Aaron and Ross are both criminals and moody buggers but Ross has more charm and acting abilities in his little finger than Aaron has in his entire body


It's their relationship that I thought of when the OP said Aaron was supposed to have grown up. He seems to reserve eye rolls and sarky comments for all of Edna's sad reveals about her past

For me, it has nothing to do with his sexuality. Having spent years living away and getting different life experiences you'd have thought he'd be more mature?

Yes! It's hard to warm to any of their scenes together because Aaron treats Edna with total disrespect.

I dunno though... I know plenty of older people who are awful and rude no matter how much life they have experienced. I love the character anyway, my pet hate is character transplants. Each to their own I suppose!

Mine too

But then again, we've barely seen Aaron on screen since he came back and it seems whenever he is on screen he's got Ross trying to pick a fight..

Maybe when



we'll start seeing a bit more of the "maturity" that was discussed..

Tray would be up for it .

Didn't the awful assisted suicide story happen on SB's watch? That storyline made me want to slit my wrists, it was that depressing.

Both of them are woeful. But KO is easily much worse.

Aaron is a tricky one. I was expecting to see him more out there and with less of an anchor around him. But he's just like he was before, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but I think he needs to reign in the fighting and bad moods. Build on his relationship with Chas and Edna and he'll be a breath of fresh air.

Danny Miller can pull of anything they can throw at him (except kissing lol) so with some decent writing Aaron can be brand new.

What a non comment all soaps have had depressing storylines

That awful storyline which its conclusion got 7 million viewers a rating that KO could only dream of hitting. She only gets easy ride on here because she isn't SB.

She got an easy ride because the start of her tenure was superb and ED was turning a real corner. But after the first few glory months she has made some strange and frankly furiously insulting decisions that have kicked the show further down than it was under Uncle Stuart.

And TBF didnt ED reach over 8.5 million for that awful siege stuff?

Yes, but it was Gavin Blyth's idea and started by him. SB just saw it through so although it was terrible he can't really be blamed for that one.

How was it a non comment? I stated my opinion, which is that it was an depressing, tedious, overly melodramatic storyline. I don't give a damn about ratings, I care about enjoyment and that misery-fest was not enjoyable in any way, shape or form.

God knows why they decided to go down that route, it would have been a lot easier and a lot better for all of the characters involved in that storyline if Jackson had been killed in the crash. But sensationalism overrides, as always in Soap Land.

I am making comparison with SB's ratings while he was in charge to Kate's which he wins hands down. To be fair KO was only finishing off SB's storylines as he did when he finished off the Nick sleeping with Kylie storyline from Collinson.

KO knows less about Aaron hence why she only brought him back for ratings sake.

This X 100.

KO has not produced one single story of her own that has been a ratings hit
She's reduced a once decent set of actors to Hollyoaks levels of ham and rubbish.
She's been an unmitigated disaster and have to wonder how on earth she's still in the job.

Aarons return has done nothing for the ratings. Just over 5 million last night.

You only had to see Danny in Scott and Bailey to see how different Aaron could be (purely acting-wise, not saying he should become a high-flying DS!)

I thought that he was exactly the same.

Now that I agree with. Jackson should have been killed outright, and Aaron left to deal with the guilt of not having been able to love him the way he wanted.

The Jackson storyline was dire. It seems to really divide people, but for me, I just switched off, plain and simple. Dreary and forced.

How is this unfounded? The evidence was right there on his other stint.

The reason they did it was because they wanted to do something which had never been done before on ED . It was just badly done and ruined all 3 characters which until the train crash hadn't been that bad.

Yes it has. Sam/Alice/Cain???????

Never watched it then so I didn't know.

I think I cheered when Aaron finally killed him. Jackson post-crash destroyed the character of Aaron. I just hope that in this stint there's a way back for him. and he's not crying all the bloody time! Much as I like him, The endless tears were just getting silly! No wonder most folk think he's a one-trick pony if thats all SB wanted him to do!

Yeah.... how about giving the self-loathing, miserable gay man a reason not to be so miserable, this time around???

They took a character that was already dark and gloomy and gave him a storyline that would have made even the most positive person want to slit their wrists. No more of that, please!!