how this escaped my thoughts earlier on i'll never know, but did any of you closet benders fans watch it last night?
pardon me if i'm offending anyone, but did anyone else cringe the whole way through the 20 min tube scene?? not only was billy seen to be an oik who no one would dare talk to, but they name places, slag off parts of the area, and it was so fake it was unreal. I didn't think it could get any worse, when they brought up the 9/11 atrocities. now, i'm not trying to be unsympathetic, but it strikes me, that there was some ulterior motive to this being mentioned. perhaps trying to educate the uneducated population that watch eastenders and believe stuff like that really happens, and remind them of what an awful day it really was, but i really can't help thinking it wasn't done in the best of taste, and i couldn't wait for it to end.
for those that didn't see it, billy mitchell has found out his daughter has downs syndrome and he's finding it hard to take in. he gets on a tube to travel home to see his wife and the tube gets stuck in the tunnel. (the tube driver announcement was all too legible to be a real tube, and he was to polite, but that isn't even the point) then billy starts irritating the carriage, but looking at the map, getting agitated, etc etc, and a fella opposite him asks him to calm down. anyway this goes on for a while till people start moving, and billy gets more wound up, then they start speaking softly to each other, billy ends up losing it and the bloke loses it and says he should be more thoughtfull as its the 5th anniversary of 9/11. then billy feels guilty and breaks down telling this stranger of his problems. then the stranger tells some deep hurt story as well and then the tube starts moving as the signal is now green and they both go on about their journeys.
utter pish.
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managed to break out of the trance when the older guy asks if he has had a bad day.cherry for everyone involved.
Ooops.
The worst / greatest was when they went on a trip to Ireland, cue thick paddies, and awful accents. Hilarious.
Life can be depressing enough without Eastenders to add to your feeling of woe!
Thanks Suzi, I can delete that episode from Sky+ now..... Half an hour saved.
;-)
I cannot believe that "Charlie the nurse from Casualty" was exactly the same (and thus just as rubbish) 25 years ago - his whole repertoire consists of an awkward walk, a puzzled looking face and slight eyebrow movement. Pants!
i ddid think what a crap actor when i was watching him.
yes!
I suppose after reading what Suzi had watched we thought about what we had watched ... in which case slightly less spooksville ....
same goes for:
cat deeley and her wonky mouth
richard keys and his small mouth
and alan shearer when appearing on soccer sunday in his light grey teflon suit that is farrrrr too tight for him to sit with his legs apart....
Scene at the end with real relatives of people who have been lost to knife crime.
Bit of a Would Ya as well
Edit: Apparently she is Norweigan(so not eastern european after all)
But still would ya
oh and paulie, hardly a would ya more like a who wouldn't.
Why does the square got have an artisan bakery and a hipster cafe?!
Not watched it properly for about 15 years, but I presume it's still the only district in London that doesn't have a curry house, a Chinese takeaway or a kebab shop.
Ridiculous.
They have a chicken shop
Also last time i watched it (a good few years ago) there was never anything like a barbers or charity shop. Pretty unrealistic.
Watched it for about 10 years and i still wasn't sure what he actually sold.
Idea for a new storyline in Eastenders - Phil Mitchell and Ian Beale join forces with a plot to firebomb the local planning department after becoming frustrated at its outdated and bureaucratic methods, which used stifled local development and lead to the area falling significantly behind other parts of London in terms of regeneration.
I’m sure Winston had a second hand record stall that seemed to only sell reggae. As only a bloke called Winston could apparently. Then it all went a bit wrong when he started to get a bit too over familiar with the female extras.