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EastEnders - Is Kim turning into a bad caricature?


View Poll Results: Has the attempt to make Kim a bigger character failed?
YES MAJORLY ITS AN EPIC FAIL! 32 57.14%
NO IM LOVING AND ENJOYING KIM MORE THAN EVER 12 21.43%
CANT DECIDE BUT IT AINT SUPER BRILLIANT SHALL WE SAY? 9 16.07%
ITS MORE THE VINCENT DYNAMIC DRAGGING HER DOWN_EVERYTHING ELSE PERFECT! 3 5.36%
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Old 18-11-2015, 03:42
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Im not really enjoying the way Kim is being written at all.She seems so OTT and in many ways a repetive one note character who acts and talks in a way nobody really does in real life.

Its not just that Im finding her harder to like ,Im finding herhard to believe in as a character.Not sure if its more bad acting or bad writing or maybe they dont know how to write Kim in an original and interesting way BUT we dont notice it as a problem when shes a more minor less used character

Has the attempt to make Kim a bigger character failed? And If so why?
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Old 18-11-2015, 03:48
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Poll up soon
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Old 18-11-2015, 03:50
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When she came back she seemed more serious and I started to like her but now she's gone back to being ridiculous. Like you've said who on earth behaves like that in real life? She acts like she's in a sitcom. If we didn't already know her and Denise are sisters I would never have put them together. Denise has a dignity about her and has been through some hard knocks. Kim is either being written really badly or the director is encouraging the actress to play the fool. All in all it's just not working.
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Old 18-11-2015, 03:57
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When she came back she seemed more serious and I started to like her but now she's gone back to being ridiculous. Like you've said who on earth behaves like that in real life? She acts like she's in a sitcom. If we didn't already know her and Denise are sisters I would never have put them together. Denise has a dignity about her and has been through some hard knocks. Kim is either being written really badly or the director is encouraging the actress to play the fool. All in all it's just not working.
A brilliant analysis.Maybe they can only sustain serious with her for so long?Perhaps the wills not there and serious was just a blip?
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Old 18-11-2015, 07:23
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Kim IMO has improved greatly and is one of the very
Few characters who dtc has not ruined. I actually like her now.
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Old 18-11-2015, 08:21
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She's embarrassing to watch. Cringey behaviour.
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Old 18-11-2015, 08:47
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Love Kim! She's better than ever now and a baby has not ruined her character like other characters .
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Old 18-11-2015, 09:01
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She's a joke, ,she can't even talk or walk properly, wobbling around in those short, tight dresses ( which she just doesn't suit!). I fail to see why Vincent is so mad about her.
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Old 18-11-2015, 10:23
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I know (and work with) people who act like Kim.
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Old 18-11-2015, 10:35
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I don't see the appeal of this character, and I have no idea why she is now being pushed as one of the central characters of the entire show. Denise, a far superior character, is forced to linger in the background while Kim is given a new husband/family, a stake in Sharon's bar, a new house. I just don't get it.
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Old 18-11-2015, 10:41
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I know (and work with) people who act like Kim.


My heart goes out to you!
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Old 18-11-2015, 10:52
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I liked Kim when she returned but now she's been overexposed and has gone rediculous again. I do like her character though and I especially like her with Denise.

The 'pinneaple' comment the other night was funny though.
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Old 18-11-2015, 10:53
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She has ALWAYS been a bad caricature so no change there.
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Old 18-11-2015, 11:06
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Kim is too overexposed at the moment and is about as funny as toothache!
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Old 18-11-2015, 11:18
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Kim is too overexposed at the moment and is about as funny as toothache!
I think that TPTB should cut back on the Kim scenes and have more of Cora's homelessness. I really don't care about Kim's marriage to Vincent. They don't click and it's just boring.
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Old 18-11-2015, 11:28
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She has ALWAYS been a bad caricature so no change there.
This basically. Denise deserves better than being Kim's straight woman.
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Old 18-11-2015, 11:29
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She has ALWAYS been a bad caricature so no change there.
Was just coming to say the exact same thing!

Why she is getting so much screentime when the criminally underused Diane Parish has to play second fiddle as Denise is baffling.
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Old 18-11-2015, 11:32
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If anything it should be the other way around, Kim should be second fiddle to Denise!
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Old 18-11-2015, 11:38
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Was just coming to say the exact same thing!

Why she is getting so much screentime when the criminally underused Diane Parish has to play second fiddle as Denise is baffling.
Agreed. Denise has hardly had any storylines or even scenes of her own for a while now.
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Old 18-11-2015, 11:42
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So annoying. And I wish they hadn't paired the lovely Vincent with her. He would have been so much better as a lone wolf.
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Old 18-11-2015, 11:56
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I think that TPTB should cut back on the Kim scenes and have more of Cora's homelessness. I really don't care about Kim's marriage to Vincent. They don't click and it's just boring.
Ann Mitchell is an Actress but I don't rate Tameka Empson at all.
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Old 18-11-2015, 12:18
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I do find some of Kim's scenes cringeworthy, but I think that's the character, Tameka Empson is a wonderful actress though.
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Old 18-11-2015, 12:25
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So annoying. And I wish they hadn't paired the lovely Vincent with her. He would have been so much better as a lone wolf.
Lovely Vincent!!
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Old 18-11-2015, 12:26
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Was she ever anything but a joke?
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Old 18-11-2015, 12:27
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I don't mind Kim, but I wish they Denise wasn't playing second fiddle to her.
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