Quote Originally Posted by Serena Williams View Post
Does Kate oates not realize how popular aaron and robert are worldwide? There is a huge audience who ONLY watch emmerdake for the gay storyline.There are youtube videos, tumbulr, Facebook, fan fiction devoted to aaron and robert. Yet according to the spoilers for the next two weeks they are only mentioned in one episode. Even last week aaron hardly got much screentime. Kate Oates needs to wake up there is a younger audience who is very interested in the gay storyline. Is it homophobia? I have noticed the aaron and robert relationship lacks passion lately. I cannot help but wonder if they were heterosexual if they would get more screentime?
I just think that the introduction of gay storylines for most producers in soap-land is to attract the audience, and not to develop the "gay" story or give people good examples to follow. The true is in real life nobody would (or should) give a second, third, etc chance for Robert to be a decent guy; he would end up in prison to learn the lesson. Even Danny himself said in Aaron's situation he'd given up on Robert. So, at the moment producers just make this storyline more complicated and unbelievable (twists and turns) to keep them in the show as long as they can without highlighting "gay" features. The problem is that such a treatment will result in less interested audience and killing the storyline itself (to make space for the next one?) But I am afraid this is the way all producers follow.