Link to the main facebook site: [ Ссылка ] (the main site is the one with over 59,000 members). Please join as a member because we would have more impact if we are all in one place. There's also a link to the petition on that site. It may not bring Danielle back but it might make the writers think in future about how their characters affect the audience.
My critique of Danielle's death:
1. Peggy has always been a caring mother who has despaired of her children getting into trouble. It is too out of character and highly implausible she would ask her own son to kill Archie. He would, after all, risk a life-destroying jail sentence and leave her grandson without a father. I'm annoyed Danielle was sacrificed for this unlikely scenario.
2. Many young people would have identified with Danielle. Her problems of adoption and parental rejection are very common. These young people would have been left without hope because of this too tragic portrayal of adoption. EE has a responsibility to show realistic optimism for these young people and not intense tragedy.
3. EE kept Danielle's horrific death a secret but younger and more sensitive viewers should have the choice of whether or not to watch such a distressing sight. This was a heartless attempt at sensationalism and ratings scoring.
4. The road accident plot was lazy.
5. Her death was implausible because Janine was not going fast enough and could have swerved, and Danielle had time to move (poor directing/editing).
6. Mother-daughter relationships are fundamental to every girl/woman. Millions would have identified with Danielle and Ronnie and taken them to heart, so this is one relationship that really should have been explored further and handled with more care. The writers should have thought about the viewers affected by Ronnie and Danielle and not just treated these characters coldly as plot devices.
7. Many adopted children seek out their biological parents and would have been interested to see how Ronnie and Danielle's relationship developed and how/if they related to each other. It would have been more interesting to explore this complex relationship rather than see Phil do a lame Tony Soprano impression. They would have been covering new ground rather than going over the same old Phil-as-macho-man ground.
8. Danielle's tragic story is a too negative portrayal of adoption and would have put children off finding their biological parents.
9. The writers are showing immaturity. Flashy red sports cars zooming around, punch-ups and gangster-style torture are surely features of a teenage boy's school story. Surely mature writing should be about developing interesting characters and relationships and showing sensitivity and consideration towards your audience.
10. The writers have lost touch with their audience, which is made up largely of children, teenagers, women and families, who shouldn't see or wouldn't want to see Sopranos-style violence.
