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As much as I love old Emmerdale Farm, I have to say that the priorities are a little bit strange sometimes. The show can spend a lot of time on philosophical debates and scenes of people riding a tractor, but what should have been big dramatic moments, like Inglebrook (Henry Wilks' home) burning down or the revelation of Sharon Crossthwaite's fate, feel a little bit rushed. With the fire in Inglebrook I guess that could be a budgetary issue. I doubt the show had any money to spend on something like that, but they seriously missed something by not playing up the mystery of Sharon's disappearance and the subsequent revelation of her fate more. Like the shoe that Henry and Alison found while out bird-watching. That was obviously Sharon's shoe, but it played no part in the reveal.

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I just hope this doesn't mean that the black hole otherwise known as Debbie Dingle is also making a return to the village. We already have Aaron to fill that role and if both of those were on the show at the same time the negative energy would be enough for the show to implode....

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Damn this show was so good back in the early days. I've just reached the first (but certainly not the last) tragedy that hit the Sugden family: Peggy's sudden death.

The episode showing the aftermath was so subdued and quiet and there was a stillness about it all that perfectly captured the shock that Peggy's death brought. Toke Townley (Sam) was absolutely pitch perfect. His scene with Rev. Ruskin was heartbreaking and the last scene with him and Annie in the dark, silent kitchen at the end of the day was just a masterclass of understated grief.

This a level that today's Emmerdale could only dream of achieving.

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I know the dingles hate around here BUT Belle‘s character is kinda carrying the show on her back right now tbh.

BUT since the shocking episode of the „showdown“.. The story of Tom and Belle has been a letdown and the writers adding more and more bs to drag Tom’s demise out til Christmas. You can really tell. It started as an awareness storyline and people actually caring for it but now it’s too far fetched and ridiculous. Not even Meena‘s storyline became that dragged out like this.

I really wanted to say Kim is carrying this show on her back too with her little revenge on Will but this year it definitely has been Belle. 
BUT they really have to end this storyline coz it lost its momentum they built up and gave us last week

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I've been thinking exactly the same thing. The story actually was pretty good at first, with the subtle beginning and slowly escalating level of abuse. But it has gone on for too long. I know they said that they wanted it to be realistic but they're going overboard. They're dragging it out too much, and now the whole axe-attack..... 

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Anyone who knows anything about the Dingle family will realize that it is completely out of character for them not to have done something about Tom. I'm not saying that Cain should have beat him up or anything like that. But the tight-knit Dingle clan that I have come to know (and loathe) would have done something. Followed Tom around all the time, terrorized him mentally, stood outside his home watching him, things like that at the very least. Maybe not broken any laws (however unnatural that must feel for them) but let him know that they know what he's done and that he's gonna pay for it. There's no way that people like Cain, Charity, Mandy etc would just stand idly by after they learned the truth. No way.

 

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You're right, it's probably less. Just improv'ed the math of it all. 

Eric, Kim, Victoria (I know some dislike Isabel Hodgins now, but I haven't watched in years so she's still good with me), Bob, Rodney, Laurel, Nicola, Jimmy, Gabby, Brenda, Jacob. That's 11 out of 55 regulars. So 20%. I was close actually .

If the show went back to 2 episodes a week, I'd have no trouble at all. 

Though superficially, I love Jay Kontzle!

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