Several people on Digital Spy are adamant that there's nothing wrong with a Tanya-Sharon friendship, and cannot see why others say it's something that would never happen.
Here's why.
PerfectPrincess, a DS commentator, does an excellent analysis of why Tanya and Sharon would never be friends, and - seriously - it's not rocket science. There is only one thing which would ever compel Tanya to seek Sharon as a friend: social status.
Sharon is a businesswoman who's achieved all of her success in that sphere due to her own abilities. She was raised in the pub trade and capitalised on her parents' experience. She never depended on a man, in any form, to better her social circumstances. However, as she's sure to be in business in some managerial capacity whilst in Walford, Tanya will be certain to seek her out as a mate - the same way she did Jane, who was married to the local entrepreneur, and the same way she sought Mad May, who was the local GP.
Tanya is a status-seeker and a social-climber, seeking to validate her newly-minted middle-class existence as opposed to the rough upbringing of her youth.
As PerfectPrincess pointed out, when Sharon was eighteen, she was just losing her virginity in her first serious relationship. By eighteen, Tanya was a well-established party girl, well into sex, drugs and rock'n roll. Not only has Tanya confirmed this (cf: drunken afternoon spent with Stacey in 2007), but Cora recently referenced it in that classic moment of home truths. She also revealed something else about Tanya - that she'd been a thief; but then, we also found that out in the way she wantonly robbed Roxy blind. Also, by the time she was eighteen, Tanya had broken up a marriage and got herself up the duff by a married man.
Someone will point out that Sharon's celebrated best friend, Michelle, had also done that and two years earlier and by Sharon's dad. But the difference is that Michelle never tried to justify her actions or blame Den for what happened. Tanya assumes no responsibility for any havoc she's wreaked. Her head is so far up her big arse that she still cannot see that what Stacey did to her marriage, she did as well to Max's marriage to Rachel -even to the point of being able to laugh about her and Max having cheap dates because he had a wife and son at home.
Tanya's infidelities were all about lust and social fulfillment. Sharon's only infidelity came as a result of her being emotionally and physically abused by her husband. And she never used that as an excuse, she took more blame for her affair with her husband's brother, than Phil, himself, took. Tanya, on the other hand, slept with Jack whilst still married to Max, because she felt she was entitled to do so.
Tanya's friendship with Jane wasn't only about social status, however; Jane was the less attractive half of that friendship. Tanya could boast about her sex life with Max and, subsequently, with Greg, knowing that Jane was just about tolerating the Oedipal complexity that was her marriage to Ian. And Jane could be depended upon to drink herself silly with Tanya as a mask for Tanya's growing alcohol dependency.
If Sharon has a fling with Jack, Tanya would be all ears and otherwise and ready to compare sexual notes - something that wouldn't impress Sharon in the least. If Sharon has anything to do with R and R or the Vic, Tanya will have an endless supply of free drinks, or so she'd think.
This friendship is so incongruous, it's totally unbelieveable, unless it's Tanya doing what she did best first with Jane and now with Sharon - using Sharon to enhance her own self-worth, when - in fact - as I've said repeatedly, this is just another pisspoor example of the production team trying to establish the Brannings as a force by trying to entangle them with an established, iconic Eastenders' character.
Sharon with Carol? Most definitely and believeable. Sharon with Denise? Of course. But Sharon with Tanya?
Bollocks.
Here's why.
PerfectPrincess, a DS commentator, does an excellent analysis of why Tanya and Sharon would never be friends, and - seriously - it's not rocket science. There is only one thing which would ever compel Tanya to seek Sharon as a friend: social status.
Sharon is a businesswoman who's achieved all of her success in that sphere due to her own abilities. She was raised in the pub trade and capitalised on her parents' experience. She never depended on a man, in any form, to better her social circumstances. However, as she's sure to be in business in some managerial capacity whilst in Walford, Tanya will be certain to seek her out as a mate - the same way she did Jane, who was married to the local entrepreneur, and the same way she sought Mad May, who was the local GP.
Tanya is a status-seeker and a social-climber, seeking to validate her newly-minted middle-class existence as opposed to the rough upbringing of her youth.
As PerfectPrincess pointed out, when Sharon was eighteen, she was just losing her virginity in her first serious relationship. By eighteen, Tanya was a well-established party girl, well into sex, drugs and rock'n roll. Not only has Tanya confirmed this (cf: drunken afternoon spent with Stacey in 2007), but Cora recently referenced it in that classic moment of home truths. She also revealed something else about Tanya - that she'd been a thief; but then, we also found that out in the way she wantonly robbed Roxy blind. Also, by the time she was eighteen, Tanya had broken up a marriage and got herself up the duff by a married man.
Someone will point out that Sharon's celebrated best friend, Michelle, had also done that and two years earlier and by Sharon's dad. But the difference is that Michelle never tried to justify her actions or blame Den for what happened. Tanya assumes no responsibility for any havoc she's wreaked. Her head is so far up her big arse that she still cannot see that what Stacey did to her marriage, she did as well to Max's marriage to Rachel -even to the point of being able to laugh about her and Max having cheap dates because he had a wife and son at home.
Tanya's infidelities were all about lust and social fulfillment. Sharon's only infidelity came as a result of her being emotionally and physically abused by her husband. And she never used that as an excuse, she took more blame for her affair with her husband's brother, than Phil, himself, took. Tanya, on the other hand, slept with Jack whilst still married to Max, because she felt she was entitled to do so.
Tanya's friendship with Jane wasn't only about social status, however; Jane was the less attractive half of that friendship. Tanya could boast about her sex life with Max and, subsequently, with Greg, knowing that Jane was just about tolerating the Oedipal complexity that was her marriage to Ian. And Jane could be depended upon to drink herself silly with Tanya as a mask for Tanya's growing alcohol dependency.
If Sharon has a fling with Jack, Tanya would be all ears and otherwise and ready to compare sexual notes - something that wouldn't impress Sharon in the least. If Sharon has anything to do with R and R or the Vic, Tanya will have an endless supply of free drinks, or so she'd think.
This friendship is so incongruous, it's totally unbelieveable, unless it's Tanya doing what she did best first with Jane and now with Sharon - using Sharon to enhance her own self-worth, when - in fact - as I've said repeatedly, this is just another pisspoor example of the production team trying to establish the Brannings as a force by trying to entangle them with an established, iconic Eastenders' character.
Sharon with Carol? Most definitely and believeable. Sharon with Denise? Of course. But Sharon with Tanya?
Bollocks.
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