Eastenders Episode Thread

[jessi]

I agree Pearly. Stella must have done it before, she is so good at it. I want to here more about her back ground.

[RitaLittlewood]

May is a nut who needs to see a doctor badly.

I agree with Pearly Dawn doesn't deserve a baby. But then she unfortunately (and it pains me to say this considering how much I hate her) doesn't deserve what Rob and May did either.

Rest of the Vic looked tatty in comparison. Peggy must have robbed a bank.

Stella just gets more evil by the day.

Patsy

[RitaLittlewood]

Hooray for Rob even thought the whole thing is dire.

Stella is getting weirder by the day.

Ian should join her in the loony bin!

Patsy

[jessi]

Yup, he grew a back bone at last. I hope he and Dawn get to be happy now.

[RitaLittlewood]

Oh I doubt that. May gets what May wants. Poor sods.

Patsy

[RitaLittlewood]

What happened to trashing the flat? She only did a few things. Hardly in need of a load of new furniture. May was quite good tonight. But what's Jane's idea of revenge? Oooh.

Stella the master minipulator. Father and son. Oh dear.

Patsy

[jessi]

I don't know but I can't wait to find out.

Yup. How does she do it? Stella's performance is so chilling!

[pearly queen]

ritalittlewood said:

But what's Jane's idea of revenge?



Patsy

Lethal injection?

Trashing the place is so cliched nowadays, lol! Even posh people do it!
The professional women are really taking a hammering in EE at the moment - Stella and May are both fruitloops!

Dawn is horrendous - taking someone else's husband and parading him around like a trophy is pretty bad behaviour. She will probably be punished in some horrible way like losing the baby or even worse for her it will be born ugly or she won't lose weight afterwards, boo hoo and her shallow little life will be ruined.

Yolande is being very priggish and annoying about smoking in the launderette, but I can understand why: clean washing is supposed to smell lovely and fresh and not of stale fags, so I'm surprised smoking is even allowed in there in the first place. Of course being run by Dot it goes without saying that she will smoke all day - but it's only a short walk to the street outside for a quick puff. Where I used to work was 23 floors down (yes, count them 23 floors) to have a ciggie, so she should consider herself lucky that she only has to go outside.

[RitaLittlewood]

LOL! Excellent idea. Can she use it on some others too while she's at it?

I still don't entirely trust Rob. Maybe he'll run off with the baby once it's born.

You can't expect a woman in her 70s to go in the cold. Brrrr! I don't like Yolande anyway. She's always complaining about things and it's a wonder Patrick puts up with her.

Patsy

[pearly queen]

Phil is not exactly jumping for joy at the prospect of marrying Smella is he? She will be his FOURTH wife - unbelievable that he even got one, the big lunk.

How did May know about Rob giving Dawn (as Jane) the credit card? He wasn't babymongering with her at that time, so why tell his wife about this stupid mistake? And why didn't he cancel it when he realised that 'Jane Beale' was moneygrabbing slut Dawn Swann?

Has Darren abandoned Operation Internet Saddo? Why put so much effort into winding up Tanya? Pathetic.

Lucy Beale is turning into quite a good character now, and I thought it was funny when she flounced off refusing to clean up old women's wee. I don't blame her and Peter for not wanting to move into the Fowler's old place - brrr! sends a shiver down my spine just thinking about it! Regardless of anyone's religious beliefs or thoughts on a hereafter - NOBODY would be brave enough to spend a night alone with Pauline's urn.

[RitaLittlewood]

That must have been what Jane told her about getting back at him at the end of Tuesday's.

I liked all that Beale stuff last night and Billy adding to what Abi said to spook Lucy was good. I wonder if Ian had a cosy night with his beloved aunt in the house?

Dot's just getting weirder by the day. She's never been the same since Pauline died and her hair's getting strange too.

Would you if you were Phil? I don't get what her game is at all. Is she THAT desperate for a fella?

Patsy

[pearly queen]

ritalittlewood said:

That must have been what Jane told her about getting back at him at the end of Tuesday's.



Patsy

Aha! Well spotted! Of course - Jane must have busted him to May who grassed him up.

[RitaLittlewood]

I had to think about it for a while last night. I couldn't see Rob telling May about it at all.

Patsy

[RitaLittlewood]

Nasty Stella! Fancy gluing the accounts pages and forcing Ben to own up!

May's little plan has backfired but I can't see her giving up that easily.

Dot is getting more dotty by the day!

LOL at the Beales and Billy getting the bed. I loved the DVDs Billy gave them.

Patsy

[pearly queen]

Like the way Phil reverted to type - just because he was fed up and frustrated at being railroaded into proposing to Stella: he beat some bloke up, just like the old days. He seemed a lot happier and relaxed afterwards when he stole Ian's new bed. In fact him and Stella are very well suited - both twisted bullies.

So are we getting a new yuppy family living in Ian's house? Albert Square is very middle class these days.

I felt a bit sorry for Libby, trying to attract the insensitive Darren with a bit of makeup. She could do a lot better.

I hope Rob and Dawn stay in Kent for a long time. Like forever.

[eithne]

I doubt we will see the characters living in Ian's old house. They were just mentioned to pad a few episodes out a little - though I have liked Ian/Jane and the move over the past week.

Phil, Stella and Ben are the main draw for me at the moment. This story is brilliant, and I'm loving every twist. Nice to see the bully isn't totally gone out of Phil tonight. And Stella's manipulation of Ben was great, with her getting him to confess to something he didn't do tonight. Sophie Thompson is so menacing it is brilliant. And when Phil finds out what is going on, I fear she may end up dead.

Thankfully we are getting a break from Yawn and Rob next week. As for Jane helping his crazy wife - what a hypocrite. She cheated on Ian with Grant a few months back. Short memory or what? With regard to May, I think she and Stella should be given a few scenes together - just for the fun of it. It could help us establish which of the two is crazier.

Dot's mental state is strange. This could have been quite touching I think (a story about bereavement being difficult to get over) if it had not been so badly written, and dragged out so much.

[RitaLittlewood]

Wouldn't you go and knock seven bells out of someone if faced with the prospect of Stella for the rest of your life? LOL!

I thought Libby had cut her mouth at first. Looked very strange. Darren's right though. There's something suss about Li. There always was.

Oh yes, Eithne. Psycho Stella and Mad May must do something together.

Maybe she's forgotten about Grunt and the trauma of the mud fight with Ian has been blanked from her mind.

I agree there. She's friends with Yolande yet suddenly she gets back from wherever she's been and accusing her or trying to force her out when she only helped in the first place because Dot couldn't cope with all that washing. I was surprised she left Pauling in the launderette and didn't take the urn home and cuddle it in bed! A box full of fag ash could probably have done the same trick. LOL!

Patsy

[RitaLittlewood]

A Branning Special tonight. I can see where Douglas is coming from. My dad's catholic and my mum's protestant though I never had a strict religious upbringing. People lose their faith for many reasons like I did but you can see clearer without the straitjacket of it all. The baby was a bit too convenient I thought, even though we knew it was coming. All in all I did enjoy it.

Patsy

[RitaLittlewood]

Dot is definitely barking. And now she's converted Abi in just a few hours! Poor Jim. But what a rip off that £112 bar bill was.

So that's Garry's mum huh. Looks another mad one.

Patsy

[pearly queen]

I've now caught up with both last night's and tonight's eps.

Not bad, although I never usually like those Awayday episodes, they're usually disappointing. Quite liked Dennis Pennis as the vicar drop-out.
What sort of nutter keeps a baby they find? Obviously the baby had been placed in a place of sanctuary to be dealt with by the church staff - not nicked by a Londoner on a daytrip. No wonder the girl was livid.

Dartford is a very boring suburb of south London/Kent and I doubt they would have anything as racy as a 'gentleman's club' round there, but who knows? How could Jim be so naive? I thought everyone knew these places were daylight robbery.

Bradley was great babysitting Janet - I loved his Star Trek story, or whatever it was. Maybe he's regretting pushing Stacey into terminating their baby.

Garry is such a pointless character nowadays that I don't see how they can salvage him merely by conjuring up an embaressing mother to interfere in his life and make him look even more of a dork than usual.

[RitaLittlewood]

LOL! Old age. It obviously wasn't the sort of gentleman's club he was expecting.

Why didn't Dot tell the girl the vicar had gone away? That might have helped a bit.

Patsy

[pearly queen]

Dot is losing it.
She relies absolutely and unquestioningly on Jesus to make her decisions for her and take the burden when things go wrong - that's why Dennis P. got angry with her, for hiding behind Christianity and not thinking for herself. She's shirking responsiblity in a very clever and morally superior way: she doesn't like Jim drinking or gambling - so quote a commandment or a chunk from the bible; Nick went bad - because he drifted away from the path of Jesus; find an abandoned baby in a church - stuff him up your jumper and drive off with him - it's God's will. No wonder people are leaving the church in droves when you've got all this mindwarping stuff going on.

[RitaLittlewood]

Stuff him up your jumper. LMAO! I'd have paid good money to see that.

But that sort of mindwarping thing does go on, especially in the catholic church. Some religious people take it to extremes though. Most believers are level-headed and don't use it as the emotional crutch Dot always has. It was reported June Brown was going to leave over this storyline. Wouldn't have blamed her if she did. Perhaps Dot's on the verge of a breakdown and will see the error of her ways on the other side.

Patsy

Patsy

[RitaLittlewood]

I'm with Jim. She's flipped!

Boring Hazel and Garry. Where have I seen that fiance of hers before?

Patsy

[pearly queen]

ritalittlewood said:

Perhaps Dot's on the verge of a breakdown and will see the error of her ways on the other side.

Patsy

Dot's interpretations of right and wrong/Christianity were always a bit warped in her own favour, like a few years back when she was convinced that she should help the terminally ill Ethel kill herself in a controversial euthanasia storyline. An ethical minefield for anyone, but I doubt it says in the Bible that it's OK to do in an old lady seeing as she's on her way out anyway. From a humane point of view someone might want to ease someone else's suffering but when you get into the area of 'God said it was alright...' that's a whole nuther place.

I didn't catch all of tonight's ep, owing to a discussion about wedding invitations, but I'll try and watch the recording tomorrow.

Jim seemed very self-righteous when he was complaining that all the normal people were picking up the tab for the waifs and strays, which is understandable after his bar bill at the gentleman's club!

It seems that the female characters are the baddies at the moment: Anya. May, Dawn, Li, Stella, Mo, Stacey, Shirley... gone are the macho days of Den, Phil & Grant, Johnnie Allen etc. the men are all wimps and the women are bitches!