Magnum Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 (edited) I can't get away with Eastenders. Not watched it properly in years, and everytime I do turn it on it's full of annoying interchangeable mockney urchins who've just stepped out of Harry Brown. Either that, or bringing old slappers who can't get work anywhere else like Bianca and Kat Slater back - if you're going to dig up the past, why not spend some fucking money and get someone decent Big Dan Sullivan back? Â Can't say I found Nana Moon as emotionally affecting as everybody else, I was just glad that I'd never have to hear her "Oooooh, Alfiiiie!" catchphrase again. It'd be the same for me when somebody finally puts a pillow over Jittery Jean Slater's face. As fucking miserable as it is, I really don't think Eastenders does 'serious' storylines well - like with Big Trev and Little Mo, it was supposed to be all Nil By Mouth, but there was too much slapstick comedy with people getting hit by irons and Christmas dinners getting drowned in gravy. Edited September 3, 2013 by Magnum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Maverick Posted September 3, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted September 3, 2013 Nana Moon was heartbreaking, not just her death but when she got Alzheimers or something before it and they had Christmas during the summer or something, that and the death of Nana in the Royal Family are the most I have cried at anything in the last 10 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Nana Moon was fucking shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 The Kevin Webster trial makes for pretty grim reading. Raping a 6 year old and telling her if she talked she'd die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Maverick Posted September 3, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted September 3, 2013 Obviously if he's guilty then he's done some terrible things and is awful etc etc but you seem to have already made up your mind Loki? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Bifkin Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Eastenders definitely has less rapists. Only Wilmot-Brown springs to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members John Matrix Posted September 3, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted September 3, 2013 The Kevin Webster trial makes for pretty grim reading. Raping a 6 year old and telling her if she talked she'd die. Â Thats textbook noncery though ennit? Â What is alarming about this case though, is it isnt like a lot of these other cases doing the rounds in that it's solely against the one girl as i understand it? There was a lot of talk on here about some of the other big names getting done, about how it was an abuse of their fame and power and taking advantage of several impressionable young girls. This reads far more like your typical sex case which i find a bit more disturbing. Â I bet that impressionist on BGT a few years back is furious, that's the best bit of his act down the shitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Yeah, just sounds like straight up noncery; she must be a relative, as he (ALLEGEDLY, ok Maverick?) carried on doing it for years. Â Is he still a character on Corrie? How did they write him out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Maverick Posted September 3, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted September 3, 2013 (edited) They said he's looking after his dad who had a heart attack in Corrie. I wasn't having a go lad, was just wondering if the evidence so far makes him look really really guilty or whatever, I try not to look into these things in too much detail. Edited September 3, 2013 by Maverick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted September 3, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted September 3, 2013 Is he still a character on Corrie? How did they write him out? Â I don't know how they've explained his absence in the show, or if they even have. Someone on here (I forget who) suggested that the writers should have just said he was in the gents when the Rovers went up in flames a few months ago. Â Have they explained where Ken has gone in the show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Maverick Posted September 3, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted September 3, 2013 As I said above Kevin has been written out by saying he's looking after his dad who's had a heart attack or stroke I don't remember which and Ken has gone to Canada to look after his son who's also ill. Ill off screen family members are the answer seemingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnum Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 (edited) The advantage of Coronation Street is that characters disappear for 3-4 months at the best of times as a matter of routine. If they don't have a storyline, you just don't see them. With Ken, though, if Bill Roache goes down I think they should just go down the Nick Tilsley route and have a different actor play him. Cut to the Barlow house for a scene of Ken getting henpecked by Deirdre and Tracy, and there's Richard out of Keeping Up Appearances or someone like that. As long as Peter Barlow sells it properly, people will accept him. Edited September 3, 2013 by Magnum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted September 3, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted September 3, 2013 Oh right. Sorry how did I miss that? Â I suppose at some point they can just say they've snuffed it while they were away or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted September 3, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted September 3, 2013 Fairly easy to miss to be fair -- there was no mention of him for months, and then one throwaway exchange between Deirdre and Tracey that was never mentioned again. Â The Roy and Hayley stuff is so hard to watch, mainly because I know I'd react exactly like Roy if the same situation happened to me, acting all rationally and Googling the fuck out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members John Matrix Posted September 4, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted September 4, 2013 Mrs M made a similar comment last night, in that the whole Roy character is based on fact and logic and it's his inability to be able to explain what's happening in anyway that makes it so difficult to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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