Emmerdale: Discussion Thread

[I Am A Swede]

Time for yet another big disaster plot, and the cliches are out in force.

"will go down in Emmerdale history"

"one of the biggest-ever stunts"

"The outcome is going to affect so many in the village as well. The aftermath is going to cause huge ripples"

 

My reaction:

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[AMCOLTLLover]

To be honest? I stopped visiting digital spy for months by now and I started to avoid as many Facebook/insta sites as possible about those lame spoilers and headlines lol

[MichaelGL]

It’s been overdone with on Emmerdale more than any British soap IMHO. 

[I Am A Swede]

And yet again there won't be any Dingle fatalities..... We already know Suzy's dead, and one of Liam, Amy and Leyla will be next. 

What will it take for a Dingle to die?? At this rate soon there will be only Dingles and Dingle relatives left on the show.   

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[AMCOLTLLover]

Leyla was confirmed to die months ago 

[I Am A Swede]

True, but I read somewhere that this might not be when she dies. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

[DRW50]

Emmerdale's social team were very smart to upload so much of this on Youtube as otherwise I wouldn't be watching any of it. I haven't really been able to muster up interest in anything on most of the soaps lately, but I felt like I owed Leyla this, somehow.

Was the scene of Mandy's drink splashing in her face intended to be so funny? It was like something from that old Madonna "Music" video.

Watching the video with the limo crash aftermath and the acting was overall better than the material deserves, although Michelle Hardwick, veered between passable and extremely hammy. I didn't believe anything she was feeling.

Amy is stronger than me because if I had Tracy yammering in my ear that much, I don't think I could make it.

There was a bit too much going on at various points where Liam and Amy were both near-death and Kerry and Leyla were also near-death. 

The whole Liam/Chas star-crossed aspect did work for me. Liam looked very dashing when he was near-death. He would be perfect in one of those Victorian-era pieces, dying of consumption. I'm surprised Liam is still here, but when the village gets some good community dick, I guess they're not going to let it go without a fight. 

I actually liked the idea of the stunt. I wish they'd done it in the years when they actually had a budget. 

It's unbelievably miserable to see Leyla realizing that she is going to die and watching everyone around her get saved. She doesn't get any last moment. Everyone else was worrying about somebody while she was just alone and lost, dying before our eyes. They couldn't even give her a moment with Jacob, because in death she had to be a plot device for the angst of others. Nothing was about her. It's not fair. 

Then we see Kerry...dragging her corpse, and way too much of Kerry crawling. Harry Hill would have been in ecstasy. 

This whole situation is very grim already, but I think there would have been more dramatic power if Kerry had died too. Have a shot of everyone who had escaped looking on numb as the limo with Leyla, Kerry and Suzy goes under. 

What annoyed me most in all this is the cliches, moments we've seen so many times they take me right out of the moment. Everything with Vanessa's reaction to Suzy. And Jacob's to Leyla. This is a relationship I always wanted to see properly developed but it never really happened. So any time he calls her "mum" I don't think that ever felt genuine. When they had him doing the chest compressions, all I could think was why do we always need to see this on television? When was the last time you reacted to it? Every single moment was a cliche, and not a very well-executed one, with the exception of the moment where the lady doctor hugged Jacob. She's a good actress.

I loved Leyla from the first time we saw her, hitting on Pollard in his old factory. I stopped watching Emmerdale on a regular basis years ago and even by that point it was clear the show was done with the character. I never really stopped caring about Leyla, even if the show did. I'll always think of what should have been.

If I think too much of how special the old Pollard/Metcalfe family unit was and what was done to it, I just get deeply sad. 

Farewell, Leyla. We won't forget you, or how much better you deserved.