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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 437822" data-attributes="member: 673">That’s a shame, as I was hopeful for something different. However, as you said, there is a fear of losing viewers, which I imagine was extra strong in the case of this show because it was such a gamble to launch a new soap after all of these years.The ill fated British soap Eldorado had the same issue when it launched in the 90’s. Arguably, its biggest character was Marcus Tandy, the show’s central villain. Aside from a bit of exposition at the beginning about him fleeing to Spain, after embezzling people back in the UK, we never knew the ongoing source of his ill gotten gains.Characters would talk about him being a bad boy, you’d see him take suspicious phone calls and meet dodgy looking men in dark sunglasses but the viewer was never told what his line of business was. This wasn’t some ploy to build up suspense. It was just a sign of the show’s awful writing where they’d decided that they needed a villain but wouldn’t commit to what his villainy was about. Anyway, about six months into the show, with a new producer at the helm, they fleshed him out and revealed that he was involved in prostitution and people trafficking, with a bigger criminal kingpin (played by the recently deceased Derek Martin) giving him his orders.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 437822, member: 673"] That’s a shame, as I was hopeful for something different. However, as you said, there is a fear of losing viewers, which I imagine was extra strong in the case of this show because it was such a gamble to launch a new soap after all of these years. The ill fated British soap [I]Eldorado[/I] had the same issue when it launched in the 90’s. Arguably, its biggest character was Marcus Tandy, the show’s central villain. Aside from a bit of exposition at the beginning about him fleeing to Spain, after embezzling people back in the UK, we never knew the ongoing source of his ill gotten gains. Characters would talk about him being a bad boy, you’d see him take suspicious phone calls and meet dodgy looking men in dark sunglasses but the viewer was never told what his line of business was. This wasn’t some ploy to build up suspense. It was just a sign of the show’s awful writing where they’d decided that they needed a villain but wouldn’t commit to what his villainy was about. Anyway, about six months into the show, with a new producer at the helm, they fleshed him out and revealed that he was involved in prostitution and people trafficking, with a bigger criminal kingpin (played by the recently deceased Derek Martin) giving him his orders. [/QUOTE]

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