EE: Mick "Billy-No-Mates" Carter

GeekInfected · 19/07/14 - 17:01

I just realised... Does Mick have any friends? He's lived 38 years and are we meant to believe he's picked up no stable friends on the road to Albert Square?
But then to be honest it did seem like he has no time for others besides his family when he could barely remember his foster mother's name, but I guess that's EastEnders for you.

Scrabbler · 19/07/14 - 17:27

He is friends with Ian, they go swimming regularly. He also got on quite well with Alfie and Terry at the beginning of his run.

GeekInfected · 19/07/14 - 18:16

I mean before them guys. Back in Watford and/or Canning Town.

mo mouse · 19/07/14 - 18:25

No friends. Just his ridiculously close, touchy feely family. A very unhealthy situation indeed.

vald · 19/07/14 - 18:26

It's always weird isn't it. Not just Mick, but the entire family, Nancy and Linda haven't got a single friend. Then there's the likes of Sharon and Peter who didn't make a single friend when they were away and Abi who hasn't got a single school friend.

cardiff boyo · 19/07/14 - 18:28

If him and Linda get married I expect his stag do to be full of men from the square..no outside mates apart from a few extras who will be ambiguous

francis7 · 19/07/14 - 18:30

How many characters ever actually bring friends when they enter a soap?

vald · 19/07/14 - 18:32

francis7 wrote: »

How many characters ever actually bring friends when they enter a soap?

Lola's the only one I remember.

[Deleted User] · 19/07/14 - 18:33

mo mouse wrote: »

No friends. Just his ridiculously close, touchy feely family. A very unhealthy situation indeed.

reminds me of a horror film called The Hamiltons..dysfunctional family with a need for eating people at midnight, cannibals they are

jamesc_715 · 19/07/14 - 18:34

Linda and Sharon are friends. Nancy is friends with Dexter but it seems to be forgotten haha.

lotty27 · 19/07/14 - 18:56

It must be another soap rule to go with the:
'no one must ever work out of the square/street/village' and
'no one must attend a funeral/wedding/christening who doesn't live on the square/street/village!'

We can add:

'Thou must have no mates who don't live on the square/street/village,
Any mates you had before shall be forgotten immediately and never referred to ever again!'

It's silly but just another anomaly of soaps!

mo mouse · 19/07/14 - 18:58

Orangemaid wrote: »

reminds me of a horror film called The Hamiltons..dysfunctional family with a need for eating people at midnight, cannibals they are

I was thinking of coming round your gaff with a few beers to see if you fancied watching a DVD but I'm in two minds now, OM.

GeekInfected · 19/07/14 - 19:15

Nancy I remember was close friends with Chanelle Ladlow I think we're supposed to imagine they keep contact through satellite and cyberspacial relations, then there's all the people that were at Nancy's tracksuit wedding. Johnny, I'd imagine has friends at uni, then there's Lee who I'm sure has army friends and people from school and around they're old area. Linda looks like the person to be friends with people who only serve her function e.g her family, her hairdresser the other mums at her kids' schools. But Mick strikes me as someone who would have a gang of chums but his character seems pretty devoid of friendships and contacts.

To be honest as much as DTC has done for the show, it seems he's just poured the Carters into the show. I mean I really believe that the story of how Mick Carter came to hand over keys to Phil Mitchell on Christmas Day has been completely lost in translation.

summer_ste · 19/07/14 - 21:05

mo mouse wrote: »

No friends. Just his ridiculously close, touchy feely family. A very unhealthy situation indeed.

"Anything that differs from my own definition of normal can only be bad!"

Broken_Arrow · 19/07/14 - 21:08

I always find it funny how people move to the square and their friends from before they moved to Walford are seemingly cut out of their lives forever.

vald wrote: »

It's always weird isn't it. Not just Mick, but the entire family, Nancy and Linda haven't got a single friend. Then there's the likes of Sharon and Peter who didn't make a single friend when they were away and Abi who hasn't got a single school friend.

Peter had a friend. He let him drown:D

Scrabbler · 19/07/14 - 21:09

Broken_Arrow wrote: »

I always find it funny how people move to the square and their friends from before they moved to Walford are seemingly cut out of their lives forever.

Peter had a friend. He let him drown:D

Maybe Mick goes for a kick about with his old friends every sunday? Just because its not mentioned doesnt mean it doesn't happen.

dd68 · 20/07/14 - 00:26

Everyone has friends that are unseen

0...0 · 20/07/14 - 00:39

dd68 wrote: »

Everyone has friends that are unseen

Like Sally and Milko.

doug82 · 20/07/14 - 10:27

How tedious would it be if all these characters had their old friends dropping by. There would be outcries of 'who cares?'

GeekInfected · 20/07/14 - 10:39

doug82 wrote: »

How tedious would it be if all these characters had their old friends dropping by. There would be outcries of 'who cares?'

Phil doesn't have friends that always drop by, neither does Max, Alfie, Dean or many other characters, but we know they have friends or people that they know, because they've alluded to them on quite a couple of occasions, so its not too far-fetched to believe that off screen they socialise with them, but we've not heard anything of Mick's social life...

vald · 20/07/14 - 10:43

Broken_Arrow wrote: »

I always find it funny how people move to the square and their friends from before they moved to Walford are seemingly cut out of their lives forever.

Peter had a friend. He let him drown

Oh I'd forgotten about Peter's big s/l.:D

GeekInfected · 20/07/14 - 10:46

Broken_Arrow wrote: »

I always find it funny how people move to the square and their friends from before they moved to Walford are seemingly cut out of their lives forever.

Peter had a friend. He let him drown:D

vald wrote: »

Oh I'd forgotten about Peter's big s/l.:D

Hahaha!

I always find it a shame that new execs can't polish up the poopoo storylines and blips of older execs and keep the characters consistent

bean_of_sb · 20/07/14 - 10:55

Mick and Linda had the kids when they were so young, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of their friendships fell apart then. All their friends would have been going out, clubbing and drinking, and Mick and Linda were looking after the children.

I've had friends who have had babies young and they go off of the friendship radar!

GeekInfected · 20/07/14 - 10:58

bean_of_sb wrote: »

Mick and Linda had the kids when they were so young, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of their friendships fell apart then. All their friends would have been going out, clubbing and drinking, and Mick and Linda were looking after the children.

I've had friends who have had babies young and they go off of the friendship radar!

I think this might be the case. But I've never just wanted to assume that this is the case, because it hasn't been mentioned in the slightest

GeekInfected · 25/08/14 - 22:24

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02581fr

Looks like Mick's back to square one with this video preview.

Benllech · 25/08/14 - 22:29

They're plenty of blokes his age who are more family-orientated and don't really have many friends.

That's obviously not to say all family-orientated blokes don't have friends, but it's not uncommon.

Hey there!

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