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I like the idea that during the Watergate era. Nixon people in the White House were like "That cad Phil Brewer!!!". I have a bad feeling that if Ron saw this article he would bring Phil back from the dead and turn him into like a super villian.

So the Jamey was complaining that the Roy/Haley story made many US websites when "characters on US Soaps try to kill themselves all the time". I know most people here have mixed feelings about today's Corrie and all but you can't really compare a storyline that went on for months and ended with Haley taking her own life with Maxie being suicidal for one episode of GH.

It seems Jannie may be on again before she leaves the show permanently . I kind of hope she has a breakdown in jail where she admits to some of her wrong doings over the past 12 years and seeks psychiatric help (even if it is in jail). And maybe in a few years she can come back to the show and try to be a better person.

Say what you want about the Christmas ratings but I loved the episode. David and Janine work so well together. (and David Witts’s return to the show has really worked for me and I think with Janine gone he may be my new my favorite character). I love the way that David started off just blackmailing Janine for pure greedy reasons and then when he found out about Carol's issue he was trying to convince himself that he was doing this for Carol. But eventually (Before Carol called the cops anyway) Janine convinced David to give her time to leave the country with her baby before calling the police. (keep in mind that this is a few hours after Janine tried to run down David with her car).. Current Eastenders is by no means perfect at all (and to be frank most of the year kind of sucked). But you don’t find the kind of dialogue that David and Janine had on a Cartilini show.

I have always wondered what some of the middle-age Eastenders characters would look like if they were on USA soaps. I guess Phil would look like Sonny, Sharon would look like Sharon on Y&R and Ian would look like.... Peter Bergman from around ten years ago? Btw I have only been watching Eastenders for about two years and when I first started watching the show I had similar thoughts..

So JE killed it today. Great work!

Sharon and Ian have talked many times since she returned to the show (well mostly in her first few weeks) people may be talking about the other day when Ian went to the Vic for his birthday with his kids and Dot. Sharon should of likely been with them.

Ugh Kat and Bianca were such bullies to Tamwar yesterday. Those two can be so annoying together.

Tanya seems to be a really hated by most online UK fans. They keep on talking about her "phony middle-class ambitions" and other stuff that has to do with working class British society that as an American I don't really understand..

Yes it is on a few days a week. It seems to be a two week delay from the UK.

I was watching some early 90's EE the other day. and it was interesting to see Ian being such a jerk as early as 1991 (He wanted to buy the bar his mom was raped in and he told her to "get over it") It was finding out that Cindy cheated on him plus Steven not being his real son that made Ian stop being a somewhat normal person right? The 1993 jazzy Eastenders theme is so strange to me.

This is interesting since I just started watching Eastenders about six months ago and thanks to the internet I have learned and watched so much of it's history already. Janine and Ian are the characters that really kind of got me into the show..

Exactly!. When I started really getting into the show earlier this year it took a while for me to understand some of the accents/lingo but now it is mostly okay except when a few people (Like Phil or Alfie) talk kind of fast, I loved the part of the wedding episode when you can see the look of relief on Janine's face when Ricky and Diane came.

Not sure if Jessie Wallace ever gave this board the finger or not

"There are brave men knocking on our doorstep, lets go kill them!!

Yep just checked a few hours ago and they are doing that. Are the DS forums known for being pro-Corrie and anti-Eastenders? ( I have really just started watching both in the last six months so Im new at this).

You know it is still strange for me on British soaps how most characters ages make sense compared to the madness of SORAS on US soaps.

Hi guys, I have been filling my OLTL void in the last few months with getting into Eastenders. It is interesting how it some ways the show is similar to US soaps (I guess you can say that Phil is like Victor Newman or Sonny) and of course in some major ways it differs. (They hire over 60 year old actress to become cast members for one thing) Do you think most message board using US soaps fans could get into the show if they had a chance or would some of the cultural differences make it kind of hard?

Well SID got a shout out on the show lol.

"Richard Simmons now in every issue" lol

I think Frankie talked to Scott once around 2009/2010 and they talked about the goonies or something.

So strange how someone can work both with Sir Laurence Olivier and the likes of Rebecca Budig .

I still do not understand why Alan is gone but Edward is around. Was it a money issue?

Love that Carla from the City got a shout out on today's GH.

I love that Carla got a shout out. I guess Gino had two other kids we never heard of.