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EE: Generally Depressing
I'm just wondering as it stands, if there' actually any character in the soap right now that is wholesome with happiness?
Seriously, before the old 'it's a soap card' is pulled' have a think: Phil Max Alfie n Kat Lola Billy Jay Of late, it's just depressing in an abundance. Apart from that gag on Derek, Monday Night, the soap just lacks ideas outside the box. |
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EE has always been depressing, noone can lead happy normal lives something must come along a ruin it (recent example is Lola and Lexi)
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EE has always been depressing, noone can lead happy normal lives something must come along a ruin it (recent example is Lola and Lexi)
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Oh please gimme a break . People have been moaning about the misery in EE since it started . Yet they still tune in every episode .
If you don't like it , then don't watch it . Easy peasy . Otherwise change the record. |
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wouldn't have it any other way
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Oh please gimme a break . People have been moaning about the misery in EE since it started . Yet they still tune in every episode .
If you don't like it , then don't watch it . Easy peasy . Otherwise change the record. |
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EE has always been pretty depressing and I've watched it on and off since it started. I don't think its worse now than it ever has been from what I remember. The people of Walford are cursed to live awful lives where they can never get a decent job or better themselves. Still the ones labouring away as cleaners or working in the chippy are the lucky ones, the rest end up married to adulterers, or murderers and having their loved ones killed in random circumstances.
![]() Obviously the whole premise of the programme is to make us all feel thankful that we don't live there
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Oh please gimme a break . People have been moaning about the misery in EE since it started . Yet they still tune in every episode .
If you don't like it , then don't watch it . Easy peasy . Otherwise change the record. |
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EE has always been pretty depressing and I've watched it on and off since it started. I don't think its worse now than it ever has been from what I remember. The people of Walford are cursed to live awful lives where they can never get a decent job or better themselves. Still the ones labouring away as cleaners or working in the chippy are the lucky ones, the rest end up married to adulterers, or murderers and having their loved ones killed in random circumstances.
![]() Obviously the whole premise of the programme is to make us all feel thankful that we don't live there ![]() I'm afraid that's not the case: The setting in EastEnd of London may appear dull and bland, but from the 80s and 90s, folk on the whole were generally jolly, and thoughtful towards one another despite the struggles and don't forget, this was a projection of the Thatcher governement where times were really tough. That side of EastEnd, I can relate to - however the current plight is like a school playground and just full of hatred and selfishness. |
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Happiness doesn't create drama
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Happiness doesn't create drama
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Eastenders has always been depressing. It's notorious for being just that. How anybody could watch it and be shocked at how depressing it is is beyond me. It'd be like watching CSI and complaining that it's too murdery.
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the soap just lacks ideas outside the box.
Don't think EE is any more depressing now than it's always been. At least they try to include a bit of humour in it now and again with the likes of Kim Fox. Thinking about it the other soaps have become just as bad in terms of depressing stories. Corrie is hardly a laugh a minute these days and Emmerdale has the most unlikeable characters of any of them. |
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EE when it began was actually a lot funnier/optimistic than it later became, there was a lot of humour in the early years with Dot, Ethel and Lou. It was probably from about 1990 that it started earning its stripes as a grim serial.
Julia Smith believed East End humour was an essential part of the show and she was right. People may remember stuff like Arthur's breakdown from the early years, but many 80s episodes had no plot at all and were often of a light hearted nature. Some of the Ethel/Lou/Dot stuff could be straight out of vintage Corrie. There was a really funny episode where Michelle dyed Lofty's hair green and that's all that happened in that episode. |
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Even when EastEnders has a few light hearted episodes people always complain that ''it's not what EastEnders is about''.
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It's absolutely true. Virtually every single one is miserable, mean, spiteful and only out for themselves - it really is at a terrible state, and I just feel like calling it a day with this.....
Patrick Jean Denise Abi Jay Tamwar Masood Fatboy Alfie Kim Alice Christian |
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There are plenty of characters who aren't miserable, mean, spiteful and only out for themselves. Such as;
Patrick Jean Denise Abi Jay Tamwar Masood Fatboy Alfie Kim Alice Christian
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Water: generally wet.
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Even when EastEnders has a few light hearted episodes people always complain that ''it's not what EastEnders is about''.
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Oh please gimme a break . People have been moaning about the misery in EE since it started . Yet they still tune in every episode .
If you don't like it , then don't watch it . Easy peasy . Otherwise change the record. |
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Happiness doesn't create drama
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EE is at its best when dealing with serious social issues and everyday life which happens to be quite boring and depressing. I can never get enough of the social realist take on life.
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There are plenty of characters who aren't miserable, mean, spiteful and only out for themselves. Such as;
Patrick Jean Denise Abi Jay Tamwar Masood Fatboy Alfie Kim Alice Christian But the point is that they need to get the right blend. People like myself want to be cheered a bit not completely plummeted down with doom and gloom. The social worker storyline was heavy and emotional stuff last night. |
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