Danny's at the studios today (someone got a photo). That's right people: someone called Aaron is going to be on our screens!

hallelujah!!

Excellent news.

Are you sure? I can't remember a character named Aaron Is he new? Probably a new addition to the Sharma family...

I heard he is Roberts new love interest

Don't think so, I heard Robert's gonna come back from his trip in Europe with a new love interest and they're the new power couple in Emmerdale

Hello. Blimey, it's been an age since I crashed onto the thread like a helicopter at a wedding. I was having a total spoiler blackout in the lead up to the disaster so couldn't join in with any conversations but now things are quiet I can pop in again.

So...er...yeah, they've basically over stretched Robert's psychological make up so Chrissie could be in the right spot to set off a chain of events to hit a bullseye shot at a helicopter with an exploding gas canister so its trajectory was shifted into the perfect path to crash into the wedding reception. C'huh.

See, Robert wasn't actually a sociopath just super defensive which motivated his decision making and actions. But they've gone a made him into one for the sake of it and pretty much forgotten the basic rules of a love-based storyline...you don't make the two characters with great chemistry and should obviously be together so invariably incompatible. Do I want Aaron to be with a guy who maliciously threatened Paddy's family after nearly killing him with pre-meditation? That could've been done in such a different way. Robert could've warned Paddy to back off with a sense of protecting Aaron but with the whole getting buried alive thing to be a genuine accident...an actual electrical fault or something. But Paddy being convinced Robert did it and telling Aaron, which has him thinking about what really happened to Katie, should've been what really led to the whole hostage incident. It could've all come out in the same way without pushing Robert's psychological boundaries beyond their limits.

The only way now I even want to see Aaron anywhere near Robert is if he really can make a difference in changing him for the better rather than disaster following them whenever they get close. Robert really does have to lose everything that he's put too much importance on and have a real choice about where he wants to take his life and Aaron has to be the one to help him. Otherwise Robron is just being used as an excuse for a bit of boy on boy action at tea time rather than a growing relationship with any real meaning for the characters, particularly Robert who was of course born into the show.

Danny and Ryan though...as lovely and as talented as ever. Regardless of what they're given to do they put in the good work. No complaints there so I hope some upcoming awards give them the recognition they deserve.

^ LOL at Robron fans having meltdowns

Anyone watching ED this week? I'm going on a hiatus just like my boys Aaron and Robert.

I'm not having a meltdown. Just pointing out how a couple of scenes done in a slightly different way would have made a big difference to the storyline without losing much of the other elements surrounding it.

Short term dramatic licence verses long term character and story development.

I Will because of the Dingles and Ross drama this week. Waiting patiently for our boys to be back on our screen

Sorry, I was referring to the previous posts, not yours.

I think most of us are annoyed at the way they've written Robert at times and for some of us who grew up watching ED, Robert has been changed personality wise to suit certain events.

It's not like members of Aaron's family aren't pretty shady as well though which he doesn't have long term problems with. Maybe in the short term he wouldn't be happy but over time he'd get over it.

I think the disaster stuff showed quite well how people like Chrissie and Pete can be driven to do wreck less things in the heat of the moment. Then you have the likes of Jai and Rachel not being nice people either.

Totally agree. The 'death by grain' plot was over the top. The writers somehow thought it would be a sensible reason for Aaron to seek revenge, and for Robert to hold Aaron hostage and accidentally shoot Paddy (again OTT), resulting in the reveal of their affair.

Although I loved the kitchen reveal scene and Aaron's brilliant performance in it, I would have actually been satisfied with just a simple straightforward reveal such as one of the Whites walking in on Aaron and Robert going at it.

Oh that's alright then.


*puts gun back into desk draw*

Ooh I've missed you! . Welcome back.

I suppose they can switch Robert's psychological boundaries back just as implausibly as and when they feel like it, and we'll be expected to buy it. Shamefully, I probably will as long as the end result is the one we want!

It feels somehow as tho TPTB are trying to placate the haters as well as the fans all the time, which then allows them to retain that ruddy ambiguity they are so fond of!

I don't see any meltdowns, but then I was taking previous posts to be sarcastic and tongue in cheek.

Ahh, bless you. It's nice to be missed.

Yeah, there's such a thing as too much ambiguity. I don't know if it's to placate the haters but more their need to pull the story along so it plays out over a longer period, even if it's at the expense of a natural timeframe and plausibility. I can see a massive influence from Hollyoaks coming into the show, especially since Donna's death last year. Even the camera work looks more like what Hollyoaks has been doing for years as well as taking characters and scenes to extremes. Good for drama but it gradually turns to balls if overdone too often, which is sadly what's happened to HO so Emmerdale should be wary. And I swear, if they're not doing a Joe Roscoe with Ross then I'll sit bare arsed on a pile of pineapples.

I don't want Ross to be dead also. I really love him. He is very funny and his relashionship with Finn is one of the best.

Totally agree with this part of your post. However, your alternative scenario wouldn't have changed much for me, because the scenes at the lodge manifested the picture of Robert as a psychopath.

Don't get me wrong, I thought it was brilliantly acted and highly entertaining to watch, but I can't see how anyone can say that Robert isn't a few cards short of a full deck after watching that. A sane person does not take a belt and gags an unconscious person with it, then ties them to a radiator and leaves them there over night. And they don't bring a gun either...

Maybe it's because I am an Aaron fan most of all, but I really don't want to see the two of them getting back together too soon. Especially not without some sort of visible redemption or change in Robert's character.

I know kalispera is probably right, and I won't have much choice but accept it whichever way it plays out. But if the writers want us to believe that their relationship is worth anything more than eye candy and sensationalistic drama, there has to be more to it than a chat in the bar and another "I came to say sorry" from Robert.

Ryan, like Danny, was filming today (same person who got photo with Danny got one with Ryan).

Oh I mean knocking Aaron out with the bottle and panicking about the Katie stuff still would've worked but with a slightly different aftermath and not shifting Robert into the category of psychopath. And no gun. It really would've been better if Robert told Chrissie rather than Aaron. The confrontation between Chrissie and Aaron in the Woolpack, where she outted the affair to everyone, would've had more impact.

It's just these little things that can make such big differences to smack a real dramatic punch but still keep everything else around it ticking along. Ach! I'm sure if they had the time and benefit of hindsight these kind of niggly things would be smoothed out and considered a bit more. It's a constantly rolling production so it's inevitable some things will just get lost along the way.

wow!! ryan is filming as well??? Viva Robron!!!

Oh, definitely. If you think about, we don't know how much of what we wanted to see was actually scripted and cancelled, or even shot but ended up on the (digital) cutting room floor.
I'm pretty sure they at least thought of showing Lawrence react to the news that "the other woman" was Aaron, and maybe there was a chance for some Aaron/Adam interaction too, which never quite made it into the show.

Let's hope that now all the big events are over, whatever comes next in this story is a little less dramatic and OTT.

Some interesting posts whilst things are quiet. It's pretty obvious to anyone who reads my ones that I am total Robron shipper and want them to be a proper couple as soon as possible but I know that there is less story from a soap pov in that. Angst and drama along the way can be great so long as it means we actually get to see them both experiencing it. Even Robert's longing look at the stag do said plenty to us on on this thread whether or not general viewers noticed it.

I don't get Hollyoaks here but I think some people on this thread mention it now and again and my friend was telling me that they had a lovely big gay wedding not long ago (apparently one of the actors was previously in ED) but now they are already having affairs. That's the downside of having to have dramatic storylines all the time and I don't want to see it with Robron, except at worse one of them tempted but realising it's not want he wants.

ED could still eventually have them as a steady couple with plenty of drama being about things like dodgy business deals, having to takes sides in family conflicts, non relationship type misunderstandings and stuff like that without them having to go off with other people. Even for straight soap couples affairs have been done so often. Has there ever been a steady longterm gay relationship in soap? I don't know, but maybe that would be dramatic in itself.

Withdrawal symptoms making me ramble. ED please hurry up and get them at least interacting again