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Sharon's son Denny
Topic Started: 20 Feb 2015, 16:34 (11,965 Views)
Christina
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McFudd
31 Jul 2015, 15:28
Why do we never see Denny anymore? Have they quietly axed him?
The last time we saw Denny, he was in the Kitchen at the Phil and Sharon's house. He didn't speak and i think we only saw the back of his head. I can't remember exactly when it was though. I think Lola arrived to tell them about her job at blades
Before that we hadn't seen him for months, I have no idea what is going on and he's very rarely mentioned now.
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Michelle Fowler,Ice Skater
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Denny ruined Sharon tbh
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Christina
31 Jul 2015, 17:31
McFudd
31 Jul 2015, 15:28
Why do we never see Denny anymore? Have they quietly axed him?
The last time we saw Denny, he was in the Kitchen at the Phil and Sharon's house. He didn't speak and i think we only saw the back of his head. I can't remember exactly when it was though. I think Lola arrived to tell them about her job at blades
Before that we hadn't seen him for months, I have no idea what is going on and he's very rarely mentioned now.
Thanks for that :). I didn't notice Denny in the kitchen :D
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He's probably going to be recasted. He'll be involved with Kathy's return due to Gavin, so they'll likely want to start showing the direction they want to take him going into adolescence.
"I loved it in the Olden Days because you talked more. There’s more action now. You know, we would do scenes in the Rovers of me, Bet and Doris Speed with a cup of coffee each before we opened the pub, talking about absolute rubbish. But it was something, and it was what people do." - Betty Driver
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He'll be approaching ten, so if they can get a younger looking actor who is aged 12/13, they'll be able to focus on him a little more heavily whilst maintaining child stories.

They did the same with Natalie Cassidy so Sonia was able to become more prominent from age 14, hence the Sonia/Jamie love triangle and Sonia's pregnancy at 15.
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Sometimes child characters barely appear in the first half of the year if they're going to have a busy second half (due to restrictions on how many hours child actors can work). My guess is that Denny will either appear a lot in Autumn/Wintet or they're going to recast him.

He's not an important character anyway, I don't mind him being in the background for a few years until he's old enough to become Sharon's version of Nick.
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Whenever someone says Denny is in the kitchen I never think the sentence is finished :P .
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Christina
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It's not! :P
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MuteBanana
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I think I've said before that there's so much drama at the Mitchells it doesn't give the writers much space to include Denny. He'd only be around to be told to leave the room while the adults talked anyway.

Maybe he needs a mate. Something involving Whitney at school that would give Sharon a chance to be a mother.
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Christina
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That's very true.
Also Denny last appeared on the 9th of June!!
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Christina
31 Jul 2015, 21:06
That's very true.
Also Denny last appeared on the 9th of June!!
So it will be two months next week since his last appearance.
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Apart from PsychoBobby, who's become a relatively important character at the moment, you rarely see any of the other kids - Denny, Amy or Janet. This week was the first time in ages we've seen Janet. We saw Amy for a few episodes back when Ronnie was in hospital and we haven't seen her since.

Although the show is heavy on babies at the moment, since DTC cleared out the Butcher/Jackson household, younger kids are barely seen.
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Mrs Peel
1 Aug 2015, 01:01
Apart from PsychoBobby, who's become a relatively important character at the moment, you rarely see any of the other kids - Denny, Amy or Janet. This week was the first time in ages we've seen Janet. We saw Amy for a few episodes back when Ronnie was in hospital and we haven't seen her since.

Although the show is heavy on babies at the moment, since DTC cleared out the Butcher/Jackson household, younger kids are barely seen.
It's not even that heavy on the babies. Tommy, Lexi, Bert, Ernie and Beth have all recently left, leaving just Matthew, Pearl and Ollie. And Babies Beale and Fowler to come.
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Shamelessness
1 Aug 2015, 01:04
Mrs Peel
1 Aug 2015, 01:01
Apart from PsychoBobby, who's become a relatively important character at the moment, you rarely see any of the other kids - Denny, Amy or Janet. This week was the first time in ages we've seen Janet. We saw Amy for a few episodes back when Ronnie was in hospital and we haven't seen her since.

Although the show is heavy on babies at the moment, since DTC cleared out the Butcher/Jackson household, younger kids are barely seen.
It's not even that heavy on the babies. Tommy, Lexi, Bert, Ernie and Beth have all recently left, leaving just Matthew, Pearl and Ollie. And Babies Beale and Fowler to come.
Of the lot that have been born, the one we see the most is Pearl. A lot of time with children that young, they're not even there - all you get is sound effects, an empty pram and a doll. Remember "Summer" being thrown from the window of the burning Miller home?
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Mrs Peel
1 Aug 2015, 01:14
Shamelessness
1 Aug 2015, 01:04

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Of the lot that have been born, the one we see the most is Pearl. A lot of time with children that young, they're not even there - all you get is sound effects, an empty pram and a doll. Remember "Summer" being thrown from the window of the burning Miller home?
I know this all too well, as I keep track of their appearances for the character appearance count. I only count them if they actually appear on screen, not sound effects or empty prams.
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Making Sharon a mother was such a mistake. She's so perfect as Mitchell Matriarch, Denny really is completely and utterly redundant. I say give it a couple of years for when she's in need of a storyline, and kill him off. I'm sure Letitia would knock it out the park, and the show really wouldn't miss him.
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The two mistakes made were making Dennis the father (Tony Jordan wanted it to be Grant) and casting such a poor little actor. Get a little cracker in the role and reveal Sharon and Grant shagged in early November 2005 when she kicked Dennis out and all will be good in the world again.
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Sharon works great as a maternal figure to Abi, Ben and Jay. It's just Denny who she doesn't work it and that's because their entire relationship is ill-conceived. Sharon doesn't work as a overprotective mum who mollycoddles her child and Denny doesn't work as this kid who's a sickeningly sweet little angel one minute and a complete bully the next.

I'd say enough time has passed now to just completely reinvent that relationship. First things fist. Get rid of the cute factor and recast Denny with someone who actually comes across as the sort of wild boisterous lad who might actually grow into a man to be reckoned with. Sharon herself should be a more experienced mother, more confident, less overprotective and not blind to her child's faults like she's been in the past.
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ian
1 Aug 2015, 10:47
Making Sharon a mother was such a mistake. She's so perfect as Mitchell Matriarch, Denny really is completely and utterly redundant. I say give it a couple of years for when she's in need of a storyline, and kill him off. I'm sure Letitia would knock it out the park, and the show really wouldn't miss him.
Historically, Sharon was always going to be the woman who was business-oriented, but a lot of the reasons she doesn't work as a mother is down to the fact that, of all the long-term characters, she's the only one with a child, whom we never saw heavily pregnant, whom we never saw give birth or with a baby. When Sharon returned with Dennis's child, her character was at the mercy of a production/writing crew and a head writer (Simon Ashdown) who didn't know the character or her history and who seemed to think she naturally belonged amongst the Branning family, who were ruling the roost at the time. Sharon, as a character, is as much tainted by Kirkwood/Newman as Kat and Bianca were, and it's only now that her character is finally being understood.

I disagree that Dennis Rickman Jr should be killed off. Den Watts's grandson? The grandson of the original Alpha male on the programme? The kid isn't the best child actor, but who is, really? As well, he's been the victim of some dire storylines and awful writing, and I'm not so sure I'd welcome seeing the likes of another Simon Barlow or Tiffany Butcher on the programme. The kid who plays Denny - and young children seem to appear very sparsely under DTC's regime - is as bad an actor as James Forde, and look how long he lasted.

Dennis Rickman Jr, grandson of Den and now grandson of Gavin, has the genes to be one of the hardest cases on the Square, plus Phil Mitchell is his stepfather. In ten years' time, this character is one to watch, and people want him killed off, just so we can see Letitia Dean cry?
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Did they choose the kid for the cute factor though? The first thing I thought when I saw him was Dennis from the cartoons and that film with Walter Matthau. Funnily enough he was called Dennis Mitchell. I don't think Sharon should be blind to his faults either but I'd like to see him causing more mischief. Bobby's a bit older but they could become friends.
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