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Old 30-12-2014, 20:16
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I'm starting to think this might be the case.

Queen Ron.
Vile Kat x 2.
Lovely Cindy.
Linda.
The insufferable Kim.

Where does it end?
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Old 30-12-2014, 20:29
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The square will soon be a crèche.
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Old 30-12-2014, 20:30
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It was exactly the same when he was story producer under his old boss Santer...so much pregnancy.

Tanya.
Stacey.
Sam.
Ronnie.
Roxy.
Honey.
Lucy.
Heather.
Dawn.
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Old 30-12-2014, 20:32
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Kim's baby is very lucky. It will be laughing everyday as Kim as it's mother! Lol
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Old 30-12-2014, 20:33
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It'll be Jane next with a miracle pregnancy. Perhaps it's DTC's way of creating a Book Club or a Fatblasters. This time it shall be an Antenatal class.
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Old 30-12-2014, 20:34
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It's excessive and the pregnancies bring nothing to the show. Ronnie for example would be much more believable if she wasn't heavily pregnant

why can't soaps find storylines for women that don't revolve around getting pregnant and having children.
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Old 30-12-2014, 20:37
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It's excessive and the pregnancies bring nothing to the show. Ronnie for example would be much more believable if she wasn't heavily pregnant

why can't soaps find storylines for women that don't revolve around getting pregnant and having children.
They are either all pregnancy stories, or they become murderers. See Ronnie, Abi, Pam, Stacey, Lauren's had a go, Denise can murder a decent bottle of Rioja or 3.
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Old 30-12-2014, 20:38
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The thing is until DTC, nobody had given birth in a while, which was tad unrealistic and I think he's noticed that there are certain male characters and female characters that would make sense being parents and he's trying to cram them all in as quickly as possible before there all the families are filled with old fogies and no succesors.

I mean Kat and Ronnie are in their early 40s - they didn't have long left until their eggs go bad. Nobody likes granny mums. Their both gonna be granny mums.
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Old 30-12-2014, 21:34
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Look on the bright side. Jack isn't here.
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Old 30-12-2014, 21:39
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Look on the bright side. Jack isn't here.
Hahaha. If he was, they would all be his.
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Old 30-12-2014, 21:39
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The thing is until DTC, nobody had given birth in a while, which was tad unrealistic and I think he's noticed that there are certain male characters and female characters that would make sense being parents and he's trying to cram them all in as quickly as possible before there all the families are filled with old fogies and no succesors.

I mean Kat and Ronnie are in their early 40s - they didn't have long left until their eggs go bad. Nobody likes granny mums. Their both gonna be granny mums.
I know a few "granny mums" as you call them and they're lovely, and great with their children - better than some younger mums I know.
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Old 30-12-2014, 21:44
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I was starting to think that maybe a 'baby loss' storyline was on the cards.. Or maybe stillbirth!
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Old 30-12-2014, 21:47
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I know a few "granny mums" as you call them and they're lovely, and great with their children - better than some younger mums I know.
Okay, I'll rephrase. No kid wants a granny mum.
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Old 31-12-2014, 00:12
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Kat and Ronnie almost became grandmothers before having their next child. Equally disturbing is how those pregnancies ended: Ronnie basically encouraged Danielle to have an abortion, not realizing that she was advocating aborting her own grandchild and the father of Kat's grandchild would have been older than she was had Chrissie not encouraged Zoe to abort Den's child.
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Old 31-12-2014, 00:23
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The thing is until DTC, nobody had given birth in a while, which was tad unrealistic and I think he's noticed that there are certain male characters and female characters that would make sense being parents and he's trying to cram them all in as quickly as possible before there all the families are filled with old fogies and no succesors.

I mean Kat and Ronnie are in their early 40s - they didn't have long left until their eggs go bad. Nobody likes granny mums. Their both gonna be granny mums.
Ronnie's about 38..
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Old 31-12-2014, 00:30
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Ronnie's about 38..
Evidence?
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Old 31-12-2014, 00:33
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I've never understood why Santer and DTC were so obsessed with saddling all the female characters with babies. Time and time again it has limited the storyline possibilities for the characters with the exception of Ronnie but her pregnancies have become a farce. I don't hold out much hope for Baby Cotton-Mitchell or whatever she's decided to call it.
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Old 31-12-2014, 00:39
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She had danielle when she was 14, danielle was 19 when she died in 2009?
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Old 31-12-2014, 00:41
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I've never understood why Santer and DTC were so obsessed with saddling all the female characters with babies. Time and time again it has limited the storyline possibilities for the characters with the exception of Ronnie but her pregnancies have become a farce. I don't hold out much hope for Baby Cotton-Mitchell or whatever she's decided to call it.
What good would Ronnie be to the show at 50 with no kids? She's a Mitchell, they're all about faaaamily - she's no good to them as a spinster with no progeny to corrupt.
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Old 31-12-2014, 00:52
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What good would Ronnie be to the show at 50 with no kids? She's a Mitchell, they're all about faaaamily - she's no good to them as a spinster with no progeny to corrupt.
What makes you think Ronnie will still be in EastEnders when she's 50? I'm sure Samantha Womack doesn't want that. She's had a varied career since long before EastEnders and is still bagging roles away from the show. The entire Mitchell family could fold at some point just like the Fowlers and Butchers did when their best members left.
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Old 31-12-2014, 01:08
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What makes you think Ronnie will still be in EastEnders when she's 50? I'm sure Samantha Womack doesn't want that. She's had a varied career since long before EastEnders and is still bagging roles away from the show. The entire Mitchell family could fold at some point just like the Fowlers and Butchers did when their best members left.
What makes you think you're Sam Womack's agent? While she looks good for her age, she's not far off 50 and could very well still be in EastEnders by then...
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Old 31-12-2014, 01:25
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I don't see the problem? If they add something to the character, or at least don't hinder them.

Bert and Ernie have hardly changed Kat's character, she already had Tommy - and her and Alfie have been involved in big storylines since their birth.

Cindy if anything has been given character development with having Beth.

Linda - I'm not sure how this wil go, I think it's cheapened the rape storyline a little, but this direction for Ronnie is long overdue - she couldn't remain a victim of woe and misery forever.
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Old 31-12-2014, 01:27
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What makes you think you're Sam Womack's agent? While she looks good for her age, she's not far off 50 and could very well still be in EastEnders by then...
If you can make an assumption that Womack will still be in EastEnders when she's 50 then surely it's not unreasonable for me to surmise that she won't. Bit of a double standard there.
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Old 31-12-2014, 01:30
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I've never understood why Santer and DTC were so obsessed with saddling all the female characters with babies. Time and time again it has limited the storyline possibilities for the characters with the exception of Ronnie but her pregnancies have become a farce. I don't hold out much hope for Baby Cotton-Mitchell or whatever she's decided to call it.
Couldn't have put it better myself. Baby plots are just so sodding predictable and had been done to death in the world of soap long before Santar and DTC could even utter the words "Who's the Daddy?", which is essentially what the Big Carter Plot is going to develop into during the next few weeks. Which, of course, is going to be completely different and original as Linda was raped, and Dean's Mick's brother. Etc.

I mean, really. It got to the point in DTC's last stint that pretty much every single storyline involved, or did at some point involve, a baby in some way. Doing the same thing over and over again would be bad enough... but what's so interesting about having female characters pregnant? I mean Kim's up the duff now... if that's not a blatant sign they had no idea what to do with her but had to keep her, I really don't know what is.
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Old 31-12-2014, 01:32
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What makes you think you're Sam Womack's agent? While she looks good for her age, she's not far off 50 and could very well still be in EastEnders by then...
Not far off 50 at 42 hmm

Its 8 yrs away yet who knows if she will still be there
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