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What would you do with Stacey?
Topic Started: 21 Aug 2015, 09:16 (8,298 Views)
Mormon Girl
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What storyline would you give to Stacey if you were EP of Eastenders?
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Matt
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In all honesty, I wish she never came back. Though she has slotted in quite well, her actual return storyline was a complete farce. And now I find her nearly as unlikeable as I did back in 2012 when she originally left.
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Michelle Fowler
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I would like to see her, Martin and Lily hanging out and building a home together. Like preparing a nursery as we saw tonight with Shabnam and Kush. Some interactions with teenage Rebecca and all that a blended family encompasses. Then I want to see her passionately trying to free Max and skyping Lauren, where she discovers the truth, frees Max and has to deal with the fallout from the Beale family, including Martin feeling torn. Through all this I want it to be mentioned that her bipolar is well controlled during her pregnancy.
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Daniel68
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Axe.
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Mr Branning
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In fairness, it wasn't Stacey's return story that was farcical, it was her exit. She should have been arrested, done her time and then returned. It was always plausible that Lacey would come back. DTC's team were backed into a corner and whilst her return was a mess, there wasn't much more they could do.

Stacey's got future matriarch written all over her. I don't want any more affairs or murders with this stint. I want her, Martin, Lily, Rebecca and the new baby to settle down and face life's struggles as the new generation of Fowlers. That's where I thought they were taking her but they've since started the bizarre Kush infatuation and her treating Martin appallingly.

I just pray the key isn't something crazily sensationalist.
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Jade
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First off I would have never had Stacey get pregnant again yet. Too many babies too many lazy stories. Looking good on paper doesn't mean onscreen. Martin and Stacey have no chemistry at all. It drags them both down. Their scenes are at best depressing to watch but usually just boring. Now we are stuck I would have had Stacey lose the baby not Shabnam. We can always worry about legacy babies later. Have that trigger an episode which leads her to break up with Martin whom she is only with as he got her pregnant hardly a love story. Heavy material sure but Lacey would have done it justice.

Lily would have either been Bradleys or even better Archie's baby. I would have scrapped the baby swap but had Ronnie desperate for a baby still. Upon her fathers death she would find out the paternity of Stacey's baby and tried to get custody. Just like Stacey used her condition to get out of jail, Ronnie could try and use it against her to get custody of her baby. Have a dark story of Ronnie and Stacey. Would have played out better than a babyswap in my view.

Either way her nomance with Martin makes me want to tear my hair out. Just dreadfully boring and dire. I think Jack Branning had more chemistry with all his ladies then they do. Everyone knows how much I hate Jack. Its worse for me as I like Stacey and Martin as characters but together goodness they are bad.
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Because of the incessant use of block storylining, we only get to see Stacy's story every few weeks. I understand why they've paired her with Martin, but every time we've seen them as a couple, the result is Stacey speaking to and treating Martin like a piece of shit.

This is the man who is the father of her child, a child she chose to have, even though he was initially reluctant, and whom she demanded be a part of the child's life. She doesn't respect him, otherwise she would have included him in her visit to the midwife in order to discuss coming off her medication in order not to hurt the baby. She would also be anxious to ensure that he understands everything about her medical condition. He's indicated that he wants to understand, but she dismisses him as being stupid.

At the moment, I feel sorry for Martin, because he's spent the better part of a decade with Sonia, who's also treated him like shit, who's deemed him stupid and who wastes no breath in trash-talking him.

Martin is Walford royalty, and he deserves better treatment than this. Yet he's this year's Bradley, who'll be the dependable bloke who loves Stacey and who's there to pick up the pieces she leaves in her wake.

Really, the show is doing her no favours.

And Archie Mitchell had had chemotherapy. He could father no baby.
Edited by Mrs Peel, 21 Aug 2015, 10:21.
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Desdemona
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Stacey was doing fine as a single Mum and independent spirit whereas the pairing with Martin and the unwanted pregnancy feels like punishment for the character and the viewer.
Not sure where this is going but it is most certainly not in character for Stacey to settle for an indifferent man she doesn't really love so I can see her looking for an escape route (possibly Kush)
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There are, at the moment, too many "replacement" babies about. Shabnam saw this pregnancy, where she was settled (so she thinks) with the baby's father, as a "replacement" for the baby she abandoned. When this child dies, she'll revert to her six year-old daughter as a "replacement" for the child she lost.

Stacey's baby is payback for the abortion Bradley coerced her into having years ago. Now she's turned the table and is determined to have this baby to prove a point, and more important, she was willing to coerce a more compliant man, who's emerging from a marriage to a smug, critical and psychologically cruel woman, into assuming responsibility for a child for whom he isn't ready simply because - yes! - this is the "replacement" child for the one Bradley made her abort.

My guess is that Martin will be left with the child whilst she traipses off pretending to be Kush's dead wife until he recoils in horror from her bi-polar condition.
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I think it would be nice if Stacey was to join Jean and Ollie In Brighton. She had Lilly would certainly have a better standard of living and more choices.
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Jade
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I am well aware Archie couldn't father a baby but since I had already addressed this in a thread weeks ago I didn't want to repeat myself. I thought it was obvious it would have been entirely rewritten. IF I had it my way he wouldn't have been infertile that's the whole point, not everybody who has had chemotherapy is infertile (I AM WELL AWARE HIS DID) or he wouldn't have had cancer in his backstory.. I know he couldn't that's why Ronnie knew straight off that he wasn't the father she told Stacey as much. I was talking hypothetical situation I would have written. For example there was a baby swap in my version there wouldn't have been. Taken Ronnie still in a dark direction just in a different way.
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Forget what I'd do with Stacey, it's what I'd do with the show as a whole that's more important: cut the size of the cast down and reduce block storytelling. This alone would benefit Stacey hugely.
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I have no idea why they made Ryan Lily's father - having her as Archie or Bradley's would have tied Stacey indefinitely to the Brannings or Mitchells and made for infinitely more story potential. As it happens, Lily is now the daughter of a poorly-acted drip who has little family and nobody wants to see return.
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Daniel68
21 Aug 2015, 09:36
Axe.
IMO Lacey is too good to be axed I would rather she quit instead
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Daniel68
21 Aug 2015, 09:36
Axe.
I second this :wave:
If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?
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21 Aug 2015, 12:10
IMO Lacey is too good to be axed I would rather she quit instead
She's a good actress yes, but she's nowhere, nowhere near as good as people make her out to be. And the character is so overrated it's silly. The way everyone fawns over Lacey/Stacey is actually quite scary.
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Matt
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I would kill off Ian and Stacey, if it meant Carol would stay. :wub:
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gringa
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I'd have Stacey decide she wants a professional career, and decide to pursue some sort of online degree. We'd see her at her stall, trying to get enough bandwidth to download the lesson for the day, sge and Lily would do their homework together the same way they take their morning meds/vitamins, and she'd have a stack of flash cards with her at the pub. She could have study buddies that we would meet, struggle to find time to take exams, maybe have to take Lily with her on Appts to the school advisor.
not a single character on Eastenders has any sort of education apart from Sonia. That drives me crazy.
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Broken_Arrow
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Break up with Martin, lose the baby, exit the show. Pointless comeback.
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The Other Slater Cousin
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It's such a shame what has happened to her over the past few months. Her return last September was, to be honest, possibly my idea of a perfectly orchestrated return. She settled in slowly. She was involved in a lot, but also so little. We saw her trying to live a normal life, and get caught up in all these other people's dramas along the way. She'd matured and that showed in her interaction with other characters.

Where did it go wrong? The past few months have really took a sword to her character. Sullen and snappy, treating Martin like dirt, the whole Kush...thing. She was on such an excellent path. I was waiting for her to get with Martin and to see that grow naturally whilst her key storyline played alongside it. I'm really disappointed by how they have just thrust her into such a badly thought out situation. Sometimes less is more.

Block storytelling is definitely a massive issue. We need scenes of Martin and Stacey actually being happy together. Him making her laugh. Her trying to cook tea. How can any of us get invested in a relationship where, if there's no conflict or drama, they simply aren't there at all. It's really damaging the show, and in many ways Stacey's move from 2014 into 2015 is symbolic of how patchy the show has gotten this year generally, after the absolute masterpiece of 2014.
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