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  • #9002
    kiero111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭kiero111


    I think renee needs to give it to Farrah when she gets home


  • #9003
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,364 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    nagdefy wrote: »
    Hot lady dectective. Why can't we have her permanently instead of Deegan?!

    And nice new female garda :) Not much of an actress, but it's Fair City, won't hold it against her.

    Elena was cute.


  • #9004
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Honest question: has there ever before been a FC story line which has lasted as long with such little progression between episodes?


  • #9005
    Lollipop95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭Lollipop95


    They shouldn't have killed Ciaran off. Would've been more interesting if he stayed and they brought his sister into it..they still might but what would be the point now, it'd be lose any impact


  • #9006
    Adrianna Crashing Coroner
    Posts: 5,926 ✭✭✭ Adrianna Crashing Coroner


    Oh my f£cking god....


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  • #9007
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Off goes the mother there. Sure no big deal her daughter has only been missing the last year


  • #9008
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    lol on the Ray Darcy show to talk about the awful story lines they were given.


  • #9009
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Lollipop95 wrote: »
    They shouldn't have killed Ciaran off. Would've been more interesting if he stayed and they brought his sister into it..they still might but what would be the point now, it'd be lose any impact

    He might not be dead. I think they'll find nothing during the dive and just assume he's swept out to sea, but it'll leave the door open for a possible return for him in the future.


  • #9010
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭sjb25


    Nancy Salty Noodle wrote: »
    Oh my f£cking god....

    ...jaysus!!!!!


  • #9011
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,364 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    RobertKK wrote: »
    lol on the Ray Darcy show to talk about the awful story lines they were given.

    If I was even an extra given that rubbish I'd refuse to do it. Dignity would stop me.


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  • #9012
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    I had to laugh when Debbie and Eoghan automatically believed Emmet raped and stole from Tessa so kicked him out!!! :pac::pac: What nonsense!!

    Fair City would want to sort their lighting rig out. Katie lying there at the end and it looked like early morning, but Debbie walking out the door and it's clearly around midnight.

    She's been waiting a year for news about her missing daughter, she finally gets home and straight away 'right i'll be off'!!! :pac::pac:


  • #9013
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    So the bets start now, people: Do you think D'Arcy will say ONE negative thing about the storyline about how people found it dragged out or the petition etc or will it be a non-stop back slapping ego feeder using descriptions like "the most gripping FC story ever" and "the audience lapped up the tension". I actually think, given the overwhelmingly annoyed mood of the audience the last few months, he HAS to mention how dragged out it got!


  • #9014
    A_smurf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭A_smurf


    The whole storyline has just been a shambles, especially the point about Katy being freed and going back home. So she turns up randomly in Carrigstown at the start of the episode. What an anti-climax (not that I was expecting it to end halfway decently anyway)!


  • #9015
    amtc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭amtc


    So with no food nor money she treks from Santry to Dun Laoghaire and back to Carraigstown...not a chance to pass a phone, dial 999.

    Now is there going to be a campaign to take down all the Katy posters?


  • #9016
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    No doubt the Darcy show will describe it as the storyline that has gripped the nation for a year now.


  • #9017
    nagdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭nagdefy


    The Parish Priest. wrote: »
    Did FC do gritty crime drama better in the Billy Meehan days, or are people looking at that era with rose tinted glasses ? Every crime story/ villain they have done recently quickly turns into a Scooby doo show caricature, Flynn, Cathal, and now Ciaran

    Billy Meehan and Terrence from his days 1996-97 and 2007-2008 were excellent. The time he held Lou hostage around 1997 was excellent. He did split persona, charming to maniac, really well.

    Terence (Terry McMahon) below. With his semi yank accent.
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  • #9018
    Kauto0709
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭Kauto0709


    I felt like smacking Katie tonight the way she was going on blaming her Mam and Emmet for everything after all they've been through while she's been missing especially Emmet who was going to kill himself for her.


  • #9019
    amtc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭amtc


    And where are Tommy and Debbie living? How can Eoghan afford rent on his earnings from a phone cover shop?


  • #9020
    Shakyfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭Shakyfan


    nagdefy wrote: »
    Billy Meehan and Terrence from his days 1996-97 and 2007-2008 were excellent. The time he held Lou hostage around 1997 was excellent. He did split persona, charming to maniac, really well.

    Terence (Terry McMahon) below. With his semi yank accent.
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    Is that Ray D'Arcy chatting to Terrence? :D


  • #9021
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,268 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    nagdefy wrote: »
    Hot lady dectective. Why can't we have her permanently instead of Deegan?!

    And nice new female garda :) Not much of an actress, but it's Fair City, won't hold it against her.

    Well if we put the two of them in...
    RobertKK wrote: »
    a filthy interview room.

    And make...
    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    a cheap porno

    We would have something worth watching. :D


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  • #9022
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    nagdefy wrote: »
    Billy Meehan and Terrence from his days 1996-97 and 2007-2008 were excellent. The time he held Lou hostage around 1997 was excellent. He did split persona, charming to maniac, really well.

    Terence (Terry McMahon) below. With his semi yank accent.
    092_d0cd1b5eb047fd12b3146fae10d1d2bc3c84377c.jpg

    I think that FC was more daring back in those days. Billy Meehan, Terence, Marty Halpin, Pete Flanagan, and others were pure evil. Ciaran was not meant to be evil but more mixed up. In the end he was more to be pitied. If he was pure evil I don't think Katy would have helped him at all.

    The Katy story had its ups and downs, was largely uneven, moved slowly and certainly could have been way better. The same could be said about the underuse of Cathal. Part of the reason for this is because FC's current writers and its preceding storylines often were tame fare. That's because an attitude of restraint seemed to be at play in RTE. Pre-Katy/Ciaran, we must remember it was all Laura's pill popping, Pete v Damian, the Condors, Orla and the screeching baby, Doug's relationship with Ama, Kerry Ann's wedding plans, and other such harmless stories. Going from these to a violent storyline would be a shift for them and they were not ready for it.


  • #9023
    nagdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭nagdefy


    Shakyfan wrote: »
    Is that Ray D'Arcy chatting to Terrence? :D

    Ha ha! A live interview! D'arcy must be bricking it!!

    I think it's Malachy the ex priest.


  • #9024
    nagdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭nagdefy


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    Well if we put the two of them in...



    And make...



    We would have something worth watching. :D

    Excellent! Everyone's on top form here tonight despite the miserable fare. Must be the sunshine:D


  • #9025
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,978 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Ha, D'Arcy...the only thing more ridiculous than Fairly Sh1tty!


  • #9026
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    BuilderPlumber wrote: »
    I think that FC was more daring back in those days. Billy Meehan, Terence, Marty Halpin, Pete Flanagan, and others were pure evil. Ciaran was not meant to be evil but more mixed up. In the end he was more to be pitied. If he was pure evil I don't think Katy would have helped him at all.

    i think they were just piggybacking off of what eastenders and corrie were doing back then. richard hillman, trevor beating little mo...they wanted to emulate that.


  • #9027
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,918 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    what a lot of bollox - first thing they would have done when the guards found her in the street like that is get Katie to hospital, plus emergency psychiatric help! not leave it a day or 2!


  • #9028
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,918 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    oh dear we really are seeing the ugly side of Farrah!


  • #9029
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,893 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    amtc wrote: »
    And where are Tommy and Debbie living? How can Eoghan afford rent on his earnings from a phone cover shop?

    When did he last even go to work?
    What ever happened to Miriam?


  • #9030
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    i think they were just piggybacking off of what eastenders and corrie were doing back then. richard hillman, trevor beating little mo...they wanted to emulate that.

    I think that Marty Halpin was certainly inspired by Richard Hillman. FC and other soaps tend to copy each other and copy other popular films and series too. I think this still happens. I'm sure Room provided the inpsiration for the Ciaran/Katy story.


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  • #9031
    nagdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭nagdefy


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    i think they were just piggybacking off of what eastenders and corrie were doing back then. richard hillman, trevor beating little mo...they wanted to emulate that.

    They actually equalled the likes of the Richard Hillman story with Billy Meehan and Terence. Pity the likes of Billy Meehan were killed off. Talented baddie that could be used 5 to 10 yrs down the line in a new story.

    Instead we get baddies like Trigger Foley, Don Baker (past his best i feel) and Eric Lalor. Lalor probably has talent but he was reduced to a grimacing idiot most of the time.


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