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EE, the final straw
Thats it people, Igive up. I have had it with Eastenders, its a ****ing disgrace.
This week has seen Michael ignoring his baby, and bullies threatening to kill a baby. The social worker/lola story is pathetically bad. 'Have you been drinking Mr Mitchell?' she says to Billy and looks horrified that he's had a drink. My God burn him, make an effigy and burn him. Its one thing to realise your programme is so bad you have to resort to shock tactics ('ill give the baby its first kicking' FFS), but how many times have we heard EE producers say 'we pride ourselves on bringing real life stories to the screen' then make out that the social workers and police are the stupidest people in the world. SHAME! |
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When did Michael threaten to kill Scarlett?
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You wanted drama... you got controversy.
Which is good i guess, more opinions for ratings. |
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When did Michael threaten to kill Scarlett?
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When did Michael threaten to kill Scarlett?
I recognise the OP's thoughts on this by the way - there's nothing uplifting about EastEnders - everyone's miserable and mean to one another on there. |
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There will now be a load of posts suggesting that that's how these bad girls would behave, which I'm sure they would. But as far as EE is concerned, I think it went too far for the time it was aired. I'm not a prude/do-gooder etc, but I thought the dialogue used was awful and may indeed have been used to cause an element of controversy but there were other ways to portray the evil inside the charatcer in question. It was a very difficult episode to watch and could perhaps have been toned down.
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There is disturbed people in this country who murder their own baby i.e. the heroin addict last year who beat her baby to death, so why is someone threatning a baby off limits for EE.
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There is disturbed people in this country who murder their own baby i.e. the heroin addict last year, so why is someone threatning a baby off limits for EE.
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Lauren and Lucy are definitely 2 of the worse of the younger girls on there that are ruining the soap.
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Lauren and Lucy are definitely 2 of the worse of the younger girls on there that are ruining the soap.
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There will now be a load of posts suggesting that that's how these bad girls would behave, which I'm sure they would. But as far as EE is concerned, I think it went too far for the time it was aired. I'm not a prude/do-gooder etc, but I thought the dialogue used was awful and may indeed have been used to cause an element of controversy but there were other ways to portray the evil inside the charatcer in question. It was a very difficult episode to watch and could perhaps have been toned down.
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Itsame didnt say that Michael threatened to kill Scarlett. They said Michael ignored Scarlett and that babies threatened to k ill a baby ( Lexie)
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Lauren and Lucy are definitely 2 of the worse of the younger girls on there that are ruining the soap.
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But Jacqueline is really good at acting and Hetti is good at acting as well
I only wish she settled down with a more nicer guy than Joey! As for Lauren, I've never ever seen her do any work or anything other than get drunk! |
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Insightful thread...
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But Jacqueline is really good at acting and Hetti is good at acting as well
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At the beginning of this weeks episodes I was cringing at the gang scenes, we have seen Eastenders try and do scary teenage gang stories many times but it often falls flat due to the timeslot that the show has and obviously not being able to show the violence and language that is needed to make these gangs seem generally scary. I think Friday's scene was actually very good and well written, the dialogue was nasty, infact it was evil and it may of caused offence but thats exactly what these gangs set out to do so im pleased the show managed to get a story like this right for once, if it had been toned down it would have been no better than Billy's gang or Martin Fowler's gang from years back. Eastenders has always been known to have a gritty side something which many say the show has lost these past 2 years, no one could argue that last nights episode was the grittyness that the show had been lacking. It was a good episode, I agree with other threads about the Social Worker and that being totally unrealistic but thats for another thread but with regards to the gang EE did a good job.
As for police and social workers, there are enough examples of them behaving stupidly for the events to be believable. It's not as if Lola had an unblemished track record is it ? Outstanding piece of acting by Danielle Harold in my opinion, she is head and shoulders above most of the young actors in EE's. |
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Itsame didnt say that Michael threatened to kill Scarlett. They said Michael ignored Scarlett and that babies threatened to k ill a baby ( Lexie)
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also Alexia ``main badly `` had got pregnant several times and was quite happy to say she got rid of them that cant be right for the show .
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I've watched EE on and off since the late 80s.
In recent years I've struggled to stay with it through two particularly drawn out, ridiculous, and unpleasant stories (babysnatch and Yusef). This year I've finally had enough. The Kat nonsense is just utterly ridiculous and the tone seems as relentlessly miserable and unpleasant as I ever remember. I decided to have a trial 'give up' period the episode after Janine left, and haven't really looked back since. Last night I couldn't sleep so thought I'd watch a latest episode to waste some time on iplayer. The first scene? The Branning brothers letching at Kat at the bar, again :yawn:. The second scene was Lola with the social worker I think (fair enough) and then the third was Michael being all weird around the baby and appearing to pack a bag. I like Michael but all that misery with him being so nasty to Janine (the mother of his child) for no apparent reason while being chipper with people like Kat...I just don't want to watch. So, I switched it off and watched Welcome to India instead - a very interesting documentary and a much better use of my time ![]() I still have an interest in some of the storylines in the show, but not enough to sit through all that rubbish for two hours a week. Life can be depressing enough anyway. |
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I've watched EE on and off since the late 80s.
In recent years I've struggled to stay with it through two particularly drawn out, ridiculous, and unpleasant stories (babysnatch and Yusef). This year I've finally had enough. The Kat nonsense is just utterly ridiculous and the tone seems as relentlessly miserable and unpleasant as I ever remember. I decided to have a trial 'give up' period the episode after Janine left, and haven't really looked back since. Last night I couldn't sleep so thought I'd watch a latest episode to waste some time on iplayer. The first scene? The Branning brothers letching at Kat at the bar, again :yawn:. The second scene was Lola with the social worker I think (fair enough) and then the third was Michael being all weird around the baby and appearing to pack a bag. I like Michael but all that misery with him being so nasty to Janine (the mother of his child) for no apparent reason while being chipper with people like Kat...I just don't want to watch. So, I switched it off and watched Welcome to India instead - a very interesting documentary and a much better use of my time ![]() I still have an interest in some of the storylines in the show, but not enough to sit through all that rubbish for two hours a week. Life can be depressing enough anyway. |
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Well you need to watch the Lola scene from last night
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Thanks, can anyone tell me whereabouts this is, at the end? Watching the whole thing is too painful...
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Thanks, can anyone tell me whereabouts this is, at the end? Watching the whole thing is too painful...
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On the iPlayer, it might be from 22 minutes onwards, or there abouts. It's quite a long scene at the end, yes.
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