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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 413273" data-attributes="member: 22">Damon's angry frustration in that scene was really moving. Even after all this time, we're still seeing new sides to him. It's so interesting how his relationship with his parents has shifted over the last year or so. Without Barry and Karen to either hide behind or be scapegoated by, he's started asserting himself in a way he never has before -- and what's kind of impressive is both Bobby and Sheila seem to respect him for it. There have been several scenes where he finds himself caught between them where he's the one who get the last word. But of. course all that changes when Debbie's dad turns up.Debbie's dad, Laura's dad, Doreen's boss: three seemingly inconsequential and/or unimpressive figures who arrive onscreen in quick succession and without much fanfare, but who will each play a pivotal role in eliminating a key character from one of three of Brookside's five households before the year is out. Equally portentous in hindsight: the first interaction between the equally ill-fated Laura and Damon -- a friendly wave through the window while she is decorating and he's having a kick-about in the close -- as the Ghost of Brookside Future, Jimmy Corkhill, sneaks past unobserved on his way rob the Collinses' camcorder.[ATTACH=full]54855[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]54856[/ATTACH]And I must now eat my words re the pointlessness of said camcorder when it was first introduced, as its theft serves to widen Billy's insurance scam storyline to include the Collinses as well, thereby bringing it more in line with Arthur Fowler's stealing of the Christmas Club money on Enders the previous year -- a similarly motivated crime (desperation borne of unemployment) which also included the fake burglary of his own home, but with a more immediate impact on his neighbours, as it was their money he was nicking in the first place.There's nothing to actively dislike about Annabelle's mother so I've been trying to put my finger on why I don't feel all that engaged by her storyline. I think, in common with pretty much everything involving the Collins family since Paul's enforced retirement, there's something quite broad about it. Everything is played on the surface, almost like a sitcom. That's not to say the actors are playing it for laughs -- apart from the blandly dead-eyed Gordon, they're all very good -- but there's no real subtext: everyone is saying pretty much what they're thinking; it doesn't feel like there's anything going on beneath the surface as there does in the Grant or Corkhill houses. This doesn't make the Collins' scenes actively bad, but neither are they actively compelling. The same could be said for Harry and Ralph's.</blockquote>

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