Do you think they should have got in the car, while drunk and crashed into the river and died??

Would have been m ore believable.

No - wouldn't have been as tragic or emotional

I didn't feel very emotional Anyway

Personally, speaking, I think it would have been better for Roxy to die and Ronnie to survive.

However, SOC wanted to axe them, and I think the send off tonight was the best possible one available under those circumstances. I'm glad it wasn't anything sensationalist like Ronnie accidentally killing her sister or an explosion. It wrapped things up nicely. Ronnie, Roxy and Jack were able to agree to sort out their issues, and this happiness was undercut in the most terrifying of ways. Even though spoilers had revealed much of what unfolded, the actual exit was precarious and scary to watch because it can happen to any of us. It felt cruel in a way as well, as their lives were snatched away from them just as they had all pledged to make a new start. It's tragic but in a very understated way.

I completely agree with this. I think, as well, the episode featured so many callbacks to their time on the square that it really does feel like the end of an era. Ronnie and Roxy had made peace with their problems, their family, and Jack, and I think that it was so sad to see that they wouldn't get their new start.

I'd have preferred Sean Slater to have come back and driven off with Roxy in that car when Ronnie chased her out of the wedding.

Something with a legacy that's going to matter going forward. A drowning unrelated to everything and anything so the most that'll happen is people will be upset for a bit is a huge waste of time.

The characters were due to be leaving for Ongar anyway why not just let them go and say no more about it?

Killing them off in hope it spikes a rating with absolutely no lasting legacy or possible storyline continuation doesn't really seem terribly smart.

Thelma and Louise

Thank ****ing god they're finally dead, now I'll be spared the repetitive drama of Roxy sleeping with all of Ronnie's husbands. A fitting death for the evil ice maiden Ronnie I'd say. All hail SOC, he's a legend in my book. Two less Mitchells to worry about.

ive never seen that

Such a contrast to the Lucy killing. I know that storyline had its critics but there was a reason for it. An impact planned out, thought out and executed more than a year after it happened. Twists, reveals, deception. It's still going now really when you think about what's happening with Max, Ian, Jane etc. You don't have to like the storyline to appreciate the effort that was put into it to make sure it mattered, to grow something from it. The mileage they got from it certainly justified the killing of the character.

Ronnie and Roxie?

Oh they drowned by accident.

To use a footballing terminology, it's a bit route one, isn't it? It's hard to think of how an exit could be written to be any more inconsequential.

Death by drunken antics was a bit odd really.

As greatly shot and harrowing as it was to finally see play out, I felt one of the sisters losing the other [even if it was in this exact way] would be better in the long run.

totally agree, i wish there was some shock twist or something

nothing is really coming from it.

i was thinking the other day, the lucy story is still continuing, even with peter in New Zealand, to bringing back stephan, its had a big impact on alot of charecters.

it just seems like, "we will kill the sisters off and be done with it" no real aftermath apart from the tears ect ect

I agree, it has just become less watchable for me.

Yup, just leave them out of it for a year if needs be, but now we,ve list 2 great and well established characters

It really is very good, even my husband enjoyed it.

The alternative endings filmed just had Roxy dying - either falling off the ledge or dying by the pool table seemingly in the later case possibly having been killed by Jack.

Of course neither alternative would presumably have allowed Ronnie to leave as well last night with her sister dead.

I would of had Jack make her choose. She chooses Roxy, Glenda helps her take Amy and Matthew, they sod off together to Ongar or wherever.

OR more sensationalist approach, i would of had the police catch up with Ronnie somehow, And she does a runner with Roxy, OR a huge police chase escalating in them driving off a cliff into water and disappearing for years.

I did think the sisters needed resting, but now i am not so sure they even needed that. EastEnders seem to have alienated swathes of their audience, it seems the sisters very much pulled in the 'youthful' audience.
I think if the writers cant think of new and creative storylines for characters, despite how long they have been in the show, then the show needs new writers.
Though i have thought for a long time that EastEnders needs a guttering behind the scenes from the bottom up!

And as the EP wanted both gone it was always going to be both dead , a shame as I always feel it is a mistake to permanently close a door that in this case cannot be reopened later down the line just as an EP to show you are the boss

I agree. Either way, killing them off was senseless.

I'm not saying that from an upset "Oh I loved R&R, why did they have to die?" fan point of view.

I'm saying it objectively; it just doesn't make sense for the good of the show.

Fair enough if an EP personally doesn't see a future in the characters or have interest in them. FIne. Write them out and let someone else bring them back later, someone who has a vision for them.

They should have died in a fire started by Lee Carter.

Lee starts a fire in an attempt to hide evidence of some other crime he's been involved in. The Sisters are trapped, try tirelessly to escape before realising there is no point, they are stuck are going to die. They sit together and hug "Insert emotional dialogue here".

The Mitchell Sisters are dead, and the question everybody is asking is: "Who started the fire?"