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Old 03-09-2013, 06:50
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EastEnders should bring Walford High into the show.

A Headmaster or Headmistress should live on the Square maybe as part of a new Family.
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Old 03-09-2013, 07:48
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See, it would have made sense if Ava was the Head there because at least she would be closer to the action. I think we have only seen her once at work.

On a side note, the headmaster Mr Allcock was seen a few times in 2010

He was in this scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJY_6EqYrQ
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Old 03-09-2013, 07:59
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You want less teens, your solution is to bring a high school in.

Great.
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Old 03-09-2013, 08:00
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A New Professional Couple living on the Square could provide this - kill two birds with a Headmaster/mistress and a Doctor.

I don't know why EE bosses are not thinking about this to be honest.
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Old 03-09-2013, 08:21
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Ava should have been the headmistresses.
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Old 03-09-2013, 08:31
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Wasted chances here.
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Old 03-09-2013, 10:44
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If they lived on the Square, what possible benefits would a headmistress/master have storyline-wise? The only possible storyline I can think of is a teacher having an affair with a pupil - and they also happen to be neighbours in the Square - but I'd imagine most of these scenes would have to take place in the school setting for it to really power the story through. But considering the show is not based around a school and the dramas that go on there I don't think it would work.

Even the doctors that been on the show in recent years - like May or Yusef weren't primarily known for their jobs. Their storylines focused on their personal lives because that's where the interest lies. Viewers don't really care to just see them giving out prescriptions as the doctors' office setting limits them.

Remember when Bradley Branning was introduced to the show? They made a point of showing us that he had a ''big job in the city''. We never saw him there. We knew nothing about his working life - the only purpose that served was to illustrate that Bradley was supposed to be intelligent and ambitious because he had a job elsewhere. But again, this probably limited the character because he couldn't interect with others in the show - which is why he lost that job and went on to... work on the Square! Alice was another example of this just last year. Her job outside the Square was eventually phased out. That's why all these soaps have characters and have jobs within 30 seconds of their front door!
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Old 03-09-2013, 10:49
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This is not Waterloo Road.
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Old 03-09-2013, 12:19
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I remember you saw it briefly when Zsa Zsa was in the show,

She made it seem like a episode of St Trinians
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Old 03-09-2013, 12:51
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You want less teens, your solution is to bring a high school in.

Great.
I was going to say this. It was only last week vaslav was moaning about the number of teens in the show and how some of them should be axed, yet now he wants to bring in a high school???
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Old 03-09-2013, 13:03
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Suitcase Berao makes a return and guess what - just to be critical of ME...how refreshing NOT...
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Old 03-09-2013, 13:15
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Well Brian in Corrie somehow went from being a head of english in a high school to a primary school headmaster so I don't see we they couldn't do the same with Ava only vice versa
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Old 03-09-2013, 15:30
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Suitcase Berao makes a return and guess what - just to be critical of ME...how refreshing NOT...
Greetings vaslav Nice to see you remember me!

Someone does think everyone is against them don't they? What I posted is hardly critical is it? Why if you think there are too many teens would you then advocate the introduction of a High School which would then see that demographic on the show sky rocket? It makes zero sense.

Oh, and if I was going to be critical of you I'd have commented about how you're still making repetitive threads about the same subject matter, still making threads about deadwood, threads about which males you find attractive and lust after and how for some egotistical reason you still seem to think you speak for every Eastenders viewer. But I didn't did I

See you in a few months and I bet things will still be the same!

PS You ought to be thanking me as I'm saving you a job of bumping your thread!
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Old 03-09-2013, 15:33
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No thanks. That would mean even more annoying kids.:yawn:
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Old 03-09-2013, 15:37
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I cant forget you Suitcase Berao!
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Old 03-09-2013, 15:47
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I think it would only work if there was a group of half a dozen students to justify it's existence. There's already a teacher living on the square as well as a nursery assistant.
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Old 03-09-2013, 16:19
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I was going to say this. It was only last week vaslav was moaning about the number of teens in the show and how some of them should be axed, yet now he wants to bring in a high school???
Funny, i was thinking the same thing, contradicting much?
Terrible idea, if you want to make into hollyoaks.
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Old 14-09-2013, 06:09
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Bringing in the High School would be overkill, besides I don't think it works having characters based offsite.
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Old 14-09-2013, 14:54
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No, no, a thousand times NO.

Suitcase Berao makes a return and guess what - just to be critical of ME...how refreshing NOT...
Why don't you just defend your point and oppose whatever you're being accused of instead of playing the poor, pitiful me card whenever anybody levels any valid criticism at you??
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Old 14-09-2013, 15:04
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See, it would have made sense if Ava was the Head there because at least she would be closer to the action. I think we have only seen her once at work.

On a side note, the headmaster Mr Allcock was seen a few times in 2010

He was in this scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJY_6EqYrQ
Zsa Zsa dressing up like a cheap tart.
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Old 14-09-2013, 15:11
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Not for the main show, no.

But I wouldn't be against a Grange Hill style show being sprung for the main show into a spin off for kids?

It would be a bit like Sarah Jane Adventures in the fact that it still appeals to adults because of the nature of it's source material.
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Old 14-09-2013, 15:14
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Well Brian in Corrie somehow went from being a head of english in a high school to a primary school headmaster so I don't see we they couldn't do the same with Ava only vice versa
Not sure how it works in Britain but up until recently in Ireland graduates from a certain teaching degree were qualified to teach both primary and secondary school as long as they have the HDip to go with it so Brian and Ava could have done something similar. It would only have taken 4 yrs of their lives to be qualified for both
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