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THIS WEEK IN SPOILERS
A Place to Call Home: James supports Olivia when she gets devastating news.
Days of Our Lives: Paul turns to Sonny when he needs help solving a problem.
I’m guessing dumb Lee did something dumb?
EastEnders: Ben runs interference when Sharon and Phil have problems. Later Ben has his first psych evaluation as he prepares to donate a portion of his liver to Phil. Ben resents Kathy for continuing to interfere. While, Johnny learns Lee’s secret as Lee’s wedding to Whitney approaches. Johnny presses Lee to be honest with Whitney before he marries her. But will he?
Yeah, I’d ship it.
Eyewitness: When Helen realizes Philip is keeping a secret, she pressures him to be honest with her. He confides in her about something, but is it about his being gay or is it about the murder? Meanwhile, Lukas creates a stir to bury the bubbling rumors about his sexuality.
Finn is so desperate for a date he’s hitting on guys in a coma.
Emmerdale: Finn goes to visit Kasim, the man whose life he saved in the car crash. Finn is upset to see that man is still in a coma. But why is Finn going to see this stranger to begin with?
Please let Iolo (and Tyler) live through their vows, show!
People of the Valley: It’s Iolo and Tyler’s wedding day at the end of the week, but not before Tyler suffers a bizarre injury and Iolo fears he’s been poisoned by an scheming Gwenyth. However as they say their I do’s, they get an unexpected surprise that will place lives in danger. By the end of the day, someone could be dead.
TEASERS FOR NEXT WEEK
Aaron has advice for Finn.
A Place To Call Home: James and Harry spend the evening together.
Eyewitness: Philip’s mother comes to visit.
Emmerdale: Aaron warns Finn to stay away from Kasim.
People of the Valley: Iolo struggles to deal with the events of his wedding day.
That’s it for this edition of Gays of Our Lives. Please share your comments on the thoughts and opinions expressed in this week’s column below. See you next week!
The network took the Youtube channel down, unfortunately, but you can get the clips here (with English subtitles): https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B2fUjgXqU1aKY2xScWM1QTJWTFE
Mark sorry its late, Thank you!
The clips seem to be very inconsistent in posting. I tried to check out the last few, but there seems to be gaps in what’s available. It’s really hard for me to cover a show when that is the case.
I’m sad you’re not covering Skam. The show is quite good. The boys were making out and then decided to get together, before Even got cold feet. It might have something to do with what Isak said about his mom having a mental illness.
The thing with Aaron is he will do pretty dangerous things if he feels they are morally right. It’s not that far off from Robert’s worldview. Robert can be nasty and petty, but the worst things he does are in the guise of thinking he’s in the right. The only time that isn’t true is when they have absolute garbage like the cheap Kim Tate ripoff where he left Lawrence for dead. That made no sense.
I see three options: 1) Robert can give up his scheming ways and become boring, 2) Aaron can embrace the scheming and become a different character, or 3) they both stay the same and Aaron accepts with little (doormat) or minor (nagging) resistance. The show has to address the tension between their moralities somehow.
Aaron only has to be a nag and a doormat if the show makes him that way. He wasn’t for the best years of the character. He also hasn’t been this year.
Robert was loathed by many viewers last year, because the show never tried to give him sympathy the way they did with Ross or even Charity. He was there to try to kill people, and was repeatedly treated as a vile abuser. I genuinely don’t believe he would still be on the show if they hadn’t wanted to keep him with Aaron. I wish they had never done what they did last year, but they did, and it will always follow the character.
Robert would be fine without Aaron. He’s pretty similar to Ross or Charity in how they push the boundary while having enough charm to bring the audience back to him once it’s over. It helps a lot that he tends to own his scoundrel nature.
A problem is that Aaron and Robert aren’t that well suited. Even ignoring the events of 2015 (which should have had Aaron mark Robert as permanently undateable), there is a mismatch between their temperaments. Robert is a schemer by nature. When he sees an opportunity to advance his interests through underhanded means, his instinct is to pursue it. Meanwhile, Aaron will get his hands dirty if the situation gets desperate, but he’s not going to be looking for trouble or try to screw someone over just because he can. This means that either Robert has to give up the scheming that makes him interesting or Aaron has to become a nag and a doormat as he tries to get Robert to change.
I’d like to see more Aaron and Finn scenes as well. They’re connected through Adam and through Victoria/Robert, so it’s a bit odd that they don’t spend more time interacting as friends of friends at the least. It would also help fix the lack of Aaron and Adam scenes.
This link seems to work for A Place to Call Home:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4zud7h_james-x-henry-16_tv
If he wasn’t with Aaron he would just be a one-note panto villain who would be killed off within a year. He was boring with the Whites and mostly just stood in the background when he wasn’t listening to Chrissie yell. The only reason they keep him around is likely because of the relationship with Aaron. The scenes with Chrissie were mostly cheap camp that couldn’t sustain if they were the entirety of him. Similar to that awful, awful attempt at ripping off Kim Tate when he left Lawrence for dead.
I’m not even that interested in his relationship with Aaron, but we’ve repeatedly seen a darker side to him this year without Aaron nagging him. It’s not that rare.
A Place to Call home: So Harry promissed to everyone he wouldn’t want to be with James, but when James went to talk to him, he had a sexy pose, a sexy smile and was playing with the cigar as he was hinting James how much he wanted to taste his dick.
I think Henry will break up with James because the blackmailed. The relashionship is too dangerous for him. And then James will go to Harry’s sexy arms. I hope James and Henry end up together, because I don’t see how Harry and James could work long term. I just want they have sex.
You hit the nail on the head about Robert. He’s a more interesting character without Aaron. The Chrissie/Rebecca story is spiced up by the fact that Chrissie is not Lawrence’s biological daughter – and that they all know it. I kind of like that it was Lachlan who blurted out the Robert/Rebecca secret in the pub.
So Aaron & Finn are going to have a scene together? I’d forgotten they even knew each other, much less hooked up. I hope it’s not a one-off because they should be friends.
I had to watch the scene of Iolo & Tyler at the suit shop twice. On the first viewing, I got distracted hoping for an up-kilt shot of Iolo and didn’t pay attention to any of the dialog. My impression is that Gwyneth is attracted to Sion’s status and relative affluence in the community as well as the nice house, and she objects to his plumbing aspirations because it doesn’t fit her image. Is it too much to hope that she dies at the wedding disaster – especially if she is the cause of it? If not her, maybe Sheryl just because she’s so annoying. Fingers crossed.
I feel somewhat better about Finn’s storyline now that I know Kasim is in a coma. I was worried that Finn was having his entire love interest storyline happen offscreen. At least now I know that they haven’t skipped over any dialogue between the two.
Hi Anthony the video of James Nov1 seem not to be working!!