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Eastenders: The Laundrette
Okay so DTC established that the show needs to update and get with the times, we have an upmarket bar and a new market on the way. Scarlett's provides a more luxurious place to dine and the gyms reopening is appropriate with the fitness savvy culture we have today. My one nagging thought is whether the laundrette still needs to be there? Once Dot retires which surely must be soon, there won't be anyone as iconic enough to take over and Cora is rarely seen there. Following Dot's break from the show, rarely anyone has been seen in there for the standard confession/shoulder to cry on session.
Plus with the Arches, Arthur's Bench and the park, do we need anymore places for characters to sit and cry/reveal their crimes? I just feel it's so outdated and doesn't really even feel part of the show anymore. I'd rather Mr Opodopolous sell it on and allow for something new or extend/revamp the Minute Mart and that god awful wood panelling.
Plus with the Arches, Arthur's Bench and the park, do we need anymore places for characters to sit and cry/reveal their crimes? I just feel it's so outdated and doesn't really even feel part of the show anymore. I'd rather Mr Opodopolous sell it on and allow for something new or extend/revamp the Minute Mart and that god awful wood panelling.
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Yeah - I guess laundrettes are out dated etc, what could replace it? what are we missing in the square?
maybe a
clothes shop but we have market stalls
bar - Sharon/the vic
café - have
restaurant - have
small shop - have
fish 'n' chips
we had a charity shop....
maybe a proper stationery/newsagents shop? hairdressers/beauty (what happened to booty is now becoming a bar)
Although you'd think someone like Ian could affford and has space for a washing machine!
Despite the jokes about how nobody in Albery Square has a washing machine or how outdated it is, I think there's a place for it in 21st century Walford. Otherwise the modernisation becomes too "try hard" by hastily replacing an old favourite with a cliched shop/cafe.
This. They should keep it until Dot leaves atleast!
It's actually very realistic that somewhere like Albert Square has a laundrette (which also does dry cleaning).
Knocking it through with the shop next door would be ideal as it means they would hire more staff which of course adds screen time for actors and would be very realistic.
You could have a small corner of the shop devoted to a post office and possibly a dry cleaning booth perhaps?
I think they should modernise it a bit, something like this perhaps?
http://www.ipso.com/Upload/IPSO%20Laundry%20Showcase.jpg
Which part of E20 denotes middle class? Certaintly not the E part
Great character - his voice was really smooth and oily.
It would probably be fitting to have it close down once Dot has left.
It would be good business, go to the Vic to get pissed, go next door to get knocked out!
And its not like Phil to walk you home, you'd wake up on the curb
It is iconic to the show. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be closed and we move on. But much like the Cafe and Vic it's been a common place since the 80s for characters to meet or where Pauline and Dot give out their advice.
Pauline has been dead for how long now? And Dot has been seen like three times since she returned at the start of the year. It's redundant, it's just somewhere where people go to do things without people hearing or noticing and quite frankly there's other places for that. It may have BEEN iconic, but it's not an icon anymore because nothing that made it special is there. The cafe, you'll always have Ian complaining or Marie taking on everyone's shifts, The Vic is just the hub of everything, the laundrette? Somewhere Dot gives advice, only she doesn't anymore.