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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 348670" data-attributes="member: 673"><p><strong>A Brief History of Eldorado: Part 2 - Turning the Ship Around - episodes 50 to 100ish</strong></p><p></p><p>As the barrage continued, Julia Smith went off on sick leave and Corinne Hollingworth (<em>EastEnders</em>) came onboard as the new producer tasked with saving the show. She recognised that there were more isolated incidents than ongoing storylines and set about getting plots into shape. Sound issues were sorted out and odd scenes where non-English characters would speak in their native tongues (without subtitles) were dropped. They weren’t the only thing being dropped, as Hollingworth began clearing the cast of deadwood. Teen bride Fizz (Kathy Pitkin) disappeared from screens with immediate effect, as her creepy age gap romance with Bunny was dropped (Fizz would later be killed offscreen, with a pre <em>Lock Stock </em>Nick Moran showing up to deliver the news to Bunny that she’d washed up under Brighton Pier). Arnaud was sent off to boarding school in Paris while Trine went off to Denmark and came back with a new head (now played by future EastEnder Claire Wilkie). Presumably they couldn’t drop everyone immediately, so while we knew Dieter and the Hindle brothers were on borrowed time, they hung around like bad smells until close to Christmas (Dieter ran out of money and returned to Germany while we were subjected to a badly acted schizophrenia storyline involving the brothers, before their mother came to take them back to Blighty).</p><p></p><p>Newly arrived characters including Freddie’s long lost daughter Natalie, Rosemary’s suspicious son Stephen and Joy’s sponging boyfriend Terry added a bit of gravitas to proceedings, as they were played by people who could actually act (although some may dispute that re: Terry). Around Christmas, things finally felt like they were coming together. The new year saw new, coherent plots as Ingrid considered an abortion, devastating her devoutly Catholic in laws, only for them to soon be facing a similar dilemma. A “Who Attacked Joy?” mystery also kept things chugging along as they continued to iron out the issues while original cast members Snowy and Bunny were both written out. But it would be the shock death of another original character that would signal the show’s turning point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 348670, member: 673"] [B]A Brief History of Eldorado: Part 2 - Turning the Ship Around - episodes 50 to 100ish[/B] As the barrage continued, Julia Smith went off on sick leave and Corinne Hollingworth ([I]EastEnders[/I]) came onboard as the new producer tasked with saving the show. She recognised that there were more isolated incidents than ongoing storylines and set about getting plots into shape. Sound issues were sorted out and odd scenes where non-English characters would speak in their native tongues (without subtitles) were dropped. They weren’t the only thing being dropped, as Hollingworth began clearing the cast of deadwood. Teen bride Fizz (Kathy Pitkin) disappeared from screens with immediate effect, as her creepy age gap romance with Bunny was dropped (Fizz would later be killed offscreen, with a pre [I]Lock Stock [/I]Nick Moran showing up to deliver the news to Bunny that she’d washed up under Brighton Pier). Arnaud was sent off to boarding school in Paris while Trine went off to Denmark and came back with a new head (now played by future EastEnder Claire Wilkie). Presumably they couldn’t drop everyone immediately, so while we knew Dieter and the Hindle brothers were on borrowed time, they hung around like bad smells until close to Christmas (Dieter ran out of money and returned to Germany while we were subjected to a badly acted schizophrenia storyline involving the brothers, before their mother came to take them back to Blighty). Newly arrived characters including Freddie’s long lost daughter Natalie, Rosemary’s suspicious son Stephen and Joy’s sponging boyfriend Terry added a bit of gravitas to proceedings, as they were played by people who could actually act (although some may dispute that re: Terry). Around Christmas, things finally felt like they were coming together. The new year saw new, coherent plots as Ingrid considered an abortion, devastating her devoutly Catholic in laws, only for them to soon be facing a similar dilemma. A “Who Attacked Joy?” mystery also kept things chugging along as they continued to iron out the issues while original cast members Snowy and Bunny were both written out. But it would be the shock death of another original character that would signal the show’s turning point. [/QUOTE]
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