I Am A Swede

Quentin

9 hours ago, Faulkner said:

They’re going back to having a group of past winners introduce the nominees one by one in each acting category:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2024-oscars-past-winners-introduce-acting-nominees-1235837121/

Why?  That just felt embarrassing and forced.

I think this story could work if they didn't bother trying to pretend that Sheila was dead and we knew from the start that this was an evil plan of hers to mess with Steffy's mind.

14 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Self-awareness glimmers aside, I agree it's difficult to care about cheating stories for this reason, among many others (lack of interest in the characters, in their relationships, the rushed pacing, etc.)

So much this!! I don't think I could care any less about anyone involved in this story even if I tried. Unfortunately that is true about most of the characters at the moment....

Nate has really adapted well to being a Dingle, including acquiring their incredible hypocrisy. I'm not condoning what Tracy and Caleb did, but has Nate forgotten that he had an affair with Moira, his own father's wife??  

15 hours ago, Althea Davis said:

Soaps need to have anti-heroes. I don't know if you watched in the 90s, but back in the day Sheila was daytime's greatest villain. I agree that she is over-exposed and stupidly written... but I wanted to see her redeemed or just transformed into an interesting anti-hero of the 2024 day. What Bradley did was use her for cheap tricks and in the end he burned her in the microwave like he does with everyone else. 

But Sheila has done far too many heinous things to ever be redeemed into an anti-hero. That's part of the problem soaps have with their charismatic villains. They take them too far before they realize that the character could be useful in the future. 

^^

Not all bears.....  

Frankly I would feel a bit cheated if Steffy was the one to finally take Sheila done. That "honour" should go to Lauren.

Stephanie would have been an ok choice as well, but that's not possible anymore, for obvious reasons.

This story has gone from 0 to 100 so fast. Too fast. There was no build-up whatsoever.

One of the most iconic moments in sports in the 1980s. 40 years later it's still breathtaking, but back then it was revolutionary.

SAG Award winners 2024: The full list of nominees and wins

So now we have Charity with PTSD, Belle is being abused, Eric has Parkinson's disease, Chas has cancer and we just had a car crash that killed a teenager....

Emmerdale is all about fun these days, ain't it?    

I have to say they did a marvelous job with the casting of Sydney Kathrann Smith. She really does look like a young version of Alice Horton.