EastEnders Realism

Throughout lots of the dialogue about how alone and stranded they were, you could hear the sounds of cars driving past. It was quite well masked by the wind effects, but not well enough!!

Weren't they supposed to be going to Edinburgh for a party though? They just decided to take the mud track route rather than the motorway.

Heavens to Betsy Katherine, they weren't climbing Everest. A motorway service station would have done nicely.

They wasted the opportunity to kill off some of those terrible young characters IMO. Spencer can't act, and that Zoe and Kelly "lesbian snog" was just a ratings ploy! Call that a snog?!

And where, exactly, does Gus live?

And to be fair on the mobile phone point, they nearly all had working phones, it's just that they had got themselves out of coverage range by taking the "scenic" route.

That's what I was thinking....and interestingly, various newspapers etc. printed in the descriptions of the programme that they were stranded in the Scottish Highlands ....geography's not their strongpoint then. If they were going to Edinburgh from London there's no way they would have ended up on that stupid little road!

Re: Dirty Den . . .

EE producers should have him back behind the bar of the Vic as landlord, and get rid of the Mitchells!

Well that is the plan isn't it? Isn't he attempting to buy it back just now?

No way - leave him where he is. Otherwise they might as well re-run the 80's stuff.

Also, anyone else thing the tune needs updating! I like the version they've been using for spin-offs and the Revealed programmes!

Last time they changed the EE theme tune, back in 1993 IIRC, thanks mostly to public demand, it was
changed back to a slightly tweaked version of the original theme about six months later. That version
is still used to this day. IMHO, there's no need to change it again. If Corrie can stick with the same
theme for over 40 years, I think a comparatively young upstart like EE should also stay the same.

What gets me every time about EE is the unrealistic grip the writers have on the finances of ordinary people.

On the one hand you get manual labourers, who must be living on the absolute breadline, spending what must be nearly an hour's wages on a bottle of premium beer in the Vic at lunchtime, taking a few sips then leaving the rest of it. And they all go to the cafe for a cup of tea when every character has a kitchen within a 100 yard radius.

Then on the other hand you have the flash geezers like Steve Owen who obviously have a few quid to splash out on sports cars and designer apartments, but can't seem to scrape together 200 quid to buy a washing machine, hence the fact they use the launderette. Is there really anywhere in Britain where an entire community uses a launderette?

It may be fiction but I think they're asking us to part our belief curtains a little too far.

Ewww I read that as "beef curtains". Sorry!