Tuesday, March 2, 2010

BREAKING. Egoli ends with Louwna on the stairway.


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I have my own personal thoughts which I'll keep to myself but I think a lot of longtime Egoli fans are seriously upset after the just concluded final episode of Egoli on M-Net.

Just one month shy of its 18th anniversary, the longrunning (and South Africa's first locally produced) daily soapie Egoli came to and end with a very open-ending after multiple, lingering exterior shots of the ertwhile Edwards mansion viewers have been invited to over the years.

In the final new TV episode. . .

Rex didn't get to propose to Candy after all. A door opened - and there was Joe. Suddenly back.

Louwna wasn't seen for the whole episode right up until the end - gliding down the mahogany staircase with a vacant, tortured expression on her face - all dressed in black and shaking.

The rest of the cast were all sitting at the small dining room table, waiting for her and to start a commemorative dinner. And then the end. Longtime viewers and fans who waited and longed for a fitting conclusion and a wrap-up of the storylines didn't really get any.