Oh good lol I have seen so many spoilers and theories I forget which is which

What are you talking about? They haven't put Ross with Aaron

Just got in fron work. I was watching the STV news. Apparently people are petitioning STV to cancel the episodes because of the similarity to the Clutha air crash. I have to say, I do wonder about the taste of writing disaster stories which are so close to recent events.

They obviously won't though. This is no different to every storyline criticised because something sort of similar happened in real life. The baby swap in EE, the ED plane crash and others.

If they did a petition asking them to put the episodes back on would get lots more signatures.

to be fair, []it's a bit more than 'sort of similar' as was the ED plane crash. I will be watching myself, but I CAN u.derstand why people, might find in bad taste. They can't avoid every story that might offend or distress, of course, but when it's something high profile and recent, it does suggest that they might have got the idea from that incident and are exploiting it I really hope that's not the case.

Have to admit that that was my first thought, I fail to see how they weren't influenced in this by what happened.

Not sure how I feel about it really. I know you can say that everything that's shown will resonate with someone but for example, as awful as it is murder isn't uncommon so you can't be expected not to show murders on the TV whereas you can understand why some people are objecting to it.

I'll watch how it plays out on screen then see what I think.

Please Aaron shows emotion unlike his cousin Debbie and had hey put Aaron with Ross that relationship would have been fire...unlike the cold sparkless relationship that is Ross/Debbie

Oh please the only emotion Aaron shows is crying like a baby whenever things don't go his way, other than that he has the same sulky expression, no matter what's going on around him. Debbie shows far more emotion the plank of wood that is Aaron.

Radio Malt(Shovel) FM comes on air for the first time this evening.

There is a wedding in the village between Debbie Dingle and Pete Barton and Radio M alt will be here to report on it. Radio Malt(Shovel) comes on air from the same team that gave you the Malt Bulletin and is initially a weeklong experiment but we hope to attract continued funding, Mr Shuttleworth is chatting to Lawrence White as we speak.

The Malt will bring you comprehensive coverage of the Emmerdale Event of the year and no doubt at all all will go well and pass withoug t incident.

This petition to cancel the airing of the show because what happens is similar is something to a disaster that really happened .............

Soaps are meant to mirror real life.

I don't particularly enjoy the episodes where we see people get diagnosed with cancer or when a character is written out because the actor has died, because it is close to home but I accept that they are trying to depict real life.
It hurts to watch.
The Alice episodes were particularly harrowing.
So was the Butch deathbed scene.
And the Brenda tumour ones, I could only stand to watch bits.

Soaps will always depict real life. That is what they do.
We just have to take the happy with the sad and if it touches a nerve for us, we have to make a choice whether to watch or not.

With Moira and Cain being married is Debbie marrying her cousin? I know it's not a blood relationship but Pete's her father's nephew (by marriage)

They wouldn't be cousins since Pete is only Moira's nephew by marriage. But even if they were actually related, would it even matter? I mean Debbie is a product of inbreeding herself

Ultimately, this. Great post.

I have a feeling this might be why ED have revealed what's going to happen - so those that are affected can avoid it which is fair enough. My mum gave up on Corrie because Hayley's storyline was a bit too close for comfort, that was her choice. Like you say, soaps reflect life and sometimes that life isn't nice or comfortable viewing but no one if forced to watch.

I was a bit miffed at first that they'd given it away after keeping it secret for so long but now I can see why, it's giving people the choice.

I've got a question about a stag do, judging from Emmerdale and Corrie is all they do is dress up in costumes and have a few drinks? They are the equivalent of the American Bachelor Party, but extremely different, bachelor parties usually involve a trip to Vegas, trippers, excessive drinking and hitting the clubs.

Stag and hen parties on UK soaps are completely unrealistic. Nowadays most people have something more like you've described - planned ages in advance, involving a trip away somewhere, or a lot of clubbing.

It used to be that people would just dress up down the pub, but honestly, that pretty much went out in about 1984.

eta: Oh, plus NO ONE has theirs the night before the wedding any more! Recipe for disaster.

Ok, thanks for the clarity. You would think the soaps would try to be more realistic, it would actually provide more story. What if Adam and Aaron had gone to Vegas for Adam's stag do and it led to some Hangover type situations. That would be pretty entertaining.

I suspect Vegas is probably a bit outside Emmerdale's budget. Maybe Leeds?

To be honest, almost everything you see on UK soaps is a very old-fashioned idea of what community life used to be like. Not many people regularly go drinking down their local any more either - pubs are closing all over the place. But I guess that doesn't make for a very interesting soap.

Many Stag and Hen do's these days last all weekend and go on a trip to some european city such a pregue, doubt Emmerdale could afford that, especially now they have spent all their cash on today's big ep heh

Going back to the earlier points about the Helicopter crashing - I think ED are right to have released it, then, as others have said earlier, people can choose whether or not to watch. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for anyone directly involved in the tragedy, and to have it sprung on them on a soap would, I would imagine, be a terrible shock.

This way anyone can choose whether or not they want to watch.

It is always a difficult call - terrible things happen in the world and sometimes it's difficult for soaps to get the balance right between sensationalism and drama but if they were to portray none of the awful things, then we'd say it was too warm and cosy.

Having Chas die would just about be the most tragic irony for Debbie on her wedding day.

I am so worried about Ruby, maybe believing the speculation here, that I am keeping a recording of her scenes this week just in case I need these as a momento of her.

Dan and Kerry could gatecrash the wedding, and if Dan dies saving Kerry, it would make a huge irony behind their decision.

Val could be the new Joe McIntyre for wanting to fake his death but dying anyway.

Having Lachlan die would ensure that Chrissie's actions haunt her for the rest of her life.

They wouldn't have to spend a bunch of cash, they could have had them go to some clubs or have some strippers or they could build sets to fake a big weekend get away.

Good post. I could not agree more.

This is a dead giveaway - excuse the dreadful pun - that we will instead have the death of

Very true, chitirivera.