#current emmerdale

[veryveryverytemporarily]

Not sure what to say about the co-opting of Robert's iconic line... and then not even giving him a mention

I love Aaron but the Robert erasure made me sad :/

[scrapyardboyfriends]

A cartoon Robron version of the Barbie mugshot meme

[damnitiloveyou]

I'm curious to see how Iain chooses to 'fix' Emmerdale. He definitely had his faults, but when compared to what they've had the last 3+ years this is not terrible news. He did know how to build a story, I didn't always like the story, and the ending didn't always land, but he knew how to build one.

He also knew you don't make C characters the focal point of the show. Something these producers do all the time.

It definitely won't be easy to undo all their bullshit, but I'm curious to see what he axes story wise.

Also he did love to use Robert/Ryan so.........

[kornknock]

so I’m watching Dennis and Sharons storyline for the first time since it was live i guess (when i would have been like 6? lol) and im just obsessed… staying up til 2am to watch….. seeing dennis’ face when i close my eyes.. this is what mental illness looks like

[feuwise]

Charity IS looking so good in that episode !

[tm-trx]

currents.41/2023

Be Mine Superstar / Emmerdale / Taikan Yoho

selections from my week in media [8-14 october 2023]

[anticipating]

Elseworlds (DC) - DC is bringing back the Elseworlds line next year, one of my favorite things ever.

System Collapse by Martha Wells - the newest Murderbot Diaries book (another full-length novel) comes out in November

[listening]

"Buppha" / Worawit Kiyapate

"On My Own" / The People's Thieves

"With UNIVERSE" / Pentagon

[loving]

Yoh finally learned to make good curry and we all cooed.

[reading]

The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht - Watterson returns to publishing with a fable

They'll Talk About Us by finalizer - Red White and Royal Blue fluff

[watching]

Be Mine Superstar - Finished up the last four episodes just to get it off my list and was pleasantly surprised how good the ending was.

Beyond Evil - Rewatching because it's amazing and fits this time of year (Happiness is also on that list).

Emmerdale - Rewatched the beginning of Aaron and Robert's storyline in 2015. Robert really was the worst back then (did Aaron ever find out about the assassin Robert hired??). Aaron was so in love so fast and sick over it. My favorite tag, "the angst it is delicious" sums them up so well.

My Journey To You - Still slowly working my way through the last episodes and am currently paused on episode 19's fantastically horrifying revelation.

Ranking Every Adaption of The Thing / coldcrashpictures video essay - With a few exceptions, I can't deal with horror (I don't like being frightened and cannot handle a lot of jump scares or gory visuals). I'm a movie fan though, and there's a lot of really interesting stuff in the genre that I like to learn about. It's even better when the writer clearly loves the work they're discussing, like this essay. It's about an hour and well worth a watch/listen.

Taikan Yoho (My Personal Weatherman) - The last episode was everything I was hoping for. Communication, some sexy times, and more communication. Yoh and Segasaki are joining the ranks of couples that I wish we could see more of as their relationship develops and matures over time. I love them.

Bonus: a short list of books from my TBR if you're looking for something to read (Goodreads links provided)

Thornhedge by T Kingfisher - novella, horror, fairy tale

Starter Villain by John Scalzi - novella, first person pov, humor, cat on the cover

Forged By Magic by Jenna Wolfhart - novel, fantasy, cozy, romance

City of Bones by Martha Wells - novel, fantasy, sc-fi, dystopia

The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang - tome, historical, fantasy, queer

previous Currents posts found here

[actual-exhusbands]

At this rate I'm just waiting for the Casualty/Emmerdale crossover episode where it is revealed Robert got off innocent as they found oddities in his case and evidence for Luke killing his brother instead. Before he was released though he got cocky with other inmates and they battered his head in leaving him with a brain injury causing him to lose his memory. He came back round in the hospital thinking he worked there. Siobhan is friends with Lee and Luke's mother (I've completely forgotten her name but who can blame me) hence why she's pissed. Plus, Barney Walsh had relations with Robert before he met Aaron (like Daniel from corrie) which is why Robert remembers him.

Sneak peek - scene 2…

Man’s Best Friend - 03-Aug-2024

[thelovetheystole]

According to an article I read, Emmerdale has like 60 characters. Today, I want to take a moment to talk about the silent 61st character. Gone 5 years from the show, but still on everyone's mind, especially if you've been reading soap media in 2024...

Below, a little compilation I've made from just a couple of outlets, all this year (if I have made a mistake and included an older one, I apologise.)

These are far from all of it, and I've not even touched on the online click-bait stories. Here we have everything from blatant baiting (putting Robron on the cover of a magazine with Emmerdale previews and captioning it 'love conquers all!') to alluding (implying John is only the start of Sugden additions to the show) and even a cheeky suggestion that the show hand Ryan a black cheque 😂 Danny was flying the Robron flag proudly at the start of the year, and even Mike P wants Ryan to return...

Add to this that his name has been mentioned on screen 20-ish times, the show has recreated several Robron sceanrios with Aaron and the new Sugden and even had a keychain made with Robert's photo, as seen in the last collage...

Find me another past character that can match this 5 or even 2 years later! I bet there are even current characters or couples that haven't been alluded to this much in the media this year.

And clearly, the 'Is Steph a Sugden?' one takes the cake, as Robert is only 7 years older than her 😆

[dannymillerfansite]

Spoilers Emmerdale star Danny Miller has confirmed that his character Aaron Dingle will be sharing scenes with the show's new Sugden.

Show bosses recently announced the casting of former Coronation Street actor Oliver Farnworth as newcomer John Sugden, who'll be joining the village later in the summer.

John is a new arrival who'll be shaking up life for Victoria, who's the only remaining Sugden family member still left in the village.

He has also been tipped to "catch the eye of an unsuspecting resident", creating plenty of drama in the Dales.

Speaking to Digital Spy on the red carpet at the Radio Times Soap Awards, Danny teased: "There's a Sugden coming in. With the history that Aaron has with Robert, it'll be interesting to see what happens with them. "It's going to be an interesting few months, which is great."

Off screen, Ryan Hawley – who played Aaron's husband Robert – recently made the switch to BBC One's Casualty. He's currently playing the role of Jamie Cleveland in the long-running medical drama.

Asked about Ryan's new job, Danny joked: "Traitor! He's a great actor and I speak to him all the time.

"Hopefully he does a good job – I'm sure he will, with everything else he's done. I'm excited for him."

Oliver Farnworth was recently pictured filming alongside Jeff Hordley (Cain Dingle) for some dramatic Emmerdale fire scenes, which will air in a few weeks' time.

John Sugden will be involved in the high-stakes rescue scenes when Moira Dingle and Ruby Fox-Miligan get trapped in a burning barn.

via Digital Spy

[buddiebeginz]

I haven't been watching current Emmerdale because I hate what they've done with the show. If they bring Rob back of course I'll start watching again though because he's my favorite character of all time. Still can't believe they brought Ross back of all people before Rob. 😒 Don't forget that Mike Parr hates Robron so you know don't forget to mention them on all of the social media talking about him. I'm sure he'd love that. 😝

Mostly the point of this post is to say

REBECCA WHITE IS FINALLY GONE

From the time Rebecca arrived in Emmerdale she haunted Robron's storyline including even when she left the village because she was still causing them to fight about Seb. Hopefully now when Rob comes back (because I do believe he will) they can have a life and storylines that aren't connected to her.

Oh and just a reminder so people don't forget she totally took advantage of Rob when he was drunk and vulnerable and the show never took it seriously because he's a queer man and she's a woman. The amount of crap I got back in the day for speaking out against this character was nuts yet if Rob had taken advantage of Rebecca people would have lost their minds over it. I'll forever hate her because of how she treated both Robert and Aaron.

[veryveryverytemporarily]

What if Robert bought into the bnb. Maybe he got compensation for wrongful imprisonment. He could force Bob out, involving some kind of convoluted revenge on Wendy, and then be partners with Nicola and Jimmy, putting the band back together - yay.

And then he'd deal with angry Aaron, d**king sessions in the guest rooms until he mellows.

[scrapyardboyfriends]

I'm glad Emmerdale are finally getting rid of some of these characters. Nate and Will and Wendy and such have been on my axe list for years and characters like Ella never worked anyway. But I do share others concern that they're axing mostly non Dingle characters other than Nate and the show desperately needs to expand beyond the Dingles if it wants to survive. I was even thinking about the teens and I feel like half of them are related to each other so the dating pool just gets smaller and smaller, which is an issue.

I feel like if they want to get rid of Dingles, Sam and Lydia would be where I would start honestly, and Belle. Of course I'd feel bad for the actors but from a story potential perspective, Belle has really been exhausted over the years and especially with this latest story. I'd honestly send her off with a nice job opportunity exit and let her go live a happier life off screen.

Sam and Lydia have just become extremely irrelevant. Other than maybe Lydia's friendship with Kim, which doesn't get the amount of focus it used to anyway, they really have nothing to do. Samson is in prison, Amelia and Esther are gone. Zak and Lisa are gone. They could easily follow Belle or go to Scotland or anywhere. Follow Amelia to be closer to Esther.

Then I'd probably just move Mandy and Paddy up to Wishing Well so Liam can have his damn house back.

I'd axe Bear because I've never understood his purpose. I'd also axe Ryan because honestly what's the point.

And then I'd let Charity and Chas and eventually Cain rest as characters for a bit. Let Chas and Charity just be behind the bar for their episode counts but not have massive stories. Let Cain just be support to Moira and work at the garage for a bit.

I'd pull Noah into Joe's orbit and let him embrace his Tate side a bit. I'd let Joe get a true foothold into Home Farm so he and Kim have to actually work together up there. I'd bring in Jean Tate to make them more of a proper family up there. Maybe let them remember that Caleb is half Tate as well.

I'd kill the HOP and put in a better more functional business up there. One that can actually visibly employ people.

Honestly, at this point I'd probably axe Dawn and Billy as well. I want to like them and I do like Billy but they just don't know what to do with them and with Will gone, they either need to make them functional village characters with jobs or they need to go. I'd move Gabby back into the Home Farm sphere with Jean and Joe and Noah.

As for other new characters, I'd still bring in a whole new family with teens and then actually use those teens to allow the current teens to start having real stories and not just troubled teen stories. But not all issue stories either. Let them just date and work part time jobs and have visible friendships and react to their parent's stories and stuff in addition to have bigger stories of their own. Let them be real characters with real personalities.

I was also thinking about bringing back/recasting a character like Scarlet King. She could be good to give Jimmy more family again but you know...not make her a psycho. She could come in with a family or not. But she could give characters like Vic and Amy and Matty someone new to interact with.

I'd also probably axe Charles and Claudette and as much as I do like Manpreet, she has nothing to do either. Bring in a new vicar with a family.

And none of these new families would be connected to anyone in the village, especially not the Dingles.

I'd also probably axe Suzy and just let Vanity get back together and free Mack. Let Mack move in with Aaron and John until John just fucking leaves.

I'd still do whatever I possibly could to convince Ryan to return obviously.

I'd also probably axe Kerry at this point.

I'd let Vic and Matty/Amy buy into the B&B because Nicola and Jimmy are stretched too thin. Let Vic expand the B&B restaurant and be a functional character that has a life and purpose and doesn't exist just to annoy people or be their plot friend.

One of the new families would definitely have an older mother or aunt come with them that could date Mary.

Mary and Kim's friendship would also get to flourish again, especially if I axe Lydia.

I'm also just desperate for them to return to having some village stories that bring in the comedy and positivity. Things that aren't so serious.

Anyway...call me ITV, I have ideas.

[dust-n-roses]

Tagged by @there-is-purpose-after-all for the ‘10 people I’d like the know better’ tag :) happy birthday for Wednesday, Kasia!

Last song: listening to Harridan by Porcupine Tree rn!

Favourite colour: pastel purple

Last book: currently reading Dune by Frank Herbert; last one I finished is A History of Heavy Metal by Andrew O’Neill (a great mix of informative and funny)

Last film: uhhh I believe Groundhog Day which I saw over Christmas (liked the timeloop bit but not its descent into being a romcom smh)

Last TV show: keeping up with Emmerdale atm

Sweet, spicy or savoury: savoury

Current obsession: *gestures at blog* Opeth, Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson!

Last thing I looked up: ‘magnetohydrodynamics’ for fact checking whilst writing up a plasmas lecture yesterday

Looking forward to: going home for the weekend for my birthday in a couple of weeks to see family & play some albums :)

No-pressure tags: @jd-mp3 @progfessor-dyke @geddy-leesbian

[damnitiloveyou]

I'm finally all caught up and current with Emmerdale. I've been watching this show, and several others, for years and years so I understand that bad storylines happen. When you churn out that much of a singular product some of it will inevitably be bad. That being said though the John Sugden thing is inexcusably bad. He makes absolutely no sense at all. He doesn't even make sense as a badly written side character. I think everyone agrees that they most likely wrote him as a Sugden prior to talking to Ryan about a return and so the only thing they bothered planning for him was being in the middle of a love triangle when Robert returned to the village. When Ryan said no, or at least not right now, they just didn't bother coming up with anything else for John other than some tragic backstory with someone named Aiden Moore. A mini plot that went absolutely nowhere and amounted to absolutely nothing.

There is no point in him being a Sugden. He has nothing whatsoever to do with Vic. Not a single villager has even had so much as a passing comment about how odd it is that he's there, seemingly out of the blue, and suddenly in love with his brother's ex-husband. He spent Christmas day with Aaron and his family in the house that Aaron shared with Robert and Liv and no one acknowledged it at all. There wasn't even a moment of Aaron looking around wistfully. It's bizarre. It's nonsensical. And it's bad, lazy storytelling. There are writers in that building who have written some lovely scripts. There are people in that building who are capable of giving him and this storyline nuance. There are people in that building capable of acknowledging Robert's existence and importance to Aaron and his past while making it clear that Aaron is moving forward with someone else (if Ryan is really not planning on coming back). Ignoring the Robert and Sugden of it all is why people are convinced there's something more going on. Hiding something is the only thing that makes sense given how the story has been told thus far. All they need to do is address it! That's it! Let them talk about it! Allow it to be acknowledged by other characters. It won't make me hate him or this storyline any less but at least it would make some kind of sense. I understand that Aaron has to move on if Ryan isn't returning and that's hard enough but it's unbearable with a story this badly written.

[oswincoleman]

Jenna(-Louise) Coleman's name changes

Here is an interesting thing I found out recently during the current re-broadcast of Jenna Coleman's Emmerdale episodes.

Jenna Coleman used to be credited without "Louise" for her first episodes of Emmerdale, until July 19th, 2005:

From July 20th, 2005 onwards, she was credited as Jenna-Louise Coleman:

She kept that name for all her professional work for the next 8 years. Here, for instance, is her credit in Name of the Doctor.

She dropped the "Louise" part, because she kept being called "Jenna-Louise", even though she was used to being referred to as "Jenna", and so from November 13, 2013 onwards, and still to this day, she is once again credited as "Jenna Coleman", without the Louise.

Here is her credit in Day of the Doctor

And here in Wilderness:

[no-goodbyes-no-regrets]

I tried vibing some sunshine your way! I'm in England and we don't seem to get much of it these days, so maybe that's why it put me in such a good mood today.

I'm the same as you, only got into 911 properly after 7x04 (though I'd watched lonestar since the beginning - apparently everyone hates Rob Lowe but I still see him as Sam Seaborn from the west wing (one of my all time fav shows) 😂).

I've got no idea why there are so many interviews either, and maybe it's adding to how bad some of them are? Like it's diluting whatever messages Tim et al are trying to convey because they're doing it every week and there's only so many teasers you can keep coming up with?

If the current plot resolves with Tommy coming back by hiatus, or by the end of 8B, then the earlier interviews about hurdles to overcome, deepening the relationship, their romance being a romcom, Oliver saying he likes slow burns, etc etc will all make sense - but then the intervening interviews since then will look like total bullshit/outright lying? Idk, I know alot of interviews are by buddie 'journalists' and words can be misquoted and written with a bias, but some of them still seemed pretty clear the current relationship is over. Plus there's the interviews mentioning plots to come that definitely never happened, so I think I'm just back to wanting to ignore them as they cause too much unnecessary stress.

Plus why focus on the stress when the fic and speculation is fun. I've enjoyed mpreg before but never this much 🤣, for me it's the combo with the angst of a breakup makeup that makes it just chefs kiss.

And finally a robron question as I am pretty out the loop with it, do you think there's any chance of Ryan coming back on the horizon??

Sunshine from England?? No wonder it didn't work! That's too rare to send over!

I never watched Rob Lowe in anything before Lone Star really. Not REALLY. sometimes i see things and i'm like 'wait... he was in that???" - i did see some gifs (i think) of him and lisa edelstein in another show where they *also* played a couple. I don't remember what show that was though. But yeah -i've always preferred lone star over the OG. Even now every monday is like "oh hiii babies!!" And i don't think the fandom is as fucking rancid as the og fandom can be. (not the bucktommy fandom - i love everyone in this club, but you know what i mean) I've never seen anyone so *violently* hate tarlos and send hate to Rafa or Ronen just because they're not the person they think the other half of the couple should be with. Even my fellow Nancy/Marjan shippers (all 5 of us) who don't want Nancy with Mateo don't go around harassing Jules.

ANYWAYS - the interviews are bullshit. I mean Tim teased tension between henren and madney over mara, he teased eddie being the third wheel and buck not having time for him, he teased buck leaning on Tommy with the Gerrard of it all - none of that happened. And if you look at the quotes from Lou's interview especially it's more up in the air like "i have a job lined up, i'm going back to SWAT, and a few other things coming up and if they call me to come back i hope i'll have time" he never said he definitely 100% will never ever ever come back as Tommy. That's what the buddie baiting "journalists" turned it into.

And yes speculation is half the fun! I mean how many speculation fics has this fandom written the past six months? Or this-never-happened fix its. Or Tommy-was-there-after-all- fics. Keep 'em coming people! I'm not keen on mpreg fics though but hey if you're all having fun with them - have at it! I know how to blacklist and keep scrolling ;)

As for Ryan coming back... I REALLY hope so... but realistically speaking... i don't think so. But if emmerdale wanted to prove me wrong and give me Robert Sugden back for Christmas, i wouldn't hate that! just FYI @ soap gods