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Post by Rad on Feb 26, 2013 19:53:59 GMT
Anyone who has been watching it without stopping - who is this Walker fellow, and why has he fallen out with everyone? And is he really the dad of that guy who looks about two years younger than him?
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Post by khaleesi on Mar 1, 2013 18:05:28 GMT
He turned up as somebody who Brendan knew from prison. Started hanging around the club and flirting with Brendan. Then it was revealed he was an undercover cop who met Brendan in prison and coincidentally discovered that Brendan had supplied his little brother with drugs (which left him a vegetable), so Walker decided to latch on to Brendan to get revenge. During Later they had some quite intense sex, which made Walker cry, such was his disgust. Not long after Brendan finally worked out who Walker was, and a fight between them resulted in Riley accidentally getting shot and killed, after which Walker went AWOL.
He was quite an interesting character before but he's become a bit of a panto villain now, always skulking around with his cunning disguise of a hooded jacket. Kevin isn't actually his son, "Dad" is just their cover.
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Post by Rad on Mar 3, 2013 21:36:16 GMT
Ah, thanks for that
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Post by Maureen on Mar 8, 2013 18:28:38 GMT
The 'girl' who plays Holly is absolutely abysmal.
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Post by Rad on Mar 9, 2013 17:55:29 GMT
The whole Holly recast is just bizarre. I did like the Cindy/Stephanie scenes this week though.
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Post by fused on Mar 10, 2013 16:51:18 GMT
The whole Holly recast is just bizarre. I did like the Cindy/Stephanie scenes this week though. I liked those scenes too when they were talking about each other's teen pregnancy, in fact I think they are the best scenes I've seen on Hollyoaks in a long time. I liked the scenes with Sinead and Diane as well. Sinead has shown herself to be extremely self-centred and a nasty piece of work many times, but I still felt sympathy for her in those scenes. Stephanie Davis is a really good actress, I think she's made the character a lot more believable than she might otherwise have been. I still think of her as one of the Dorothies from Over The Rainbow though. I remember the bus crash episodes were ones I watched after a long gap from watching Hollyoaks, and when I saw them I assumed the blonde woman with Cindy was a brand new character until she called her Holly. Holly? As in, her daughter Holly? I know Cindy was very young when she had her, but it's still strange to think of the new Holly as Cindy's daughter. I quite like Candice-Mitzeee and I actually feel a little bit sorry for Kevin sometimes, especially when Walker is threatening him, but that whole storyline is a bit... strange. I like Doug a bit more nowadays. Isn't psycho-geek Will's current storyline just a rehash of Countdown Boy, another psycho-geek called Will, when he was stalking Zoe? I don't know if I've missed something, but I have no idea what Texas is supposed to be thinking. It seems like she's being trapped into getting married, but sometimes she acts like she does want to be with him. Mind you I don't really care much about this storyline, so maybe I just haven't been paying attention.
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Post by allthatglitters on Mar 11, 2013 13:02:19 GMT
Texas thinks she paralysed him, hence her feeling like she has to look after him.
I liked the Sinead/Cindy scenes too. It's nice when Hollyoaks remembers the past instead of just rehashing it.
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Post by Rad on Mar 22, 2013 17:47:55 GMT
What do people make of the Brady exits then? Although I think it's for the best they didn't kill Brendan, the ending on Thursday was so shockingly bleak it would have been very effective to keep it. It was a bit of a cliche that Cheryl would kill their dad, and didn't seem especially believable. Walker getting Final Destination-ed was great though
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Post by fused on Mar 22, 2013 21:32:15 GMT
In a word, "incoherent". As isolated scenes some of it was quite good, but looking at it as one whole story the tone was all over the place. I know that's normal for Hollyoaks, but still. We had some good dramatic stuff between Cheryl and Brendan, but we also had: * Brendan cheesily strutting up the stairs like he was being evicted from the Big Brother house. * Cheryl driving off to live happily ever after like none of those life-ruining revelations and events had happened less than a day ago. Two random things I loved though. 'C'est La Vie' by B*Witched playing. That truly is Cheryl's anthem. And the SURPRISE!AMY!CAMEO! I'm actually really enjoying Hollyoaks at the moment. I'm even getting a bit into the Savage drama, but mainly because of the Blake side of the family. Jeremy Sheffield Dad (who's almost certainly EVIL!), MadMum Anna and daughter Sienna who manages to look absolutely gorgeous and classy despite having a permanent scowl. But I'm a bit baffled about that family history. Have I got this right? Dodger, Will and Liberty were all raised together by SavageDad (even though all three have different accents), but Dodger isn't SavageDad's son, he's Jeremy SheffieldDad's son, and Sienna is Dodger's twin who was raised by Jeremy SheffiedDad. Apparently MadMum and him were married and she at some point tried to kill herself and baby Dodger and Sienna, then ran away with Dodger but left Sienna behind, hooked up SavageDad and they then had Will and Liberty (I don't know which one is meant to be the youngest). Then MadMum went back to Jeremy SheffieldDad alone and he had put in a mental home. I... think that's it anyway. I love Maxine, and I had a bit of a soft spot for Kevin so I wouldn't mind him returning even though it's unlikely. E4 Spoiler Ste is much more enjoyable to watch as an out and out nasty little scumbag than the pathetic, selfish pig-ignorant sub-Bella Swan type he's been for ages going from one disastrous relationship to another. I loved Amy, Doug and Darren calling him out on what a little shit he is, and I loved his impression of Brendan.
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Post by Rad on Mar 29, 2013 0:49:32 GMT
I'm confused by the Savages too but had taken a similar interpretation to you.
Has George always been this annoying? Thanksfully he's barely been in it since I started rewatching. There are still about four people on the credits I don't think they've shown since I got back into it.
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Post by Rad on Jun 11, 2013 19:57:50 GMT
So I've been rewatching this for a few months now, and yet there is someone in the credits I swear I've never even seen - the one wearing glasses that comes through a cartoon picture of himself.
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Post by seamus on Jun 11, 2013 23:41:45 GMT
That's Joe Pasquale's son who was in some awful BBC3 comedy and brought to Hollyoaks for rubbish comic relief. He has/had a tedious crush on Leanne and they may have gotten fake married at one point before Leanne became the village's No. 1 Fag Hag and then somehow fell for his increasingly creepy cousin Will.
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Jun 12, 2013 0:29:18 GMT
That's Joe Pasquale's son who was in some awful BBC3 comedy and brought to Hollyoaks for rubbish comic relief. He has/had a tedious crush on Leanne and they may have gotten fake married at one point before Leanne became the village's No. 1 Fag Hag and then somehow fell for his increasingly creepy cousin Will. He hasn't been in it for several months, with no real explanation, but he's due back in the next week or two.
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Post by uberboober on Aug 2, 2013 8:44:51 GMT
Who is writing the script these days? Yesterday I swear I heard Carmel tell Jim she could watch him polishing his helmet all day...
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Post by fused on Oct 20, 2013 11:03:00 GMT
I have a few thoughts about recent Hollyoaks. Hollyoaks Later was a bit meh. Tony goes on holiday with his son Harry, Dom and Finn and they have gangster hijinks, with Danny Dyer, well, Danny Dyer-ing all over the place, and he also meets the ghosts of Kurt, Grace and Mandy, even though Mandy isn't dead is she? I kind of want Thaila Zucchi's character to turn up on the main show and run into Darren where they can talk about meeting before when they were both in allSTARS. I was a bit puzzled by the ending of the Tony story though, were they trying to say it was all a dream? There was also a new McQueen lad who's in the army and has a doomed romance with a corporal girl. Duncan Doughnuts was in too, apparently he joined the army. Was that his exit storyline, I can't remember. The best of the plots was the "teen slasher film in a spooky forest" one. Jade was a great psycho, and the actress who played her was good. So was Holly surprisingly. Apparently they are recasting her again though. The writers mustn't have liked Callum's character very much! In the first three episodes he was acting like a pillock and in the fourth he got a sword through him. Usually the obligatory Gory Hollyoaks Later Death comes at the end of the final episode, he didn't even get to appear in the final episode. The 18th birthday "Blast Week" was much better. I think the episode where the bomb went off is actually one of my favourite Hollyoaks episodes ever. It had one of those McQueen family parties they used to do, I've missed those. I really liked how all the plots were layered and built up, particularly towards the end with Clare and Trevor fighting over the detonator and it looking like the McQueen party would be blown up... then Sinead finds the bomb in Ste and Doug's leaving party and we get the massive explosion. I thought the effects were quite good for a soap. I'm surprised they killed off two of their big villains, and in a fairly anti-climatic way. It's a shame that's how Clare went. I suppose setting off an explosion, having a catfight with Mercedes and then getting run over by Dr. Death isn't the worst soap exit ever, but still kind of disappointing. Much as I hate to admit it, with hindsight Clare probably should never have returned after her memorable airport exit, they were never able to top that. Dr. Death himself then met his end getting smashed with a shovel by Mercedes. I like the Mercedes/Cindy/Lindsey trio though. Ash, Doug and Leanne were all average characters which we've probably seen everything they are going to offer anyway, but their deaths were done quite well, Leanne's in particular was very sad.
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