Does he realise how disliked she is?

I think he does but probably doesn't care. He likes her so he's keeping her on.

I started to go off Leela then, i remember it was because she knew that Sienna was prepared to kidnap Peri but she stuck by her and told Nancy off for not giving Sienna a second chance. I started to dislike her close to the point of hatred when her and Sienna were celebrating that Sienna had gotten off.

It still irritates me that Sienna got off with everything she did but the Osbornes have been the ones to suffer for it. Nancy got a lot of abuse for wanting Sienna locked up and Peri even fell out with Tom when he told her Sienna was dangerous.

It just seems crazy as she can't act, and she's a nasty character, what means she should stay

I agree, terrible character played by a terrible actress. Out of all the characters who could return, why Theresa!??!?!

They've lost the plot as far as Sienna is concerned. Anna Passey is a brilliant actress and they had the chance to develop Sienna into a good, long term character. Now we will just be biding our time until they have to write her out. There's pretty much no coming back from what they have done with her.

It's getting very American soap style . HO are trying to make the show too sensationalistic and plots too complex . It's a shame because they can produce generally moving storylines , but they usually get overshadowed by the nonsense.

Maxine and Patricks domestic abuse has been overshadowed by this. John Paul's rape storyline was dropped for weeks at a time. Even Tony , who had a moving , life changing cancer storyline has now becone a sleazy love cheat, groping Sinead at every turn.

I agree. It's a classic case of overusing a character. The writers probably didn't want to develop her character because they thought the audience might find her boring if she wasn't faking a pregnancy or locking kids up in basements. It's sad really, she had the potential to develop into a really good character but now she's just some boring, predictable panto villain. They'll probably just keep going round in circles until HO decide to kill her off in some big stunt or until Anna Passey decided to leave.

At least American soaps are honest about what they are. You know what you get with them. Hollyoaks still tries to make itself out to be true to life with serious story lines. The reality is, the sensationalism has overtaken any decent storyline they have recently had. It is a shame. I have watched Hollyoaks for 14 odd years. I have stuck with it through the rough patches but it has just got too much for me.

Totally agree.

Hollyoaks just wants to have its cake and eat it. Either be a soap that deals with issues or a shock melodrama.

I agree. I think you make a really good point about the American soaps. At least they know what they are. The fact that HO still tries act like it's true to life is a joke

It's just dull as well. No one cares in the audience because no one cares in the soap. Supposed storylines will drag out for months due to coincidences and implausible lies.

So a man who was beating up his pregnant girlfriend was exposed to the whole village and roams around freely, still retaining his position in a school.

But this pregnant girlfriend is locked up in prison on the say so of his exposed crazy manipulator of a daughter?

It's so predictable how in Hollyoaks if a crime is committed, the perpetrator will walk around scot-free whereas the victim has excessive misery heaped onto them. I don't mind that there is an imbalance of justice but it's so ridiculous, particularly when the criminal skips around giving off evil vibes. Patrick inexplicably wears a suit all the time whereas he used to wear relatively 'normal' clothes when he wasn't at school.

It's anything but dull! Speak for yourself about no one caring! It seems that the only place I see negativity towards HO is this place!

BiB - I couldn't agree more. All this "evil Sonny, how dare he try and catch his brother's murderer" claptrap Hollyoaks are trying to shove down our throats is just... ugh, it's just utter rubbish. Who on earth signed off on this?! Nobody with any sense that's for sure.

I mean:

Theresa, a murderess, wandering around free as a bird without a care in the world and we're clearly supposed to be all happy and joyful about that (never going to happen Hollyoaks, never - just so you know).

Maxine meanwhile wallows pregnant and alone in jail for a crime she didn't actually commit, and it seems they're in no hurry to get her out. A cynical person could say that this is all some sort of weird 'revenge' on the part of the Hollyoaks writers for her 'getting in the way' of Dodger and Saint Theresa, but I'm so not going to pull that thread

In the meantime, I'm skipping episodes with Theresa in - HO and BK won't care of course, reasons for this are plentiful I'm sure, but err... yeah. Not much more to add really.

Don't know why I'm so surprised by all this though - these posts pretty much say it all: