Eastenders - Current Episode Discussion - VIII

[lizann]

The scenes with Billy and Carol worked well. EastEnders under DTC has got better at ordinary episodes, the bread and butter of a soap. This never happened under Newman.

the kiss was like sharks eating one another

[Dazzle]

Really nice to see some character development for Kat, and to see her as a caring mum. I really like her when the gobby act is toned down. Jessie Wallace is very good at playing the vulnerability beneath the wafer-thin veneer of hardness and brashness.

I'm not sure how I feel about Kat taking Harry's money though. I thought she was right to turn it down, but of course her financial situation's precarious and she's got her kids to consider.

Surprisingly good chemistry between Carol and Billy. I hope we see more of the two, they're sweet together (as long as they're not turned into yet another of the square's long-suffering couples).

It was very funny when everyone left Martin alone in the pub. He needs to find some more interesting topics of conversion!

[tammyy2j]

Pam: Les battered sausage

[lizann]

anyone read harry potter and bay city rollers

[flappinfanny]

To be truthful an episode you could quite easily have missed (apart from the duff duff) Pleased Mo got the Duff Duff.

[lizann]

kat needs to accept the money she is broke and has young kids

[tammyy2j]

I thought Mas wanted Shabs and Kush to get together a while back, his reaction tonight was ott (maybe it was that they were sleeping together though) and why did Shabs think her and Kush were getting engaged already

I hope Tamwar and Nancy get together properly

Looks like Les has 2 birdys on the go

[flappinfanny]

Mo: ''Kat Moon speaking, I ain't got no PPI'' so funny, line of the night.

Poor Pam, Les you dirty dog. I like Kush and Shabs together and pairing Nancy and Tam together is genius. I hope they become some sort of couple.

[Dazzle]

I've enjoyed catching up with some of the quieter characters and storylines this week. It makes a refreshing change to see characters like Les and Pam given some screen time. I'm not convinced yet that he has another woman on the go though. There could be another explanation although we already know he's dodgy (something Pam seems completely unaware of).

I enjoyed the scenes in the funeral parlour and wish we'd get more of them. There's plenty of scope for storylines there. We could have a new imaginatively-killed corpse per episode like the TV show Six Feet Under (one of my erstwhile faves).

I don't understand at all how Shabnam thought she and Kush were engaged. Nothing like that was even hinted as far as I'm aware. Perhaps she only said that to appease Masood and to give the impression that she was only sleeping with Kush because she thought they'd be married soon? I could believe that because she was so ashamed at seeing her hypocrisy through her father's eyes. She's been so judgemental about his relationships in the past that it's no wonder he was angry.

kat needs to accept the money she is broke and has young kids

She (and the kids) need her sanity above all else though.

[lizann]

kat should go counseling and accept the money