How much do I hate Shirley? How much? How entitled was she tonight? Dictating to Phil, laying down the rules of behaviour as if she were the wronged party in this situation. Shirley is and always has been about entitlement. And Phil is as scummy as she is and more stupid. Is his ego so bruised and fragile that he'll believe a wizened Queen of Scrotes, a jealous old harridan over the behaviour and actions of a woman he's known for 25 years?
Shirley's never stolen from Phil? She's never blackmailed him?
The joke about all of this is Phil, himself. Phil is, as Tina the Court Jester described him earlier this week, a red-faced, bald alkie. I normally give short shrift to Tina, but I'm bang on about her puking in her mouth at the thought of either Phil and Shirley or Phil and Sharon in bed. Phil may be good in the bedroom stakes, but he totally lacks charm. And his latest bout with terminal stupefication is totally unbelieveable. Phil found out that Sharon was stealing from him, but admitted that he still loved her. All it took was Shirley Queen of Scrotes to tell him that Sharon hated him, and he believed her.
Really, Shirley? It never bothered Phil to ask the old crone how she knew that Sharon hated him. Had she heard her say so? If so, when? What proof did she have? Anyone else, and Phil Mitchell would want to know. He's not that gullible. Thing is, Sharon does have proof that Shirley knew that Phil had planned the attack on The Albert. Shirley's motives are motivated by jealousy and obsession with Phil, and Phil's been bested by a woman he's loved for two decades and whom he threw, on one occasion, under the proverbial bus.
It dawned on me tonight that Shirley was fighting for the faux Mitchell brigade - upping the ante in pushing Jay as "more of a son to Phil" than Ben. Neither is anything really to brag about, but let's remind ourselves that two weeks before Jay "became" a Mitchell, he was taunting a pathetic Phil who was coming off a binge on crack cocaine. The week before that, when Billy offered him the chance to "become" a Mitchell - and Billy's de facto son, he refused, but shortly afterward, a recovered and revived Phil offered him a pair of boxing gloves and suggested that Jay change his name by deed poll, Jay was bought and sold.
Let's also remind ourselves that even at the height of their faux Mitchell existence, when both were strutting about Walford, mooching off the Mitchell name and demanding respect, that Shirley reminded Jay that they were only within the Sphere of Phil at Phil's pleasure. Once they ceased to interest Phil, they were on their own.
Now, tonight, Shirley's pushing Jay and excoriating Phil over the way he's treated Jay. Sorry, Shirley, who doesn't understand Phil here?
Phil will always always put anyone Mitchell before anyone non-Mitchell - and that includes various wives. Before anyone else, Ben and Louise come first.
Did Phil treat Jay badly? Yes, abysmally, when he found out that Jay was telling the truth about Ben killing Heather. He chucked Jay out into the elements. But Phil would have done that to anyone who'd offered up a Mitchell for sacrifice. This time around, however, it was Jay who sussed Phil's behaviour and called time on it. It was Jay who realised that Phil was throwing his toys from the pram again because Jay had sought to keep the confidence of a friend, rather than show blind loyalty to Phil.
Shirley is a more craven bully than Phil is, because Shirley knows what buttons to push to stoke Phil's worst fears - his fear of being alone. She taunts him about not seeing his son - how can he? He doesn't know where Ben is, and when he was inside, Ben refused to see Phil. She's twisted Phil's suddenly stupid mind into believing that a woman who's allegedly always come back to him for love and affection before, has double-crossed him - and this was a woman who had formerly married into the Mitchell family - and suggested that, maybe he's better off with the faux Mitchells, because his real nearest and dearest have abandoned him.
She's done this because she thinks she's entitled to Phil and the power and respect he commands. Because, you see, without Phil and even with the Vic, Shirley is still the one who's more likely to wake up stinking drunk in the gutter.
I hope Sharon finds out and kicks them both six ways until Sunday.
Full marks for Jay, who was the one who saw the squidgy scene between Phil and Shirley, and hands Phil his arse on a plate about how he's deceiving Sharon.
How much do I hate Tosh?
I didn't, really, until tonight, but who the hell is she to take a moral high ground the way she has? I wonder how much of that action is motivated by the fact that the Moons have twin sons and a small boy, whilst she's trolling internet sites finding sperm donors and refusing to listen or notice how much her partner, the eternally anal childwoman,doesn't want a child. This is the woman who broke safety protocol and turned a full hose on Shirley? Sorry, but isn't that sorta kinda gross misconduct in a professional capacity? What gives her the right turn grass?
Once again, Mick and Alfie took centre stage. Mick didn't judge Alfie's actions, not at all. He understood his motives for doing so, and he understood Alfie's reasons for not telling Kat the truth at this time. In fact, he agreed with and encouraged this action, and you kind of were able to comprehend that if the shoe were on the other foot, Mick wouldn't have told Linda the truth, were she in Kat's position, either. Even now, he feeds her fantasies and shields the truth from her.
The scenes between Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie were heart-wrenching. These two work so well together and have such chemistry, that this storyline can only make their partnership stronger. When Alfie told Kat that he'd gladly change places with her in that bed, his message was heartfelt. He'll love her, no matter what she looks like. More than for herself, Kat's afraid of what scars would do to her children. Tommy is only three, and of course, seeing his mother in that shape, would be upsetting, but kids are like sponges and her children will love Kat, no matter what she looks like. The long journey begins here.
One thing - the fire inspector told Alfie what caused the fire, and Alfie admitted to cadging the odd cigarette, whereupon the inspector deemed it an accident. There's really no proof of intent to set that fire, except for Alfie's maudlin rescue of Nana Moon's picture. That's his downfall. But until that's revealed, it's just Tosh's suspicions, based on jealousy, against what Alfie's told the inspector.
What a bitch she is!
Namwar/Tancy is coming along - especially in view of the fact that when Nancy was moaning about babies and their bodily functions, and Linda told her she'd think differently once she'd met a special bloke, in walks Tamwar. What I'm wondering is why the scenes between Nancy and Tamwar at the Masood house, from yesterday's episode, were cut. That was obviously when Tamwar told her about his injuries. Speaking of scenes, the surprise insert of Tamwar and Jay discussing the No Vote from Scotland was great and contemporary.
Shabnam sacrifices her career to keep an eye on Denise, and soon Masood is going to be brought into that sphere as well.
One of the best scenes was the one in the Masoods' kitchen, showing Nancy and Linda rallying with the twins and Masood and Shabnam helping with breakfast for the Moons. Nice scene.
In-character Line of the Night, goes to Shirley, Queen of Scrotes:- Ah, the smell of baby poo in the morning!
Is that why you left yours, Shirley? I'm sure you've smelled worse in the gutter.
A week of solid episodes. How long has it been since we've seen that?
Shirley's never stolen from Phil? She's never blackmailed him?
The joke about all of this is Phil, himself. Phil is, as Tina the Court Jester described him earlier this week, a red-faced, bald alkie. I normally give short shrift to Tina, but I'm bang on about her puking in her mouth at the thought of either Phil and Shirley or Phil and Sharon in bed. Phil may be good in the bedroom stakes, but he totally lacks charm. And his latest bout with terminal stupefication is totally unbelieveable. Phil found out that Sharon was stealing from him, but admitted that he still loved her. All it took was Shirley Queen of Scrotes to tell him that Sharon hated him, and he believed her.
Really, Shirley? It never bothered Phil to ask the old crone how she knew that Sharon hated him. Had she heard her say so? If so, when? What proof did she have? Anyone else, and Phil Mitchell would want to know. He's not that gullible. Thing is, Sharon does have proof that Shirley knew that Phil had planned the attack on The Albert. Shirley's motives are motivated by jealousy and obsession with Phil, and Phil's been bested by a woman he's loved for two decades and whom he threw, on one occasion, under the proverbial bus.
It dawned on me tonight that Shirley was fighting for the faux Mitchell brigade - upping the ante in pushing Jay as "more of a son to Phil" than Ben. Neither is anything really to brag about, but let's remind ourselves that two weeks before Jay "became" a Mitchell, he was taunting a pathetic Phil who was coming off a binge on crack cocaine. The week before that, when Billy offered him the chance to "become" a Mitchell - and Billy's de facto son, he refused, but shortly afterward, a recovered and revived Phil offered him a pair of boxing gloves and suggested that Jay change his name by deed poll, Jay was bought and sold.
Let's also remind ourselves that even at the height of their faux Mitchell existence, when both were strutting about Walford, mooching off the Mitchell name and demanding respect, that Shirley reminded Jay that they were only within the Sphere of Phil at Phil's pleasure. Once they ceased to interest Phil, they were on their own.
Now, tonight, Shirley's pushing Jay and excoriating Phil over the way he's treated Jay. Sorry, Shirley, who doesn't understand Phil here?
Phil will always always put anyone Mitchell before anyone non-Mitchell - and that includes various wives. Before anyone else, Ben and Louise come first.
Did Phil treat Jay badly? Yes, abysmally, when he found out that Jay was telling the truth about Ben killing Heather. He chucked Jay out into the elements. But Phil would have done that to anyone who'd offered up a Mitchell for sacrifice. This time around, however, it was Jay who sussed Phil's behaviour and called time on it. It was Jay who realised that Phil was throwing his toys from the pram again because Jay had sought to keep the confidence of a friend, rather than show blind loyalty to Phil.
Shirley is a more craven bully than Phil is, because Shirley knows what buttons to push to stoke Phil's worst fears - his fear of being alone. She taunts him about not seeing his son - how can he? He doesn't know where Ben is, and when he was inside, Ben refused to see Phil. She's twisted Phil's suddenly stupid mind into believing that a woman who's allegedly always come back to him for love and affection before, has double-crossed him - and this was a woman who had formerly married into the Mitchell family - and suggested that, maybe he's better off with the faux Mitchells, because his real nearest and dearest have abandoned him.
She's done this because she thinks she's entitled to Phil and the power and respect he commands. Because, you see, without Phil and even with the Vic, Shirley is still the one who's more likely to wake up stinking drunk in the gutter.
I hope Sharon finds out and kicks them both six ways until Sunday.
Full marks for Jay, who was the one who saw the squidgy scene between Phil and Shirley, and hands Phil his arse on a plate about how he's deceiving Sharon.
How much do I hate Tosh?
I didn't, really, until tonight, but who the hell is she to take a moral high ground the way she has? I wonder how much of that action is motivated by the fact that the Moons have twin sons and a small boy, whilst she's trolling internet sites finding sperm donors and refusing to listen or notice how much her partner, the eternally anal childwoman,doesn't want a child. This is the woman who broke safety protocol and turned a full hose on Shirley? Sorry, but isn't that sorta kinda gross misconduct in a professional capacity? What gives her the right turn grass?
Once again, Mick and Alfie took centre stage. Mick didn't judge Alfie's actions, not at all. He understood his motives for doing so, and he understood Alfie's reasons for not telling Kat the truth at this time. In fact, he agreed with and encouraged this action, and you kind of were able to comprehend that if the shoe were on the other foot, Mick wouldn't have told Linda the truth, were she in Kat's position, either. Even now, he feeds her fantasies and shields the truth from her.
The scenes between Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie were heart-wrenching. These two work so well together and have such chemistry, that this storyline can only make their partnership stronger. When Alfie told Kat that he'd gladly change places with her in that bed, his message was heartfelt. He'll love her, no matter what she looks like. More than for herself, Kat's afraid of what scars would do to her children. Tommy is only three, and of course, seeing his mother in that shape, would be upsetting, but kids are like sponges and her children will love Kat, no matter what she looks like. The long journey begins here.
One thing - the fire inspector told Alfie what caused the fire, and Alfie admitted to cadging the odd cigarette, whereupon the inspector deemed it an accident. There's really no proof of intent to set that fire, except for Alfie's maudlin rescue of Nana Moon's picture. That's his downfall. But until that's revealed, it's just Tosh's suspicions, based on jealousy, against what Alfie's told the inspector.
What a bitch she is!
Namwar/Tancy is coming along - especially in view of the fact that when Nancy was moaning about babies and their bodily functions, and Linda told her she'd think differently once she'd met a special bloke, in walks Tamwar. What I'm wondering is why the scenes between Nancy and Tamwar at the Masood house, from yesterday's episode, were cut. That was obviously when Tamwar told her about his injuries. Speaking of scenes, the surprise insert of Tamwar and Jay discussing the No Vote from Scotland was great and contemporary.
Shabnam sacrifices her career to keep an eye on Denise, and soon Masood is going to be brought into that sphere as well.
One of the best scenes was the one in the Masoods' kitchen, showing Nancy and Linda rallying with the twins and Masood and Shabnam helping with breakfast for the Moons. Nice scene.
In-character Line of the Night, goes to Shirley, Queen of Scrotes:- Ah, the smell of baby poo in the morning!
Is that why you left yours, Shirley? I'm sure you've smelled worse in the gutter.
A week of solid episodes. How long has it been since we've seen that?
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