Posted and then my internet died for two hours, argh.

Glad to see people are interested in the survey. Will post about it tomorrow night when there should hopefully be lots of people around. (Yes, I'm skiving choir practice for Chryed's last ep. Shhh. :sleep


Yay, good news!

She would wait til I got home, demand I open the package in front of her and then possibly take the piss. :sleep:


I'm always up for a survey

I do think Chryed have been sexless for quite a while, that's not the same as saying Chryed no longer have sexual chemistry - John and Marc give them that in bucket loads - but we haven't had a passionate kiss for quite a long while or any cuddling on the sofa or any bed scenes, even their wedding day kisses weren't passionate or that well filmed ( they were kind of 'we don't want to upset homophobes' in the way they were done ) and Yasmin has been in every other one of their scenes recently and then we had Christian rubbing Zainab's feet. What I found sexy about Syed and Danny's kiss outside was that Syed closed his eyes in an intense way, whereas many of his kisses with Christian leading up to his ONS he didn't, they've been lacking passion and I don't know if the producers were aware of this.

Yeah, I liked Gary in the role of Danny once he started to threaten Syed - and I did see a bit of chemistry between them - but as you say, it was mostly Marc who was doing the work. I did think though that Marc was portraying Syed's kiss with Danny wity some intensity, as if this aspect of his life with Christian was now missing.

I didn't see any chemistry either, not when Danny was using those awful chat up lines. There might have been some chemistry when he stopped playing the nice guy, but it's still nothing on Chryed!


Love this post, and it's so true. Syed was more interested in the money and escape from r/l than Danny himself, and Danny was more interested in the chase and conning Syed out of his money!

Danny has nothing on Christian.

*pokes thread*
Hey all,
I have to say atm my emotions are a bit all over the place but it still hasn't properly sunk in yet that the end is nigh!

Dessie I'm interested in the survey too

I see we are discussing fav scenes.
- NYD 10 wedding ep- I think is the best soap ep know to mankind (ok this is an ep not a scene )
- Bed scene is gorgeous
-Chryed in the hospital after ABRC
- Jane talking to Christian in hospital during ABRC
- The ep before reveal where Syed has the showdown with his parents
- DC week is FAB U LOUS
- Syed talking to Tan about Christian 'First person I ever love' etc (This is more one of my fav quotes though rather then scene because Tanya witters on about max)
- NYE snoggage
- CAG therapy (lol can't remember it it's called that)
- Cut finger scene
-Christian going to dinner at the masoods when Chryed were secretly seeing each other

ahhh ok there's so many...I can't choose one...

*continues catching-up*

I saw chemistry during the kiss ep and afterwards but before that it was almost painful to watch. Thankfully their scenes were mercifully short up until that point.

Yeah, I never really saw the whole Syed/Danny thing as a primarily sexual thing. I've always said Syed didn't seem particularly interested in him- there's a reason why Danny asked him if he was just using him as a cashpoint (note to Syed: this is what a hypocrite looks like!) at one point. It was all about Syed feeling terrible about himself and needing external validation of his desirability from someone who actually knew about all the bad stuff he'd done. But he couldn't tell Christian about it all because he didn't want to let him down. Unlike Danny, who he told because he didn't give a toss about him. And, of course, he was feeling suffocated and Danny provided an escape from all that. Syed was getting all this loving support that he felt unworthy of- so the lovelier Christian was to him, the worse he felt, and the more he needed to feel worthy of something in someone's eyes.

This storyline actually made a lot of sense to me until these past couple of weeks. I could actually understand Syed having a one-night-stand- he was just feeling awful about himself and there was somebody there who was attractive, successful and knew all about him and still wanted him. I just haaate the way they did it, with the 'yes he did sleep with him no he didn't oh wait yes he did'.

If you were to read the sky planner and didn't know, you wouldn't even think Syed and Christian were in EE on Thursday let alone it's their last episode. It's all about Billy and Lola and Tanya and Cora. They aren't even mentioned. I actually double checked I'd got the right day.

And a few other places as well.

Been reading in other EE forums. No one much interested in them, and in fact, alot of hostility, boredom, etc. Of course, that;s not everyone, but it is a focal group.

I am not expecting much from it.

Yeah, exactly, all of that!

The Twist is the most awful aspect of the story. I could have coped with a ONS, I really could have. But they screwed us over with the way they did it. :sleep:

Excellent post. And how can they cuddle on that bleeding sofa, and the bed is banished. The castration of Chryed. And I am sure the Producers did this to make people more aware of the Danny chemistry.

really...?! EE's lack of consideration towards Chryed strikes again. So does this mean that it's looking likely that their exit will happen off screen /not surprised.

I don't believe Syed ever thought about losing Christian when he was meeting up with Danny either. Danny was someone who represented what Syed has been brought up to believe he should want to be: rich, successful with the lifestyle to match. Also he was flattered that a man like that could be interested in a nobody like him. Also he was coming to terms with becoming a father, a husband and thinking is this my life, were did my dreams go, am I ready. And the family/money stuff too. Pure escape - it was not love or even care, just lust. He would never have left Christian for Danny, even if Danny had not turned out to be even worse kind of man then we thought.

Yes,tptb have shown they really don't care

It is funny that my gay friends thought Gary Lucy did a good gay job. They found him hot.

As for Marc doing the work, well, he did say on BBC Morning that Syed and Gary Lucy (not Syed and Danny) were coming back to set up home together. Maybe an announcement next week?

The fact that it would have made more sense without the twist makes it all the more annoying. :sleep:

Me too. You know I was enjoying this storyline until that happened. I really did think EE did a good job of bringing Syed to a point where I could believe he would have a one-night-stand- he was just in a terrible place emotionally and his head was all over the place. I didn't want it to happen, of course, and I really did hope it was just a kiss, but I would've lived with a ONS. It was just the messing around about whether he did or didn't that really made it unbearable.

I'm not excusing the cheating, of course, it was awful regardless of what place Syed was in. I'm just saying I could understand and it didn't make him completely irredeemable. But it was the stuff that came afterwards that really made me lose a lot of understanding for Syed. And EE. :sleep:

They screwed us over big time!

I was thinking, I don't know if I could properly forgive Sy for what his done (and I really wanted to before he left) but EE has not given enough time to show that he is really remorseful and the way the cheating was done/ exposed does not help matters at all (but then again I understand that this is crap story telling so it's not Syed's fault but tptb) - the not saying ILY thing because of pride is utterly bizarre - he should have been banging on about how much he loves Christian and C should have been the one trying to protect his pride. I don't doubt that Syed is really and truly sorry (but then again I didn't think he would cheat) ergh this s/l just full of to many contradictions.

BIB: I thought this too.

I saw that too.


For me weirdly the twist was not the hardest part of the story( I had already accepted the ONS happened-no faith in EE )it was Syed being to proud to tell Christian he loved him for a week. It was just for plot reasons, but the fact he told Christian twice the day before, even on the phone when Christian had already laughed earlier. It just said everything about the whole storyline.

Annoying and very frustrating :sleep: Why, EE?


Yes, I was finding it okay too, right up until that Friday. Not bringing up the possibility of Syed sleeping with him would have been bad enough, but they fact that they DID bring it up, for Syed to allude it before taking it back again during what was meant to be an honest talk before the wedding, was so cruel.

There are awful stories, and straight up cheating and pre-wedding reveal would have been one; but this is awful storytelling on top of that. I repeat...whyyyy EE? :sleep:


The too proud to say ILY thing was ridiculous - and not even explained beyond "yeah I was too proud to say ILY".

Wow. EE The Useless strikes again.

BiB: So, so bad. The worst part is they probably thought they were really clever for this amazing plot twist.

I don't even understand why someone would say that in a conversation when they were trying to win someone back. Why would Christian want to take Syed back when his pride's more important to him than reassuring him that he loves him? And he said 'I want you to forgive me'- er, he said he would forgive you if you'd told him you loved him. And you can say it. So why didn't you?

He clearly felt guilty and upset about sleeping with Danny during their stag night - it was written all over his face the whole time - and he clearly realised why he loved Christian so much but like others have said, the producers seemed to stop caring about Syed's motivations for doing what he did and just went with the fact that he was lying to Christian on their wedding day - the storyline has been a massive dissapointment from start to finish.

I'm wondering whether Chryed's arguement tomorrow will also skirt over the issue of why Syed did it?

So, so stupid. He let Christian move out, and couldn't convince him they needed to be a family even though Amira was asking if she could have Yasmin, because convincing him would have meant telling him he loved him

What pride would you have left after getting your family deeper into debt and sleeping with a dodgy banker guy who made off with your brothers' savings?! I just can't make sense of it.

The biggest worry about tomorrow's arguement is whether Syed truely puts across to Christian why he slept with Danny, in order for Christian to UNDERSTAND why he did it - without this, Christian can't start to heal.

If it's just Christian ranting at Syed for several minutes and not taking anything in, I don't see how they can start the process of getting back together.