Despite this new obsession (I have so many in the collection!) I’m not – generally – a girl who likes soaps. Back in the day, I used to catch ‘Eastenders’, and ‘Hollyoaks’, but usually only when a story line grabbed my attention. Hello the Kat, Alfie and Andy drama! I’ll never forget the classic wedding crashing….
Anyway, I often saw ‘Emmerdale’ clips, but just when they involved my favourite character, Robert Sugden.
Then, something happened last year in January….
I decided to trace one of the other faces from the series; Lachlan White; a vile, nasty, spoiled teenage killer. Gulp. Out of curiosity, I put his name and Robert’s into a youtube search, actually just to see if they’d – at least – known one another…. The result? It brought up a thousand clips, and I soon found that they hated each other. As a writer whose absolute fuel is conflict in her books….. this was gripping. No. More than that. I was hypnotised. I wanted to know everything. Why did Lachlan loathe him? Their history had to be analysed, read about (Emmerdale wiki was good!)
After somehow managing to locate further clips, I realised there was so much going on at Home Farm. There were secrets, lies, manipulations, greed, and so much cheating! Now, I can’t believe I’m going to admit this, but ‘Emmerdale’ is an obsession that also takes up a lot of my brain. (To really be valued, as ‘Harry Potter’ is always there, but the fact that I’m thinking about Robert, Lachlan, Chrissie, and Aaron AS much says a LOT.
Last night, I had a dream that Lachlan sought more revenge on Robert….
In my next post on the ‘Emmerdale’ vein, I’m going to be talking about why I like Robert so much. What is it that compels me to watch him? Also, you’ll get to see some fanfiction script (a crossover with ‘Riverdale)
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Catch you soon, bloggers!
PS It’s 2020!
As my cat’s name is Emi, it’s now a running joke that she watches ‘Emidale’ with me.