I suppose Aaron is now connected to Victoria via Adam and Robert, and with Finn being best friends with Victoria (again...they didn't have scenes together for months!) he would naturally see him a lot now.

BIB1: See my quoted post below. Aaron did, indeed, say the words. However, at the time, he was a teenage self loathing gay who had, at that time, not come out. Indeed, he attempted to kill himself rather than have people know that he was gay. There is no evidence at all that Aaron holds to that view today. The character has developed and moved forward.

BIB2: Whilst Aaron has had his thuggish moments, there's no way that he could be described as a bully and he's one of the most selfless characters on the show. Eye rolling does not necessarily equate to contempt, it can just as easily be friendly.



BIB: I think that tells you that Aaron was not treating Finn with contempt or as a joke, but was genuinely trying to be helpful.

BIB: I'm sure that Jewels can speak for herself, but you would seem to be putting words in her mouth.

Aaron has a good few victims of his own, I would say. Not that I would, in any way, approve.

He's had a hard life, there's no doubt, but he's most certainly not defined by that, or by being a victim. Indeed, he's been as happy and as smiley as could be in recent months, and there has always been a fun side to Aaron, going right back to the start.

I would love Finn to have a boyfriend and a good relationship. He deserves it and if it resulted in him not being a laughing stock of the other gay in the village then that would certainly be a result.


Jewels spoke to me and I replied. Why don't you practice what you preach and let her reply back if she so wishes

I would be happy for Finn to be better developed as a character. He has been left as a bit of a blank page up to now, which is a shame, I agree.

With regard to my comment regarding your comment on Jewels' post. It wasn't a private conversation, it was posted on a public board, so there is no reason for me to refrain from commenting myself. I cast it in the way that I did because I did not wish to presume to tread upon Jewels' toes, but wished to disagree both with your post; and your interpretation of what Jewels' said. A perfectly valid post, I would have thought.

I don't agree. Disagreeing with what I say is valid but dismissing my post by suggesting I'm putting words into someone else's mouth isn't, in my opinion of course.

How else was I to do it? If I hadn't said it as I did, then I'm giving some form of confirmation that I believe that Jewels actually did mean what you said she meant, when I don't believe that's the case. I most certainly didn't phrase my post with the intent of diminishing your views, though perhaps I should have said clearly that I disagreed with them.

Anyhow, we're off topic. So I'll say no more on the matter.

I have no idea where this Kasim storyline is going.

All I know is I'm happy Finn's getting screen time, and I'd very much prefer if he was kept as far away from Aaron as possible.

By giving your interpretation of what is being said which by the way is all I was doing with Jewels. Telling someone they've put words into someone else's mouth is confrontational, and about criticising a poster and not the post and most importantly of all fails to add to the discussion because it gives no sense of what your actual view is.

Yep, absolutely. I've waited a long time for a whiff of a storyline for Finn, and I don't need the A word sprayed all over it, ta emmerdale.

At least Finn finally has something to do, he's been underused for too long and just been given 'comedy' plots mostly.

I'm far from Aaron's biggest fan but the advice he gave to Finn about Kasim was actually sound and logical advice.

Maybe Finn will get lucky and when Kasim wakes up, something might happen with the two of them but there's also the chance it might not though.

However given the way this feels set up, I do think a Finn/Kasim hook up is probably in the works though and it's nice to see Finn get his own storyline now.

I don't doubt that the advice was good, it's just the general huffiness of Aaron and the way he constantly rolls his eyes and makes snide remarks. He clearly doesn't care for Finn (or many other people in fairness). He's just hard work!

Aaron's generally an arsehole anyways but even they can be right, lol.

I'm intrigued to see what kind of character Kasim will turn out to be when he wakes up though.

I have a feeling that Kasim will be somewhat dull. I'm thinking Jackson Mk2.

It's very rare that a newbie brought in specifically as a love interest for an established character is ever successful. I'm just trying to think of any......

If he saw Emma push James off the bridge he'll be more than a love interest for Finn (though we don't actually know that he'll be a love interest for Finn) - he'll be a very strong witness.

Well, in the scenes in question, Aaron apologised immediately, before Finn even had time to react, when he realised how insensitive he had been remarking that the hospital had saved his life when it had failed to save James'. That's not the action of an insensitive person, or someone who looks down upon Finn, or holds him in contempt, or of an a*s*h*l* for that matter. It's the action of someone who is capable of empathy and sensitivity.

Yep - "sorry I pulled the trigger, I didn't mean to shoot you" could be excused by the above comment too.

An insensitive comment is rather different to a shooting, or threat to shoot!!!!!

... and in Emma's crosshairs...

What do you mean?

If Kasim saw Emma on the bridge, she could possibly silence him.

I'd actually quite like that. I liked Jackson (pre-accident), Finn could do with a man who's down to earth and self confident, yet not as arrogant as most of the Emmerdale residents. I don't find that dull.
I just hope he is not another "man with a secret" or someone's long lost relative.

I liked Jackson as well. He was always far too good for Aaron. Jackson and Finn would have worked well.