Jesus give me strength........What drives you mad about Albert Square..?

[turienzo's lovechild]

none of them seem to have jobs that involve them leaving an extremely small area.....they're really not taking advantage of their quite frankly SUPERB public transport links


oh- and they do all actually HAVE washing machines- why on earth do they use a launderette?

i just can't see how any of them survive financially

 

[Napper]

People that moan about it but secretly watch it.

I'd suggest anyone thats bothered to post on here is a closet bender

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

it's not as bad as emmerdale

a village with a population of about 20 in the middle of nowhere with a pub that is CONSTANTLY full

 

[Harley S]

" The fact that my licence fee pays for such shite? "


Very true !

 

[Durlston]

I find the whole programme just puts a downer on the evening.
I'm invariably on the laptop in the front room when the missus is watching it, and the constant SCREAMING arguments on that show actually invades and intrudes on the peace of my evening. It almost feels as though there is an actual argument kicking off in my living room, even though its only on the tellybox.

That miserable show actually EXUDES its own negative vibe into my house, and presumably into homes up and down the country. I'm getting quite pissed off just thinking about it now. It just puts a downer on everything.

I couldn't agree with you more.

It really is the most depressing shit available to see on TV.I gave up watching it regularly years ago.

What i find so irritating about that programme is it seems compulsory for at least one character to be suffering from alcoholism,drug addiction,bipolar disorder,schizophrenia or domestic abuse at any one time.Within a few weeks eveything is hunky-f***ing-dory again.Well real life isn't like that one f***ing bit is it? The Whitney storyline sounds obscene after what she went through.

Sorry for going off on one but the producers of Eastenders really are cocks.At least Corrie has good humour and more in touch with reality.

 

[vegster]

I couldn't agree with you more.

It really is the most depressing shit available to see on TV.I gave up watching it regularly years ago.

What i find so irritating about that programme is it seems compulsory for at least one character to be suffering from alcoholism,drug addiction,bipolar disorder,schizophrenia or domestic abuse at any one time.Within a few weeks eveything is hunky-f***ing-dory again.Well real life isn't like that one f***ing bit is it? The Whitney storyline sounds obscene after what she went through.

Sorry for going off on one but the producers of Eastenders really are cocks.At least Corrie has good humour and more in touch with reality.

Steve McFadden must dread monday mornings and getting his first look at the scripts..... " Oh great ! I'm an alcoholic again this week ! "

 

[csider]

it is depressing dross, very rarelywatch it, if at all.

 

[murraymints4brighton]

it's not as bad as emmerdale

a village with a population of about 20 in the middle of nowhere with a pub that is CONSTANTLY full

I have to agree Emerdale is even worse. Every time I happen to tune in, which is once every 2 years in fact even more, someone dies. Now with a village that has a population of 20, regularly fills a pub with 40 people and then has everyone dieing all the time Something doesn't quite add up.

 

[shwoody1]

Steve McFadden must dread monday mornings and getting his first look at the scripts..... " Oh great ! I'm an alcoholic again this week ! "

or oh great im a travel agent again. he hands out more plane tickets than thomas cook!

 

[The Grockle]

I'll tell you what else pisses me off is the script writers' constant berating of the larger than life Heather Trott. It seems that every possible opportunity to make a joke of her weight is taken up and I'm left wondering if the actress who plays her is under strict instruction to eat like a pig so as not to spoil the torrent of abuse directed her way.

The recent "who got Heather preggers" storyline emphasises this with all the snide jibes about how unlikely it had seemed that the fat heffer would ever get laid. They never miss a trick when it comes to making light of her big fat belly and surely it can't be good for the real life actress' confidence.

Yes she's fat and ugly, but so are MILLIONS of people in this country so she is a fair representative of a particular section of the British public and it isn't as if every one of them is failing to reproduce because let me tell you some of these fat lazy chunkers are dropping sprogs like there's no tomorrow so somebody's got to be shagging them all.

Clearly I don't fancy her but I do feel a bit sorry for her. There're always comedy characters in 'enders who become the butt of everyone's jokes (Barry springs to mind for one) but constantly picking on her weight seems a bit harsh to me. After all you wouldn't get away with that sort of behaviour at work without getting reported to HR for bullying.

I wonder if the government has some vested interest in her character, demanding that as much misery is dumped on her as possible for being a fatty so as to try and dissuade our ever growing population to cut down the calories a little, thereby reducing the strain on the NHS.

I thought it was just me who felt this was a little shitty! It's constant food this, food that I think i'm right in saying her previous job befroe moving to 'the square' was in a shop where she was fired for stealing/eating whole blocks of cheese! I mean what the f***, it's f***ing bad.

Even the actors are at it, I caught some after show/behind the scenes program and the actor who plays Ricky passed Heather a massive tray of mince pies with a HUGE smile on his face. I wouldn't be surprised if the poor actress is found hanging from a tree one day, her face covered in doughnut sugar clutching a copy of Kerry Katona's keep fit video.

Hang your head in shame the BBC.

 

[The Mole]

I like Albert Square...

The Christmas Markets were excellent and Manchester Town Hall is a particularly fine building

 

[Bluejuice]

I'll tell you what else never fails to wind me up, and that's the failure of every single character to EVER hold a conversation in private behind closed doors. Despite the myriad of drastically terrible events which have come about owing to leaked or overheard conversations STILL nobody thinks to keep their voices down, wait til they're alone or simply close the door behind them before revealing some mightily dark and potentially catastrophic secret.

And if they aren't being brazenly overt about their terrible secrets then somebody's managed to sneak a video camera or digital recording device in to capture everything anyway.

 

[John Bumlick]

Noone has there own washing machien

what's your dog got to do with anything?

 

[clapham_gull]

Particularly the "my marriage is over" metaphor of scrapping a meal off a plate into a peddle bin.

I never seen anyone do that in real life, let alone another television programme.

The other thing that annoys be about it is the very unrealistic "a pint of non descript please Peggy" cans of beer.

Surely a graphic designer could come up with a few that don't look as bad as SKONE or whatever it is that they drink.

Even the supermarkets come up with them, M&S having a premium lager that looks a little bit like Stella.

The most realistic bit of it is the Tube station which looks exactly like a Tube Station.

Only thing is, very few of the residents could afford to live there on the basis it is so near to it.

 

[clapham_gull]

Agreed. It really is absolute dross. I'd say Coronation Street has been MILES better than Eastenders for well over a decade now. Sharper scripts with better, more believable and relevant plots.

If there is any justice, Eastenders will go the way of Crossroads and El Dorado in the next few years.

Coronation Street has always been better than Eastenders.

The casting is second to none and the scripts are in a different league.

Coronation can also do something that Eastenders has never quite managed, comedy.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Things that always happen in EastEndera:

Everyone does their shopping in the local Kwik-E-Mart (don't know it's proper name)

They all buy clothes from shitty market stalls unless they are a character whom the
writers are trying to convince you is from a higher class

They do all their washing at the launderette.

They also hold every social function, ever, at the Vic, which always, but always end in either a massive fight ("You!!! Aaaaat! Naaaaaaa!"), or in Peggy annaaaancing that "Drinks are on the 'aaaaaaase".

Someone always dies at Christmas, at which time snow always falls on the Square.

 

[Silent Bob]

I think Walford is actually pergatory, none of the characters know they're dead though. If I was put in charge of Eastenders for some reason that would be the way I'd go with it anyway.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

. Coppers. Every time there is a murder or some sort of investigation the writers without hesitation employ the most shocking and unbelievable actors and actresses to play the police. Half of them who are meant to be INVESTIGATING don't actually investigate as they are all mute.

Oi !!

One of those coppers (D.S. Bernard) is a regular poster on NSC.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

It's still a fact, LB, that the way the police operate in EE is total fantasy. The writers seem to think the criminal justice system of 2010 works like something out of Life On Mars. I cringe whenever the police are involved in EE.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

He should never have left the fire brigade.