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Old 01-10-2014, 13:09
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Anyone else feel like the character interaction on Eastenders could be improved? Even though he lost his way quite soon into his run, when Bryan Kirkwood started he gave Eastenders some of the best character interaction I've seen. He formed friendship groups and had different character interacting with each other.

There needs to be more scenes between the likes of Ronnie and Kat, given their history. Yet it's like they're on two seperate shows. Also Phil and Dot, they never seem to cross paths.
Some characters seem lost, like Fatboy never seems to interact with his friend group anymore. Instead he's always hanging around Dot.

I remember one of Kirkwoods first epsiodes had Bianca, Carol, Glenda, Zainab, Jane etc all getting ready for a night out at The Vic together at the Masood household. More scenes like this please !
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Old 01-10-2014, 13:17
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Ronnie's just returned from Portugal and Kat's in hospital recovering from the fire so what did you expect?
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Old 01-10-2014, 13:20
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Character interaction is the key to making any soap a success. If characters start disappearing from the main flock you've got trouble. You're right, it happened under Kirkwood. It also happened on Corrie under Phil Collinson which started with amazing character interaction but quickly dissolved.

They need to just do little things to acknowledge characters knowing each other at least. Just have people pass on the street and share a smile or something, people that don't talk to each other like Patrick and Max for example or Abi and Shirley. And then the next step is to as you say, build friendship groups that all link together through mutual friends - these would be big characters like the Carters or Phil. It does wonders for the spirit of the show and it makes events like weddings an absolute joy when everyone's together.
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Old 01-10-2014, 13:20
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Old 01-10-2014, 13:23
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Ronnie's just returned from Portugal and Kat's in hospital recovering from the fire so what did you expect?
But even before that, since Ronnie booted them out of the Vic they haven't had any scenes, that's coming up to being a year ago.
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Old 01-10-2014, 13:31
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They are very bad with friendships, or even having people acknowledge each other as neighbours this year. Friendships are dropped to fit in with current s/ls and never mentioned again. Ian and Alfie were best mates for years, and, as someone else mentioned, Fats always had friends of his own age. Denise was well liked, as was Patrick, but it suits them to have them isolated for the stroke s/l.
etc. etc.
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Old 01-10-2014, 13:33
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Kat and Ronnie should have had some great interaction due to their pasts, but Kirkwood ruined it by making it a deliberate baby swap rather than a hospital error or similar. Maybe they might share some scenes out of concern for Stacey and one final scene perhaps to draw a line under the baby swap when Ronnie's given birth, but they seem to not share scenes as a means of forgetting that the baby swap happened.
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Old 01-10-2014, 14:21
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But even before that, since Ronnie booted them out of the Vic they haven't had any scenes, that's coming up to being a year ago.
Well then it's understandable. Ronnie's been in and out of the show a lot since then and preoccupied with killing Carl for most of it.

They're not going to be friends.
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Old 01-10-2014, 14:22
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EE's the only soap, I think, that has a lot of parties that show interactions with a lot of people. The amount of girls nights or hen dos, stag night, or poker nights is larger in EE.
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