Emmerdale: Discussion Thread

[I Am A Swede]

Oh, Amos....  

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   He was all excited like a little child at Christmas when Dolly asked if he would give her away at the wedding. It's little touches like that which makes you still love him even when he's at his most pompous. 

[I Am A Swede]

Episode 460, probably my favourite episode ever: Matt and Dolly's wedding.   

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And, unlike wedding episodes now, there weren't any last minute surprises, no jilted lover showing up to stop the ceremony, no pregnancy revelations, just a beautiful traditional wedding. With the added bonus of the chimneysweep at the end, a tradition most people probably don't know anything about anymore. But it's one of those little touches that made this show so wonderful, and so real, back then. 

So far I think 1978 has been the best year overall.   

[I Am A Swede]

What the hell is this? Are they turning Emmerdale into Game of Thrones with John Sugden as Ramsay Bolton? Hunting people with bow and arrows? I'm amazed at how low this once great show has fallen. It's mind-numbingly awful!

[provocative]

I've loved the show this week. The Sugdens(and Bartons) vs Tates renewed rivalry and having that actually be about farming; interconnected stories; some good romance with real yearning; a very camp soap villain - I think it's been very solid to be honest. 

[DRW50]

@I Am A Swede I thought you might be interested in this. 

It's from the Did You See? Twitter account. August 11, 1985.

 

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[I Am A Swede]

Good to know that the show's creator is on my side.   

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I can only imagine what he would say about the state of the show nowadays....  

[AMCOLTLLover]

And I Thought Meena and the maze hunting and maze fire was far fetched lol but Emmerdale loves to proof us wrong 

[I Am A Swede]

All done with 1978, and I think this was the best year for Emmerdale Farm. Unlike 1977 I had already seen a fair amount of episodes from this year before, but it was wonderful to fill in the missing gaps. And this year's MVP was undoubtedly Katharine Barker as Dolly. She radiates a different kind of energy than the show's previous younger leading ladies like Diane Grayson (Janie), Carolyn Moody (Alison), Lesley Manville (Rosemary) or Polly Hemingway (Kathy). Dolly has such a bright, sunny personality and she breathed new life into the Emmerdale household. 

It's such a treat to go back in time and immerse oneself into this world. I'm amazed at how realistic the show was. The actors perform real farm activities on camera, and everything feels authentic. Beckindale really feels like a small Yorkshire village, steeped in hundreds and hundreds of years of farming tradition. It's a world of its own, with its own way of life. Which is why NY Estates arrival in the area when they bought the Verney estate (Home Farm) was such a huge deal. This would drive story for years, and in a way it still does. The constant battles over Home Farm that is still going on started with this. It was a huge change for a community that had essentially stayed the same for centuries. 

We saw the first of Seth Armstrong this year, and we also saw the last of Gail Harrison as Marian Wilks. That feels a little sad. She only appeared sporadically after her initial departure, but she was always a welcome guest when she appeared, and her replacement Debbi Blythe didn't impress me during her brief stints in the late 1980s. (That they didn't bring either of them back for Henry's funeral is still a sore point for me, even though it's been over 30 years).

On now to 1979, and a year that will bring an even sadder departure than Gail Harrison's. This would be the last year of Katharine Barker's stint as Dolly, and I'm really not looking forward to saying goodbye to her. 

 

[I Am A Swede]

Oh great, so now it's not only Game of Thrones, but Misery as well.....  

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Emmerdale airs game-changing Mack twist as his fate is finally confirmed

Hard to believe that this is (supposedly) the same show as the one I've just watched having a fantastic year in 1978. 

[I Am A Swede]

I've just been reading some Emmerdale spoilers, and this show continues to infuriate me. Even I didn't know how accurate this prediction would be, although I really should have.

And they've dragged Robert into this abomination as well. To think that this is what Annie Sugden's grandson has been reduced to.  

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And the mere mention that Dingles like Chas and Cain will be all high and mighty and judgmental about the Sugden family makes me want to puke. Not a single member of that family of filth have any moral ground to stand on. (I doubt any of the Dingle scum can even spell "moral"). Hypocritical assholes, all of them. There is no death gruesome enough for that pack of bloodsucking leeches. 

There really aren't any other fictional characters I hate more than that whole inbred clan, and whoever it was that created them should be banned from any job in television ever again!

I'm going back to my safe place now, back to old Emmerdale Farm. 

 

[AMCOLTLLover]

For me my safe space of Emmerdale will always be 1996 to 2016.. 2017-18 had some OK things but 1996-2016 was my era. Especially the years 04 to 2012. If u know u know lol 

[I Am A Swede]

For me the decline had definitely begun in 1996. The show was still tolerable, but not as good as it had been. In the year 2000 the destruction began in earnest when the toxic duo of Cain and Charity first appeared, and it's been going rapidly downhill ever since.

[DRW50]

 

[I Am A Swede]

Thank you.   

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[DRW50]