Friday, August 23, 2013

Reading for Comprehension

Shaz1022, the one-man fan club and shipper of Jacqueline Leonard, who played (for one year) the iconic (not) ex-wife of David Wicks, is now shipping the meme that Michelle Collins has tweeted that she's hopeful for a return to the show.

You can read the shipper's thread and the ensuing responses here and you can read what Michelle Collins actually tweeted here.

Quoting her Tweet, word for word, she said:-

Yes I met the new Cindy on the train recently! Who knows what's going to happen in the future!!!X
I'm sorry, but that in no way says or even implies that Collins might return to EastEnders or that she wants to do so. The tweet implies that no one knows what's in store in the future regarding the "new" Cindy, who's actually a completely different character altogether. This character is Cindy Beale's daughter, to whom she died giving birth.

The only interpretive and subjective mention of a possible return for Cindy was tweeted by someone named Terence Thatcher, and he tweeted that only reflecting his own opinion and hopes, not fact.

What's fact is what actually happened when Michelle Collins met Mimi Keen on the train. She remarked on the record, afterward, that neither the actress nor Collins's own daughter looked like her.

What is also fact is that Collins couldn't return to EastEnders as Cindy because Cindy is dead. She died, off-camera, in childbirth and we had a scene where Ian identified her body. Crying. What is also fact is that former Executive Producer, Matthew Robinson, wanted Collins to reprise her role for three days' shooting in order to depict the birth of Cindy Jnr and the outcome of her impending trial - remember, she was on remand awaiting trial for the attempted murder of Ian.

Had Collins done this, Cindy would be alive and well and probably out of prison today, causing mischief, and very much alive to return to Walford for a reunion with her daughter and to stir things up with David Wicks. But, as Robinson recounts in the interview, Collins simply couldn't be bothered to commit - to three days! - and, thus, was killed off.

The moral of that story is that no one is bigger than the show, including the current go-to girl Jacqueline Jossa.

And the moral of this blog is: Don't go spreading rumours when there's nothing to spread. Try spreading butter on bread instead. 

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