April 30th, 2015- The Fat Sister and The Curmudgeon

Has Ali always been this irrational in her thinking? Not that she's been one of my favorites or anything, but she's a rather irritating person. Nothing is ever her fault. God bless Ruby for putting up with that for so long. For as little I care about this storyline, I hope they don't kill Sean offscreen. That'd be a shame. He's a pretty valuable character in the teen canvas that's already connected to the rest of the characters in Emmerdale. A young adult vet would be refreshing for this show.

So Vanessa finally told Kirin and his reaction is so convenient for the father to not be his. I don't like where this is going just because it's so cliche. Imagine that... the not cliche thing in soaps is when the father is NOT the other guy. Ha. Adam is growing Dingle characteristics when he's blaming Vanessa for telling Rhona about the one night stand when he did the exact same thing with Aaron. I do like how Aaron doesn't seem concerned about the actual affair considering what he's been upto. I hope Victoria dumps him when she finds out about the liaison.

I do not know why I'm rooting for Tracy to have character development. I'm actually ashamed to admit it. She's a rather useless character who never contributed much to the landscape but here I am, wishing the show would give her actual character growth. Perhaps it's due to the amount the time I had to watch her being so one-note (again, other then the brief time with Andy). Having her in the same household as Jimmy and Bernice will continue to test her chemistry with different cast members on the show. Perhaps it's show runner Kate Oates' way of shopping her around? Who knows. There was a brief moment of humanity in her scene with Val and Eric when she finally decided to go. Let's see where that takes her.

Where Tracy's hiring took Laurel was a very dark place. It was violent, it was disgusting and it was tragic. A relapse. Bringing the kids to find Laurel took the icing on the cake. This was worse than anything she's done prior to her trip away and it appears that Marlon might not have enough strength to see it through. Charlotte Bellamy has been knocking her drunk scenes out of the park and I have no doubt she'll be able to elevated this arc than being a typical alcoholism storyline.