Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ...
To paraphrase Shakespeare, something's not quite right in the community of Walford.
A real comedy of errors was this fest tonight.
Who Didn't See That Coming?
The cheque's arrived, the money's in the bank, and Kat and Alfie are "looking at bars in Spain."Stacey has an interview at a hairdresser's in Bethnal Green, but that's scuppered because Dean's given her a bad reference.
Hang on a minute ... Jeff Povey should know better. There's dramatic licence, and then there's the realms of fantasy. You simply cannot give a person a bad reference in the UK. You can give a non-committal reference, simply saying, "Yes, she worked for be between this date and that," but you cannot give a reference which slags off a prospective employee of another concern. Or you can refuse to give a reference at all, which would speak volumes; but you simply cannot give a bad reference.
Yet, according to this writer, in EastEndersLand, it's possible to denigrate a former employee for personal reasons, and be done with it, which results in Stacey throwing a cup of tea (in a styrofoam cup as well) against Blades's storefront, prompting Dean to emerge, affronted.
Their encounter provided the line of the night from Stacey, when Dean prissily told her he couldn't give her a good reference, after she'd quit working for him twice, and besides, she was running around telling everyone he was a rapist.
Stacey's brilliant riposte?
You could have lied. It's what you do best.
She threw the cup against the window as she trotted off. Mind you, this is the new mature Stacey. That reaction was tame. The old one would have stormed into Dean's shop and started turning over chairs and tables and swiping glass containers onto the floor.
While she's pleased for Alfie and Kat, she's out on a limb - unemployed and down and out in Walford whilst they're off sipping sangria in Spain. But it's Alfie to the rescue - they agree that Stacey will have the clothes stall, and Alfie will pay her pitch fees for a year.
Sorted.
So there she is. Stacey back on the market, right across fromBradley Martin and Max Kush.
(Analogy is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular ...where at least one of the premises or the conclusion is general.)
This is back to the future time, y'all.
Whose Baby.
Another day, another baby in Walford General's NeoNatal ICU. This time it's the newest Crown Prince of Walford, Baby Carter, with Mick and Linda within and Dean lurking about outside in the corridor.
There are questions all around about the baby's paternity - subtly, from Mick at the very beginning, who wonders why this baby isn't as vocal as the other three Carter children have been. Or as Mick asks the newborn, after having returned home briefly, Who are ya?
Maybe it's Lee, who vocalises Mick's thoughts and brings them to the fore. Lee doesn't think the baby is Mick's. He's worried that it isn't, and thinks the child may belong to Dean. He's in the middle of saying this when Mick returns and overhears. This leads to Cheesy Scene Number One in the episode.
Mick and Lee repair to the cellar for one of their father-and-son man-to-man talks. As you do. Lee's afraid he won't be able to love the baby, not being sure who his father is. Mick must not be certain, he reckons, because they haven't named the baby yet.
Mick reminds Lee that they were two weeks coming up with a name for Lee, and then we get the entire, silly, saccharin, sentimental story of Lee's naming - about how Lee had always been teased by Nancy and Johnny for having been named after Gypsy Rose Lee. (I wonder if Linda knew that "Gypsy" wasn't just the musical character, the real Gypsy Rose Lee was a stripper). So Lee was named after a stripper?
Not so, says Mick the father who thinks on his feet, as he manfully asserts ... 'Cause I named yer. Rather than Lee being named after a burlesque strip queen, Mick named him after Lee Majors, the Ten Million Dollar Man, Mr Bionic. Only because Lee was such a bionic baby, and, of course, this quells Lee's doubts (but subtly increases Mick's).
Just when you think Shirley is sensible and you want to like her, she burrows back into the woodwork of Dean-defending. She's excited and wants to see the newest Carter baby, which is sorta kinda incongruous since she barely saw her own, and hasn't made one reference either to Carly or to Carly's son Jimmy. Does she sincerely think that Mick and Linda would want her and Buster peering around their new son, especially after Shirley has called his mother some of the most terrible names imaginable? As everyone will agree, Shirley needs to eat a huge amount of crow in front of Linda when ... when she realises what Dean has done, and she also needs to beg Linda's forgiveness.
Dean finds them and informs them that he's seen the baby - only from afar, but he's seen him, and he "feels the bond." That's enough for Shirley to be convinced that this is, indeed, Dean's son, although - credit to him - Buster advises caution. Even so, the pair of them have the gall to ask Mick for a lift to the hospital to see the child.
Really? Have these people no tact or common sense, or is their sense of entitlement that great? Mick was right to drive off and leave them. Their presence would only have upset Linda, but that didn't matter, because in true Shirley fashion, they barrel into the hospital corridor, shouting the odds to Mick and Linda. Dean wants to see "his son", and Shirley wants a DNA test.
So, so tacky.
(Cheesy Scene Number Two:- Buster telling Shirley that he's going to enter her into a glamorous granny competition. Ya think?)
The Dotty Defendant.
Here are some questions.
Has Nick been buried (again)? Has he even had a funeral? Has Phil's bail now been rescinded? Does Dotty know about her father's death?
Just saying.
Oh, and where were Sharon and Phil at the trial? Ian was there. I can't remember the last time I saw Sharon. I guess she and Phil must be off looking for her birth father someplace, as if Phil doesn't already know where and who he is.
And why the hell doesn't someone buy Charlie Cotton a jacket that fits? That jacket looked ridiculous. It looked like something Liam wore when he was twelve years old, and it barely met around him, and he isn't big.
So Ronnie and Phil are paying Ritchie money to dreg up the dirt on Vincent? I still don't believe that the drug dealer is dead, more that the drug dealer was Vincent.
The trial, such as it was, was a bit of a farce, and badly written. We got to seeMrs Doyle for one last time, as she tried to perform a character assassination on Dot. Too bad Charlie didn't think to reveal how his mother, in cahoots with Nick, had sought to set Phil up with the attempted murder of his cousin, and no one is mentioning Emma Summerhayes at all, but this is Nick's trial. Charlie did mention that, in addition to Nick having tried to poison Dot (and her forgiving him), he was instrumental in the accidental (word was left out) death of his other son, Ashley. I know Reg Cox's death couldn't have been mentioned, as he only confessed that to Den (who is dead) and subsequently to Dot, and he was cleared of Eddie Royle's murder.
Cheesy Scene Number Three was, of course, the absurd conversation that Dot had with the Judge in the middle of the proceedings. Dot was in frail, little old lady mode, a role she does well. Remember, she was in this mode when Sharon confronted her about Nick's lies about Phil? We all know that Dot willingly harboured Nick from the authorities, and she lied to all and sundry about his whereabouts. She also hid him in the old Slater house after he'd promised to leave Walford, so she was, in effect, an accomplice to his crime of attempted murder.
But there she was, asking the judge if he had children (he had a daughter), asking if he loved her (he did), asking her name (whereupn he responded in the past tense that her name was Deborah). Dot, afraid of the good job the prosecution was doing in spite of one lost and one hostile witness, was trying to manipulate the judge. Even when she agreed to take the witness stand, she still was in the frail old lady role, constantly reiterating that Nick was a good boy until he got in with drugs to the point that the prosecuting barrister wondered if she actually understood the proceedings. Dot told a bit of a white lie (pun intended) about Nick and heroin, saying she only knew heroin was bad for you, but didn't know how it was used.
She knows very well how the stuff is used, and she was buying it for him when Pete Beale boarded him up in his room to go cold turkey at the time he escaped to kill Eddie Royle.
Still, the barrister scored a point about the gloves. Whenever Dot left that house to see Nick, she looked as though she were kitted up in a CSI forensics DNA suit.
Maybe she can test baby Carter's DNA?
Meh episode.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, something's not quite right in the community of Walford.
A real comedy of errors was this fest tonight.
Who Didn't See That Coming?
The cheque's arrived, the money's in the bank, and Kat and Alfie are "looking at bars in Spain."Stacey has an interview at a hairdresser's in Bethnal Green, but that's scuppered because Dean's given her a bad reference.
Hang on a minute ... Jeff Povey should know better. There's dramatic licence, and then there's the realms of fantasy. You simply cannot give a person a bad reference in the UK. You can give a non-committal reference, simply saying, "Yes, she worked for be between this date and that," but you cannot give a reference which slags off a prospective employee of another concern. Or you can refuse to give a reference at all, which would speak volumes; but you simply cannot give a bad reference.
Yet, according to this writer, in EastEndersLand, it's possible to denigrate a former employee for personal reasons, and be done with it, which results in Stacey throwing a cup of tea (in a styrofoam cup as well) against Blades's storefront, prompting Dean to emerge, affronted.
Their encounter provided the line of the night from Stacey, when Dean prissily told her he couldn't give her a good reference, after she'd quit working for him twice, and besides, she was running around telling everyone he was a rapist.
Stacey's brilliant riposte?
You could have lied. It's what you do best.
She threw the cup against the window as she trotted off. Mind you, this is the new mature Stacey. That reaction was tame. The old one would have stormed into Dean's shop and started turning over chairs and tables and swiping glass containers onto the floor.
While she's pleased for Alfie and Kat, she's out on a limb - unemployed and down and out in Walford whilst they're off sipping sangria in Spain. But it's Alfie to the rescue - they agree that Stacey will have the clothes stall, and Alfie will pay her pitch fees for a year.
Sorted.
So there she is. Stacey back on the market, right across from
(Analogy is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular ...where at least one of the premises or the conclusion is general.)
This is back to the future time, y'all.
Whose Baby.
Another day, another baby in Walford General's NeoNatal ICU. This time it's the newest Crown Prince of Walford, Baby Carter, with Mick and Linda within and Dean lurking about outside in the corridor.
There are questions all around about the baby's paternity - subtly, from Mick at the very beginning, who wonders why this baby isn't as vocal as the other three Carter children have been. Or as Mick asks the newborn, after having returned home briefly, Who are ya?
Maybe it's Lee, who vocalises Mick's thoughts and brings them to the fore. Lee doesn't think the baby is Mick's. He's worried that it isn't, and thinks the child may belong to Dean. He's in the middle of saying this when Mick returns and overhears. This leads to Cheesy Scene Number One in the episode.
Mick and Lee repair to the cellar for one of their father-and-son man-to-man talks. As you do. Lee's afraid he won't be able to love the baby, not being sure who his father is. Mick must not be certain, he reckons, because they haven't named the baby yet.
Mick reminds Lee that they were two weeks coming up with a name for Lee, and then we get the entire, silly, saccharin, sentimental story of Lee's naming - about how Lee had always been teased by Nancy and Johnny for having been named after Gypsy Rose Lee. (I wonder if Linda knew that "Gypsy" wasn't just the musical character, the real Gypsy Rose Lee was a stripper). So Lee was named after a stripper?
Not so, says Mick the father who thinks on his feet, as he manfully asserts ... 'Cause I named yer. Rather than Lee being named after a burlesque strip queen, Mick named him after Lee Majors, the Ten Million Dollar Man, Mr Bionic. Only because Lee was such a bionic baby, and, of course, this quells Lee's doubts (but subtly increases Mick's).
Just when you think Shirley is sensible and you want to like her, she burrows back into the woodwork of Dean-defending. She's excited and wants to see the newest Carter baby, which is sorta kinda incongruous since she barely saw her own, and hasn't made one reference either to Carly or to Carly's son Jimmy. Does she sincerely think that Mick and Linda would want her and Buster peering around their new son, especially after Shirley has called his mother some of the most terrible names imaginable? As everyone will agree, Shirley needs to eat a huge amount of crow in front of Linda when ... when she realises what Dean has done, and she also needs to beg Linda's forgiveness.
Dean finds them and informs them that he's seen the baby - only from afar, but he's seen him, and he "feels the bond." That's enough for Shirley to be convinced that this is, indeed, Dean's son, although - credit to him - Buster advises caution. Even so, the pair of them have the gall to ask Mick for a lift to the hospital to see the child.
Really? Have these people no tact or common sense, or is their sense of entitlement that great? Mick was right to drive off and leave them. Their presence would only have upset Linda, but that didn't matter, because in true Shirley fashion, they barrel into the hospital corridor, shouting the odds to Mick and Linda. Dean wants to see "his son", and Shirley wants a DNA test.
So, so tacky.
(Cheesy Scene Number Two:- Buster telling Shirley that he's going to enter her into a glamorous granny competition. Ya think?)
The Dotty Defendant.
Here are some questions.
Has Nick been buried (again)? Has he even had a funeral? Has Phil's bail now been rescinded? Does Dotty know about her father's death?
Just saying.
Oh, and where were Sharon and Phil at the trial? Ian was there. I can't remember the last time I saw Sharon. I guess she and Phil must be off looking for her birth father someplace, as if Phil doesn't already know where and who he is.
And why the hell doesn't someone buy Charlie Cotton a jacket that fits? That jacket looked ridiculous. It looked like something Liam wore when he was twelve years old, and it barely met around him, and he isn't big.
So Ronnie and Phil are paying Ritchie money to dreg up the dirt on Vincent? I still don't believe that the drug dealer is dead, more that the drug dealer was Vincent.
The trial, such as it was, was a bit of a farce, and badly written. We got to see
Cheesy Scene Number Three was, of course, the absurd conversation that Dot had with the Judge in the middle of the proceedings. Dot was in frail, little old lady mode, a role she does well. Remember, she was in this mode when Sharon confronted her about Nick's lies about Phil? We all know that Dot willingly harboured Nick from the authorities, and she lied to all and sundry about his whereabouts. She also hid him in the old Slater house after he'd promised to leave Walford, so she was, in effect, an accomplice to his crime of attempted murder.
But there she was, asking the judge if he had children (he had a daughter), asking if he loved her (he did), asking her name (whereupn he responded in the past tense that her name was Deborah). Dot, afraid of the good job the prosecution was doing in spite of one lost and one hostile witness, was trying to manipulate the judge. Even when she agreed to take the witness stand, she still was in the frail old lady role, constantly reiterating that Nick was a good boy until he got in with drugs to the point that the prosecuting barrister wondered if she actually understood the proceedings. Dot told a bit of a white lie (pun intended) about Nick and heroin, saying she only knew heroin was bad for you, but didn't know how it was used.
She knows very well how the stuff is used, and she was buying it for him when Pete Beale boarded him up in his room to go cold turkey at the time he escaped to kill Eddie Royle.
Still, the barrister scored a point about the gloves. Whenever Dot left that house to see Nick, she looked as though she were kitted up in a CSI forensics DNA suit.
Maybe she can test baby Carter's DNA?
Meh episode.
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