Ross, Pete and Andy do not have any clear future in Emmerdale right now. Pete and Andy could end up in jail, as could Ross, but Ross seems to be the outsider again here. Ross presently does not seem to have any paid job, other than maybe sick pay from Debbie's garage business, and is presently living rent-free(?) at Debbie's house at Mulberry Cottage. But what happens to Ross when Debbie leaves Emmerdale, as we know she is going to do around December 2015? Ross seems to have no friends in Emmerdale right now and this is before the news (so future spoilers say) that other viillagers find out that Andy was involved in Robert's shooting and maybe that Ross was the actual shooter? Let's face it, Emmerdale is such a close cul-de-sac community that nothing usually remains secret for very long and so, on this basis, Ross must "face-the-music" for his actions in due course, hopefully sooner rather than later!
I really do see a disastrous future for "present" Ross in Emmerdale village.
1) Ross is now a complete outsider. He has no friends, stable job or income or real future there.
2) His personality is completely unsuitable to be a "family man". Debbie's kids hate him for a start and Ross is so totally rootless and immature for now.
3) What Ross really seems to want is for Debbie to be his "gangster's moll" without any responsibilities but Debbie is no longer of such a young age to be this, now has kids to care for and is far more emotionally mature than Ross, so Debbie and Ross are, I reckon, completely mis-matched at this time of their lives.
4) I think that Ross's latest actions (shooting Robert and trying twice to murder Pete over about the last two months) are going to soon catch up with him in the very near future. Spoiler photos show that Cain gets "up close and personal" soon, either before or after Debbie leaves Emmerdale (in December 2015). Surely Debbie's close family are going to want revenge then on anyone deemed to have caused Debbie to leave? I really do think that there is shortly going to be an uprising of alpha-male types for a village posse in Emmerdale (maybe made up of Cain/Andy/Aaron/Paddy/David/others) to "sort" Ross out, once and for all. Ironically, maybe Pete stays out of this though as the forgiving and good guy brother? Maybe this just means that Ross "reforms" and stays in Emmerdale, or that he leaves Emmerdale to live somewhere else, or that he ends up in Emmerdale graveyard?
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Cain gets up close and personal with Ross real soon
Yesterday's Monday Emmerdale episode showed Ross being left alone to "hold the baby" (Moses) after Pete leaves the village for a while. (Question: Has Charity told the truth that Ross is the father of Moses?) This baby-sittiing role is not really the life that Ross wants, I reckon, and that reality will set in very soon for him that this is all Debbie has to offer for him in Emmerdale long-term. In fact, yesterday's episode for him was just Emmerdullsville ZZZzzz... But just what else does Ross expect from Debbie right now? Ross is going to want again, I have no doubts about that. As I wrote above, Debbie has moved on emotionally and Ross has simply fallen behind and wants a nostalgic energetic fast life which is long gone and was available once when Debbie was a "wild child". Tonight's Tuesday Emmerdale episode will show how Ross bursts into the pub, hears Nikhil telling off guilty Debbie for her being involved with Gennie's death, and how Ross punches Nikhil on impulse because Ross completely does not know what he is doing or what part Debbie played in bringing about Gennie's death. David steps in to pull Ross off Nikhil but now Nikhil is yet another Emmerdaler that Ross doesn't relate to.
I suspect that this pub scene between Ross and Nikhil and the spread of the "Andy setting Robert up to be shot" storyline amongst the villagers will lead to the formation of an eventual alpha-male Emmerdale village posse (made up of villagers such as Cain/Andy/Aaron/Adam/Pete/David/others) which will change Ross's life forever.
For now, Ross is a complete outsider in Emmerdale. His good looks no longer count for anything, and his past reactions and history since he returned to Emmerdale on Tuesday, 25th September after previously "dying" outside Hotten Hospital on 6th September have been totally OTT, done him no favours, been totally extreme and unnecessary and only been very damaging for his future in Emmerdale.
The change.org opinion poll about whether Ross should be returned to Emmerdale after "dying" raised less than 10,000 votes (actual vote count=9,147). However, this opinion poll was very seriously flawed:
1) One vote was allowed for each registered e-mail address, so this meant that the vote was open to abuse from any one person who used more than one personal email address;
2) There wasn't a "No" vote option. The opinion poll question was "Bring Back Ross Barton *Emmerdale*", so anyone who bothered to vote only had one choice, = "Yes"!
In the end, the total poll voter count was less than 10,000. As each Emmerdale episode is watched by about 5 million viewers (barb.co.uk, October 2015) then the poll was answered by up to 0.2% of single-voting Emmerdale viewers and the remaining 99.8%+ of Emmerdale viewers didn't take part. Maybe the poll wasn't well publicised? Maybe some viewers already knew that Michael Parr was still filming at Emmerdale studios when Ross was supposed to be dead, so this is why these viewers didn't bother voting as it was obvious that Ross wasn't dead? Maybe most viewers knew that it was a foregone conclusion either way, as the show is filmed about 6-8 weeks before being aired on TV and that any poll was pointless because the studio money was already spent by then and that storyline and filming of future episodes was already set in stone by the time that the poll was due to close? Or maybe most viewers didn't care about Ross and maybe wanted Ross dead and gone anyway? We will maybe never know clearly what the general Emmerdale viewing public thought at the time but one thing seems for sure and that is that Ross has been highly dislikeable since he returned to Emmerdale on Tuesday, 25th September, and that his good looks and appearance may not be enough to keep him in any future popularity competition?
We must all remember that Ross left us all in August 2015 under very different circumstances to how we see him now and when he won his recent Inside Soap awards in September 2015 for his previous Emmerdale acting work before the latest "darkest hours" for Ross on Emmerdale. Since Tuesday, 25th September, Ross has returned on TV to Emmerdale and been the root cause of the following storylines:
- Robert recovering in hospital from attempted murder by Ross and with Aaron in jail being blamed for it;
- Pete having survived two attempted murder scenes by Ross;
- Pete at the police station confessing to 'attempted murder' on Ross for his fight and apparent accident with Ross at the hospital;
- Andy and Robert about to be involved in a car crash soon because Robert finds out that Andy set up Robert's shooting (which Ross suggested to Andy as in 'Strangers on a Train');
- etc.
Is there any Emmerdale future for Ross right now? I am sure that the Emmerdale storyliners will tell us their answer to this question in a while real soon.
I do not see any future for the "present" Ross, so I reckon that either he changes soon to be a better guy or he is made to leave Emmerdale by the other villagers or through personal circumstances soon, one way or another.
Sources:
Bring Back Michael Parr AKA "Ross Barton" to Emmerdale at:
https://www.change.org/p/emmerdale-b...rton-emmerdale
Emmerdale's Michael Parr on shock return: 'Ross Barton will want revenge' at:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s1...t-revenge.html
Emmerdale and Michael Parr storm the Inside Soap Awards at:
http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/emme...e-soap-awards/
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