For all the necrophiliacs on Digital Spy soaps forum and their chief fanboi cheerleader, schizophrenically known as Chrissie 2005 and *Betty*, who are shipping the idea of bringing back Kathy Beale Mitchell, consider this:-
- The character of Kathy would now be 63 years old. Think about it - 63. She was eleven years older than Phil Mitchell, who will shortly turn 52. Sixty-three. That's three years younger than Cora and eight years younger than Patrick. People forget that time has passed when the fanbois start demanding that Lynne Slater be brought back (she'd be forty-six) or Belinda (who'd be fortyish) or even Little Mo (who'd be a deficient thirty-eight, even though the actress is really older than Jessie Wallace). Kathy, were she to return, would rank amongst the scarce population of pensioners on the Square.
- However, it would be impossible to associate her with such a demographic, especially since the actress has had extensive cosmetic surgery - a noticeable facelift and nose job, botox and a boob job. She looks younger than her 43 year-old son:-
Sixty-three year-old grandmother of four Kathy Mitchell
Forty-three year-old Ian Beale
Please note the incongruity. And please stop shipping this Witness Protection shit. People speak of witness protection schemes as being easy peasy, when they are anything but. They're rare, complicated and nonsensical when it comes to soaps, but - hey - as one long-term viewer remarked on Digital Spy, this is EastEnders 2013, and it's in the realms of the faeries. However, if Kathy had gone into such a Witness Protection whatever, her minor child would have also gone along. If not, and if whatever she knew or had done were serious enough for them to concoct a Witness Protection programme, the last thing authorities are going to do is send her young son, under his own name, with his older brother, to live with his family in London.
Simply put, as someone else said, there is no way Kathy would ever have allowed either or both of her sons to believe she was dead.
The other weird explanation is the fact that Kathy could have been in a coma. Please. Do some research. If a person were in a coma for seven years, that person would have severe physical, intellectual and emotional impairments with which to contend. There would be some element of brain damage.
Just accept facts: Kathy Beale Mitchell died. Like Cindy Beale, she was killed off-screen for various reasons to do with storylines and people in charge at those moments.
Should this have happened? No, but it did. So accept it.
As for the actress, Gillian Taylforth can say what she damned well wants; at the end of the day, she's going to Hollyoaks.
And Kathy is dead.
I don't know how much plastic surgery on her face Gillian Taylforth has had (I didn't know she'd any till you said, but then I do tend to live under a stone as far as following these people in 'real life' goes!) but if she had she's had some good work done because it's certainly been done well compared to other plastic surgery horror story photos I've seen of other 'celebs' trying to hold on to their youth!
ReplyDeleteBut I agree with the summing up of the situation of where 'Kathy' is (or rather isn't...) She's dead, not in 'witness protection', and it would look totally odd for her to come back looking like she does in real life now when it's well-known they had to age the character to make it 'realistic' when they employed Taylforth to make it just about legal that she could have a teenage son when EE first started in 1985! That's not Taylforth's fault, but it's an added inconvenience (with or without the effects of plastic surgery holding back the years even more) that the timeline in EE would not allow for 'Kathy' to return in character age whilst looking like Taylforth looks now. Unless we're going to have the ultimate retcon and find out that 'Kathy' was never the age she was touted to be right from the very start!
Taylforth does look good, though, whether or not you agree with plastic surgery or feel she needed it to start with - whoever her surgeon is she needs to recommend him to a few others who've had (probably more expensive) plastic surgery disasters... and there have been a few!
But 'Kathy' returning? No - not going to happen, no matter who says it might including Taylforth herself saying she'd return. Sometimes it's good to revisit the past in soaps, but most of the time it's best left well alone. Time moves on, life moves on, memories can remain, but sometimes that's all they should be.
Here endeth my philosophy for today!
JC
The age thing is something I often forget when it comes to Kathy. She does look far too young to be reaching 'matriarchal elderly' age, but at 63 there's no way they could really have her as some massive central character complete with a turbulent love life to boot.
ReplyDeleteIt's as shame, but all-round it's just not feasible for her to ever come back.