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Old 21-01-2016, 19:33
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Poor Aaron.
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Old 21-01-2016, 19:45
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It would have had more impact if it was somebody other than Aaron. Aaron storylines are just one cry session after another that they lose the impact and investment from the audience after awhile.

Plus this is a huge retcon on Aaron and Gordon's past. A potentially decent new character has been sacrificed on altar of Aaron to keep the miseryfest going.
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Old 21-01-2016, 19:48
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It would have had more impact if it was somebody other than Aaron. Aaron storylines are just one cry session after another that they lose the impact and investment from the audience after awhile.

Plus this is a huge retcon on Aaron and Gordon's past. A potentially decent new character has been sacrificed on altar of Aaron to keep the miseryfest going.
Agreed. He arrived in Emmerdale after attacking his step mother.
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Old 21-01-2016, 19:48
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It would have had more impact if it was somebody other than Aaron. Aaron storylines are just one cry session after another that they lose the impact and investment from the audience after awhile.

Plus this is a huge retcon on Aaron and Gordon's past. A potentially decent new character has been sacrificed on altar of Aaron to keep the miseryfest going.
I agree wholeheartedly. In fact I said on another thread that I'd be sympathetic if it was anyone else but I just think 'yet more Aaron misery'. It really is boring.
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Old 21-01-2016, 19:50
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Hi Brookside,

Couldn't this have gone in your other thread on the same subject?

Thanks.
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Old 21-01-2016, 19:50
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Now the problem is will Chas beleive him before going into business with Gordon.
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Old 21-01-2016, 19:51
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I think it's good they are raising the issue, regardless of what character they give the storyline too. Having said that Danny is a great actor and will no doubt do the storyline justice.
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Old 21-01-2016, 19:52
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So is this a recton?
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Old 21-01-2016, 20:38
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Hate this. Aaron in Emmerdale, Brendan in HO, etc.... does every gay character need to have sexual abuse in their childhood?? This just reinforces some awful, enduring connotations, such as homosexuality being the result of trauma. Bollocks.

Not to talk about the blatant retcon, but whatever.
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Old 21-01-2016, 20:40
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Aaron is messed up anyway so it's fitting I guess that he has a dark past.
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Old 21-01-2016, 20:58
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Aaron is messed up anyway so it's fitting I guess that he has a dark past.
Not his dark past. His father's.
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Old 21-01-2016, 20:59
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Hate this. Aaron in Emmerdale, Brendan in HO, etc.... does every gay character need to have sexual abuse in their childhood?? This just reinforces some awful, enduring connotations, such as homosexuality being the result of trauma. Bollocks.

Not to talk about the blatant retcon, but whatever.

Aaron said tonight that he knows him being gay has nothing to do with the abuse he suffered
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Old 21-01-2016, 21:05
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Now the problem is will Chas beleive him before going into business with Gordon.
Probably not as she is a very stupid woman.
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Old 21-01-2016, 21:09
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Aaron said tonight that he knows him being gay has nothing to do with the abuse he suffered
Yeah, he said it, and that's good...still, there is still so much ignorance out there and so many people who think along that lines that having these kind of storylines repeatedly doesn't help at all. I just wonder whether it was really necessary.

Anyway, there's no doubt that if there is an actor who can do justice to such a storyline, that's Danny Miller. He's going to knock it out of the park (he already did it tonight), and that's probably why they decided to tackle this kind of storyline with Aaron.
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Old 21-01-2016, 21:13
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Agreed. He arrived in Emmerdale after attacking his step mother.
And that was covered in part two tonight.

I'm struggling to see this retcon that people are talking about. I'm not sure if any of what we saw tonight contradicted anything we've seen before.
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Old 21-01-2016, 21:23
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Yeah, he said it, and that's good...still, there is still so much ignorance out there and so many people who think along that lines that having these kind of storylines repeatedly doesn't help at all. I just wonder whether it was really necessary.

Anyway, there's no doubt that if there is an actor who can do justice to such a storyline, that's Danny Miller. He's going to knock it out of the park (he already did it tonight), and that's probably why they decided to tackle this kind of storyline with Aaron.
Actually for me at least Aaron's previous behavior is much more consistent with this storyline, than the previous explanations. His behavior has been very extreme for a long period of time.
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Old 21-01-2016, 21:27
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Chas has been likeable for the first time in years since hooking up with Gordon. So it's a shame they have decided to fritter him away on this retcon of a plot. Gary Mavers is a good actor as well. I am most offended by them using this to reunite Aaron and never-interested-in-guys-before-2014 Robert.
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Old 21-01-2016, 21:37
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No it isn't.
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Old 22-01-2016, 10:10
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It is a ridiculous storyline that a strong boy - and I would think he was a very strong 12 yr. old by his build - could be overpowered time after time by a weedy chap like Gordon; and that he wouldn't have told somebody, his teacher, his best friend, his step-mother. Typical Kate Oates' rubbish; I will pleased when any vestige of her reign in Emmerdale is wiped out. .
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Old 22-01-2016, 10:12
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It is a ridiculous storyline that a strong boy - and I would think he was a very strong 12 yr. old by his build - could be overpowered time after time by a weedy chap like Gordon; and that he wouldn't have told somebody, his teacher, his best friend, his step-mother. Typical Kate Oates' rubbish; I will pleased when any vestige of her reign in Emmerdale is wiped out. .
I don't really agree with how the storyline has been written but you are woefully Ill informed when it comes to child sexual abuse Janet
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Old 22-01-2016, 10:16
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This storyline will be interesting and i'm glad it is Aaron, it explains a lot of his back story.
Danny Miller and Ryan Hawley were fantastic last night.
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Old 22-01-2016, 10:16
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It is a ridiculous storyline that a strong boy - and I would think he was a very strong 12 yr. old by his build - could be overpowered time after time by a weedy chap like Gordon; and that he wouldn't have told somebody, his teacher, his best friend, his step-mother. Typical Kate Oates' rubbish; I will pleased when any vestige of her reign in Emmerdale is wiped out. .

Wow, ignorant much.

And Gordon is quite a big guy.
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Old 22-01-2016, 10:17
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I don't really agree with how the storyline has been written but you are woefully Ill informed when it comes to child sexual abuse Janet
I completely agree with you. I didn't telly anyone, not for years. My Mum only found out last year, and I'm 36 now and between 8 and 12 years old when it happened.
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Old 22-01-2016, 10:31
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Aaron said tonight that he knows him being gay has nothing to do with the abuse he suffered
Brendan in Hollyoaks also made it very clear that being sexually (and physically and mentally) abused by his own father from the age of eight had not caused him to be gay, it had caused him to be 'a monster' (unable to form a healthy relationship, unable to be a good father to his own sons, etc). I guess there is something in what Francy said above, though - it possibly does reinforce the idea in the minds of some who are already inclined to think there is a link. For that reason it might have been better to give this storyline to a straight character. Also, it wouldn't look so much like a copy of one of Hollyoaks' best-ever storylines.
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Old 22-01-2016, 10:35
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I like Chas and Gordon together, why oh why did they have t ruin it by claiming he is a peadophile? awful decision, and one that will probably make me stop watching yet again if it means that Aaron and Robert get back together, he KILLED Katie and dragged Aaron into it, they must never be together again, in fact, the Robert character needs to be killed off.
Are we supposed to warm to him because of last night? no thanks.

Keep Gordon and Chas together and turn the story into a placed memory kind of thing, Aaron himself says he doubted for a while if it even happened, save the character of Gordon and let Chas have some happiness.
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