EastEnders viewers want entire family axed – except for fan-favourite character
EASTENDERS fans have grown tired of the BBC ‘under using’ certain characters and have insisted that they might as well be axed altogether from the show.
Viewers have admitted they are ready to see one entire clan go over a mixture of lack of screen time and stories as well as mismatched character development.
It is the Baker/Taylor clan that have come under fire with fans confessing that it may be time for them to go once and for all – apart from Bernie, played by Clair Norris, who they insist has much more to give.
The Baker and Taylor clan have had a whirlwind of a time since landing on Albert Square but its show heartthrob Keanu, played by Danny Walters, who has taken centre stage as of late – with the rest of his family hardly getting a look in.
Keanu has been planning a marriage to Sharon (Letitia Dean), attempting to regain his daughter Peggy from Lucy Benjamin’s character Lisa as well as a number of problems at the gargage.
Its meant that fans have been left tiring of his on-screen antics whilst also wondering of the whereabouts of his family.
Writing on Digital Spy’s fan forum, one fan said: “I liked Keanu in his first stint. He had a reasonably mature head on his shoulders, having been the man of the house in the Taylor household for some time. Since his return his character has been awful.
“He tries to act like he is some kind of criminal mastermind but comes across like an overgrown child, and he didn’t give Peggy a second thought until she came back with Lisa.”
They also called on the likes of Mitch Baker and Lorraine Stanley‘s character Karen Taylor to be given the boot too.
Another added: “Mitch should go. He is nearly as bad as Keanu.”
A third shared: “Karen has run her course and it’s time she was written out.”
As someone else echoed: “Time for Karen to be Axed.”
However for Bernadette, fans insisted that soap bosses still had much more to explore with her character as one EastEnders superfan penned: “I think Bernie’s benefited from not being thrown into the kind of big melodramas that come Keanu’s way on a weekly basis.
“She appears regularly in a setting that allows her to interact with just about every cast member at some point.
“We often see her chatting with people on the market and in the Vic too – they’ve done a lot of understated work this year in getting her right at the heart of the community.”
As another similarly said: “Bernie could be a really interesting character, there’s mileage to explore with her sexuality, surrogacy etc. I love how like Eve she really slots into the community and interacts with everyone.
“She’s really starting to come into her own and I hope they don’t end up wasting her.”