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How does EastEnders (and other soaps) time relate to real time? |
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How does EastEnders (and other soaps) time relate to real time?
Obviously Christmas Day episodes are actually set on Christmas day. But through the year there are always episodes that lead directly into each other and thus happen on the same day. So how does it fit with real time? Monday and Tuesdays episodes lead into each other. Thursday I guess happened the next morning (After Stacey finds the letters). That would mean Thursday's episode took place on Tuesday?
Am I wrong or are their several plot holes that need to be addressed? |
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Any ideas?
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I believe it's somewhere around 1993 in Walford.
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Well it depends. As you say some episodes lead directly on from each other so you could have all the weeks episodes take place in the course of one day. But then you have to assume that there is a longer gap before the next episode to make up for it and indeed this is sometimes referenced, like they'll say it is Monday and refer to something that happened in the Friday episode as being last week. Or say, haven't seen you over the weekend, how have you been to idicate the passage of time.
Fact is whenever they do reference a date like xmas, easter, Olympics, a characters birthday it corresponds to the actual real life date so it is pretty much in real time. Pregnancies take 9 months etc. It is just some days we see in great depth, other we don't see at all. Does that make sense? |
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They don't celebrate Christmas in Summer Bay as in the show takes an 8 week summer break over Christmas in Australia
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They don't celebrate Christmas in Summer Bay as in the show takes an 8 week summer break over Christmas in Australia
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I like it when they do an evening one and someone looks at the time and it's exactly the same as the time it's airing - like when Michael looked at his watch last halloween.
I miss Michael, god he was good. |
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Well it depends. As you say some episodes lead directly on from each other so you could have all the weeks episodes take place in the course of one day. But then you have to assume that there is a longer gap before the next episode to make up for it and indeed this is sometimes referenced, like they'll say it is Monday and refer to something that happened in the Friday episode as being last week. Or say, haven't seen you over the weekend, how have you been to idicate the passage of time.
Fact is whenever they do reference a date like xmas, easter, Olympics, a characters birthday it corresponds to the actual real life date so it is pretty much in real time. Pregnancies take 9 months etc. It is just some days we see in great depth, other we don't see at all. Does that make sense? |
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That makes sense. It's just very confusing. I like the way they do it on CS, with two episodes a night. Would work well-ish with EastEnders but will probably get slandered for copying.
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It is actually fairly rare for all one weeks episodes to take place over the course of one day or night. Generally EastEnders are one episode, one dat. Indeed it is usually how you can tell where the episode ending was if watching the EE omnibus, it is the next day. So effectively we are seeing all or nearly all weekdays and missing out the weekend.
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