Eastenders Baby Death Storyline

[deemented]

Once again, no one can live happily ever after

Ronnie's baby James, dies and she puts his body in Kat and Alfies son's crib, and steals their baby boy, Tommy.

Why oh why oh why do scriptwriters insist on portraying bereaved parents - mothers especially - as mad and deranged??? Maybe it's because they can't begin to imagine how awful the death of a child is, but really, whilst we are mad with grief, it is our own child that we want back, not someone else's stolen child. When are scriptwriters ever going to understand that?

Still, it'll be a riveting watch, no doubt.

victoria derbyshire discussing this on her show on five live this morning.

[email protected] for emailed views/0500909693 to voice an opinion/@vicderbyshire on twitter. There's a facebook page as well but no idea how to get to that sorry.

If people want their opinions aired on this that is the place to start.

Just coming on to say that wannabe - so will add a helpful bump instead.

Ok so retweeted! Never done before, don't even have an account used my DP's gave Victoria Derbyshire a link to this page and told her to come over and read it to see how we all feel.

Lets see what happens!

I looked up the schedule and thought I'd mention that Victoria Derbyshire's show begins soon, at 10.00....

Will be listening on iplayer.

I'm tuning in too, on comp now. I'm not sure that she will have had time to read this thread if she has got message at all. I hope she has looked it up before now and has found this thread. Will be interesting to hear what she has to say about it and her thoughts and anyone else who she has been able to talk to about this.

I will be listening too . I just hope the point is made about this being about the snatching nonsense and not the fact they are dealing with SIDS .

I am listening as much as I can.

Great start Victoria, using an excerpt from ee..thanks for that.

Just for the record, you don't say "x...x... wake up sweetie...".

I have sent Victoria a message stating that it is the BABY SWAPPING and INACCURACIES in the Story Line that is what we are disgusted with.

I have also sent her a link via FB to the FB page that has been set up.

I Have also emailed Lorraine Kelly and sent her a link to this page and to FB.

Me too emj! But not the FB page.

Confuddled - ytterly fatastic post. xx

Shabba - xx

Emj - good for you! I'm glad somoone knows how to get hold of these people.

joni - Morning!

'utterly'

Morning Mouseface

This is FB link

www.facebook.com/pages/Eastenders-Stop-the-baby-storyline-from-dragging-out/189990314351893

OOOPPS not very good with these things, think you will have to copy and paste into your internet browser. Or if someone can put a proper link in

here we go. on now

Why can't the writers of EE has a positive storyline for once? I mean on ITV you had on Corrie, the train crash where people have died and now Sally is having an affair and now on EE you have Kat and Ronnie looking totally miserable. Its supposed to be New Year, new starts etc and it just makes people miserable, we don't need that, the VAT rise is helping that already.

PLEASE scriptwriters have some more cheery storylines or you will end up with viewers turning off.

VD had just one journalistic approach to this. 'It's not real.'

Doesn't she understand it's a LOT more complicated an issue than that

Yeh, I felt she was toeing the BBC line.

I don't believe she doesn't get it !

The media can be so frustrating !

The lowest common denominator thing IYSWIM

My thoughts exactly Joni, very stern repeatedly
"It's not real" The ladies who went on and spoke were very brave. I felt bad though all VD did was make them seem stupid for letting a soap affect them as it's just a "Drama" I really don't think she understood the affects that this programme is having at all. And I don't think for one second they are stupid but she was very much trying to portray that, very sad :(

Yes very much toeing the BBC line, dare not speak against her employers

I don't know why she bothered discussing it , "You do know it's not real don't you ?" Then why bother talking about it ?

This story line is still pissing me off and of course I know it's not bloody real .

They have missed a chance to show how it REALLY is to have a child die . It is shite for the record . I am often asked on here how to approach a bereaved parent , people genuinely don't know and it scares them . This could have helped with that but instead we are all loons . Much easier .

But it will all be over in a few weeks and the baby will never be mentioned again as is the way of all these soaps . A couple of weeks crying is allowed and then "buck up and get on with it and don't talk about it again"

At least it got an airing,

and two mothers who have lost children had the opportunity to talk about their experiences.

Anyone else feel the FSID could have done more to use their influence for the good ?

Yes travellingwilbury. As I've said in an earlier post,on their preview website Ronnie is described as 'finally bonding' with 'her baby. That's OK then because it's been at least a fortnight since her own child died