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I decided to take a break from early March drudgery and watch today's episode, and I'm not sure if anything can better epitomize some of my feelings about Eastenders.
As much as I complain about DTC, I do think he tries to take some stories seriously and at times has a certain faith in the audience that Santer lacked.
For instance, Kat's story, which has been poorly paced, but is unrelentingly grim in a way that EE has rarely been in the last 10 years. We've seen everything in her life torn to pieces. The scene in the Vic with her family and Alfie where they were patronizing toward her and wanted to get her to "open up" and she proceeded to tell them that she'd spent most of her life doing anything she could to ignore her rape and now that she had been destroyed as a mother, she had nothing left to stop her from facing her rape - this was incredibly brave, uncompromising material, well-acted by Jessie Wallace. Yet I have no way of trusting this, because Alfie is simpering in the background, and I have to assume this will end in the idea that she and Alfie are back together so that means she's happy and healed.
It's the same with Phil and Ben. Phil is the same old piece of [!@#$%^&*] as always, abusing his son in myriad ways, conditioning him, further polluting him. Yet I can't really say that this is going to go anywhere, because when has it ever gone anywhere? Viewers will cheer as he beats his son, the way they always do, and cheer as he gets one over on Phil (the new Dan or Steve or whoever else).

Seeing this disgusting old man repeating the same stories that were disgusting 15 years ago just makes me ashamed to watch.

Anyway...
I like Nancy and Tamwar together. I think they're a good match.
Shabnam reminds me so much of Julia Smith-era EE characters. I hope that continues.
I'm glad they had that long scene with Carol and the cancer counselor. She really needed it to help conclude that story arc, and Lindsey Coulson was wonderful as always.
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I guess the big news is there's going to be a 6 episode spin-off series filmed in Ireland with Kat and Alfie. It's going to be broadcast in 2016 though. I guess they'll be off the show temporarily and return when production on this is wrapped.

Can they please ask Tony Jordan (or Sarah Phelps) to write an episode or consult? Like please?

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Not that anyone thought she was actually going to die, but it's odd they would reveal this right after the cliffhanger of her life being in the balance.

I still can't tell if this means they are leaving the show.

I do like spinoff shows and I'm all for EE doing a better job in Ireland than they did the last time around.

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BE I've just been skipping all Carter stuff, unless they're in scenes with characters I like (Tamwar, Sharon). I guess I haven't missed anything. I see that Dean is back, and I guess I should fear for the Carters, but I just don't care.

BF who do you think the show's better writers are at the moment, and who are their worst?

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