Dingles destroyed? All the storylines that need changing in order to save the iconic family
The viewers aren't buying what the Dingles are selling!
The Dingles have been at the heart of some of Emmerdale‘s biggest storylines for three decades.
Whether it’s babies, weddings, affairs, scams, shocks and even sieges, the Dingles have been involved.
The Dingles and Emmerdale are so intertwined that it’s hard to think of a favourite storyline from the last 30 years that they weren’t part of.
Until now.
Are the Dingles broken?
Because though the Dingles are still part of the show’s biggest storylines currently, the fans aren’t liking it. Not one bit.
In fact, many Emmerdale fans have taken to social media to accuse the soap’s bosses of ruining the whole family.
What is it that’s got the viewers’ backs up? And what needs to change? Well, where do we start?!
Cain and Ruby destroy the Dingles
Of course there was this week’s shock twist when Cain slept with his sister-in-law Ruby while his wife Moira was having a life-saving brain tumour operation.
The fans didn’t like that one bit (nor did we!).
“You’re expecting too much of your loyal viewers,” one fan grumbled while another simply said: “We don’t like this story.”
Can the soap bring the Dingles back from this? Well, they could make Cain and Ruby sleeping together all a dream…
Ruining the whole family
Once the Cain and Ruby storyline hit, it was as though that had been the final straw for those loyal viewers. Because suddenly, everyone was complaining about the Dingles!
“Do the writers just hate the Dingles now?” asked one disgruntled viewer.
“They messed up the Belle storyline, now this,” complained another.
Belle and Tom needs to finish
While Belle’s domestic abuse storyline started well, with actors Eden Taylor Draper and James Chase being applauded for their acting, the interest in Belle’s ordeal has begun to drop off.
Fans didn’t like Belle being the one to lash out when she hit Tom with the axe. They’re fed up with Amelia simpering over Tom, with Tom’s unrepentant swagger around the village, and frankly they want to see the manipulative abuser behind bars already.
Fortunately, justice is just around the corner for Tom. But is it too late for fans?
And that’s not the half of it!
Uncomfortable viewing?
Viewers, who were devoted to Aaron and Robert as a couple, aren’t impressed with Aaron starting a romance with John – Robert’s long-lost half-brother.
“It’s just uncomfortable,” one fan shuddered.
No love for Mack and Charity!
Fans also hate Charity and Mack together, with a LOT of viewers wishing they’d been the relationship chosen to be put under stress rather than the fan fave Coira!
“You destroy one of the best partnerships but yet Mack and Charity…are still together,” one fan pointed out.
Is it time to just split Mack and Charity up and get Vanity back together?
Tina’s a disaster for the Dingles
And there’s more!
Viewers were also unimpressed with the return of Tina Dingle. And that was before she was revealed to be Vinny’s real mum in a twist that we still don’t completely understand.
But while they weren’t loving the storyline, they also weren’t loving the fact that it was done and dusted in a couple of episodes
Though one fan possibly spoke for all of us when they wrote: “Glad that’s over.”
Tina’s gone – and perhaps, for the sake of the Dingles, she should stay gone!
What next for the Dingles?
With things looking bleak for just about every Dingle, it’s hard to know what can be done to make things better. Like all fans, we love to look back on the good old days and think fondly of Robron, or Vanity. We go misty eyed over the glory days of Emmerdale, like last month before the whole Vinny fiasco, or last week before Cain had slept with Ruby.
Hopefully, this is just a bad patch for the Dingles and they’ll be back on top of their game soon and for another 30 years!