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Gabby-Gabby's two storylines from the first half of Season 7, the baby switch and the doll storyline. Even though the baby switch was sort of well done, itwas so unrealistic. The reason Desperate housewives was so popular was because we can relate to the characters and this was just a Soap opera storyline. Why couldnt they just make up that Juanita was dying (but let her survive), that would have been a better Storyline. Then they did the Doll storyline. That is just outrageous. I know that the Doll storyline was originally designed for beth and that would have suited her character, but no gabby.

Bree-Got to be going out with Chuck, I never felt a connection between them two and i never got what she saw in him. When she was going out with Keith, itwas because he was young, when she was married to Orson itwas because she was like her. (Unlike you guys, im looking forward to her future storyline. Also, i didnt mind her with Keith, it reminded me of the Season 2 episode about Unlikely friendships)

Susan-Her Softcore Porn Job, This is Susan were talking about, no Gabby or Renee. I think Susan could think of other avenues of earning extra money. Even though I did like Maxine and how it worked in with the season's Mystery, it was bad. I think when they showed a guy (Paul young)stealing the poster of Susan, I would have liked the storyline to become about her having a stalker.

Lynette-Her Affair (It wasnt really an affair, but sort of) with Rick, Seriously, when i first watched that it made me hate Lynette, but also feel sorry for her. But the worst thing of all was that she was angry at Tom. He had a right to feel threatened, and if i was in his position I would do the same thing because he was just trying to save his marriage and his family.

Katherine-Ive never had a problem with her storylines. While looking through Tumblr, I noticed how much hate there is for her, and i dont get it. I personally thought she had the best storylines in Season 6.

Susan- Season 5- Susan's wedding to Jackson to stop him from being deported- dumbest idea ever!

Gabby- Season 4- The drug dealer storyline- filler, Filler, FILLER!!!!!

Bree- Season 7- Keith- waste of time and by the time he left he had transformed her from the woman we love into someone unrecognisable (or Season 6 repeat plot with Rex's other son- though at least it was well executed- my main issue with it is that it repeated itself)

Lynette- Season 3- Thepaedophilestoryline. I hated this just kinda happened and then had no real pay off- he never came back. OR her Mother's guest spot in Season 7 which again had no resolution.

Edie- Season 3- Her and Mike together which suddenly just ended which was a lame way to go. I would have prefered if he realized who she really was and that she had lied to him and then dumped her. Her whole Carlos storyline was cheapened by the fact she abandoned Mike and lied to get him their whole relationship.

Katherine- Early Season 5 where she does nothing at all (not really a storyline but she wastrulyunderutilized).

Renee- Season 7- Her constant parties that just fill in for any real plot. lol.

susan - her va-va-va-broom or whatever storyline. just...so stupid and out of character for susan

bree - her relationship with keith. i mean really, wtf? they had like zero in common [including age], and pretty much every episode they went over on how they -weren't- suited for each other.

gaby - the switched child storyline. i prob liked it at first, but it ended upjust kind of being a filler. there are no repurcussions, grace doesn't live with them, juanita still lives with them...what was the point of this?

lynette - the renee/tom situation for her. seriously...she was mad at renee like for one episode, and tom for like two. it could've been good, but it just ended up stupid.

renee - this whole ben/renee thing. i liked it at first but they don't look goodtogether. i'd rather see her with tom, even.

Susan - Anything to do with Jackson. I love Gale Harold, but words cannot begin to describe how pissed off I was when I saw they'd broken up Susan and Mike again at the end of Season 4. It was just such a cop-out and felt like wasted episode space, especially when they brought them back together immediately after Season 5.

Bree - Keith. I remember how excited I was to see Bree finally free from relentlessly mediocre Orsonstory lines, and only to be slapped in the face with this nonsense. Each episode was drearier than the next, and literally nothing of interest came out of this relationship. I can't even recall one memorable scene between the two.

Lynette - Lynette also suffered severely from the 5 year jump, the whole Anne Schiling storyline was just so far-fetched and surreal I couldn't believe I was watching it sometimes. (e.g the fact that Anne just upped and left her son without any mention of him at all)

Gabrielle - For me personally Gabby has never really had any notably awful storylines, and even if she did they were over relatively quickly (the doll obsession, the rich lady in season 5). Then again, Eva is such a talented comedic actress that she can make even the worst of writing into comedy gold.

"Honourable" Mentions - Andre Zeller. "I slept with Tom!". Orson's Kleptomania. Susan's Kidney. Doctor Ron. Any scene with The Applewhites or Dave in them.

I think if we're including Mary Alice and Renee (who get barely any real storylines) then Katherine should be included. She was much better treated then Edie and Renee I think because Cherry wanted to keep her around or just by sheer luck. She starts off with her mystery storyline with all its subplots which is awesome, then Season 5 she becomes central to Susan's life with her Mike storyline and trying to maintain that relationship, before Season 6 which is her best season with her craziness, break down and lesbianism.

So yeah I think she deserves to be counted in the two forums: best/ worsestory lines. :-)

Not so much just about sex but mainly they are part of the plots of the other women as opposed tostorylinesof their own. Renee has only really had 2 sex related storylines since she joined the show- as opposed to Edie who had heaps. lol.

Gaby -- The doll thing. It just really went against everything her character stands for and never seemed right. Also hated the baby switch that begat it. You can't introduce that major of a plot point and then conveniently get rid of it a few episodes later. She lost a baby and is raising one that isn't hers. That would affect her for years, not weeks.

Susan -- The kidney deal and also all of the other boyfriends she's had aside from Mike. Those relationships were just filler because the writers didn't know what to do with her and also didn't want to put her with Mike so easily and lose tension.

Lynette -- Her current one, breaking up with Tom. I feel like they're just dragging her through the same story line every week -- "Lynette's aggressive and controlling and she's realizing that now." Well, if she's realizing it, she needs to stop doing it and move onto something else.

Bree -- The Sam story. Totally unnecessary and was only there to cause tension for Bree. One of the problems that DH has had during its run is to bring in these characters, have them cause game-changing problems for someone, and then whisk them away never to be seen or heard from again. It could have easily been Andrew or Orson that caused Bree to lose her company and it could have lasted for seasons instead of it being some disposable character who hung around for like 3 episodes.

Katherine -- Her departure. I hated how she left. I know that she had obligations to do Body of Proof and all, but why give her such a juicy story line with Robin only to kill it three episodes in? They could have just made it that her breakdown was BAD and that she was in the mental hospital for years. At least it would have been an interesting way to write her out of the show rather than giving her this awesome lesbian story and then killing it before it is even fully realized.

Edie -- You know, I can't really say I hated any of Edie's story lines. I just hate the Nicolette Sheridan and Marc Cherry had their falling out so we'll never see her again.

Rene -- I hated that in the first season she was on the show, she really didn't even have a story line except to be Edie 2.0. I'm glad she's finally found her own on the show though and I've appreciated every single story they've given her in season 8.

Its funny how most of these SL's are post time-jump, Its great though that this season has gone back to its roots and has been fantastic. Btw, welcome mully.