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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 385844" data-attributes="member: 23">Oh my. If you keep up this pace you&#039;ll have caught up completely in about three weeks (assuming you don&#039;t get Brookie Burnout before then). Do you know, I can&#039;t remember if I even know the answer to this. It does seem a terrible shame to have lost Danny Webb so early on, and Gav was a great character.To me it feels so organic I suppose I&#039;ve just believed it was planned in from the start. Subliminally for me, it helped that this has also echoes of Corrie, where a character died of a brain haemorrhage in its opening weeks. The parallels between the series&#039; first on-screen deaths for me cements Brookie&#039;s place as the spiritual successor to early Corrie. I can&#039;t find anything in the Brookside Companion or Phil Redmond&#039;s book to suggest (though he did say about &quot;the early departure of Danny Webb which brought on Gavin Taylor&#039;s fictional death), which suggests the actor had left.You&#039;re right about the shock value and meaning. Here&#039;s what I said about it when I watched recently: Absolutely. We were of very similar minds here: Oh, that&#039;s a shame. I know how it can dampen things&nbsp; when characters don&#039;t click with us.If it helps, here&#039;s what James and I were chatting about Lucy and Gordon when I was up to episode 24 this time round: Oh great. Paul is a longtime favourite of mine, while Annabel - a character I was ambivalent about when I was young - has impressed me very much this time round. I very much enjoy watching them. Not wanting to oversell, but the Grants are absolute gems. I&#039;m glad you&#039;re finding them engaging in these storylines. There&#039;s plenty more great stuff to come.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 385844, member: 23"] Oh my. If you keep up this pace you'll have caught up completely in about three weeks (assuming you don't get [I]Brookie[/I] Burnout before then). Do you know, I can't remember if I even know the answer to this. It does seem a terrible shame to have lost Danny Webb so early on, and Gav was a great character. To me it feels so organic I suppose I've just believed it was planned in from the start. Subliminally for me, it helped that this has also echoes of [I]Corrie[/I], where a character died of a brain haemorrhage in its opening weeks. The parallels between the series' first on-screen deaths for me cements [I]Brookie's[/I] place as the spiritual successor to early [I]Corrie[/I]. I can't find anything in the Brookside Companion or Phil Redmond's book to suggest (though he did say about "the early departure of Danny Webb which brought on Gavin Taylor's fictional death), which suggests the actor had left. You're right about the shock value and meaning. Here's what I said about it when I watched recently: Absolutely. We were of very similar minds here: Oh, that's a shame. I know how it can dampen things when characters don't click with us. If it helps, here's what James and I were chatting about Lucy and Gordon when I was up to episode 24 this time round: Oh great. Paul is a longtime favourite of mine, while Annabel - a character I was ambivalent about when I was young - has impressed me very much this time round. I very much enjoy watching them. Not wanting to oversell, but the Grants are absolute gems. I'm glad you're finding them engaging in these storylines. There's plenty more great stuff to come. [/QUOTE]

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