agree with all of this especially the bib. They have the actor in Marc, but they haven't given him enough lengthy scenes with suitable dialogue or even just him alone where he can really show his struggle and inner torment. He's done an amazing job of getting that across in the type of scenes they have given him though. They have had the imam scene which was excellent, with his dad on the bench again excellent, his mum and the physically sick and if I could change myself but not enough showing his struggle and none really where he wasn't jumping from one situation to another (the imam led to the Amira seduction to the four walls in one episode for example! so he got the understanding with the imam but then they destroyed it with all the rest.)
I didn't see Emmerdale but devoting a whole episode to Syed struggling as they did I think in their story and hearing him talking it through at length with Christian or his mum would have been wonderful, or a revisit to the imam or going to a gay muslim help group, Marc has been brilliant and would have been equally brilliant at carry that off.
We've seen his fear of being outed, but seeing so little interaction with the 'community,' seeing how Zainab has been largely accepted despite her 'past,' all dilute the reasons for his fear to the casual viewer. EE may feel they've missed a trick and hopefully make up for it or maybe they will do it anyway with the bigger reveal and they've been saving it up.
Yes we are! Thank you! You'll be on Part Five soon enough, don't worry! 
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Evil, heartless bullies... possibly the worst people in the world..
