I didn't actually say Max wouldn't be a villain! I said that knowing why he's the way he is it's still possible to have sympathy for him. You yourself say he deserves his vengeance and just about all online discussions I've read about this agree. That's sympathy, and the one short scene of him self-harming has bought him lots of it. We also have no idea how far he'll take it before he comes to his senses.Originally Posted by lizann
In my favourite ever drama, The Sopranos, the main character did some truly evil deeds and sometimes to characters we'd grown to love, and yet it was hard to completely hate him because we had such deep insight into his tortured psyche. In fact he was sometimes even sympathetic. I don't expect EE to ever reach those dizzy dramatic heights but then I think it's unlikely Max will descend to Tony Soprano level of villainy either.
I actually feel more warmth towards Max now than I may ever have because he's been treated so unfairly. He's never been a nice character after all (remember Lauren trying to kill him by running him over, Tanya burying him alive, and Abi having no trouble believing he murdered Lucy?). One of the reasons I've never hated Ian and Jane as much as some of you is because Max knew about Kat and Janine's plot for Kat to lie in court to blame Alice for murdering Michael so that Janine would change her story about the stabbing to get Stacey off the hook (in other words he was involved in doing to his own niece almost exactly what was done to him).
It'll be interesting to see how I feel about him in a few months' time. That'll all depend on the level of acting and writing...
(And yes, I do think he was likely involved in the launderette closing.)
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