eastenders - bizarre and shit

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I shall use my being about 6 as an excuse!

(I think so anyway. When was he in the show?)

Was in it almost as soon as it started I think

 

[AverageJoe]

Sam Womack has resigned from Eastenders.

 

[madzone]

I just heard on the radio that she tried to resign as soon as she read the scripts but that they persuaded her to stay and film them.

 

[Redeyes]

Sam Womack has resigned from Eastenders.

Handed her notice in last November after first reading the script apparently.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

oh no. First Stacey, now Ronnie

Suppose they'll have her slink off in shame after revealing the truth

 

[Hellsbells]

Stacey was a good character (at times) and ace actress though. Whereas Ronnie is just crap.

 

[zenie]

Nooo I love Ronnie in all her totally fucked up glory, poor cow doesn't seem to have had much happiness in her life does she?

The baby storyline is a bonkers and depressing though

 

[keithy]

I hate how it is so gratuitous and sad but yet lacking in any drama or interest. I really didn't like the nye episode, I was sat on wtfftw's sofa going "but I just don't understand why they have to show all this, they got the point across when she looked intot he cot". Just horrible. And kind of offensive in a way that I'm doing a bad job of explaining.

 

[skyscraper101]

Bring back Mary the punk. These storylines are whack.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Stacey was a good character (at times) and ace actress though. Whereas Ronnie is just crap.

It doesn't matter, I'd still like her to be happy before she leaves

 

[5t3IIa]

6k complaints. Is on 1 o'clock news on Radio 4

 

[kyser_soze]

sue and ali
can't remember a debbie

'What's happened to little Ali, Soo! What's happened!!!!'

Lulz from the Mash...

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...berg-steps-down-from-eastenders-201101053398/

People complaining about fiction on telly. Fuck me. If you don't like it, turn the channel over. But no. You have to keep on watching, just to get more and more outraged at how insensitive it is, at how it's sensationallised tragedy but you keep on watching.

Bring back Mary the punk. These storylines are whack.

Yeah, I remember Mary's Xmas episode when her kid died and she was all smacked out in that grotty damp basement she was living in. That's proper festive cheer.

Loads of people complained about that too.

How about the storyline where Angie faked having cancer? And Den found out and dumped the divorce on her on Xmas day? How tasteless was that?

 

[dylans]

6k complaints. Is on 1 o'clock news on Radio 4

Complaining about a soap story is pretty stupid . However I am no longer going to watch it, not because it's "offensive" or because I object to the storyline but because it is totally depressing crap that is no longer entertaining in the slightest. I have no interest in spending 30 minutes of my time watching dead babies and their grieving parents.

 

[_angel_]

It's a bit sad EastEnders thought 'only' losing a baby wouldn't be enough of a storyline on it's own, that it wouldn't pack enough punch with the audience, they had to have baby-snatching in it as well, all practically in the same take. I think that insults the audience quite a bit. Don't blame Samantha Womack for quitting if that's the reason she did it.

 

[Clair De Lune]

It's a bit sad EastEnders thought 'only' losing a baby wouldn't be enough of a storyline on it's own, that it wouldn't pack enough punch with the audience, they had to have baby-snatching in it as well, all practically in the same take. I think that insults the audience quite a bit. Don't blame Samantha Womack for quitting if that's the reason she did it.

Yeah I thought that.
I found the most disturbing bit was when she was wandering around the square clutching the dead baby. That gave me shivers.

 

[Santino]

If you've spent 10 or 20 years enjoying a product, and then that product changes in such a way that you think you can no longer enjoy it, it is reasonable to let the makers of that product know why, on the basis that they can only make it if people continue to enjoy it.

 

[keithy]

Yeah for me it was all the fucking needless stuff with her wandering around and where you realise, ffs, she is now stuck with a baby she won't be able to bond with and can't even grieve for her baby. I dunno. Just didn't like it. It wasn't the content it was the way it was so gratuitous. Also it's one of those frustrating storylines, isn't it.

 

[Orang Utan]

they're shortening the storyline in response to complaints:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/06/eastenders-complaints-cot-death?CMP=twt_fd

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

they're shortening the storyline in response to complaints:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/06/eastenders-complaints-cot-death?CMP=twt_fd

and Samantha Womack is denying the storyline is her reason for leaving (so I heard on the news)

 

[Orang Utan]

who's she?

 

[Orang Utan]

oh, i thought she had a different name.

 

[strung out]

the amazing thing is not ronnie's baby swap, but that no-one's noticed the fact that ben was swapped while he was in jail

 

[Santino]

oh, i thought she had a different name.

Samantha J. Anus?

 

[strung out]

her dad's called hugh, ya know

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

oh, i thought she had a different name.

Oh yeah, Samantha Janus. Sorry

eta: Womack's her married name

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

the amazing thing is not ronnie's baby swap, but that no-one's noticed the fact that ben was swapped while he was in jail

Everyone's noticed, same as they noticed when Sam Mitchell was replaced, then came back

 

[Santino]

If someone did come back from a long time away and looked totally different, but everyone else seemed not to notice, I reckon I would just go along with it.

 

[Orang Utan]

why would you expect people to comment on changed appearances? the actor has changed, not the character

 

[Iguana]

If someone did come back from a long time away and looked totally different, but everyone else seemed not to notice, I reckon I would just go along with it.

They had great fun with that on Due South when David Marciano, Ray, left the show between season 2 and 3. Fraser went on holidays and came back to find Callum Keith Rennie in his place insisting he was Ray. There is a whole episode where Fraser is trying to find out why everyone is insisting that this blatantly different man is his friend. Then he pretends to go along with it so he can sneakily find proof that he is in fact a different person. It was the funniest cast change ever.

 

[Santino]

They had great fun with that on Due South when David Marciano, Ray, left the show between season 2 and 3. Fraser went on holidays and came back to find Callum Keith Rennie in his place insisting he was Ray. There is a whole episode where Fraser is trying to find out why everyone is insisting that this blatantly different man is his friend. Then he pretends to go along with it so he can sneakily find proof that he is in fact a different person. It was the funniest cast change ever.

That whole plot bemused me.