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Destroyed - Max Bowden’s Ben. Harry Reid was in my opinion the PERFECT Ben Mitchell, right blend of damaged psycho still trying to live up to his father’s expectations. Harry Reid portrayed that brilliantly, but with Max Bowden they tried so hard make him a tough mini Phil and that just wasn’t Ben’s essence at all

Improved - Jac Jossa’s Lauren. She brought life and personality to the character as the other actress was rather plain and quite a drip. She wasn’t even convincing enough to have people believe she ran over Max but I could definitely see Jac’s Lauren doing so

For me, it’s Lola. Sorry, I know she’s a beloved character and I loved her too when she arrived but besides giving birth live and her custody battle over Lexi, she had no huge or impactful storylines during her stint and she was never really treated as a Mitchell either. Giving her the terminal cancer storyline gave her more impact, otherwise she would’ve been another forgotten character if they hadn’t

Dierdrick Santer - Making being skint some of the characters only storylines. Like it gets to a point where you no longer care

DTC - (not from his EP stint) killing off Danielle. 17 years later and I’m still p*ssed

For me, SOC Introducing the Taylors, BK recasting Lauren and bringing back Kat and Alfie

As much as I love Oscar, as a bisexual, it really grates me they’re perpetuating harmful biphobic stereotypes through him for the sake of “drama” and yet another unnecessary MLM ship that’s just going to cause viewers to hate him and Josh