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So now that Dean is
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what would you have done with Dean in the last two years, what storylines/ relationships would you have had refresher of his main stories- raping Linda finding out buster was his dad/mick his brother being Jades dad (although he really hasn't been involved in it that much) controlling/abusing Roxy |
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I wouldn't have brought him back in the first place. I never understood the massive flip in opinion about him from mediocre character to brilliant character, most of which seemed to happen in the period when he wasn't actually in the show.
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Unfortunately "Get Den Watts" he was brought back because Matt Di Angelo did that dancing program that "celebrities" go on. At the time he was out of work and needed to resurrect his career.
Luckily for him, he's easy on the eye. That resulted in many shallow people commenting on Twitter about him. With DTC wanting to be "hip" he decided to bring him back. Truth be told, we live in a shallow/saddistic world where "if you look good, it doesn't matter what you do". Deano raped Linda but girls have this attraction towards his character.. It's bizarre to say the very least. |
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I wouldnt have brought the horrible character back in the first place. Cant wait till hes gone.
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Everything minus the rape/abuse.
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Everything minus the rape/abuse.
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what storyline would you have given him in place of the above?
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At Christmas he seemed to have potential of being a good character when he was with Stacey and helping out with Lily.
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Truth be told, we live in a shallow/saddistic world where "if you look good, it doesn't matter what you do". Deano raped Linda but girls have this attraction towards his character.. It's bizarre to say the very least. |
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At Christmas he seemed to have potential of being a good character when he was with Stacey and helping out with Lily.
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I would have explored all the issues he originally had from his first stint. I would also have made him talk to someone about his time in prison as his last episode in 2008 made it clear that he went through some awful things.
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Unfortunately "Get Den Watts" he was brought back because Matt Di Angelo did that dancing program that "celebrities" go on. At the time he was out of work and needed to resurrect his career.
Luckily for him, he's easy on the eye. That resulted in many shallow people commenting on Twitter about him. With DTC wanting to be "hip" he decided to bring him back. Truth be told, we live in a shallow/saddistic world where "if you look good, it doesn't matter what you do". Deano raped Linda but girls have this attraction towards his character.. It's bizarre to say the very least. |
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Is he definitely leaving?
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Unfortunately "Get Den Watts" he was brought back because Matt Di Angelo did that dancing program that "celebrities" go on. At the time he was out of work and needed to resurrect his career.
Luckily for him, he's easy on the eye. That resulted in many shallow people commenting on Twitter about him. With DTC wanting to be "hip" he decided to bring him back. Truth be told, we live in a shallow/saddistic world where "if you look good, it doesn't matter what you do". Deano raped Linda but girls have this attraction towards his character.. It's bizarre to say the very least. His career was by no means on the skid when he returned to EE. Just cos you don't see an actor every 5 minutes doesn't mean they're not working!!
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Matt didn't need the work. He turned down requests to go back a couple of times before he said yes. He had a number of roles in those 6 years, including four series of Hustle.
The overwhelming reason that actors return to a soap is that it's a "regular" job with set hours & a guaranteed regular income, & very high profile, something that's very rare in the acting world & very attractive to actors. In Matts case, he probably felt tht sufficient time had passed since his last stint & he'd made a bit of a name for himself away from EE so he wouldn't be too typecast in the Dean role. |
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I think he's done really well on this stint playing a challenging role. I'm sure Matt will do fine when he leaves EE.
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I don't think that's what the rape storyline is about though. It's about someone growing up in the square having family, friends and a life and the reaction of the people around then when they are accuses of rape. As he wasn't prosecuted it allows some people to believe in his innocence and slate the victim. It also allows him to continue in his everyday life and form new relationships without these people realising what a danger or threat he is. There are people like this living around us and they all seem normal and nice and you never really know who they are. Unfortunately, I know this from experience. That's the point of using Dean for this story not that the good looking ones get away with anything.
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I would have either made it a Dean/Linda stalker storyline with Dean developing erotomania and eventually being hospitalized or I would have done the rape storyline differently with the rape not being shown on screen, Dean acting like it was a one night stand and becoming delusional, Dean telling Stacey up front about the "one night stand" and then starting to realise the truth when Stacey threw him out/mick attacked him and then breaking don and being sectioned by Denise/Shirley/Buster or else handing himself in with the door open after serving his sentence.
Either way I would have kept Dean as Mick's nephew, but Buster can still be Dean's biological dad. |
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I'd have brought him back played by a different actor who was actually up to the job.
This is the first I've heard of an exit so thanks OP, you've made my day! |
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I think it was a shame that it ruined the whole storyline where we found out Dean and Mick were actually brothers. I'd have liked to have seen how that would have played out if the rape hadn't happened. It would have also been good to see Shirley be able to get closer to Mick as well, but the rape has come in between that for the past year. We've only seen glimpses of what their relationship could have been. Only for it to then go in circles every time the matter of the rape came up.
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I think it was a shame that it ruined the whole storyline where we found out Dean and Mick were actually brothers. I'd have liked to have seen how that would have played out if the rape hadn't happened. It would have also been good to see Shirley be able to get closer to Mick as well, but the rape has come in between that for the past year. We've only seen glimpses of what their relationship could have been. Only for it to then go in circles every time the matter of the rape came up.
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