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Old 03-11-2015, 22:18
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Seriously the world is a huge place but in Eastenders it's no smaller than a gold fish bowel.

For instance Gavin knew Den, Angie, Ted, Vincents father and Eric Mitchell.
Then he moves to south Africa and then many years later Kathy moves out there too and out of all people she randomly meets him there and they get married.

It's so unrealistic and coincidental it's making a laughing stock of the show.
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Old 03-11-2015, 22:24
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Wasn't Ted said to have introduced Kathy to Gavin?

Pimping his own sister out to a psychopath
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Old 03-11-2015, 22:29
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Wasn't Ted said to have introduced Kathy to Gavin?

Pimping his own sister out to a psychopath
Never heard that.
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Old 04-11-2015, 15:50
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Seriously the world is a huge place but in Eastenders it's no smaller than a gold fish bowel.

For instance Gavin knew Den, Angie, Ted, Vincents father and Eric Mitchell.
Then he moves to south Africa and then many years later Kathy moves out there too and out of all people she randomly meets him there and they get married.

It's so unrealistic and coincidental it's making a laughing stock of the show.
Did you mean bowl? A goldfish bowel is very, very small, I would imagine.
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Old 04-11-2015, 17:00
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Did you mean bowl? A goldfish bowel is very, very small, I would imagine.
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Old 04-11-2015, 17:43
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It's like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon EastEnders style
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Old 04-11-2015, 18:31
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Seriously the world is a huge place but in Eastenders it's no smaller than a gold fish bowel.

For instance Gavin knew Den, Angie, Ted, Vincents father and Eric Mitchell.
Then he moves to south Africa and then many years later Kathy moves out there too and out of all people she randomly meets him there and they get married.

It's so unrealistic and coincidental it's making a laughing stock of the show.
As somebody else has said, i think it was mentioned way back when Pohil or Ian first mentioned that Kathy was remmarying that it was a friend of Ted's - so that doesn't seem random to me, or that he would originally have been from London and Ted had known him that long.

I agree about the rest of it though, him knowing Den, Eric and happening to be Sharon's dad.
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Old 04-11-2015, 18:43
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Den knowing Eric is just such a frustrating retcon for me!!!!
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Old 04-11-2015, 19:09
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Den knowing Eric is just such a frustrating retcon for me!!!!
You're taking a photo with them both in it and creating something which could be nothing.

What if Eric was Gavin's friend? Or Henry's? What if Den had only met Eric once or twice and didn't get on with him? What if Den knew nothing about Eric and his family? Then over 30 years later he meets a man named Phil Mitchell and is expected to connect the dots?
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Old 04-11-2015, 19:22
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You're taking a photo with them both in it and creating something which could be nothing.

What if Eric was Gavin's friend? Or Henry's? What if Den had only met Eric once or twice and didn't get on with him? What if Den knew nothing about Eric and his family? Then over 30 years later he meets a man named Phil Mitchell and is expected to connect the dots?
Didn't Gavin say 'he was never really part of the gang" about Henry? Implying everybody else in the photo who he had just named was. Being part of the same gang suggests more than just a casual acquaintance who you only met a couple of times. Unless Gavin is revealed to have been lying about that (more than possible i concede given we've been told he manipulates) then we have to believe that Den knew Eric and perhaps even more interestingly, Sharon didn't react to the news with any surprise.

Now just because he knew him, it doesn't mean he knew his family, either met them or even knew the details of wife and kids and Mitchell is a fairly common name so he might not have made an immediate connection. But we saw Den investigate Phil in 2003, ask around, get as much info as possible so he will have learnt the name of his Dad then and he'd have to be pretty thick if he didn't remember Eric at that point.

Again gang implies a group of people that work as a group, either professionally (in this case it would be criminally) or friends. Also, as mentioned, there is the Frim, Dalton, Jonny Allen connection which iDen was told of Eric's connection to them, he'd know it was the same man.

But as discussed elsewhere, some of it will be down to what individual viewers believe is credible as to what people do and don't discuss and we can therefore assume would have been know by friends, family, colleagues whether shown on screen or not.
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Old 04-11-2015, 19:25
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The bloke in the photo should have been Pete Beal or Arthur
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