Controversial storylines and scenes Goede tijden, slechte tijden

1 controversial storylines , scenes

1.1 death of frits van houten
1.2 truth behind stefano sanders paternity
1.3 drugs , jail
1.4 homosexuality

controversial storylines , scenes
the death of frits van houten

businessman frits van houten introduced in second season , residents of meerdijk found ruthless man willing go far wanted. didn t have friends, women seemed throw @ feet, resulting in many affairs , one-night stands, although married one, true love dian alberts. throughout years, frits had received many death threats, never took them seriously. 1 night, @ house taking bath when person unknown audience showed up. after frits spoke few lines, indicating knew whoever was, or removed tv table , threw frits bathtub, electrocuting , killing him instantly. still had glass of champagne in hand crushed while being electrocuted. has remained significant scene gtst. murderer revealed secretary , once one-night stand hannie van der kroeft, had been infuriated behavior towards her. however, more ten years later, discovered frits adult daughter , son frits had twin brother, 1 killed frits night.

the truth behind stefano sanders paternity

although rewrite in paternity isn t unusual in soap operas, 1 had been attached dirty little secret stefano s presumed father ludo never meant find out. ludo had been married stefano s mother sophia years ago , had thought wife , son died in car explosion. later revealed stefano had survived , had been raised italian mob family, , ludo , stefano reunited each other. years later, ludo s father maximilliaan died , on funeral, sophia showed up, had never been in car @ time , had assumed ludo had died day. while trying reconnect ex-wife, ludo found diaries , aware of unstable mental state, ludo started reading, , horror discovered sophia had been raped @ young age own father. sophia admitted stefano not son, maximilliaan s, making stefano brother , not son. sophia admitted mental institution , slit wrists not long afterwards. although both ludo , stefano needed time process this, remained part of each other s life , stefano still refers ludo father.

drugs , jail

weeks before rik de jong marry true love anita dendermonde, discovered teenage son job forced smuggle drugs singapore. refusing let son become part of this, rik made deal job s boss , offered smuggle drugs singapore. rik , anita took off honeymoon, @ airport in singapore, rik s bag checked security , taken custody. transported prison nearby , became cellmates dutch man, drugs smuggler. anita tried rik out, cellmate jan told him d been in jail 2 years , had smuggled small amount of weed; rik never out again. devastated, pregnant anita traveled home contact lawyer while fire started in rik s prison, leaving cellmate deceased. knowing not out anytime , wanting anita move on life, rik took on jan s identity , rik himself declared dead. anita tried move on life, giving birth little girl whom named rikki. ran first love mickey , in spur of moment decided married. mickey discovered rik alive, kept anita. on wedding day, rik released jail , returned home find anita marry mickey. rik , anita reunited , decided go new zealand rikki join job had moved there months before.

homosexuality

at end of season 19, character lucas sanders returned meerdijk new york , revealed gay. marked first time in gtst s history major character openly gay. during course of season 20 implied lucas has frequent 1 night stands. gay bashed, witnessed sister s boyfriend, took long time step forward. later story lines involving lucas did not deal sexuality. on october 18, 2010 - shortly after start of season 21 gtst introduced new family, bouwhuis. 1 of sons, edwin, draws attention of both lucas , best friend wiet. both try win him on , starts doomed relationship wiet, withdrawing whenever wants close. lucas suspects edwin deep in closet. during lucas 20th birthday party, edwin kisses lucas, later insists mistake. on february 16th episode, edwin tells lucas intends break wiet no longer in love her, lucas. same night, wiet overdoses on ghb. edwin postpones breakup. when wiet released hospital, edwin reveals gay , has fallen in love lucas. visits lucas. 2 of them go lucas s bedroom , sleep each other. love scene between 2 boys—who seen shirts off , making-out prompted wide reaction on social networks minutes after broadcast. there pretty split between negative , positive reactions. dutch gay rights organization coc noted that, alarmingly, many of negative reactions came younger viewers. broadcasting network rtl , production company endemol have defended scene reflection of society , have indicated won t down on story-line. after edwin , lucas involved in relationship against of edwin s father, anton. when finds son , lucas kissing in doctor s practice, beats lucas up. lucas ends in hospital. after months of problems anton accepts son , boyfriend. after shooting accident on wedding of lucas s sister nina, gets injured , ends in coma. in coma months , edwin him every day. after few months edwin falls in love lucas s doctor, ron, intern of anton (who started working in hospital of meerdijk). when lucas wakes of coma breaks edwin. in meantime, deadly virus (ebola) spreading through meerdijk. ron gets infected , dies in arms of edwin. after ron s death, lucas , edwin again, virus still spreading. after while edwin gets virus too. fights life, dies. took months lucas start feel normal again.

a few seasons later falls in love man called, bilal, islamic. relationship didn t work out.

in season 24, lucas meets police officer called menno kuiper. fall in love , after half year married. first dutch soap gay marriage ever , whole world talking it. because of attention, wedding episode released english subtitles. after while menno starts beat lucas , appears have trauma. lucas tries keep secret mother , sister, after ends in hospital tells it. intervention , menno gets in therapy. unfortunately, didn t , leaves after emotional goodbye lucas.

later in series, wiet van houten falls in love new character called anna brandt, revealed bisexual. in relationship.

live event

gtst has live event every year called gtst live viewers. in 2014 on 200,000 people visited event.