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EastEnders descending into self-parody with far-fetched nonsense collective amnesia |
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EastEnders descending into self-parody with far-fetched nonsense collective amnesia
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I absolutely loathe reading the daily fail, so full of daily hate!
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High streets and commons springing up overnight (as if).
What? He thought Walford was just the one Square? If they go anywhere else in London did that also spring up overnight? It's just someone who hates Eastenders deciding to tune in and is determined to hate it no matter what. |
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Oh it's just some link to some critic reviewing EastEnders!
Do you want me to click on it?!..Discuss it?!..Write a poem about it?! |
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I absolutely loathe reading the daily fail, so full of daily hate!
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It funny that Coronation street is never criticised despite the fact many of the same flaws exist In it.
Corrie has had a few returns as well over the last year and more to come. And how many are living in Elleen 'three bedroom' house. Ditto Chesney's currently and Kevin's a few months ago when all the Prices were there. |
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Daily mirror EastEnders descending into self-parody with far-fetched nonsense and collective amnesia
Shops shut and Walford in grief as Lucy Beale was laid to rest, just one Huw Edwards commentary short of a state funeral. And with it, three of the most *bone-chilling words imaginable. “Hour-long EastEnders.” A right old slap-my-thigh chuckle-fest, on Tuesday, which gave a ray of hope to us all – we’re only nine short months away from discovering the murderer. You can make a human being in the time it’s going to take the dimwits to *conclude soap’s dullest ever whodunnit. It’s all just smoke and mirrors to distract viewers from gaping plot holes, dialogue that’s bordering on Doctor Who (“It feels like the centre of everything has just been ripped out”) and the “as if” factor... High streets and commons springing up overnight (as if). Sharon producing flyers for a comedy night before booking any comics (as if). A killer leaving clues everywhere (as if). The Walford Gazette paying Lola £300 for an interview to slag off a murder *victim (as if). Six to eight people crammed into the flat above The Vic (as if). And the unlikely couplings – Denise and Ian, Max and Lucy, Lady Di and Abi’s performing dog. As if. As if. As if. The avalanche of returning characters only adds to the melee. Recently we’ve had Jane, Christian, Libby, Sonia, Peggy, Dean(o), Stacey, Shabnam and the *imminent fifth head of Ben Mitchell. So many ghosts of Christmas past have come back to Walford that I’m expecting Archie Mitchell (Scrooge) to show up at Bianca’s with the biggest goose in the shop window for Tiny Tiff. Though a turkey would be more apt for EastEnders – with the exception of Timothy West, whose Stan Carter is as magnetic mulling over marmalade at breakfast (“A-pri-cot”) as he is being waterboarded by Danny Dyer with a shower head. Yet another Ian Beale breakdown is a hideous sight and sound, like he is trying to force something through his nostrils with a badly oiled high-pressure hose. Turning down a trip to Spain, he said: “If I leave now, I don’t think I’d come back.” It’s a chance I’m prepared to take, Ian. But my biggest bugbear is the communal amnesia. It let Max forget he spent 68 days on remand last autumn because of sudden bosom buddy Ian’s false testimony. And it had Phil telling Max after Tuesday’s funeral drama: “I wanna tell you where you ain’t welcome any more. The Vic. The caff. The shop. The launderette. The chippy. The Arches. “Alfie, have I left anything out?” Oh, just the small matter of the salon you bought for Sharon and turned into a wine bar, which you own. It’s called The Albert. Slipped your mind has it? As Tamwar Masood put it: “Only in Walford...” |
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Ahh yeah 'paid reviewers/critics' mostly middle age men who know naff all about the soaps and it's history the amount of inaccuracy in articles are shocking, truth is most get paid by the word and it's easier to trash a soap then write something positive, normally EE.
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I love how most of it is just "as if" and pointing out "plot holes" without explaining what those holes were?
He wasn't working towards a specific word count by any chance? Eastenders achieves its goal of being a soap opera better than his attempt at journalism. |
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Gotta laugh at killer leaving clues everywhere (as if)
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Gotta laugh at killer leaving clues everywhere (as if)
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What clues has the killer left at all?. The only remote clue is the rot in hell card and that is not likely to be the killer I don't think.
Most killers and serial killers do leave clues, by mistake but still leave some. |
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I don't know, I doubt they've got any DNA.
Most killers and serial killers do leave clues, by mistake but still leave some.
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What clues has the killer left at all?. The only remote clue is the rot in hell card and that is not likely to be the killer I don't think.
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It's the Mirror.
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These people are just so blinded by their preconceived ideas.
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Newspapers are a waste of your money & the earth's resources...
Lies, Lies, LIES. |
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I have to agree with him on most things. Some of Adam's scenes have made me cringe, some have made me cry. There is a lot of hype, and the character wasn't good, she will not really be remembered - the fallout is better than the character. It is a dull storyline as I was more shocked at that omg moment with Shirley and Mick.
I agree that no one else could possibly move into the Vic - but the Carters are great, so add more for all I care. |
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I have to agree with him on most things. Some of Adam's scenes have made me cringe, some have made me cry. There is a lot of hype, and the character wasn't good, she will not really be remembered - the fallout is better than the character. It is a dull storyline as I was more shocked at that omg moment with Shirley and Mick.
I agree that no one else could possibly move into the Vic - but the Carters are great, so add more for all I care. Ditto, he has made some pretty valid points . I am currently back on watching Eastenders after an on and off two years and I think it's got some of its old self back but it's still got a long way to go. |
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The article makes some valid points, tbh.
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Very well written piece.
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The papers/media are sooo obsessed with slating EE, bog off, dont watch it, simples.
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I agree he made some good points. I have really struggled to watch EE recently, and truly do not care about Lucy, her death or who did it. She was a crap character with no redeeming features at all.
They should have made her more likeable before killing her off and expecting us to care. |
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Fairly accurate article, I think its time the OP and other fans took the blinkers off and realise its not as good as certain people make you want to believe it is.
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Enjoyed the article immensely and agree with most of it. It is, however, the same in every soap.
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