Originally Posted by skp20040:
“The thing is yes for now she has left and as far as we know she is dead. But this is soap land, when they killed off Kim Tate before the episode had even run they had asked Claire King to go back ..”
We didn't see Kim's body - wasn't the story that she paid a lookalike to impersonate her, and then pushed her car off the cliff, or something?
Charlie Hardwick has said that it was right for her to leave and she's looking forward to new challenges.
Originally Posted by skp20040:
“Now as long as they do not show us her in the chapel of rest in her coffin they could if they wanted at a later date have her return.”
Not realistically they couldn't.
They could possibly have Charlie return as a long lost second cousin, or a random who just happens to look the spitting image of Val; the latter has been done before in soaps. But they showed several close ups of the glass positioned directly above her, two firemen went in to rescue her, came out and a few more went in and then they brought a body out. Also, there would have been no point to the ghost scene, with Val saying that he was dead, if she wasn't.
Originally Posted by skp20040:
“as there could have been someone else in the maze , someone who sneeked in etc etc , unlikely .”
Yes, it is unlikely. Val and Diane were locked in.
Originally Posted by skp20040:
“I say it is soapland so anything is possible.”
Not really. Soaps are not complete fantasy, they need to have an element of realism. I'm pretty sure, also, that the producers expect their viewers to have some common sense and hope they wouldn't take us for idiots.
Reports of someone dying and not showing us a body, is one thing, but showing us the scenario that happened, having the character to say that they are dead and the actress to say that she has left - and then bringing Val back safe and sound, would just be ludicrous.