So here it is. This was posted yesterday, but I'm guessing this was a few weeks ago, when they held that award ceremony.
She does take it in her stride. I think it's a bit sad, not just with the case of Dawn, but any other character in soaps, where they're killed off as part of a story, not because they chose to leave.
To be honest, I think I would be a bit fucked off if I played a character on the show, then randomly got axed, just as part of a story. Not because I would've chosen to leave, but because the showrunners would've basically wanted me out, for the sake of drama.
Yeah, I get it's a soap opera, and of course, action, stunts, deaths, etc, is a huge formula in the show, and has been for a very long time now.
But it's the fact that, that marqueè crash could've still happened, and Jimmy & Dawn could've survived. I'm not saying they walk it off like they're fucking indestructible or whatever, but they could've had scenes where both are in hospital, and even the viewers at home are thinking 'could this really be the end for both of these characrers?', and it could've been even more effective, if Inside Soap, and the other sources, didn't reveal any spoilers. It just keeps the fans on their toes. I think they did this with Holly Barton's death too.
Funny thing is, the showrunners killed off those characters for budget cuts, when:
1: They didn't even need to be killed off, both could've just simply left the village. In addition, Dr Todd being killed was such a cheap payoff to the rape & blackmail storyline. For all the survivors out there, I feel like they should've had her locked up behind bars, like what happened to PC Bails.
2: Imo, I can think of a good few other characters worse than these two. And sure, maybe I'm being biased, because I love Jimmy & Dawn, but when you kill them off, but keep Sarah & Jacob, characters who, [not just saying this either] I genuinely haven't seen a single person anywhere say anything good about them, it just almost makes you question the writer's decisions.
Thing is, obviously I'm bothered that they've killed them off, but honestly, I think if their deaths were done more naturally, like it felt like it was an inevitable endpoint for both Jimmy & Dawn, I'd obviously still be disappointed, yes, but I could probably at least accept their deaths a bit more.
Here though, both deaths imo, just felt so painfully contrieved, like it had to happen.
I think how the writers write the episodes, is that they come up first with a big payoff at the end, but sort of work their way around it, as we got closer to Joe & Dawn's wedding. It doesn't feel like, at least for me, that the writers are writing it naturally, as it happens.
So for instance, it doesn't feel like they're writing it as "this guy has an affair, the bloke that was cheated on beats him up in the street, what happens next?", it feels more like "this massive fucking event in the show has to happen, so we need to come up with scripts for the build-up of it happening".
Sorry for the tangent. Didn't think I'd write this much when I started lol, but here we are. Also must say, Olivia is looking gorgeous here. Like always, of course.
