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Could EastEnders ever pull off a 'Bobby Ewing' Shower moment? |
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Could EastEnders ever pull off a 'Bobby Ewing' Shower moment?
Like if (as i suspect) it all goes tits up for SOC, BBC give him the boot. Realise they have no big characters to bring back to claw in viewers.
Would they be able to bring back R&R in a Dallas type scene? Like perhaps Phil had a horrid dream in the hospital and thats what we were seeing when R&R died. ![]() It would be a ratings puller i am sure.
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Like if (as i suspect) it all goes tits up for SOC, BBC give him the boot. Realise they have no big characters to bring back to claw in viewers.
Would they be able to bring back R&R in a Dallas type scene? Like perhaps Phil had a horrid dream in the hospital and thats what we were seeing when R&R died. ![]() It would be a ratings puller i am sure. ![]()
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Dallas couldn't pull it off let alone EastEnders!
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Ah sod it, why not - they jumped the shark with Ronnie ages ago; I'm up for it.
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Ah sod it, why not - they jumped the shark with Ronnie ages ago; I'm up for it.
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Someone start a petition, I'll sign
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Dallas was able to pull off the "Bobby's in the Shower" thing because it had series that wrapped most of the stories for all the characters up at the finale, so it was easy to reset to before Bobby "died" and say all those things didn't happen as the viewers had also had some time to forget the details.
EE doesn't work like that so after a certain point, it would be to complicated to reset the entire square - for example a hard reset like Dallas's would require undoing and bringing back any other leavers (for example Lee Carter as we know he's going) or otherwise explaining how they disappeared suddenly, without trace on New Year's Day. Not to mention putting everyone else back to where they are now, and getting rid of any new characters. If on Friday, Jack was to wake up in the hotel to be told by Max that Ronnie and Roxy had run off together with all the money from the house sale and Amy and Matthew. That might just be believable but any longer would just be stretching it. |
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Ah sod it, why not - they jumped the shark with Ronnie ages ago; I'm up for it.
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Dallas was able to pull off the "Bobby's in the Shower" thing because it had series that wrapped most of the stories for all the characters up at the finale, so it was easy to reset to before Bobby "died" and say all those things didn't happen as the viewers had also had some time to forget the details.
EE doesn't work like that so after a certain point, it would be to complicated to reset the entire square - for example a hard reset like Dallas's would require undoing and bringing back any other leavers (for example Lee Carter as we know he's going) or otherwise explaining how they disappeared suddenly, without trace on New Year's Day. Not to mention putting everyone else back to where they are now, and getting rid of any new characters. If on Friday, Jack was to wake up in the hotel to be told by Max that Ronnie and Roxy had run off together with all the money from the house sale and Amy and Matthew. That might just be believable but any longer would just be stretching it. |
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I'd go back to before Lucy was killed and also erase the majority of dtcs tenure. It would also solve the dead Kathy problem
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Please, it went tits up long before SOC come on board, at least his attempting something different.
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oh the hysteria surrounding SOC is hilarious lol
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This is a genuine question, what does 'jumped the shark' mean?
The name comes from when The Fonz (Eehhhhhey!) on Happy Days literally jumped over a shark while water-skiing. TV Tropes explains it better (I take no responsibility if you click the link and then find you've been reading TV Tropes for two hours or something): http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...umpingTheShark |
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This is what I wanted for Brendan in Hollyoaks, his rubbish exit to be a bad dream but I'd accept it for Ronnie and Roxy
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Julia Smith would turn in her grave,.
Not that many moments from the last 15 years or so probably haven't made her do so already. |
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I'd go back to before Lucy was killed and also erase the majority of dtcs tenure. It would also solve the dead Kathy problem
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They did with Kathy didn't they? They killed her off in 2006 and bought her back in 2015!
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They did with Kathy didn't they? They killed her off in 2006 and bought her back in 2015!
We saw Ronnie and Roxy die before our very eyes! |
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Well she was killed 'off-screen' so could be brought back.
We saw Ronnie and Roxy die before our very eyes! |
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As long as it involves lengthy and graphic scenes of Whitney in the shower, then you have my support.
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They still could be bought back and claim they faked their deaths because someone from Ibiza was after them!
jack would have to identify them does that mean he would be in on it when their both mothers the door is firmly shut and there is no way back now for either of them ever again |
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One thing I can't get my head around about that was how did it impact Knots Landing? Was the whole of Knots Landing a dream after he gets out of the shower? And then when Val and Gary came back for the reboot where they coming from Knots Landing or somewhere else?
So confused..... |
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One thing I can't get my head around about that was how did it impact Knots Landing? Was the whole of Knots Landing a dream after he gets out of the shower? And then when Val and Gary came back for the reboot where they coming from Knots Landing or somewhere else?
So confused..... In retrospect what they should have done is make the season where Bobby died, Bobby's coma dream and have JR, Pam, Gary etc talking to him/each other at his bedside so he was subconsciously aware of the ongoing events in both series. That way when he woke up they could have kept most of the storylines from the season he wasn't in. I know, I've put waaay to much thought into this. ![]() ![]()
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It's EE - it can pull anything off. Would it be a risk worth taking? Nah
Please don't I beg. |
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One thing I can't get my head around about that was how did it impact Knots Landing? Was the whole of Knots Landing a dream after he gets out of the shower? And then when Val and Gary came back for the reboot where they coming from Knots Landing or somewhere else?
So confused.....
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