Eastenders

[bigbry]

And I hate it when soaps come up with unbelievable story lines - "Betty and me are going to live with 'chelle in Floridah !"

I'm sitting there thinking and Betty's got a pet passport has she, having never even been outside Albert Square. Totally unbelievable !

I accept that it's a soap but I expect the vaguest thread of credibility to run through it.

And tonight what do we get when they come to arrest Sonia (who is a girl with a job and a child) who may have killed her mother in law - not exactly Public Enemy Number 1 is she ? IMO not likely to do a runner.

We get a dozen plod and a couple of detectives ramapging through the square while on the end credits you could hear the (police ?) helicopter overhead.

Not that I've been arrested for murder, but in the circumstances that the suspect is a 'first timer' and not expected to be 'armed and dangerous' that (at the most) it would be a car and a van with the two detectives and a couple of plod.

I just thought it was typical EE 'lost all semblance of any reality' again.

 

[wishface]

I know it's only a soap opera, but there is a lot of nastiness in Eastenders. All the characters are selfish, mean spirited misogynistic adulteres, bullys and often thugs. The last time I saw it they were all laughing at Paulin'e wake. It bothers me a bit that this show is so popular really, even if it's away with the faeries and always recyclig storylines (another single mother storyline? how novel!).

 

[Griff]

It has got a bit depressing of late, can't really think of any funny oneliners recently either.

 

[foo]

eastenders has always been miserable and moody hasn't it?

tbh, that's one of the reasons i prefer Corrie. at least they laugh occasionally.

 

[Orang Utan]

I like it cos it's miserable - it's quite uplifting viewing - the moodier the better IMO

 

[foo]

yeh well you're just wierd.

 

[Orang Utan]

Fictional people's misery makes one less dissatisfied with one's own life cos we appreciate that it isn't as bad as, say Sonia's or Billy's - don't think that's weird - Corrie is just surreal.

 

[foo]

i was only teasing - i'm avoiding work atm. you're not wierd really.

i understand what you're saying. after a hard day though, i find the bleakness of eastenders a bit too much sometimes. i just want to laugh.

 

[Orang Utan]

I know I'm not wierd. I'm not weird either

 

[foo]

oh. which is the right way of spelling it?

they both look odd now.

 

[Orang Utan]

Weird.

Weirdo

 

[foo]

well, there you go. i think i've always spelt that wrong.

you learn something new everyday etc.

 

[Griff]

well, there you go. i think i've always spelt that wrong.

you learn something new everyday etc.

You've probably been following the 'I before E except after C' rule.

Which doesn't work with a weird word like 'weird'.

 

[Giles]

What gets to me about Eastenders is the way that everyone lives in this little microcosm where they all seem to totally live and work in the square. Come on, this is London, FFS. Almost no-one commutes to work, they're all working on the market, the Arches, the caff, the laundromat, etc.

They are so insular they could have their own fucking currency because all they do is earn and spend money in Albert Square. All of them, all the time.

And they are all stupid and ignorant. Any character who isn't stupid and ignorant always has to be in some way suspect.

It's depressing and shit.

Giles..

 

[foo]

you remind me of an eastender character Giles. you're always so negative and miserable.

Griff, i hate that sodding rule. there are too many exceptions!

 

[Orang Utan]

What gets to me about Eastenders is the way that everyone lives in this little microcosm where they all seem to totally live and work in the square. Come on, this is London, FFS. Almost no-one commutes to work, they're all working on the market, the Arches, the caff, the laundromat, etc.

They are so insular they could have their own fucking currency because all they do is earn and spend money in Albert Square. All of them, all the time.

And they are all stupid and ignorant. Any character who isn't stupid and ignorant always has to be in some way suspect.

It's depressing and shit.

Giles..

It's a soap Giles - it needs to be an insular microcosm for it to work really - otherwise it would cost way too much

 

[g force]

It needs more Jim and Patrick in the pub chats they used to be pretty good.

 

[Griff]

It needs more Jim and Patrick in the pub chats they used to be pretty good.

Plus more Big Mo Slater being funny and rude.

Have we got Pauline's second funeral to look forward to tonight?

 

[Bonfirelight]

can't really think of any funny oneliners recently either.

you must have missed the episode where Martin was trying to find out what happened from Sonia.

"What are you Mr Tickle with your long arms?"

genius

 

[Griff]

you must have missed the episode where Martin was trying to find out what happened from Sonia.

"What are you Mr Tickle with your long arms?"

genius

Oh yeah, that one did make me laugh.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

oh. which is the right way of spelling it?

they both look odd now.

It's i before e except after dubya

 

[Griff]

Yay! Sonia runs off with Rebecca & jumps into a Porsche Cayenne.

Now who on earth will Martin think will have helped her?