eastenders - bizarre and shit

[Iguana]

And there was this great "out-take" from Neighbours when the original Libby returned after a different actor played her for a few months.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid20170988001?bctid=22856795001

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

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.

Yeah, that's a good one. And what's happened to Due South? They started repeating it on BBC2 in the afternoons and suddenly stopped?

Doesn't matter anyway as I have the whole series on DVD

 

[ymu]

It was a running gag in Roseanne for a while too. The original actor who played Becky was replaced and then came back and then alternated the role with the second actor for a while.

 

[1927]

Is it just me or is the new Ben acting the part like it was The Krays?

 

[METH LAB]

I usually like eastenders regardless of whatever shit plot is running but this lately has got me depressed aswell.. f*ckin rubbish the writers need a slap. And shane f*ckin richie cant act miserable he's no good at it, watching those idiots (especially him) pretending like they have lost a baby makes me quite upset and mad and its just gloomy tv all round thats making me hate the writers... and the actors to a lesser extent for aggreing to do it.

really bizzare, really shite

peace

 

[Wookey]

I watched EE over Christmas for the first time in many months, and it was badly scripted, badly plotted, poorly acted and badly directed. I am rather surprised no-one mentions it.

 

[madzone]

I usually like eastenders regardless of whatever shit plot is running but this lately has got me depressed aswell.. f*ckin rubbish the writers need a slap. And shane f*ckin richie cant act miserable he's no good at it, watching those idiots (especially him) pretending like they have lost a baby makes me quite upset and mad and its just gloomy tv all round thats making me hate the writers... and the actors to a lesser extent for aggreing to do it.

really bizzare, really shite

peace

Shane Ritchie's version of acting grief is to just stop moving his mouth

 

[kyser_soze]

Complaining about the lack of realism in EastEnders is like moaning that Monster Munch crisps don't taste of monsters

I'm not entirely certain I can pinpoint the moment I first realised EastEnders isn't a documentary...Or when Janine got so agoraphobic she sat indoors eating dog food. Or when Janine ran over Danielle in a car. Or when Janine framed Stacey by stabbing herself on Christmas Day. Or when Janine slept with Ian Beale and then blackmailed him by threatening to tell his third wife, Laura. Or when Janine slept with Ian Beale and then blackmailed him by threatening to tell his fourth wife, Jane. Or when, while Googling a list of Janine's crimes, I realised Beale had managed to convince four whole women to marry him.

 

[1927]

I usually like eastenders regardless of whatever shit plot is running but this lately has got me depressed aswell.. f*ckin rubbish the writers need a slap. And shane f*ckin richie cant act miserable he's no good at it, watching those idiots (especially him) pretending like they have lost a baby makes me quite upset and mad and its just gloomy tv all round thats making me hate the writers... and the actors to a lesser extent for aggreing to do it.

really bizzare, really shite

peace

Mrs27 is an EE addict,but even she hasn;t been as keen to watch recently and says that the current storyline is getting her down and depresssing her.I wonder how many people will be turning off never to return? Its things like this that kill soaps.

 

[_angel_]

Wow! That was total shite wasn't it? I know they've re filmed to try and get this storyline over with - couldn't you just tell. That long scene with those two girls (one a minor character and one we've never seen before) was such an obvious shoe-in.. was it even scripted? It looked like they had been left to come up with some improvisation. They don't often film such long scenes with minor characters in it (esp when the scene was so dull and pointless as well). Even the acting looked like a read-thru/ rehearsal and was quite flat, without any of the usual production (camera cutting away, etc).
I actually felt sorry for the actors in it, esp Sam Womack.

 

[Hellsbells]

do you think that's it though? i mean, if that happened to me, I'd just assume Ronnie had gone totally loopy and given her baby up out of guilt b'cos hers is alive and Kat and Alfie's isn't. Would it really even cross your mind that she'd have swapped the babys round?

 

[zoooo]

I'm confused as to whether that was the rewrite, or whether that had always been planned to happen (and Kat will just think she's gone loopy as said above and will give the baby straight back, etc) as I'm sure they said the rewritten new ending would be happening in March.
But as _angel_ says, that long scene with the two girls was very weird and did seem shoehorned in.
Verrrrrry confusing!

I guess we'll find out on Thursday.

 

[_angel_]

I'm pretty sure that long scene with the two girls (that came flying out of nowhere) was quickly improvised to fill a gap. Not even EastEnders is that bad usually with the writing and production.

 

[magneze]

I've given up on it. I'd like to be entertained, not depressed.

 

[pk]

miserable misery that needs fucking off

 

[pk]

Its things like this that kill soaps.

good. hope it does.

 

[zenie]

I thought the Jodie and Poppy scene was quite funny, I used to know girls like that I quite like Shane Ritchie's acting guess I'm alone in this though.

TBh although the storyline is fuckin dark, I'm still addicted

 

[Pip]

do you think that's it though? i mean, if that happened to me, I'd just assume Ronnie had gone totally loopy and given her baby up out of guilt b'cos hers is alive and Kat and Alfie's isn't. Would it really even cross your mind that she'd have swapped the babys round?

A couple of things have implied that Kat's got a sixth sense about the whole thing

It was well weird. They filmed it quickly though huh? Doesn't this mess up the stories for the next six weeks? Are we going to be treated to shit sub-Mike Leigh improv for the next couple of months?

 

[Santino]

Maybe it'll be like the last weeks of Brookside when they only had one camera and every episode was just long scenes of dialogue with no camera movement.

 

[madzone]

I lol'd at Jodie and Poppy. It wasn't shakespere but it was nice to have a bit of light relief. They reminded me of my old next door neighbour.

 

[Pip]

I'm not convinced. Too self aware, like when EE try and do gangsters or blitz spirit.

 

[madzone]

I'm not convinced. Too self aware, like when EE try and do gangsters or blitz spirit.

Yeah but it was ok for a shoe-in.

 

[Pip]

It could have been worse, I'll give them that.

 

[Hellsbells]

i also liked the Jodie and Poppy bit. Maybe that means i'm shallow and have no sense of what's good etc, but i don't care. It made me laugh. They're better actors than that Shane Ritchie, who just makes me cringe every time he comes on screen.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if Eastenders was in anyway realistic it would be about web designers wearing barbours frequenting a stripped brick wall interior gastro pub. And the subplots would revolve around totally unrelated characters stabbing each other in sink estates.

 

[Pigeon]

There was a shot of a plate of bacon and beans for about 30 seconds last nigght, to say nothing of several "scenes" essentially consisting of actors walking from A to B, with no dialogue whatsoever...

 

[Pip]

Iplayering now. This is so bad

 

[Hellsbells]

what happened in last nights ep? Does everyone know about the baby swap now?

 

[pk]

BBC - pissing on the grief of bereaved parents for its cheap nasty soap

 

[stuff_it]

I love this thread, it saves me ever having to do anything as odious as actually watch EE.