I'm drawn to Digital Spy the way rubberneckers are drawn to car crashes, and I never cease to be amazed at the collective amount of stupidity found in one soap forum.
There's a discussion going on at the moment about Ian's ticking Sharon off about her son's behaviour. Was it hypocritical? Not half. Ian has about as much right to lecture someone else on their parenting techniques than the Pope has about giving birth control advice.
Ian's been an abysmal parent.
Let's start by saying all of his children, including children he has raised, have been spoiled little oiks. Steven Beale was provided with the best of everything, but when he was forced to live in a cramped flat above the chippie, he resorted to hate mail, targeting people such as Ian's cousin Mark Fowler. When Pat discovered this and Ian and Laura confronted him about why he did it, he coldly remarked that he was just saying things he'd heard Ian say about the people he attacked.
Lucy has made a lifestyle about being disobedient and disrespectful to Ian. When she trashed the house whilst he was away once, she smacked him across the face when he told her off. Ian smacked her back ... and then apologised.
Lucy is dead, but in her short life, she showed no loyalty and wasn't above taking a grand from her best friend's father in exchange for sleeping with him. She was a cokehead, and her twin brother, Ian's son, was her dealer.
Peter wasn't only just a coke dealer. He was a snobby, entitled little prick who dealt in the Bank of Dad, and I'll bet Ian's subsidising this great New Zealand adventure which would never come about in real time.
And Bobby is a killer.
More than that, he's a psychopath. He not only kept the letter Lucy had been writing at the time he whacked her on the head as she sat on the sofa, he kept the murder weapon (the jewelry box) and gave it to Beth. Just as a reminder of what happens to people who annoy Bobby by perceiving to upset the family routine.
Bobby was the unwanted son who didn't have the Cindy gene. Ian made it abundantly clear to him in the wake of Lucy's death that he wasn't Lucy. Well, now there's another member of the Beale dynamic who has the Cindy gene, and Ian seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time cooing and billing over her.
That must annoy Bobby.
Denny, on the other hand, was a posthumous child raised by his mother, who had no living blood relatives known to her. He's never had a male role model, and now he has an unlikely one in Phil Mitchell, who'll stoke the temper he inherited from his father and grandfather to the Mitchell advantage.
His bullying tendancy is an effort to get the right form of attention from Sharon. He wants structure and parameters. Sharon, on the other hand, is afraid of losing his love, the love of the only human being close to her by blood.
Denny might be a lot of things, but he's not a killer, and Ian's harbouring a killer under his roof.
There's a discussion going on at the moment about Ian's ticking Sharon off about her son's behaviour. Was it hypocritical? Not half. Ian has about as much right to lecture someone else on their parenting techniques than the Pope has about giving birth control advice.
Ian's been an abysmal parent.
Let's start by saying all of his children, including children he has raised, have been spoiled little oiks. Steven Beale was provided with the best of everything, but when he was forced to live in a cramped flat above the chippie, he resorted to hate mail, targeting people such as Ian's cousin Mark Fowler. When Pat discovered this and Ian and Laura confronted him about why he did it, he coldly remarked that he was just saying things he'd heard Ian say about the people he attacked.
Lucy has made a lifestyle about being disobedient and disrespectful to Ian. When she trashed the house whilst he was away once, she smacked him across the face when he told her off. Ian smacked her back ... and then apologised.
Lucy is dead, but in her short life, she showed no loyalty and wasn't above taking a grand from her best friend's father in exchange for sleeping with him. She was a cokehead, and her twin brother, Ian's son, was her dealer.
Peter wasn't only just a coke dealer. He was a snobby, entitled little prick who dealt in the Bank of Dad, and I'll bet Ian's subsidising this great New Zealand adventure which would never come about in real time.
And Bobby is a killer.
More than that, he's a psychopath. He not only kept the letter Lucy had been writing at the time he whacked her on the head as she sat on the sofa, he kept the murder weapon (the jewelry box) and gave it to Beth. Just as a reminder of what happens to people who annoy Bobby by perceiving to upset the family routine.
Bobby was the unwanted son who didn't have the Cindy gene. Ian made it abundantly clear to him in the wake of Lucy's death that he wasn't Lucy. Well, now there's another member of the Beale dynamic who has the Cindy gene, and Ian seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time cooing and billing over her.
That must annoy Bobby.
Denny, on the other hand, was a posthumous child raised by his mother, who had no living blood relatives known to her. He's never had a male role model, and now he has an unlikely one in Phil Mitchell, who'll stoke the temper he inherited from his father and grandfather to the Mitchell advantage.
His bullying tendancy is an effort to get the right form of attention from Sharon. He wants structure and parameters. Sharon, on the other hand, is afraid of losing his love, the love of the only human being close to her by blood.
Denny might be a lot of things, but he's not a killer, and Ian's harbouring a killer under his roof.
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