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EastEnders - It's Not About Faaaamily Anymore
EastEnders may not be "shutting down for the summer" but from some of this week's action, one wonders if the writers are off sunning themselves and left the trainees in charge. Just what is happening on Albert Square with the Lucy storyline? Have they done the unthinkable and allowed a storyline, a very strong well planned superbly executed storyline, descend into total farce?
I personally fear they have done. First up, the Mitchells. Phil shopping Ben!? Now this is the same Phil who protected Ben when he murdered Heather Trott, actually murdered her. But in this instance, thinks nothing of handing Ben over to the police, offering him up to DCI Marsden, his sworn nemesis. It just did not ring true. Of all the times for the writers to show us that, hey Phil does actually have a conscience, this was one of the worst times to do it. It would have served much better for him to display this sudden rush of doing the right thing, if Ben were actually guilty. Ben and Phil's relationship is already overly complicated, it didn't need this. It didn't ring true. It felt messy and convoluted. No longer can Phil proclaim ~it's all about faaamily" after breaking that most sacred of Mitchell oaths "you never grass" This in turn, lead to even further farce which was Billy shopping Jay! in the second blatant rule breaking of the Mitchell Holy Commandments. This I could buy. It's Billy, who come on, has always been the runt of the litter and it's Jay, who has never really been a true Mitchell. If anyone is going to be sacrificed it will be him, especially if it saved Ben or Lola. But now, there we have Billy shopping Jay, only for this to lead to the biggest farce of all...Lola's exit. We've known that Danielle Harold was leaving Walford, but I don't think any of us were prepared for it to be as sudden and cack handed as this was. It's not the first time a character just ups and leaves in the space of an hour, totally abandoning their life's work in the area and moving for a "fresh start" Lola had spent weeks competing against Paul Coker for that coveted job at the uber swish Blades, she gets the job and on the same day decides to leave Walford forever. At first, it is with Jay, her newfound love. But within a couple of hours Jay is arrested but yet Lola still ends up leaving. Quite why, was lost in a teary mushy emotional scene between Lola and Billy. "I love you Pops but I gots to go, because...because...I can make somink of meself up there" Up there referring to Newcastle, which is suddenly this new haven for single mum's, away from the drudgery of Walford life. In Walford, Lola is "just another single mum trying to get by" but seemingly in Newcastle she's going to be something else entirely...quite what we don't know. We do know that Dexter is up there....Remember him? Of course you do. We hope that train to Newcastle is one way only. The Brannings got in on the tomfoolery, when Abi decided quite all of a sudden to drop her Father into the frame for killing Lucy Beale. Several times, we were told Walford Police are chomping at the bit, foaming at the mouth to pin this on somebody, anybody, preferably a Mitchell but hey a Branning will do. Abi decides to drop her Dad, Max, into the frame, in order to get self loathing closet case boyfriend Ben out of the nick. "If he's innocent, he'll be fine" she shrugs. Quite how nobody has been round to give Abi a right rollicking for stabbing her father in the back like this, is about as staggering as Max, having Lucy's blood on his shoe, still after 18 months. Bad luck Max. Max decides to then involve Stacey and tell her "No Abi did it. She battered her" well no, she slapped her Max. Stacey after one conversation with Max, decides yeah you're right, Abi you will never forget what you did. Cue a big scrap between Abi and Stacey. Abi did deliver a great line to Stacey "If I was going to kill anyone, it would be you" Indeed. It was the Abi and Stacey scenes that were most truthful of the whole week so far. The idea of Family has taken a right old battering this week down Walford way. And I don't think it's really done the Lucy story any good. If anything I feel it's all been quite farcical, with the wasteful nonsensical exit of a good character thrown in for good measure. |
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