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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Feb 15, 2005 18:42:50 GMT 1
Straight yes or no here.
This Friday the BBC are vesting a lot in the 20th anniversary of EastEnders kick starting it's revival. Or are they kidding themselves?
Has it now become too tired and should be put out to grass like Brookside, Eldorado, Crossroads and others?
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Post by Rich on Feb 15, 2005 19:43:10 GMT 1
Despite Emmerdale and a double bill of Coronation Street being on last night Eastenders was the soap I most looked forward to watching. Yes that was mainly due to what is happening in it at the moment as in the build up to Dirty Den's exit but that just proves that the producers are still capable of coming up with these exciting storylines, its just a case of them needing to be more regular.
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Feb 20, 2005 1:20:04 GMT 1
After last night I can't see how they can recover. Basically the script writers blew it in setting up future good plots. Who or what is left to make good.
The experiment with Shane Richie now seems a failure, even the impending set up with Little Mo seems dull.
Sorry but by writing out Den Watts just because Leslie Grantham was naughty they have killed the goose that laid the golden egg
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Post by Steph Cowley on Feb 20, 2005 2:04:25 GMT 1
Maybe they will bring him back again in 5 or so years lol
I don't watch Easties much now, i used too (mainly cause of Shane Richie though) but it seems alright to me.
A few of the storylines are a little dull, but i consider every other "soap" to be worse than Easties. The rest are all boring to me.
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Feb 20, 2005 23:23:43 GMT 1
I think where EE falls down is that unlike Corrie & The Dale they don't mix the humourous storylines with the dramatic ones.
Until they inject some smiles into it then it will simply fester away. Overdoing it with multiple bad boy/gangster storylines gets very silly after a while and some of the family units they have (Millers, Ferreiras, Slaters & Mitchells etc) are just not entertaining.
With the Millers in particular they should have copied their rivals with their Dingles, Baldwins or Battersbys but have missed the ball big time.
Also if they wanted dynastic families they could do worse than look at how Emmerdale brought in the Kings.
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Post by Rich on Feb 20, 2005 23:30:24 GMT 1
Just imagine that the BBC did decide to take Eastenders off the air. What would be the best ending for it?
1. Crossroads turned out to have all been some Supermarket girls dream.
2. Night And Day they brought a dead guy back from the dead as a robot
3. Brookside I believe the whole close teamed up to hang the bad guy then all left the area.
Maybe with Eastenders they should say that the whole 20 years of it was Dot Cotton writing a book and all the old characters should come back and end it with a song. Maybe "I'm For Ever Blowing Bubbles" as seen as most the characters are West Ham fans.
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Feb 20, 2005 23:42:10 GMT 1
As long as they don't have Ethel waking up to find Doctor Legg in the shower proclaiming she has had the "most incredible dream" I think they could do it many ways.
Maybe a good disaster like a plane crash which devestates the area and leads to the local council rehousing eveyone who survives and flattening the place would be a good idea.
I know Emmerdale did this sort of but only to kill off a handful of characters.
The BBC could then decide which characters have legs to run in a spin off series to flesh out their characters a bit better
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