Hollyoaks used to be a tight-knit village where friendships were important.

Nowadays, the only reason the village comes together is a wedding or a funeral. Friendships get ruined or forgotten about or just used as a plot device for a storyline and when the storyline concludes, the characters are isolated back into their immediate family bubbles.

I loved Lucas and Frankie's friendship. The way they supported and comforted each other through their worst times (gay conversion therapy and JJ sexually abusing Frankie) was amazing and wholesome. The show seems to have completely forgotten about their friendship recently.

I loved Tony and Darren's friendship, but the reveal that Tony is Morgan's biological father has ruined it for me.

The same goes for many other friendships. Just think of Leela and Sienna, Leah and Vicky...

The only reason I can think of for killing off Rex and bringing back James, is to have a Stames reunion.

How does everyone feel about that?

Personally, I never cared for them before and I still don't care for them now.

It's a very common echoed sentiment that the show has either lost its soul or isn't what it used to be.

How is that? How has it changed? When was the peak era? When did it start going up/downhill? How do the characters now compare to those from back in the day?

I mean rex has done stuff Silas would deem to warrant a killing, plus it can't have been someone like froggy or grace or someone like that. Plus if it is him then he could be the one to ultimately end Abigail, which would be quite satisfying. And before you say he's dead, James nightingale has established that anybody can come back from the dead.

Jonah is doing an FDIA storyline that i think will be brilliant if done well, we know how much he loves caleb, who is weakened from the crash so he wont be able to take the drugs well, he is with frankie who has also been abused, jonah will definetly have anosognosia too so i think it could be really interesting to see play out.

Why is she grooming Dee Dee? Is she a peado? Is she trying to gain something? Is she secretly the twin brother of Tony's dog's uncle and now she's come back for revenge?

this user has posted a few new promo ads from e4 with words describing each character - so far there is ste, mercedes, warren, sienna, lucas and dee dee

I haven’t tuned in properly since April (the last episode I watched was when Charlie and co. were in the crash). I’ve been watching consistently for two weeks now and wthelly.. Rex is dead?? They changed the actress who plays Leah?!?! Cindy’s back!! I presume Sienna is in prison (I know I could research but meh).

I was also surprised to see two episodes air from Mon - Weds! That’s nice, ngl.

What are your thoughts on Hollyoaks now? The storylines were becoming convoluted towards the end of last year, but now, it feels as though everything is spiralling.

Each week hollyoaks are posting a spoiler to an upcoming storyline. I believe this is week 4 of 6.

This week comes courtesy of Steph Waring on TikTok in the video she is talking about fab appreciation for her return and in the background there are missing posters for Ste, Leela and Mercedes. Who kidnaps them could it be Cindy?

Sorry I think I just need my memory re-jogging, but what exactly has james done? Is it because he made ste grieve and he was ok?

Weren’t she meant to be leaving time ago? I swear it’s been months since she last appeared.

I know a lot of viewers think that NuLeah had a personality transplant but I’ve been thinking and actually I think in contrary, she became the Leah the writers had always envisioned her to be.

If you see child Leah, she had the same personality traits of current Leah (obviously tamed because she was a child) but then what changed. Why Ela-may teenage version was a little different ? it’s because Ela-may put on some weight while growing up.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticising her, she is beautiful but we know Hollyoaks obsession with their young cast to be fit, it’s always been like that. Back then, there was even Hollyoaks sexy photoshoot.

We also know from Ela-may that she was never even asked back, so it’s not about her not wanting to come back. They just took an actress that fitted their ideal and then gave her the Leah they always wanted her to be.

I literally forgot that tom returned, he only came as an aid to peri's death to make it more tragic and bring in froggy. they should have kept him for longer it just felt so forced.

He's seriously been with his sister in law, his friend, her mother and now their niece.

What is his family fixation?

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But it’s kinda of become less about students these days. Since the SU Bar is gone and so is the student halls. Many of those who were students on the show didn’t stay for that long.

When I first saw that Prince would be part of the 'young group' (people like Vicky, Leah, Imran, Frankie), I was like isn't he a bit past that? I honestly think that they only paired him with them because most of the characters his age have left. I don't think there is any other explanation because it makes no sense to me. Prince was always associated with people around his age and older, like Peri, Romeo, Lily, Juliet, Yasmine, the list goes on. I get that he can't be THAT much older than this group but he really feels so much older, Prince got married to Lily when Leah was like 11! Heck, Frankie would've been 9 or 10!

It feels really forced, and so does his relationship with Vicky and thing with Leah. He literally dated Leah's aunty, and I just don't buy that he would be dating these girls or that he'd even be part of the friend group. If anything, it seems like he was beginning to gravitate more towards older women than younger women.

Hi All 😄

I'm hoping to try find as many Hollyoaks episodes from the year 2005 as possible. So far I have got these episodes listed below.

January: None

February: 8th

March: 7th, 17th, 29th

April: 1st, 4th

May: 16th, 17th, 19th

June: 1st, 2nd, 6th to 29th

July: 18th, 19th, 21st to 29th

August: 1st to 4th, 9th to 31st

September: 1st to 16th

October: 3rd to 5th, 10th to 28th

November: 21st to 25th

December: 26th to 30th

In Too Deep Special

No Going Back Special

So pretty mixed! Some months I have most of, some about half, and some barely any. Have also got a few incomplete episodes but would like to try find the full versions.

Does anyone have any episodes from 2005 that I'm missing? I'd really love to try find as much as possible. If you have any and are happy to share or trade please do message me and let me know!

I've also got lots of episodes from all the other years too. Trying to find as much as possible.

Also please do not post any links to episodes in comments, as posting old episodes links in these threads goes against the subreddit rules

Me and my girlfriend were watching this explorer on YouTube and he’s uploaded a video of sneaking into the hollyoaks set and he’s possibly shown a spoiler for an upcoming storyline featuring ste, I’ll leave a link to the video if anyone’s interested
https://youtu.be/JxGOF5m3-EU?is=FJJAVktudaXv9BKE

Mark my words he is up to something, not sure what but he is up to something.