Forgive me for feeling vindicated, but it's also amusing to see several people on both the DS and Walford Web now proclaim that they "knew all along" that Jo Joyner was leaving, when they had the biggest gobs shouting me down and telling me I knew nothing.
Now, for various bods wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' that Jessie Wallace and/or Shane Richie will be leaving next, dream on.
Both these actors are going nowhere unless their characters are axed by the Executive Producer, and it's been made patently clear that Lorraine Newman wants the Moons together, she wants Kat repaired and she wants them in the Vic.
Richie quit on a whim before, and lived to regret it, which is why he's constantly saying he's in this for the long-term this time. Wallace, on the other hand, left "by mutual consent" (make of that what you will, but it's a euphemism). After her hijinks the last time, she's lucky she got asked to return at all.
I agree. After the mishmash made of Kat's character assassination, she was prime fodder for the axe. The audience hated her and hated what she was doing to Alfie; the majority of fans wanted her gone, because she was irredeemable. Besides, in soap as in real life, when a couple split, they don't hang around on the same street or just around the corner. People move on, and in soap for one-half of a couple to move on and develop,the other has to leave altogether. Kat has yet to do her walk of shame. On Corrie, until she was involved in an horrific fire, the community was still shunning Sunita Alahan. Sunita accepted her responsibility for breaking up her own marriage; Kat still hasn't accepted even a partial fault.
I also agree that Alfie had a chance of further development with Roxy, but they've scuppered that and are ruining Rita Simons's character in an effort to save Kat at all costs.
We'll see how that pans out.
As for Tanya, I agree with the DS poster who identified her as a dependent character. That was well written into her psyche as part and parcel of the co-dependent relationship she enjoyed with Max. The longer Tanya stayed, the longer Max was being stunted and turning into a repetitive cartoon character.
With that in mind, as indefinite as her departure might be, she should never return. It's just a shame that Lauren and Cora can't go with her.
Now, for various bods wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' that Jessie Wallace and/or Shane Richie will be leaving next, dream on.
Both these actors are going nowhere unless their characters are axed by the Executive Producer, and it's been made patently clear that Lorraine Newman wants the Moons together, she wants Kat repaired and she wants them in the Vic.
Richie quit on a whim before, and lived to regret it, which is why he's constantly saying he's in this for the long-term this time. Wallace, on the other hand, left "by mutual consent" (make of that what you will, but it's a euphemism). After her hijinks the last time, she's lucky she got asked to return at all.
I agree. After the mishmash made of Kat's character assassination, she was prime fodder for the axe. The audience hated her and hated what she was doing to Alfie; the majority of fans wanted her gone, because she was irredeemable. Besides, in soap as in real life, when a couple split, they don't hang around on the same street or just around the corner. People move on, and in soap for one-half of a couple to move on and develop,the other has to leave altogether. Kat has yet to do her walk of shame. On Corrie, until she was involved in an horrific fire, the community was still shunning Sunita Alahan. Sunita accepted her responsibility for breaking up her own marriage; Kat still hasn't accepted even a partial fault.
I also agree that Alfie had a chance of further development with Roxy, but they've scuppered that and are ruining Rita Simons's character in an effort to save Kat at all costs.
We'll see how that pans out.
As for Tanya, I agree with the DS poster who identified her as a dependent character. That was well written into her psyche as part and parcel of the co-dependent relationship she enjoyed with Max. The longer Tanya stayed, the longer Max was being stunted and turning into a repetitive cartoon character.
With that in mind, as indefinite as her departure might be, she should never return. It's just a shame that Lauren and Cora can't go with her.
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