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I'm ready for CINDYGEDDON
I wouldn’t even call her a villain. She was just someone who had aspirations to be more than what she was and was constantly looking for something better, using Ian as a doormat when she was in trouble. She just went a little TOO FAR sometimes. Nowhere near on the level of Janine.Sorry but it all seems a bit FAR FETCHED TO ME. Not seen Peter for 25 years but breaking her heart because he goes AWOL for a day. Cindy is one of the all time Eastenders great villains (Janine who). Not sure if some of you are too young to remember her in her PRIME but she had to come back as the same character as she was otherwise WHATS THE POINT. Hopefully it is just building….
I would t even call her a villain. She was just someone who had aspirations to be more than what she was and was constantly looking for something better, using Ian as a doormat when she was in trouble. She just went a little TOO FAR sometimes. Nowhere near on the level of Janine.
I pretty much re-watched Eastenders from 1991-1999 from the Drama Channel repeats during lockdown lunchtimes, so it’s rather fresh in my memory.
Adultery, attempted murder, fraud, kidnapping and blackmail
She PAID for the hitman. Janine would have done it herself and finished the job! And kidnapping your own children is hardly on the same level.
Of course it’s just building, she’s not even back on the square yet.
That said, it would be a little silly if she just came back as a caricature of what she was in the 90s. Of course there needs to be some of that, but it’s 25 years later, obviously she’ll be somewhat different.
But she was always just portrayed as being at the point of desperation. She justified everything she did and it was never out of an act of malice or revenge. Just to advance herself. Ian was threatening to take the kids away if she left him after finding out about David, so she took desperate measures.Well that would generally be the clever thing to do. She didn’t want to get her hands dirty. She DEFINITELY goes down in history as one of Eastenders greatest villains. How you think otherwise is just WRONG on every level.![]()
To begin with yes, but after everything with Michael Moon, all the comebacks since she’s been plain evil. The “Daddy didn’t give me attention” excuse no longer washes. And her TALES of “growing up in The Vic” are utter rubbish. She was barely there for a year.I actually don't think Janine was evil, she was very layered. There's been a lot of moments during storylines where you can see she has a heart. This is why she can come back and do it all again, we love her but hate her.
But she was always just portrayed as being at the point of desperation. She justified everything she did and it was never out of an act of malice or revenge. Just to advance herself. Ian was threatening to take the kids away if she left him after finding out about David, so she took desperate measures.
I used to love Cindy’s friendship with Gita. Innocent Gita just being her confidante and just keeping it all to herself.
To begin with yes, but after everything with Michael Moon, all the comebacks since she’s been plain evil. The “Daddy didn’t give me attention” excuse no longer washes. And her TALES of “growing up in The Vic” are utter rubbish. She was barely there for a year.
Janine is prone to exaggeration.I don’t know if this is just lazy writing, or if their is a point to her mentioning growing up in The Vic.
Kim Tate in Emmerdale was a similar character to Cindy in many ways and to get her own way she also attempted (and succeeded) to kill off her husband. Another one that goes down as one of the greatest villains in soap. She had a great relationship with SETH ARMSTRONG and SAM DINGLE which showed she wasn’t all bad.
I definitely want Cindy to have been changed by everything that's happened to her, it would feel cheap to have her as a cartoon villain after all this time. More than anything I'm looking forward to seeing her interact with George and the two girls, it'll be interesting to try and see what their dynamic was like when they were all together.
Janine comes back as a caricature villain time and time again and it works so hopefully Eastenders can read that is what the majority of fans want otherwise WHATS THE POINT after all this time. It is her scheming that people remember her for.
Did Janine's most recent return work? I don't think she was immune from the dreadful creative direction of the show at the time, and it seemed like a bit of a waste for the most part. Certainly not a return worthy of the tremendous way they wrote her out last time.
Well I am a fan of the actress, but that's not what I'm sayingSo you are wanting her to come back as different character? Are you a fan of the actress?
As if.Do we know if Adam Woodyatt and Michelle Collins are back long term? I remember Adam Woodyatt saying a while back he was happy away from Eastenders and just wondered if they managed to bring him back due to Michelle Collins agreeing to come back to bring Cindy back from the dead to finish Ian off once and for all?
As if.