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Post by Robbing the Dead on Dec 1, 2007 18:21:31 GMT
You'd think it'd be quite easy to get a good club look, but it would seem it isn't. I think the problem with EastEnders is that everyone goes to the nightclub, so the crowd just looks wrong, i.e. far too old. Before the makeover it looked much better. Also I think it's too clean looking. Most clubs, even good ones are a bit grotty.
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Post by Mike on Dec 2, 2007 16:55:15 GMT
Better then Neighbours club scenes though. Four people, some dry ice, and two characters having a shrill but hushed conversation about 'narcotics'. I'll see your Neighbours club and raise you Brookside's legendary La Luz. Barely audible music, a clientele covering everyone in the show from the high school kids to the pensioners, super-flexible opening times (usually about three in the afternoon), dancing that bore no resemblance to the music or indeed any concept of 'dancing' known to man...
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Post by Cherubic on Dec 2, 2007 17:10:20 GMT
Growing up I often wondered why the parade of shops near my yellow brick eighties newbuild estate didn't have a nightclub.
Phil Redmond has given me so many false expectations over the years.
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Post by pauliepoos on Dec 3, 2007 20:08:28 GMT
Big.
Arms.
Vest.
NotDSPhilHunter.
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Post by Muinimula on Dec 3, 2007 20:16:36 GMT
Big. Arms. Vest. NotDSPhilHunter. It was rather a highlight of the episode, wasn't it?
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Post by jamiek on Dec 3, 2007 20:22:25 GMT
It was V hot but I fancy any guy who has a slightly monkeyish face: see Will Young and Scott Cameron (you'll only know who that is if you live round my bit.) Tonights episode really made me think...when making a Battenburg, how do you get the chequered effect and how difficult would it be to achieve? I imagine making two individual sponges, halving them and sticking them together with some kind of jam or marzipan. I'm going to my second favourite website, www.cooks.com for answers and making one tomorrow night. Or maybe I should pray to George Michael like Heather did and the answer will come clear. I bet Dot's recipe had shitloads of Vanilla Essence in it. Did anyone else love Shirley's 'She eats faster than she can cook' comment? Give her a year and she'll be top dog, buying everyone guitars, threatning Fenner, running a sex line....oh no wait.
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Post by joshjones on Dec 6, 2007 20:04:56 GMT
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Post by Muinimula on Dec 6, 2007 20:16:11 GMT
I don't blame you. She's probably the second most inconsequential character in the show, after Gus.
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Post by cathybradford on Dec 6, 2007 21:17:59 GMT
Awww I really like Preeti despite the fact she's given next to nothing to do.
She's sweet and awkward and unworldly without being some naive Little Mo-esque halfwit and naturally Eastenders who think the only young girls worth giving any of their time are hard-faced, loudmouthed, cocky know-it-alls have no idea what to do with her.
She neither hateful enough or downtrodden enough for your typical Albert Square babe and therefore not considered worthy of a storyline which is a bit of a shame.
She's also so very very pretty (no pun intended).
The beeb should let her do Strictly Come Dancing next year to apologise for wasting her time for a year and a half.
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Post by raspberry on Dec 6, 2007 21:34:00 GMT
Awww I really like Preeti despite the fact she's given next to nothing to do. She's also so very very pretty (no pun intended). I have feeling that pun was very much intended given that she worked in a beauty salon too.
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Post by cathybradford on Dec 6, 2007 22:05:00 GMT
Awww I really like Preeti despite the fact she's given next to nothing to do. She's also so very very pretty (no pun intended). I have feeling that pun was very much intended given that she worked in a beauty salon too. Possibly. Thing is she could have been called Munta and it wouldn't change the fact. She isn't particularly sexy and you wouldn't class her as 'beautiful' per say but she is exceptionally pretty and probably the prettiest girl in the show. Though I think my Preeti appreciation comes from the fact she has by far the best wardrobe on the square (when she wasn't wearing her white smock or whatever you call it, though she accessorised like a trooper) and should demand to take it with her. She dressed like a Doctor Who companion and was never afraid to work the side ponytail which for that reason alone makes her too good for Walford.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Dec 8, 2007 20:13:05 GMT
Oh I thought Preeti was the one that works in the post office and looks like Cheryl Tweedy at first. Preeti is shit and can fuck off.
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Post by joshjones on Dec 8, 2007 21:14:13 GMT
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Post by SweatShop on Dec 9, 2007 3:53:02 GMT
Not copying Sean Tully? Well, thank fuck for that then.
"Eastenders introduce gay character that is not like gay character from other soap. Because gays don't aren't actually all exactly the same innit."
This one is apparentely much fitter than Antony Cotton for a start.
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Post by Muinimula on Dec 9, 2007 10:45:06 GMT
Xmas/New Year-related spoiler: It's been confirmed that New Year's Eve will be "marred" by Kevin Wicks' death. He's going to be in a car crash, and end up impaled on some wreckage, before the car goes up in flames. Charming.
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Post by mcqueen on Dec 9, 2007 14:53:05 GMT
Re Preeti- why do the producers of Eastenders always have to "announce" when they are writing out a character? It seems really unprofessional to sort of embarress the actors with lines like "failed to connect with the audience" or whatever when they should be saying "we created a character on a whim and then realised we could be bothered to develope them cause we wanted to have some more cokerny gangsters and mouthy fishwives that the chavs love so much"
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Dec 10, 2007 18:13:11 GMT
So Steven's been standing in The Arches all weekend with some petrol, matches and Stacey Slater, but the main point of interest is - where did he get his lovely jacket from? I wants it.
Also, I really like Preeti from the one or two scenes I've seen her in. Why get rid of her when Gary, Minty, Mickey and a whole host of other real dead wood is drifting about the square and sullying the hard work of Big Evva, Stacey's Mum, Steven Beale and the other good characters?
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Post by pauliepoos on Dec 13, 2007 21:43:25 GMT
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Post by ironical on Dec 13, 2007 23:39:21 GMT
I wish I had hair like Stephen.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Dec 14, 2007 0:42:53 GMT
You may have found me my Christmas avatar! Although he doesn't look right, smiling. Steven Beale is in an angry young man band called Bitter Conflict: www.myspace.com/bitterconflictband*turns up at gig with marriage papers and big knife*
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Post by schmindie on Dec 14, 2007 10:23:58 GMT
You may have found me my Christmas avatar! Although he doesn't look right, smiling. Steven Beale is in an angry young man band called Bitter Conflict: www.myspace.com/bitterconflictband*turns up at gig with marriage papers and big knife* A pic from their Bebo...
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Post by joshjones on Dec 14, 2007 11:32:19 GMT
The face on that shirt is somewhat frightening. It seems to stare at you through the screen...now I know why I never watched Baywatch. I do like Steven though.
I know this is something which has been going on for almost 20 years, but can I ask why EE needs Phil? I don't buy him as a "hardman". I think the character's attempts to be tough are a joke, or would be if the show did not take them so seriously. I know I should be happy they have stopped forcing beautiful and much more deserving women to bed down with him to prove how irresistible he is, but I think he is well past his prime as any kind of tough figure. EE braved the potential PR disaster by firing Wendy Richard, and overall that was the right decision. Can't they do the same with Steve McFadden? Or am I being unfair?
Speaking of Wendy, I know this is old, but I just saw it.
Bizarre. I think Gram Parsons used to wear that when he was in the Flying Burrito Brothers.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Dec 14, 2007 15:14:17 GMT
I find wearing a t-shirt with David Hasselhoff's face on it far more offensive than stalking your dad or shooting your stepmum in the ovaries.
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Post by cathybradford on Dec 14, 2007 22:34:27 GMT
I know this is something which has been going on for almost 20 years, but can I ask why EE needs Phil? I don't buy him as a "hardman". I think the character's attempts to be tough are a joke, or would be if the show did not take them so seriously. I know I should be happy they have stopped forcing beautiful and much more deserving women to bed down with him to prove how irresistible he is, but I think he is well past his prime as any kind of tough figure. EE braved the potential PR disaster by firing Wendy Richard, and overall that was the right decision. Can't they do the same with Steve McFadden? Or am I being unfair? Not at all. And regardless of whether he's convincing as a 'hardman' or not (though I'm not sure when exactly he become some well known and feared figure in Walfords underworld, all he ever did was run a garage and spend two weeks as a heavy for Annie Palmer) I really don't understand how the writers/producers can still expect us to root for and sympathize with him as a character after everything he's done. Any other soap he would have got his proper comeuppance years ago. I mean he's no different to Charlie Stubbs a character who Corrie made very clear was a bad man where Eastenders still expect to think Phil who when he's not bullying the local drudge he's decided to hook up with to look after his kids or accidentally got pregnant is a likable character who deserves our support. And it seems he's gonna be to blame (and no doubt get off scott free) for Kevin Wicks death.
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Post by Mike on Dec 15, 2007 1:02:41 GMT
Any other soap he would have got his proper comeuppance years ago. I mean he's no different to Charlie Stubbs a character who Corrie made very clear was a bad man where Eastenders still expect to think Phil who when he's not bullying the local drudge he's decided to hook up with to look after his kids or accidentally got pregnant is a likable character who deserves our support. Agree with all of the above, but my biggest problem is the fact that they ran out of ideas for him at least 10 years ago. With Wendy Richard, they realised the character was going nowhere and acted accordingly. They should do the same here. I barely watch it these days anyway, to be honest.
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