Clearly Gordon is involved with something adverse which happened during Aaron's childhood. They both seem to share a very close personal secret. Aaron's latest behaviour around Gordon can only be described at times as being electric, it seems to me anyway. What really bothers me is that Aaron seems most upset when Chas gets near Gordon.
When it was announced in November 2015 that Gary Mavers was going to play Aaron's dad, Gordon Livesey, from December 2015, my very first impression was that he was going to have violent tendencies, maybe whilst sober maybe whilst drunk. We really haven't really seen a lot of Gordon since he came to Emmerdale and we still do not really know yet why Sandra left him with her daughter some years ago now. We have also not been told yet what Gordon has been doing for the last 5 years or so in his personal life.
We have all lately seen how Emmerdale has tried to explore every kind of human relationship in televised scenes beginning from early December 2015. These include:
Married Zak having a found-out affair with Joanie;
Married Paddy having a secret affair with married Tess;
Tracy and Carly soon having offers of dates with married Duncan (who might even be just someone worth pursuing for his money and unhappy marriage? But are Tracy and Carly that smart? [TW: In Emmerdale? Like, c'mon, no... haha!]);
Cain and Moira having their relationship threatened by Pete and (very soon, it seems!) Charity;
Rakesh and Priya being split over Kirin's baby, with Rakesh seeming to be targetting Chrissie for his next girl;
Nikhil just seeming to have dropped Canadian Tanya for an affair, it seems for now anyway, with local girl Leyla;
Ashley getting back with lovely Laurel (\"hic\"!!!);
Ross being dumped by Debbie and him left holding Charity's baby for now (the words millstone, numpty and drowning man and many other words come to my mind right now, haha!);
Bob and Harriet seeming to be very flirty and friendly lately?
Gordon and Chas = ex-husband and wife. Well, Chas does really seem to have a long history of \"picking 'em\", so what's new on this? Time will tell! (TW: Best of luck though, Chas, I really think you're going to need it...!)
There has been a lot of speculation recently in various public discussion forums about Aaron's dark secret from his childhood. What I really wonder about is whether Aaron just observed something really bad, maybe happening to Sandra, with Gordon being a violent wife-beating guy and nothing beyond this? Maybe Gordon threatened or even beat Aaron within an inch of his life (even hospitalised?) to not tell about what Aaron had seen in the Livesey family home? There may, of course, have been much more personal contact between Gordon and Sandra and Gordon and Aaron?
We should all remember that the forthcoming Emmerdale scenes about what seem to clearly connect Gordon and Aaron during Aaron's childhood are to be televised on ITV from 7pm on weekdays. I really do not think but hope for now that these scenes are going to be anything other than talked-about domestic physical violence between husband, wife and son.
If I was the Emmerdale storyliner for what is yet to come, I would make Aaron the noble character who takes the steps necessary to save people like Sandra and Chas from any further harm, for Robert to back up Aaron on this mission of Aaron's and for something (at long last...) positive come into Aaron's life. We all love to love a hero, just as we all love to hate a baddie, after all!
Gordon Livesy rejoins Emmerdale
Daniel Kilkelly, Digital Spy
7 November 2015
http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/emme...over-the-role/