#i'm rewatching the robron storyline

[sabrinasprincess]

never not thinking about how hot ryan hawley looked in this episode

[robronrewatch2023]

Reminder that we will be starting the community robron rewatch one week today! I will be posting links to the start of the day's viewing on youtube at 6am GMT - there is an hour per day lined up. You can watch it at any time throughout your day or save some for your days off or whatever works for you. We're starting from the point where Danny Miller started playing Aaron.

In the evening, I'll post a short summary of what happened in that day's viewing. You can use this to follow along if you're too busy to view, or to find just your favourite bits, or whatever.

I don't want to clog up the tags so I'm mostly not going to tag posts as robron etc, so make sure you follow this blog if you want to follow along. However, I will put a post in the tags when Robert rejoins the show and the robron storyline kicks off, in case you just want to keep an eye out for when that section starts.

I'm excited to get started with you all! I would love to chat in the #robronrewatch2023 tag.

[castielmoriarty]

I'm finding myself surprisingly undecided on what I want to happen when Vanessa gets back. I'm usually 'queer rep above all', but it can't be denied that I never liked Vanessa much and mostly enjoyed Vanity because I have a crush on Charity and want her to be with a woman + want the wlw rep. it's terrible how they've consistently had several gay male characters/couples, like Robron, Finn/hospital guy and Lawrence/Ronnie during, iirc, the same time, or Ethan and Marcus having their thing while Aaron was dating he who must not be named. unless Marcus was later, but at least with Ethan there were three gay guys at that time. and now we have Nicky, Suni, Arthur and the guy Arthur was/is (?) into (I haven't watched their story because teenagers). whereas since the start of the Robron era, iirc Vanity and then Vanessa and Suzy have been the only wlw rep, but during Ness/Suzy ofc Charity was only with guys. so, the imbalance between mlm and wlw rep is just shameful. so, tl:dr. I do want the wlw rep more than I want Mackity, but I'd prefer it be with Charity and someone else than Vanessa. and I've liked Mackity from the start, they're a really good fit. much better than Vanity ever was (if you're like me and want Charity to be her unlawful chaotic self rather than the more well behaved person it seems she has to be to be with Ness). however, being domestic has made Mackity somewhat boring, to the point that I haven't watched much of their story the last few months. so between undomestic/early Mackity and Vanity, I prefer the former. but between current married (Chloe storyline aside) Mackity and Vanity, I'd prefer Vanity, just for the sake of Gay. then again I enjoyed the reunion kiss more than I thought I would, in fact I might have even rewatched it more than once, so... I just don't know. I guess it'll make it more interesting to watch though, not knowing who I'd rather Charity choose. maybe it's time for Emmerdale's first (as far as I know) poly relationship. :') that aside ideally what I'd want for Charity is for her to be with a woman with a personality similar to Mack's.

[buddiebeginz]

I feel like anyone has to be an improvement over the current show runner. I know we got some great Robron things in 2018 but I honestly think their lack of screen time and decent storylines played a role in why Ryan (and other cast members) left.

Even though Iain was the one to introduce Rebecca and the hell plot Jane and the others were the ones to keep Rebecca cemented in Robron’s life right up until Rebecca was written off the show. Like literally even when they got engaged for the second time they spent part of that ep and the following one (during their engagement party) talking about her.

For me in some ways that was almost worse than everything that happened in 2017. I think had Robron been allowed to have some distance from her after all she put them through it would have made them a lot more enjoyable. I personally found a lot of Robron scenes difficult to deal with in 2018/2019. 2018 due to all the inclusion of Rebecca and 2019 because of the stuff with Vic and Lee.

I've been hopeful that Ryan will come back now that we've seen him acting regularly again. I've been even more hopeful since we saw Danny posting pics of them together last year. I also think it's a good sign when the show has mentioned Rob multiple times. Soaps don't usually mention characters that are gone unless it's necessary to the story and they really don't do it over and over unless it's related to something that's coming like that character is coming back or their sibling or kid is.

But I'm a ton more hopeful now that I've found out they're changing show runners FINALLY. I've been hoping for Ryan to return (ever since he left tbh) but I've been doubtful that he would the way the show is now. It's honestly a shell of it's former self which is all the more apparent when you rewatch the old stuff from like 2015/2016. The storylines the show did like Aaron's abuse, Who shot Rob, Laurel's alcohol abuse, Ashley's dementia like the show used to be so amazing and have these storylines that could really affect people. Now it's just one dull over used plot to the next. Emmerdale definitely needs a shake up especially if it's going to continue on during a time when people don't watch tv the way they used to anymore.

Not saying Iain is the best person ever for the job but I am hopeful that him coming back to the show will bring good things for Emmerdale and for Robron too. Him coming back may just be the thing that gives Ryan the push to come back too.

Thoughts on the news robron fans? Iain was of course responsible for hell year 2017 and Rebecca. But he also gave us SSW 2016, the first wedding and everything leading up to the reunion 2018.

He never really understood Robert and called him 'born evil' but on the other hand he definitely valued Ryan and gave him plenty of screentime, as well as the whole Christmas episode 2017. And of course he 'introduced' Seb, which I know was a story Ryan was sad to see end when he left the show.

Should this make us more or less optimistic for a robron reunion 3.0?

[missingexaltation]

You know what. It's been years since I watched Emmerdale and even longer since the whole Robron saga.

And I'm still fucking furious.

I cannot believe that one of the first storylines after they get together properly was the bisexual man cheating and getting a woman pregnant. (I honestly believed that since he'd accepted his bisexuality that he'd actually grown as a person.) I also can't believe the character regression for both Robert and *vomit* Rebecca in the few months afterwards, especially during the pregnancy or her kidnapping.

I wish she'd planned the whole thing and threw it in his face, I wish she'd lied and the kid was actually Ross's (which would have made THEIR exit much better), I wish she'd had an actual backbone or character at ANY point instead of being turned into an unfortunate, ill, saintly figure that needed constant looking after, and I wish for once that Robert had showed some sort of positive development (especially some that internal development didn't revolve around a cheat child). She was just such a bland non-character that it actually hurt for her to have so much screen time.

I hate the fact that the kid was Robert's, I hate how Rebecca was then consistently his priority over his husband, I hate the fact that Aaron was also baby brainwashed into being nice to her and I hate the fact that they never really got any prolonged happiness before Robert left.

I know it's a soap but it was so constantly fucking negative.

I can't even rewatch any of it now because the ONS storyline and consequent baby storyline was so fucking boring and yet rage inducing that it's almost ruined the entire thing. (And people don't tag the kid in their posts so he's in half the gifsets, so there's no escape even on a casual scroll through the tag).

Literally any other storyline would have been more entertaining for these pair, but no. Had to include a woman in their main m/m relationship and make it all about her.

Even Chrissie or Nicola would have been better matches if they wanted Aaron to have his jealousy storyline. Chrissie would have MILKED it for all it's worth, and the actress was fab! (No disrespect to the other actress, but she was a bit...not great).

Eurgh.

Apologies, miserable rant over 😂. Had to get it out somehow.

(Their wedding was cute though, I'll give them that. The red/blue suit one. That was the only episode I watched after the kid was born).

[ayyron-dingley-blog]

Is he also not eating?

[scrapyardboyfriends]

Are you really going to watch this new storylin, I'm having a hard time dealing with that and loving robron :(

Right now I’m very passively watching the whole show. When this Aaron stuff comes up, I’m going to attempt it. If it’s too weird or if I hate it that much, then I’ll do my best to stop watching again.

I feel like, due to breaks and covid and all the collective rewatches though, I have so far been able to separate robron Aaron and current Aaron in my head a little. Like current Aaron is almost a different character. And in the robron compartment in my brain, he and Robert are living happily in three universes we’ve sort of established for them. Future post prison reunion universe, robron with their kids universe and France robron.

Now this is also because Aaron literally hasn’t been on screen and when he has, he was talking about Robert. So I really have no idea how I will respond to actually watching him interact with a new guy. But I’m also very capable of just analyzing it from a writing standpoint.

But regardless of whether you or I watch it or not, none of it can take away from those five years Robron did have and what it meant to us. It’s sort of like watching someone screw up an adaptation of your favorite book. You’ll always have the book.

[sweetcandygirl21]

Not guna lie, I'm loving Rob being friends with Jimmy and Nicola. I have been rewatching the Robron storyline and I remember their horrified faces when Robert went round to tell them he had bought Charity's share in Home James. And now they're bffs! 😍 😍 😍

[rustandruin]

Can you help me out please? I'm looking for resourceful Robron blogs to follow (spoilers, fanfiction, recommendations.) Thank you in advance.

Heya Anon, 

Sorry it’s taken me so long to answer this! I just wanted to try and be as thorough as possible. I’ve tried to divide this along as best as possible. Hopefully, you’ll still find this helpful! (Also, if people want to add on, please do so! ESPECIALLY if I forgot you!) 

Ideally, all of this will show up below the cut so everyone won’t have to deal with a mammoth post. I apologise in advance. 

SPOILERS

In general, if you follow enough people within the general fandom, you’ll see when spoilers get dropped because if they’re particularly juicy everyone will be abuzz. 

Though schedule-wise, here’s when you can expect spoilers to drop (shout out to @nooneelsecomesclose17 for help with this):

“Press spoilers for the TV guides and such is usually Thursdays (the odd week it’s Wednesday). Preview videos go up usually on Fridays, preview pics on a Monday. The Irish magazines is usually posted Monday mornings, and the rest around midnight Monday/Tuesday. Metro and Digital Spy articles about the spoilers are usually 7AM Tuesday.”

Blog-wise, here’s a nice bunch to follow: 

@dannymiller-irish-fan is wonderful about providing everyone with magazine scans of spoilers and interviews and stuff. 

@emmaamags does the same and is pretty thorough with their spoiler gleaning and sharing as well. 

@ryanhawleysthighs does a great job of tracking spoilers too! And they track it well in advance date-wise which can be helpful. 

FANFICTION

If you’re looking for a fic recs, @robronfic and @robronficlibrary are helpful to follow since they tend to include helpful tags like genre and word count, etc. (They also take asks about fics and stuff so in case you’re looking for something specific!) 

If you’re looking for people who take prompts, I kind of answered an ask about this a while back, everyone on that list writes and takes prompts if you have ‘em. 

But in general, here’s a handy-dandy group of writers to check out: 

@nooneelsecomesclose17 , @persiflager , @escapingreality51 , @littlelooneyluna , @thesnowyswan , @capseycartwright , @aarobron , @vckaarrob , @robertjacobsugdens , @notforonesecond , @7amlecturerambles , @robertmakesafoolofhimself , @prettyboysugden  , @smittenwithsugden , @blondhairedking , @amandaj718 , @andyouknowitis and I guess, because I’m feeling a little shameless, myself. 

If you dig poetry, I know @surviveyourhumanity has been charming us with some great stuff. 

You might also want to keep an eye out for @emmerdalebigbang which is basically this really cool event where a bunch of fic writers have signed up to produce a fic that is more than 15K, as well as to be matched up with an artist who’ll be producing work based on whatever they’ve written. 

ART/GIFS

@scrapyardboyfriends does some lovely scenes and I think takes requests!

@messedup21 has been producing some lovely edits and totally takes requests. (They made my mobile header!) 

@illgetmerope has been putting together some amazing stuff lately too. 

@wycombewanderer makes these crazy amazing moodboards that you can get lost in for hours.

@blondhairedking does that too. It’s just mindbogglingly gorgeous. 

GIF-wise, check out:

@whatdiknow , @dinglehorton, @lizzzzoo , @evak-malec , @aarondingel , @isabellaofparma , @robrongifrequests ,

GENERAL SHENANIGANS 

For metas, posts, and general ruminations on Robron/Roblivion’s relationship, romance and general history almost everyone on this post is pretty golden, but here are a few more: 

@letthebluerain , @lesfemmesdangereuses , @dorsetti , @bartsugsy , @mrdinglesugden , @peterbeale , @vicbartons, @robertisbisexual , @omarandjohnny

SCENES

Here’s a bunch of YouTube channels to check out if you want to rewatch or catch up on the Robron/Roblivion and Matty Barton storylines. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

@smittenwithsugden is great for scene transcripts that involve either member of Robron (and I think Liv as well). 

@robron-fandom-compliments is a great resource/tool to send some love to blogs you follow or admire! Especially if you’re too shy to do so yourself. They also recently organised a week where they secretly paired up a bunch of bloggers and had them compliment each other. 

@emmerdaleoutfits is my new favourite thing because I’ve recently become obsessed with menswear, but they’ve been tracking down a bunch of different looks and I’m sure they’ll suit your needs if you have a request. 

@notcorrectemmerdalequotes is a fun blog that sometimes mixes and matches quotes from other shows with characters from Emmerdale, all of which are on the money. 

Hope you find this helpful, Anon. Feel free to say hi or hit me up with any other questions! Have a good rest of your day! 

[robron-til-the-end-of-time]

When you think about it ED are just about finishing off the leftover storylines of Iain's ssw 2016. Robron's story was basically the last one left to have a resolution and we are getting the wedding in a few weeks. I say this now but i'm relieved we appear to be moving on properly. Bring on Kim.

It really feels like we’re in a new era.

I actually went back and rewatched rebecca’s scenes tonight, because she’s a completely different (and for the first time) REASONABLE character. Robert clutching onto her skirts really hasn’t let her be anything other than “the robron problem” which really hasn’t helped her. You can’t tie two characters together for this long if the public don’t at the very least tolerate them, because they get bored and it doesn’t work.

I went off on a tangent there.

The difference in the way the women are being directed and treated is phenomenal, comparatively. Forget Rebecca, Vic wasn’t allowed to be upset at her husband being a murderer until we got new people in charge. The Charity story has big problems, but she is actually allowed to have a reaction to it all. The Debbie of before basically became a prostitute, and even though I’m not happy with her, we’re seeing multiple scenes of her being a mother. Nicola and Laurel’s friendship being resurrected!

And the follow through is much better. Doug got to mention Gerry multiple times. Every character after Lachlan’s saga mentioned him, even Jessie who had nothing to do with him. Iain seemed to go “bam, bam bam!!” big story after big story, with no resolution, to the point that Debbie was shot and no one noticed. This feels entirely different.

[bartsugsy]

Oh Lo. Please teach me your ways. I mean I'm not even overly negative about everything, but how can you always be so excited./see the positives with each new spoiler/quote? I wish I could lol. Cos seriously, IM's definition of 'fun' and mine appear to be vastly different. This mainly boring scheming Robert plpt continues into next year? We're not getting a reunion til 2018 are we? Lord, they really want to test our patience don't they? Have we not paid are dues yet? haha! Who's exit you think?

do you know what anon, it’s weird, but i was actually thinking about what i would say to someone earlier today, if they asked me how i tend to stay positive???? it’s like our brains just know sometimes lmao - but that’s why you’re about to get a weirdly deep answer instead of what i usually say here

and honestly, i was thinking about this because i was thinking about life in general and how much i believe in the power of positive thinking? and how incredibly well it works? in fandom terms particularly, it’s a life saviour - in life it’s can be a lot more of a struggle to remind yourself but yk we’re not getting that deep we’re just talking about a soap

i get that it sounds like bullshit, but it works for me literally every single time. i’ve found that complaining about things is literally giving voice to negative thoughts and giving voice to negative thoughts is giving power so that they can breed more negative thoughts and before you know it, you’re sinking down this weird self-made hole of sadness - and not only that, but it spreads to other people, because humans are like feelings sponges and we feed off other people’s emotions a lot - it’s hard to be the lone person feeling one way in a room of people feeling the other. it’s like subconscious peer pressure.

but then the opposite - looking at the positives, being as steadfast and determined and strict with yourselves to look at the good sides of everything, is fucking life changing. there are like one thousand and one ted talks on this - like, you wouldn’t believe how many damn ted talks there are. anyway, because i was in this weird mood this morning and reflecting on it, i watched one that used a quote from wayne dyer - “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

THIS IS SO EMBARRASINGLY DEEP FOR WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A CONVERSATION ABOUT FLIPPIN EMMERDALE SPOILERS BUT IT’S TRUE OK 

it’s true. if i look at spoilers andlook for the positives and literally refuse to give voice to the negative, pullmyself back to the positives whenever i do, and beyond that encourage thatpositivity in others through humour or happy thoughts so that maybe it spreads - and if i do it enough times that it becomes natural to me, a natural response to anything and everything, then… well… everything gets a hell of a lot more fun and enjoyable and those things that maybe i once thought were negative and worrying somehow turn into positives. and that’s not me desperately trying to tell myself something is good - it just genuinely does become something that inspires good feelings in me, happiness and excitement and whatever. i can’t really explain how well it works - you have to experience it. but like now? now i literally fucking love that rob and rebecca had a one night stand lmao. like. i love that god damn story beat so much. it’s just about changing the way you look at things - so when i used to look at that scene, all i ever saw was jfc why i don’t actually want this - but after really and honestly thinking about it in every way, by about acknowledging that i can’t change it and then looking at it from every angle, i look at that scene now and i see the show committing to showing just how affect robert is about everything, and also playing out a soap trope in what is literally the most shippy way possible. i see a scene that is, perversely, entirely about robert’s love for aaron and also a scene that gives me a great look at who robert is as a character and the way he reacts in situations. 

it sounds ridiculous? like, it really god damn does, but like… actually, why does it matter if it sounds ridiculous if i’m having fun and hopefully making other people smile occasionally lmao

also, beyond this, i’m also all about accepting the things i cannot change - and the writing of emmerdale? that’s a thing i cannot change. so why fight it? why not just buckle in and enjoy the ride? what the hell else am i gonna do? 

so yeah, anyway, it’s not about paying dues or anything, it’s not about making us suffer for our crimes of loving too much lmaooo  - they’re just…. it’s a soap and they’re telling a story that ultimately has robert and aaron interacting regularly and still being stupidly in love and eventually reuniting properly. so all i can do and all i want to do is find ways to enjoy the journey - and this is true of every storyline ever. 

and the result of me giving as much voice as i can to the things i enjoy and literally just ignoring any thoughts i may have or thoughts other people have about what they don’t because i don’t find them helpful (sorry all other ppl i love you i just gotta do me) - is that what we’ve had so far has been so much fun for me. i enjoy aaron and robert interacting in a - in a way, very abuse era-esque manner, obviously in an entirely different context. like - they both want to be together but they can’t - and now the feelings are there but only tenfold and so their scenes always have that bubbling underneath. a little bit of subtextual love and angst is fun. yes i want them to get back together and make out and cuddle and all that good and lovely jazz but like… that’s not the only way to enjoy their scenes, i don’t think. why would anyone ever rewatch the lighter relationshippy aspects of the abuse storyline if it was?

like - the smitten kitten scene? maxine’s episode where they go to find sandra? rob dealing with aaron leaving to see family in ireland for a bit (#parallel) and literally just trying to get info about how he’s doing out of chas on a daily if not hourly basis? they weren’t together during any of that. so why do they need to be together as a couple to have amazing, wonderful scenes now? why does them being split up automatically mean we’re in for months of no robron at all? because that hasn’t been what i’ve seen so far and from everything that has been said, that isn’t what they seem to have in store for us going forward.

obviously, you know, you gotta do you etc etc but… yeah, this is literally my secret lmao. just… idk. it took me a long af time to learn this and i had to go through a lot of sadness to get there but… idk the idea of being sad about a soap all the time just isn’t something i’m interested in for a way to spend my free time. so i don’t spend it that way. 

basically, what i’m saying is, this isn’t just innately me, irrationally excited about all things ever. it’s something i learnt to do and it changed my god damn life for the better in every damn way.

(i think it does make me a horrible person to try and be salty with when it comes to plot or spoilers though because i will, with all the love and good intentions in the world, probably refuse to let a conversation wallow in that misery and probably change the subject to something happier in order to preserve the hard work i’ve done on myself)

idk idk hopefully this doesn’t sound like a flipping lecture or whatever but this ask just came at a hilariously appropriate time for where my head has been at this morning

[aviewfromtheclouds25]

Something keeps jumping out at me after reading about all of the repeating storylines. Rebecca's story is also repeating. The 1st time around she lost the baby (abortion), Robert (to Chrissie), and her family(because she left). Cut to now, and she's lost the baby (I'm thinking there was no baby, but she thought there was), Robert (think she finally realizes that it's not happening), and her dad is upset with her, and we know he's going to be dying soon. I'm thinking maybe she has a breakdown.

All this time waiting for a Robert breakdown which never came, only to have one for Rebecca instead… Typical. (I jest haha, Robert’s characterisation during the reveal was perfect.)

This is exactly it though, anon! What I’ve been thinking is Rebecca had an abortion, realised Robert wasn’t going to choose her over Chrissie and booked a one-way plane ticket somewhere… Now Rebecca has found out there isn’t going to be a baby (I completely agree that she was never pregnant but believed she was), realised that Robert is never going to choose her over Aaron and once again booked a one-way plane ticket with no intention of coming back�� Of course we know she’s going to come back but we don’t yet know the reason why. (Unless I’ve missed something??) You know, anon, I would love some kind of breakdown if it meant her just snapping and admitting to playing games etc. :P But ultimately, if it meant her character started to make a little more sense, then it could only be a good thing in terms of the narrative I think.

While we’ve touched on these parallels with Rebecca’s backstory though, I’m afraid I’m going to go on a slight tangent but it absolutely fits to this analysis in my mind haha. Because @itwasjustmisplaced and I have been discussing Rebecca’s wardrobe choices a lot, as you do, because we’ve noticed some patterns emerging…

Now this discussion began when we registered the significance of the dress Rebecca wore in the hospital episode when she left - it being the same one that she was wearing at the party on Aaron’s release day…when she found out she was pregnant. (You see the tragically ironic circle if she then found out she hadn’t been pregnant at all at the hospital?) Now, Taryn and I have since come to the conclusion that Rebecca’s only worn this dress four times, and each time something potentially significant to the current storyline has happened:

10th Nov - The most significant thing that happened with Rebecca herself was Robert interrupting Diane’s protest at Home Farm and humiliating Rebecca (for show supposedly) and then her getting all in his face in front of his family. But something significant happened with Vadam who have been linked to Robron continuously… Vic went to hospital where she revealed she thought she might be pregnant, found out she wasn’t and was told her symptoms were probably due to stress because of James and Holly etc. Potentially foreshadowing Rebecca’s current situation?

12th Jan - Lachlan’s trial. As far as I recall, nothing pregnancy related happened in these episodes. But what did happen was Lachlan v Lawrence which we know is cropping up again, and the constant mention of Lawrence’s will and the fact that he isn’t Lachlan’s biological grandfather… (Which I would assume will feature heavily soon if John Bowe is making the distinction between Lawrence’s biological daughter and non-biological daughter in interviews…) And the White family talking about putting all of this behind them and making “a new start”… The very words that Aaron and Robert used on -

6th April - … Just a few moments after Rebecca has discovered she’s pregnant. And which she lingers to listen to…

29th May - Rebecca goes to the hospital where she finds out something, before she leaves the country, upset.

Rebecca wore that yellow dress in each of them. Which may not seem that significant, but the outfit she wore during Maxine’s reveal episodes was the exact same outfit she was wearing on the night of The Incident. And as far as we can tell, she’s only worn this outfit on these two occasions. I have no idea if this much thought has been put into the wardrobe choices (I’d like to think it has) and whether there’s any significant meaning behind any of this, but the connection has to be intentional at least.

But within theory realm, not only is that significant dress yellow, but a lot of the outfits Rebecca wears are yellow. Just like Holly and Nell, who were also brought in as temporary plot devices (Holly’s return at least). And I’m getting a little bit carried away with the connections I’ve made between Rebecca and Holly, but if you or anyone wants to go down that path too then I’d recommend rewatching that opening montage to the episode where Ashley died which showed Holly in her yellow dress (in relation to Jai and Nell), and Rebecca wearing yellow, separated only by Holly’s brother Adam and Rebecca’s sudden BFF Vic, all accompanied by that poignant and potentially foreshadowing quote about not knowing what little time people have and being kinder to people who have always been kind to you… Just a couple of weeks after Rebecca said about Holly “the good always die young”… I’m not saying Rebecca might die while wearing a yellow dress in late September / early October, but… There’s some connection. I just don’t know if it’s intentional…

Anyway, the significance of yellow? If you look it up, there’s a whole load of meanings this colour can stand for, so I’m just going to pick out a few:

Positivity, hope, youth, fun, joy, loyalty - Everything it was implied Rebecca was before she arrived when she was pitched as the good White?

Freshness and spring - Like the birth of a newborn child?

Cowardice - This is why I’ve gone on this ridiculously long tangent, anon. Because we’ve established the parallels between Rebecca’s story now, and what’s happened in her past. She herself admitted that she tends to “run away”…

Betrayal - She slept with her sister’s boyfriend/fiancé, she came to the village specifically to betray her family for this man, had a DNA test done without Lawrence’s knowledge, slept with her supposed friend who had recently got married to her other supposed friend (I’m not even mentioning Ross)…

Deceit - “I’ve lied to everyone”…

I don’t know if any of this means anything in the slightest, anon, but your thoughts on the repeated arc of Rebecca’s story matched my own which are now tied in so intricately to this weird connection I’ve made and can’t seem to let go of haha, so I just thought I’d throw it out there… I’m sorry this was such a long tangent analysing costume choices in the world of Soap and that it took so long for me to get to my actual point haha!

I really don’t know what the plan is for Rebecca - breakdown, dying, baby - but I feel there is definitely something…

[robronrewatch2023]

Call for collaborators

Hey robron fans! So, I did wonder when I started this rewatch how I would cope with it emotionally, and unfortunately I think the answer is going to be "not very well", and the storylines only get harder from here - I'm fine, but am taking steps to ensure I stay fine.

Even if I'm able to continue watching, I'm not going to be able to continue to do everything as I have been. The options are:

I put just the scheduling posts up so that you guys can continue enjoying the rewatch in sync with each other. There won't be any more added to the notion database or the summaries here.

A few volunteers take on just writing summaries for the blog.

A few volunteers take on writing the notion database (personal accounts are free) and the summaries for the blog.

So if you're enjoying the blog and want to help it continue, please could you reply to this post and/or message me to let me know what you're able to do/what your availability is (eg if you can cover two days a week or whatever) and I'm happy to help coordinate us.

I really think this is a useful thing to have available so I hope you guys are up for helping to make it happen <3 Let me know your thoughts!

[wellyfullofale]

Hi! Just wondering how you feel about everything coming up? I'm so excited for the reveal episode but I just can't accept that it's Robert's baby, do you think it is?

Yeah I'm also so excited for it all 🙌🙌🙌Danny and Ryan are gonna smash the reveal episodes out of the park, they're gonna be insane and it's obviously gonna be angsty and painful as hell but I AM SO READY FOR IT PLEASEI fully subscribe to the idea of looking at the storyline more holistically from October last year to now, and I know im probably placing way too much hope in Maxines eps but I really wanna see a lot of their issues just laid out on the table. I rewatched their January breakup the other day and it was so good and they actually started talking a tiny bit but they didn't even scratch the surface and NOW I'm really hoping they will do that. And I don't want them to break up, I want them to both decide to fight to keep what they have with Aaron calling all of the shots and Robert fawning over him like a lost little puppy.And also I really wanna see a scene after Robert's confessed where Rebecca tries to put him under pressure and he's just like "um I've told him and he still loves me" and she just faints in a mixture of shock and disappointment or something 👍And I also can't wait to see how Aaron reacts to seeing Rebecca for the first time after he finds out 👀👀👀And also the Vic/Adam fallout is gonna be so interesting I really hope we have some cracking Bartsy and Sugden Siblings discussions.Agggh so much to look forward to I CAN'T WAIT!!!(And no I don't think the baby is his/will happen. I think they've got the shock of it out of the way now and got their reaction from that and I'm sorry but Robron have ridiculous potential with storylines in the future and I don't think a baby would allow them to explore all of them. I just don't see ED wanting them to settle down with a kid yet. I could be wrong - I vowed Rob would never cheat three weeks in and got my arse bitten - but it doesn't fit for me)

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Honestly I've genuinely reached the point where I'm SO over ED now like it's just become such a depressing plotty mess that I don't even care anymore as everyone on it just undergoes a personality transplant and acts OOC. I'll wait and see re robron but if they go ahead with satans kid being born and aaron being a doormat accepting it and them weirdly bringing up satan jnr I'm fully out. It'll be goodbye Emmeroaks. Overdramatic Anon 🙊 glad ur back X

Overdramatic anon, my favourite person to communicate with! HELLO HELLO, I’m sorry I never responded to the message you left me a couple of weeks back (which seems like forever ago now wtf this is the slowest pacing storyline in the history of horrific storylines). It’s clear I stepped up my dramaticness and left the burning hell as fast as Robert drove his car away from the village that day hahaha. I’m pretty much on the same page as you now and until I’m proved otherwise it won’t happen nothing will change. I can’t even take any of it seriously it’s that unbelievable and unbearable! I mean robron will always have a special place in my heart but what they undid in just a couple of eps was and still is insane. I am appreciating the fact I can still enjoy their one of a kind connection via gifsets and rewatches but that’s probably because at the moment they’re off screen and it makes it a little easier to handle. Like you, I’m waiting and I’m hoping but there’s no way I can be on board with the Aaron situation you just mentioned with responsive shudders from my end of the net! 

All in all, though - you take care of yourself! It’s good you’ve just put a stop to how you feel. The approach ED have taken has not only offended so many people but it’s also brought them down negatively and personally within their own mental health and that in itself is the worst thing. Sending hugs for whenever you need them! ❤️

[dingleautomotives]

You must be bombarded with asks so sorry to add another! I really convinced myself I'd be laughing at how stressed I was and I would rewatch the wedding etc. I feel so so stupid. When will I learn that soaps are for drama and not for character development and nice happy stories? I've seen some people say they think ED felt like robron had got too big for the show and they needed to make it clear that they're part of a soap, what do you think of this? I'm just so sad

Helloooooooooo anon. *hugs you* 

Um. I don’t think that this was some kind of deliberate self-sabotage to bring robron down a peg, no. Emmerdale has done nothing but encourage the popularity of robron over and over and over again and they have benefited tremendously from the success of that pairing. 

Now was this unintentional self-sabotage? Maybe. We’ll have to see where they take the story from here, but the scenes from tonight, for me, are part of a larger, longer, broader pattern of Emmerdale seeming to have NO FUCKING CLUE what to do with robron because they don’t seem to understand why people like the pairing. I can count the number of robron storylines that I have LOVED (like #loved) from the last year on two fingers. And both of those stories were immediately followed by (imo) unnecessary and ultimately subtractive devastation. 

So, I’m also sad. Deeply sad. I’m... honestly waaay too deep in this fandom to walk away (emmerdale is my life nbd nbd), but this is the first time I’ve ever been tempted to.