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any one else fed up of eastenders un answered questions all the time!!!!
Chloe_Beads
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over on eastenders at the moment all we have is un answered qustions all the time..... there are no stand alone good to watch stories.....
1, what is in max's past?
2, Derek's wife (supposedly cast???)
3, ava and avas father
4, kats lover
5, ben not knowing he is a dad - phils underhand care of lexi
6, lauren and joey rubbish
all running at the same time - add to that in the weeks to christmas
all involve secretes and a big fall out at the end of each story why cant we just have a story to follow that follows life.... the bianca and kids stuff gets to me but at least the attempt to reflect the hard ships of poorer families,
everything in eastenders at the moment seems to revolve around a lies and un truth!!!
we have only just finnished with
1, christian and syead - cheating, spending and pulling families apart
2, ian covering for ben and going mad for 3 weeks
3,not knowing the dad of lexi
4, heathers murderer revealed!!!!
i know all soaps need some far fetched grit but this many stories all at once all based on secrets and lies??? losing it with eastenders at the moment!
1, what is in max's past?
2, Derek's wife (supposedly cast???)
3, ava and avas father
4, kats lover
5, ben not knowing he is a dad - phils underhand care of lexi
6, lauren and joey rubbish
all running at the same time - add to that in the weeks to christmas
the death/murder of derek
all involve secretes and a big fall out at the end of each story why cant we just have a story to follow that follows life.... the bianca and kids stuff gets to me but at least the attempt to reflect the hard ships of poorer families,
everything in eastenders at the moment seems to revolve around a lies and un truth!!!
we have only just finnished with
1, christian and syead - cheating, spending and pulling families apart
2, ian covering for ben and going mad for 3 weeks
3,not knowing the dad of lexi
4, heathers murderer revealed!!!!
i know all soaps need some far fetched grit but this many stories all at once all based on secrets and lies??? losing it with eastenders at the moment!
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All drama's work in the same way... You start the story by posing a questions... what's happens if? when? how? and you end the story by answering it.
If you answers the question within five minutes of asking it, what are you going to do the rest of the time?
I'd like you to give me an example of drama that doesn't work in this way please?
Trust me ALL stories at their heart pose a question... whatever their theme is.
It could be a whodunnit, or a why dunnit, or a how dunnit or when dunnit but they all do. In every show, every soap, every shakespeare, every film... it's the basis of storytelling... it's why people want to "read to the end" to get the answer.
We don't know what Max's secret is. We didn't know Cora had another daughter. We don't know who Kat's lover is.
I could go on...
What about Tanya's cancer storyline?
Lola's story, they haven't done it yet, but then that's because the story is about Lola, not the social services - where's the drama? The drama is the SS (and to a lesser extent Lex, the bully) are the antagonist, and Lola is protagonist. The protagonist needs an antangaonist, they also needs allies (Billy, Phil) to play out their story... Again, it's the basic rules of storytelling
Ben isn't in the show anymore, so visits are going to be a bit tricky... I for one am glad he's gone ;-)
One of the great things about soaps is they have the luxury of time to play out slow-burn storylines... If they ran a storyline every week they'd be out of ideas by Easter! All of them, not just ee