I wouldn't know where to begin but I think you are right. I'd cut the self-awareness down, I'd go back to the early years of the show with the pub as a meeting place rather than a slaughterhouse, I'd cut the forced camp down, I'd stop making stories so confusing, I'd stop with stories where so much took place offcamera before the characters arrived in Walford (one current character had a child with another character years earlier AND killed her other son's pregnant girlfriend). I'd try to tell challenging stories in an everyday way rather than "issue-based," I'd increase the show's diversity (which Clenshaw did to a degree but other than Yolande's sexual assault plotline most of those were very poor), I'd bring in new families, and, as you said, stop trying to top the past with another plot-driven bing bang boom moment. The show in its best years also focused more on smaller, everyday moments, which had a big payoff down the line.
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