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Post by klee on Jul 12, 2006 10:56:52 GMT
Yes, that's how it starts (everyone comes into Eastenders with a job and a life outside the Square). With the women especially give it six months and they're buying sparkly tops from the Market to wear down the Vic where they now work as their relationship with Phil/Gary/fat loser of your choice ended their career as a management consultant or corporate lawyer.
That show's put the feminist cause back a decade on its own.
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Post by jem on Jul 13, 2006 12:31:45 GMT
I think Pat's been related to everyone in the quare for a while now. You're hard pushed to find anyone- other than perhaps Minty who isn't related to everyone else.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jul 15, 2006 7:23:18 GMT
I think Pat's been related to everyone in the quare for a while now. You're hard pushed to find anyone- other than perhaps Minty who isn't related to everyone else. Which surely means that the Pat/Minty love affair is just weeks away?
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 20, 2006 18:56:08 GMT
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse: Phil and Sonia
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Post by Bungle on Jul 20, 2006 20:04:38 GMT
No. Really. No.
Really?
No.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 20, 2006 21:20:04 GMT
It's on the front of one of the mags.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jul 20, 2006 21:27:40 GMT
I take it the Eastenders people have just given up then, yeah? It just smacks of them realising that two of the longer serving characters didn't have a storyline for a couple of months. Wasn't Sonia at total loggerheads with Phil a few years back anyway? Not that that matters with her character these days. However, Phil is not attractive in any possible manner.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 22, 2006 19:45:59 GMT
I don't even understand the article.
Digitalspy's reporting is so frustrating - they're forever quoting rumour as fact, and not citing their sources properly.
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Post by xenomaniac on Jul 22, 2006 20:02:56 GMT
Is SJ the stripper that MInty met a few weeks agoo?
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Post by jem on Jul 24, 2006 14:49:43 GMT
I watch neighbours avidly and have done since the age of 4 but I have no recolection who he was?
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Post by jode* on Jul 24, 2006 16:24:39 GMT
I watch neighbours avidly and have done since the age of 4 but I have no recolection who he was? Me too! I've watched nearly every day since 1994 and I have no idea either. Bizarre.
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Post by raspberry on Jul 24, 2006 18:48:48 GMT
from The Perfect BlendWhen Dee Bliss’ ex-boyfriend, Max Crawford, returned to Melbourne after a couple of years travelling overseas, Dee was eager to introduce him to her new boyfriend, Joel Samuels. Joel realised that there was a hidden reason behind her eagerness, and so she was forced to admit that she and Max had never officially broken up before he left, so she was taking Joel along to make the situation clear. Although Joel refused to go along, he later turned up and found Max and Dee engrossed in memories from their time together. Joel struggled to control his jealousy, particularly when Max gave Dee a bottle of her favourite perfume, which he’d brought back from Budapest, and she explained to Joel that Max would be staying at her flat for a few weeks until he sorted himself out. Although Max claimed that he was fine with Dee and Joel, and had also moved on, it wasn’t until Joel’s flatmates, Toadie Rebecchi and Lance Wilkinson overheard him on the phone in the Coffee Shop that they realised something was amiss. Max was overheard turning down a room in a share house, explaining that he was staying with his ex and trying to win her back. When Joel got to hear about it, he confronted Max, who insisted that they’d got their wires crossed and he’d simply turned down the other house because it was too expensive. Fortunately, Max then got a job interview with a rug importing business, which included accommodation in West Warratah. Although pleased that he would be leaving Dee’s flat, Joel then decided that the best way to get rid of Max completely might be to pair him up with someone else, so he set up a date with neighbour Stephanie Scully. Although Steph didn’t particularly like Max, Joel encouraged his rival to persevere. But Dee wasn’t too happy when she noticed Max’s new blossoming romance and she even warned Steph off. When Joel found out, he was convinced that Dee was jealous and that she was still in love with Max. Although Dee insisted that Joel had nothing to be jealous about, following a night out with Max and her friend Tess Bell, Dee ended up sharing a goodnight kiss with Max on the doorstep. Although Max thought it was a sign that they would be getting back together, Dee let him down gently, before admitting everything to Joel, who, as a sign of his new-found maturity, took the news well. Biography by Steve
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Post by jem on Jul 25, 2006 8:47:22 GMT
So by the sounds of things he was in nieghbours for about two weeks.
I must have been on holiday.
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Post by Lucinda on Jul 25, 2006 19:07:15 GMT
Yeah, I don't remember him either, but it sounds like he was barely in it. He's one of those characters like Roo or Kayla who are only in it for a couple of weeks, and even those two are probably more memorable.
In answer to the main question, I don't think Eastenders can stop being shit, ever. And I felt ill when I saw the spoilered storyline in work. They really are scraping the barrel, aren't they? Yuck. It's hard to believe I watched it so much in the past, I haven't watched it properly since around the time Mel and Steve were in it. I think the last bit I followed was a showdown between Dan and Phil, and Mel was kidnapped for some reason. Must've been about 3 or 4 years ago!
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jul 25, 2006 19:48:31 GMT
Eastenders would definitely lose quite a bit of shitosity if they axed Juley, Gary and Minty. They're just rubbish. Are they meant to be funny? Are we meant to care about them?
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Post by MoondialSlater on Jul 26, 2006 22:44:57 GMT
Eastenders would definitely lose quite a bit of shitosity if they axed Juley, Gary and Minty. Well after Friday we're a 1/3 of the way there.
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Post by boyd on Jul 27, 2006 4:39:44 GMT
Bring back Lousie (Lisa & Phil's kid) with Lisa & Mel as lesbian lovers. Lousie & Courney end up hating each other, we see antics similar to the girl who harrased Summer in Neighbours cause Summer got the newspaper job. One of them ends up killing the other. Reintroduce Janine back into the Square to mentor the surviving Mitchell daughter which then ends up attempting to kill Janine with the skills Janine taught her.
That's what I would do..oh and have Courtney call Peggy a cunt and have one of those hysterial sounds "bleeping" the curse as it would be prewatershed.
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Post by toby3000 on Jul 27, 2006 23:09:55 GMT
Introduce Izzy Hoyland.
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Post by Steven on Jul 28, 2006 9:06:30 GMT
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Post by Lucinda on Jul 28, 2006 21:52:59 GMT
Oh, don't! I was addicted to that family tree game for a time. I love whoever is responsible for these BBC web games, but I think my favourite is still the Neighbours game where you're Harold serving people food. I am shit at Beale or No Beale, but I did squee when Cindy popped up.
Now there was a time when Eastenders was great - when Cindy hired a hitman on Ian. Fucking fantastic. Now it's beyond help.
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Post by raspberry on Sept 4, 2006 12:23:49 GMT
I saw some Easties on Sunday, it seemed pretty good. Even Bradley's ugly father impressed me, there were some nice touches of characterisation. Bradley is growing up in a fairly realisticly way, Stacey's reaction to her pregnancy was well written and her brother is more of less what Grant Mitchell should have been, back in the day.
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Post by sultenfuss on Sept 8, 2006 14:33:51 GMT
New 'Bad Girl' for 'EastEnders' Friday, September 8 2006, 14:32 BST - by Kris Green
A new 'bad girl' is soon to be walking the streets of Walford.
Actress Linda Henry - most famous for her role as Yvonne Atkins in ITV prison drama Bad Girls between 1999 and 2003 - has landed a similar part in EastEnders.
Linda is to play Shirley, the brassy, rough, tarty and tough-as-old-boots ex of Kevin Wicks (Phil Daniels).
Shirley's son and daughter, Deano (Matt Di Angelo) and Carly (Kellie Shirley), bump into their mother while on holiday. They haven't seen her since she left a few years ago, so there's a lot of catching up to do with plenty of questions to be asked - and buckets of tears to be shed.
The estranged mother then decides to move onto the Square herself to make amends with her family.
Linda's previous roles include Birds of a Feather, The Bill, Cracker, A Touch of Frost and, ironically, last year played Shirley alongside Danny Dyer in The Business.
Of her new role, Linda said: "I'm thrilled to be joining EE. I'm both nervous and excited as I've watched it for many years."
The former Larkhall actress starts filming with EastEnders next week and looks to be on-screen in December, making her debut on the Square itself early 2007.
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Post by Geo on Sept 8, 2006 14:36:29 GMT
Oooh!
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Sept 8, 2006 15:15:28 GMT
This is the best news ever. You can't beat a rough old boot!
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Post by Michael on Sept 9, 2006 10:37:07 GMT
I hope she's Pat's nemesis. We need two old bags shouting the odds in the Vic.
Am very, very excited.
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