Perhaps, but I'm feeling a little affair'd out - I didn't think we would be getting yet another one!


Oh of course! How could I forget?

I don't think it'll be an affair, especially seeming as



It's gonna be a totally random one off.

Completely ridiculous and I'm thinking that Kate Oates has completely lost the plot

We are expected to believe that

Stuff and nonsense I say

Don't forget that all of the three major storylines that are part of Emmerdales Summer are centred on affairs. What happened to a good old fashioned murder eh?

Noooooooooo

I'd much prefer

Didn't think there would be so much interest!

I Can confirm the the passion is Lachlan and Belle.

EVERYONE, im JOKING. it's a joke, it's not really!

Thanks

Yep, I agree. There's often very little build up (if any) to these couples getting together and when they do, they show so little bonding between them that it's hard to care about them when they split up.
Even the Rob/Aaron relationship which they've spent some time on has mostly been about them meeting up to sleep together. When they had the opportunity to show them actually bonding as a couple(the week Aaron spent alone with Rob in Home Farm) they didn't bother to show it. When they(and other couples like Kirin/Vanessa, Leyla/Jai, Pete/Debbie, Victoria/Adam etc) start throwing the 'I love yous' about, after being together for a couple of episodes, it doesn't really mean anything and as you say, it's hard to get invested.

I hope you are joking!

Lachy better not put his clammy hands on our Belle!

Dont tell me it is going to be Pete and his mother Well they look the same age and he has not seen her since he was a kid

I don't think so

I Swear it's a joke.

Cain is going to have a red hot affair with me.

No one saw it coming, and I didn't mean to hurt Moira, but the chemistry just became undeniable.

I guess it's mostly down to scenes showing couples slowly bonding don't make exciting TV drama. If there's no immediate drama/action/danger, then it's not good for the ratings.

That said, I personally would much prefer to see relationships grow and last a while. Then any affair or cheating would at least have some emotional impact, and a fall out might seem more believable.

She won't hear it from me

Well let's hope so but then it seems even more random and bizarre to even include it. I hope, like Star, that it makes more sense on screen.


The thing is without seeing them bond as an actual couple we're left with explosive sensational plot-lines instead of character driven drama. Look at the build up to David and Alicia getting together, that was excellently written and they were many a fans favourite soap couple because of the time that was spent on it.

I don't need popcorn t.v every night, the believable build up of at least one relationship would be a step in the right direction.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, a few episodes full of nothing would really go a long way. I don't think a big event happening every episode is particularly necessary and would go so far as to say this is the cause of the falling ratings of soap as there is a disconnect with some storylines.

Perhaps I am just taking soaps too seriously.

That's one of the biggest problems with ED at the moment. There is no character development. The random couple generator spins constantly, it's all so rushed and plot rather than character driven. We get characters who have only shared one or two scenes suddenly bunking up together. We hardly ever see a relationship building, everyone just jumps Into bed with each other, and God forbid if they ever have an argument because that is licence to go off and cheat with someone else .

Tbh I think us viewers know the characters better than the scriptwriters and it drives me barmy when I see some of the random stuff that they have the characters do - all in the name of the storyline. They completely forget the backstory, rewrite the past and hope the viewers won't notice

It's lazy writing IMO

I agree

It's hard for them to get a balance but I do think it puts a lot of viewers off the way they treat some couples and characters. For instance, the way they put together then immediately broke up Finn and Darren; it was woeful!

At least it's not just me.

Some of the storylines have been really fantastic and Emmerdale has been really great - the Laurel alcoholism and Alicia's assault being the standouts. But it's the bits between these excellent pieces of drama that need fixing and you're right sometimes I feel like I know the characters better.

It's just one problem which, if fixed, would make Emmerdale really excellent.

Edit: And when they do provide character development *cough*Robbie*cough* they end up killing them off. After all those months of hard work. Unless it's Kerry.

★★...★★ You're not alone

★★...★★: Not at all. Count me in!

I have to agree here. Emma's ridiculous obsession with James has me hitting the FF button which is surprising given the hopes I had for this character. Gillian Kearney is a wonderful actress but she's wasted on the panto villain they've given us in Emma.

Totally agree on the Emma stuff. Gah, I'm so disappointed. I was gagging for her to arrive and tear strips off James, and now she's basically just mooning around after him because she still wants him. She seems like a sad desperate mare, to be honest. A real let-down.

Also agree on the relationships stuff. There's another thread on who your favourite couples on soap are, and although I love Emmerdale and find it really entertaining a lot of the time, I could barely think of a single one, because it just doesn't build or sustain them properly. Mind you, the show has thrown everything it's got at Ross and Debbie, and I still couldn't care less because it feels so forced. Ditto Robert and Aaron.

It's a shame. Don't even get me started on that cack with Finn and Darren.

Emma really is the least believable of characters at the moment.

And it's even more of a shame, as the story had so much potential.
It happens in real life that children search for their biological parents and end up frustrated and disappointed because they thought their newfound parent would be an instant soul mate, but it turns out they are just a stranger with good intentions, and that's not enough. Such a development would have given both Finn and Emma a decent storyline.

But instead, they gave Finn the useless Darren S/L, and made Emma a one-dimensional villain obsessed with a man she hadn't seen in 20 years. Also, the subplot of her suffocating Ross as a baby was strange. If she really had postnatal depression, it was handled extremely insensitively, and if she just made it up as an excuse, it lead to nothing.

How dare you!! That is slander. I have NEVER kissed either of these people.