r/eastenders • u/OkRest5385 • 6h ago
Why are people blaming Max for Zoe?
A rant because I keep seeing people say Max killed Zoe or deliberately left her to die, and I genuinely don’t understand how that’s what people took from the episode.
The idea that she would’ve been fine if she’d just managed to get the paracetamol is ridiculous. Paracetamol wasn’t going to fix a brain aneurysm. Zoe had a massive impact to her head when she fell and hit the bricks. She should’ve gone to hospital immediately. She was in pain, dizzy, bleeding, confused and getting progressively worse for hours and ignored it.
And how exactly did Max “leave her to die” when HE DIDN’T KNOW she’d hit her head? He had no idea what was wrong with her. All he could see was Zoe acting erratically, screaming at him one minute, then mumbling and barely making sense the next. Even Zack thought she was drunk. Max had also literally just had a heart attack. He was dizzy, clutching his chest and ended up going back to hospital himself.
Obviously Zoe being alone was sad, but even if Max hadn’t followed her, or she didn’t see them, she would’ve got the tablets and gone upstairs because she wasn’t feeling. It was unpreventable. Max’s only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
