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Floyd the Royd

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    #32
    6th
    Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Highlight the text.


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    #33
    larko
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭larko


    Mags seems to have new dentures.

    Heard an interview with the actress that plays Mags. She picked up a mystery virus that has attacked her ability to speak properly. Docs don't know what it is. Poor woman.


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    #34
    gogglebok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭gogglebok


    Putting the cat back into the bag, if there is a cat, I'll spoilerise my questions.
    What are the implications if Floyd does get Heather pregnant? Is there a high chance of something seriously wrong with the child? Is it even likely the pregnancy would go to term?

    Last night was pretty good, I thought. Christy was very strong, and something is obviously happening with that chess story. Bela as good as promised the girl an Ipod touch if she wins the game. How is he going to swing that amount of money?


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    #35
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Alice1


    Thanks Janey and 6th. Sorry, very new to this site and still finding my way around.:)


    Hm, the chess story is intersting. I'd say Bela doesn't really believe that his daughter can defeat TJ in chess.


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    #36
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Alice1


    Oops, meant to ask how do you "do" spoilers?


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    #37
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Floyd had a fit, shoved a couple of tablets in his mouth, and was fine before he swallowed them.

    They must be magic!


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    #38
    jos28
    Registered Users Posts: 7,194 ✭✭✭jos28


    They could keep this incest theme going for years. How will Heather feel in a few years when Eleanor asks Benjamin to 'make luuuvvv to me'.:D


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    #39
    JonathanAnon
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    larko wrote: »
    Heard an interview with the actress that plays Mags. She picked up a mystery virus that has attacked her ability to speak properly. Docs don't know what it is. Poor woman.

    Something similar happened to Ronan Keating's singing.

    The whole story with the new Floyd is unbelievable. I dont think Una Kavanagh is a very good actress, and having a bad actress play such a unbelievable turnaround in emotions (hating floyd, and then loving him after she finds out he's dying) makes for a very weak storyline.


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    #40
    gogglebok
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    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    The whole story with the new Floyd is unbelievable. I dont think Una Kavanagh is a very good actress, and having a bad actress play such a unbelievable turnaround in emotions (hating floyd, and then loving him after she finds out he's dying) makes for a very weak storyline.

    I'm finding it hard to judge her performance. There are moments when she's dealing with Brendan when she looks seriously insane, and I wonder if this is the early stages of a mental illness story. Is it the character who is over the top or the actress? I haven't a clue, but the acharacter has done some pretty dodgy things.

    If she is going mad, that in itself is pretty worrying. It was awful the last time Fair City did that, with Pearse, and I remember it being done badly in Eastenders too. I don't know why, but soaps just can't do mental illness.

    The actress who is really coming out of this well, in my book, is Renee. She's getting more and more intense, without any hysterics or flailing about. I find myself just watching her a lot of the time.


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    #41
    Monte Cristo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Monte Cristo


    Can someone please tell me what the point of the whole storyline is? I mean Fair City has a dodgy reputation of recasting characters but that's usually because they want them in the show on a regular basis. Why recast a popular character like Floyd just to kill him off in what was, after all, just a few weeks worth of storyline?

    I'm not knocking any of the actors involved but it seems kind of a strange decision. I'm just starting to get used to the idea of the new guy and he's dying on Sunday!

    I agree with some of the other posts. It does seem very unbelievable and contrived.


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    #42
    gogglebok
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    Monte Cristo wrote: »
    Can someone please tell me what the point of the whole storyline is? I mean Fair City has a dodgy reputation of recasting characters but that's usually because they want them in the show on a regular basis. Why recast a popular character like Floyd just to kill him off in what was, after all, just a few weeks worth of storyline?

    JonathanAnon talked about it being such a huge turnaround for Heather to fall in love with Floyd again. If wonder if that's the reason. Maybe giving him a terminal illness was the only way they think of to get them together again.

    I like the storyline, even if it is short, but I still think it is a pity they didn't use the original actor. The new guy is great, but they could have made him Bob's evil son or something.


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    #43
    Monte Cristo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Monte Cristo


    I agree with you gogglebok. The new guy is a very good actor and should've been given his own "Brand new" character. The character of Floyd was more than just the incest/Heather thing. I remember him as being quite a funny character who could do the comedic stories as well as the serious. They really wanna milk this brother/sister love affair thing for all it's worth.


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    #44
    jos28
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    So Floyd popped his clogs tonight. What a lame ending to the story line. Almost laughable at times, totally unrealistic, very disappointing.


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    #45
    Toto Wolfcastle
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    Agree completely. Brendan holding Floyd looked awkward and just ruined the whole thing for me. Brendan is pretty awkward anyway. Also, Christy was doing really well as the emotional dad until Floyd died. He didn't seem that sad when he did die.


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    #46
    Baby4
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    #47
    gogglebok
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    Baby4 wrote: »
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    The whole thing or just the ending? Three people huddled over the corpse crying did look a bit awkward, I agree, but if you have a terminal illness storyline it pretty much has to end with someone dying. I would have liked to see more of the actor, but I'm relieved they didn't put the cancer into remission or give him more of those magic pills.

    I hope we get some lighter stuff now.


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    #48
    Toto Wolfcastle
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    I thought the story as a whole was done very well but the ending was stupid.


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    #49
    Brian Capture
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    I heard that the (new) actor playing Floyd actually had terminal cancer but agreed to continue acting in the soap.

    And he actually died in the filming of Sunday's scene. The producers decided to use the scene as it fitted the storyline.


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    #50
    Brigantia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭Brigantia


    ahh, but death is never the end in soap land. maybe this time next year the camera could glide slowly into the bathroom, heather pulls back the shower curtain and there is - Floyd.:eek:

    nah, it'd never work...


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    #51
    gogglebok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭gogglebok


    Brigantia wrote: »
    ahh, but death is never the end in soap land. maybe this time next year the camera could glide slowly into the bathroom, heather pulls back the shower curtain and there is - Floyd.:eek:

    It would be even better if Harry Molloy was in there with him.


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    #52
    JP Liz
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    RIP Floyd


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    #53
    toiletduck
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    gogglebok wrote: »
    Harry Molloy was in there with him.

    YA WAH?

    He'd sort out the garage no bother, and by night run a vigilante group hunting down tornadoes and pushers who prey on 3 year olds.


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    #54
    JP Liz
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    Does Floyd have another sister Farrah (that he wasnt sleeping with)???????

    Should she not have been there for the funeral. They could have recast the role.

    Heather was OTT at the funeral, Barry is suspicious

    OT: Does anyone else think Niamh will get with Carol's fella Rory and Orla with Una's fella Keith or are they putting Niamh back with Leo?????


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    #55
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    JP Liz wrote: »
    Does Floyd have another sister Farrah (that he wasnt sleeping with)???????

    Should she not have been there for the funeral. They could have recast the role.

    No, because there is a rule that you can't recast a role more than 3 times. :p


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    #56
    Hardrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Hardrain


    Whatever happened to the fit one who's boyfriend got killed by 'Arry She was mint, She went on a drunken bebo rant last I heard? Didn't get the full story.


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