Please stop it. Just stop it.
David Wicks and Carol Jackson were never love's young dream. As much as EastEnders would love to push it now, the childhood sweetheart motif never works. Well, rarely.
They were a teenaged romance which ended in a fumble behind the bikesheds when both were fourteen and she got pregnant by him. Before the three older Branning brothers (yes, originally, there were three older brothers for Carol), beat him up, David tried to force Carol to get an abortion, lying to his dad Pete Beale to get the money from him to pay for it.
As for David scarpering the last time after being scared witless by the latest reincarnation of the three Branning bruvs (one older, two younger), believe me ... he would have dumped Carol anyway. This is what Max meant when he called Derek and Jack down in their attempts to hurt David - leave him alone. If he left with her, she'd only be back after he abandoned her.
Look at any of the previous clips of David, especially in the 1990s. There's a phrase that David uses consistently to explain (badly) his behaviour.
David declining to accompany Cindy and her sons to Italy aboard Eurostar, backing out of their relationship:-
It's what I do.
David, on his last day in Walford, telling his ex-wife Lorraine that he was leaving and that Joe would have to live with her, even before he'd told the mentally-challenged Joe that he was going:-
It's what I do.
He's even used that phrase this time to Carol. It is what he does. David doesn't do commitment. He never has. He runs away when the going gets tough. He abandoned a wife and two young children. He slept with both his brothers' wives, destroyed their marriages and left them to pick up the pieces.
This isn't even about Carol. It's simply David and the weak cowardly man he is. His second departure in 2012 mirrored exactly his original departure in 1996, only instead of Carol crying in the rain, we had Joe Wicks in his pyjamas in the middle of the street.
Post-Bianca, David only turns to Carol for comfort sex. After returning to Walford in the wake of Cindy leaving, he was shunned by the community, including Pat and Pauline, his mother and aunt. Carol was suffering from Alan's infidelity and they reunited for a weekend before realising it wouldn't work. In 2012, David's comfort sex came from grieving for his mother.
David's saying everything always leads back to Carol is a manipulative con because David knows how easy Carol is. And she is an easy lay. Look at the number of men for whom she's fallen on a dime since her current return - Lewis the army guy, Connor, Eddie Moon, Steve. Of course, she's still looking for the legendary romance, but she refuses to honour the fact that all men have feet of clay.
David's after Carol at the moment because he needs a place to stay. Once he's back on his feet and in whatever business he garners, he'll be after the types he frequented before (Cindy and Sam Mitchell) - a Kirsty, a Roxy, a Sadie.
Don't make Carol and David to be some great romance. They simply aren't.
And Finally ... David Wicks is not Cindy the Greek's father. Don't even GO there.
David Wicks and Carol Jackson were never love's young dream. As much as EastEnders would love to push it now, the childhood sweetheart motif never works. Well, rarely.
They were a teenaged romance which ended in a fumble behind the bikesheds when both were fourteen and she got pregnant by him. Before the three older Branning brothers (yes, originally, there were three older brothers for Carol), beat him up, David tried to force Carol to get an abortion, lying to his dad Pete Beale to get the money from him to pay for it.
As for David scarpering the last time after being scared witless by the latest reincarnation of the three Branning bruvs (one older, two younger), believe me ... he would have dumped Carol anyway. This is what Max meant when he called Derek and Jack down in their attempts to hurt David - leave him alone. If he left with her, she'd only be back after he abandoned her.
Look at any of the previous clips of David, especially in the 1990s. There's a phrase that David uses consistently to explain (badly) his behaviour.
David declining to accompany Cindy and her sons to Italy aboard Eurostar, backing out of their relationship:-
It's what I do.
David, on his last day in Walford, telling his ex-wife Lorraine that he was leaving and that Joe would have to live with her, even before he'd told the mentally-challenged Joe that he was going:-
It's what I do.
He's even used that phrase this time to Carol. It is what he does. David doesn't do commitment. He never has. He runs away when the going gets tough. He abandoned a wife and two young children. He slept with both his brothers' wives, destroyed their marriages and left them to pick up the pieces.
This isn't even about Carol. It's simply David and the weak cowardly man he is. His second departure in 2012 mirrored exactly his original departure in 1996, only instead of Carol crying in the rain, we had Joe Wicks in his pyjamas in the middle of the street.
Post-Bianca, David only turns to Carol for comfort sex. After returning to Walford in the wake of Cindy leaving, he was shunned by the community, including Pat and Pauline, his mother and aunt. Carol was suffering from Alan's infidelity and they reunited for a weekend before realising it wouldn't work. In 2012, David's comfort sex came from grieving for his mother.
David's saying everything always leads back to Carol is a manipulative con because David knows how easy Carol is. And she is an easy lay. Look at the number of men for whom she's fallen on a dime since her current return - Lewis the army guy, Connor, Eddie Moon, Steve. Of course, she's still looking for the legendary romance, but she refuses to honour the fact that all men have feet of clay.
David's after Carol at the moment because he needs a place to stay. Once he's back on his feet and in whatever business he garners, he'll be after the types he frequented before (Cindy and Sam Mitchell) - a Kirsty, a Roxy, a Sadie.
Don't make Carol and David to be some great romance. They simply aren't.
And Finally ... David Wicks is not Cindy the Greek's father. Don't even GO there.
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