Eastenders
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Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
I haven't seen it for years, but there used to be some good characters in it; I liked Sonia the criminally incompetent trombonist (or was she a trumpeter?). But generally it was too depressing.
My favourite storyline was Mark's getting caught up in that crooked card game; the way it was strung out over several episodes and then built towards a conclusion was absolutely brilliant. I could hardly breathe right at the end, when he bet his stall on the final hand and then Sanjay, realising the deck was crooked, stepped in and switched it for another one at the last minute.....
Even then, they managed to cock it up later on by making Mark go cap in hand to the guys who tried to rip him off asking their help to get his dad released from prison.
My favourite storyline was Mark's getting caught up in that crooked card game; the way it was strung out over several episodes and then built towards a conclusion was absolutely brilliant. I could hardly breathe right at the end, when he bet his stall on the final hand and then Sanjay, realising the deck was crooked, stepped in and switched it for another one at the last minute.....
Even then, they managed to cock it up later on by making Mark go cap in hand to the guys who tried to rip him off asking their help to get his dad released from prison.
story
Gone for a Burton
Thread resurrection
This horrible storyline with Stella and the child Ben...
I hear what everyone is saying about bad writing, but this stuff is seriously triggering old and painful memories for me. I can't watch at the moment, it's too much for me. So the writing has to be of some merit, some realism in there. It's true enough to remind me of true events.
I can't watch it.
This horrible storyline with Stella and the child Ben...
I hear what everyone is saying about bad writing, but this stuff is seriously triggering old and painful memories for me. I can't watch at the moment, it's too much for me. So the writing has to be of some merit, some realism in there. It's true enough to remind me of true events.
I can't watch it.
I used to watch Eastenders but now it is like a big mogadon rush. Like hey life is shit and why not watch more of it to perk you up?
Pity as it could give out real positive messages about living in urban uk. Or am I a crap scriptwiter. Living in East London myself - what about "hey kids don't carry knives and guns".
Pity as it could give out real positive messages about living in urban uk. Or am I a crap scriptwiter. Living in East London myself - what about "hey kids don't carry knives and guns".
renegadechicken
Live and don't learn, that's me.
but i bet, in the end, stella gets her comeuppance for her abuse.....which aint what happens in real life only soap land..........
why do soaps think they should cover 'serious' issues............is this really gonna help any cause seeing that the press complaints commision recently upheld complaints against the NSPCC for naming babies/children and listing the abuse against them..........obvioulsy not real people but based on real events......they were and are banned from showing them advertys and commercials.........eastenders and other soaps show a 'nice view' of child abuse where the abuser always gets their comeuppance........that is not real life, and so they should not be enabled or allowed to run such story lines for a 'light entertainment show' which is what soaps are.
why do soaps think they should cover 'serious' issues............is this really gonna help any cause seeing that the press complaints commision recently upheld complaints against the NSPCC for naming babies/children and listing the abuse against them..........obvioulsy not real people but based on real events......they were and are banned from showing them advertys and commercials.........eastenders and other soaps show a 'nice view' of child abuse where the abuser always gets their comeuppance........that is not real life, and so they should not be enabled or allowed to run such story lines for a 'light entertainment show' which is what soaps are.
miss giggles
an unknown quantity...
I haven't seen it for a while. What is the advert with Dot and the baby all about?
miss giggles
an unknown quantity...
floria_tosca said:
miss giggles said:
The mother left the baby with Dot because she felt that Dot could give her a better life than the mother could back where she came from, which I guess by the accent was Italy.
Of course Dot knows that this is God giving her a second chance to bring up a kid without it turning into a homicidal psychotic nut. She'll start by letting the kid know she was a gift from God and is not like other children.
God if i was that baby i'd like to have a say in the breastfeeding arrangements, brrrrrrrr!
Still, Eastenders is badly written crap. So no change there then. I live in hope that perhaps some nutter with a gun will run loose in Albert Square (fictionally speakng), that show is as tired as an old dog running up the world's tallest Pedigree Chum Mountain in a thin atmosphere wearing a diving suit and coughing.
Still, Eastenders is badly written crap. So no change there then. I live in hope that perhaps some nutter with a gun will run loose in Albert Square (fictionally speakng), that show is as tired as an old dog running up the world's tallest Pedigree Chum Mountain in a thin atmosphere wearing a diving suit and coughing.
heartof gold
New Member
i hate all soaps have seen them in the past but gave up its alot of addictive rubbish until you break the habit, they have to keep getting awful and bad just to keep people interested. Storylines keep going down hill to keep people interested. sad world also they are on far too much.
It wouldn't be Italy would it - being in the EU she'd have no trouble coming and going or working.Groucho said:The mother left the baby with Dot because she felt that Dot could give her a better life than the mother could back where she came from, which I guess by the accent was Italy.
Of course Dot knows that this is God giving her a second chance to bring up a kid without it turning into a homicidal psychotic nut. She'll start by letting the kid know she was a gift from God and is not like other children.
Although it wasn't stated where she came from I assumed somewhere like Albania
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
i thought it was sposed to be russia, cos of all that Anastasia bollocks they were coming out with.bigbry said:
and why are the bbc really hyping it? I even heard a radio promo for it yesterday!
All the storylines are boring. Eastenders is a pathetic show about sd, inadequate people and their miserable squalid lives. yet none of them is entertaining enough to merit interest and none of them can act. the script is written by a child, a fucking child who grew up and learnt his 'cockney' from dick van dyke.
big fucking yawn.
All the storylines are boring. Eastenders is a pathetic show about sd, inadequate people and their miserable squalid lives. yet none of them is entertaining enough to merit interest and none of them can act. the script is written by a child, a fucking child who grew up and learnt his 'cockney' from dick van dyke.
big fucking yawn.
My other half told me that she was on a BB where the story going round was that June Brown (Dot Branning) was going to leave if she didn't get better story lines.madzone said:
Well this complete turd of a story line has probably convinced her that the Beeb don't want her.
There's been some crap EE story lines but this is amongst the very worse.
This and the Stacey/Max 'love' story which seems to go on forever and go nowhere.
I'm obviously a masochist 'coz I get fed up with it - never watch it for a couple of weeks while I'm on late shifts at work then decide to start watching it again only to find, surprise surprise, that it's still the same old load of crap it was before.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Oh dear, I hope Arthur tidies up that terrible mess he's made in the living room. No way to treat a Norwegian Pine. 
souljacker
innit
Bump this thread, because its got even sillier this week.
When Phil kicked over the sausages I just cringed. How fucking shit is this programme???
The only decent actor in it is Max's 9 year old daughter, Abbey.
When Phil kicked over the sausages I just cringed. How fucking shit is this programme???
The only decent actor in it is Max's 9 year old daughter, Abbey.
this show has officially jumped the shark; it's scored 100 Fonzies on the sharkoleapometer. I've not seen readings liek that since the end of the colby's!
The moment inqueston was Lucy somehow sensing her brother, her TWIN brother, was in trouble through the force - or as the cockerneys call it: the 'Diana Dors'.
The moment inqueston was Lucy somehow sensing her brother, her TWIN brother, was in trouble through the force - or as the cockerneys call it: the 'Diana Dors'.
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