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They got out of touch with the adult audience when they brought in people for looks and not for talent. Look at corrie, there is very little eye candy in the show but good actors. They would never take away from an old actor talent with a new family who are just bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Richie_lecturer
Well to be fair, even Corrie have gone down the 'totty' route in recent years to an extent, e.g. the recasting of Sarah-Platt into a 'sexy' teenager aka Tina-O'Brien. However they haven't done it anywhere near to the same extent as EE have, add to that the 'dumbing down' of some storylines.
I don't think Juila Smith - bless her - would have been happy with this.
Thank you Richie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Richie_lecturer
I've been on holiday in Lanzarote for a couple of weeks. I went to see if Kat and Zoe were there, but I couldn't find them... :)
You've missed some OK episodes with Pauline preparing for marriage with Mr Benn, but otherwise not much.
Sounds like Kat and Zoe's absense is another case of bad continuity on behalf of EE! :p
Oh well funny.:rotfl: And you did not stumble into Lisa and Phils baby either?Quote:
Originally Posted by parkerman
Fortunately (?) I saw most of the episodes out in Lanzarote. They receive something called BBC Prime, which shows each Eastenders episode two days after they are shown in Britain. I don't want to go over old ground, but I agree that the Pauline/Dot stuff was the best...which once again shows how much Eastenders has declined. Without the "older" actors like June Brown, Adam Woodyat, Pam St Clement and Wendy Richard it would be finished altogether.
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Originally Posted by parkerman
Hiya Parkerman,, missed ya on the boards too,, also hate u for being out there sunning your buns while we freeze ours off LOL
I rue the day we loose our older actors in EE, its slowly being taken over by the so called younger set who can not act their way out of a hat..
JMHO ( just my honest opinion... not wanting to be busted for so called text talk or/and using abverations :rolleyes: ) !!!:ninja:
I totally agree with everything you have all said since my last post. I hardly recognise Eastenders anymore and although im only a teenager and havent been alive for as long as Eastenders has been running i have seen every episode becuase mum is a big Eastenders fan and used to tape all the episodes until she got annoyed with doing it so yeah ive seen every episode and Eastenders have basically ruined the show and made it unrecognisable within the space of 3 months at least maybe more.
Ian/Kathy/Martin deserved more of a storyline there lastnight than what they got Eastenders seem to have forgotton about some of the older characters and is more concearned that we get to know new families such as the Wicks'.
Martin was good lastnight and i agree he has had alot of experience and was doing what Mark would have done for Ian and what Mark had done for Martin in previous years.
Sonia was out of order okay yeah maybe Martin should have phoned her or something but she should have known that he would have been doing something important just like Dot and Jim said.
I agree. Every time one of those four decides to leave, EE will move a step towards the end. The first I fear is June, who will be 80 this time next year. The other three have time on their side - Wendy and Pat are 62 and 63 respectively, while Adam is 37 - but even they could go if it gets worse. Adam said only last week in an interview that things got so bad this time last year that he was about to quit, and the boss convinced him to stay in the end.
They can't rely on many more names to return to boost the show's ratings because they've nearly killed them all off! :wall:
I will probably now only watch EE when these four are involved, and because these four have been involved a lot lately, once this Ian stuff dies down, I'll be switiching off at regular intervals.
I was going to mention that in my last post but i forgot so thanks for bringing it up. I absolutely agree i think one or more will leave pretty soon i think Adam will leave not becuase of age or anything as you said he is only young but i think he would leave becuase if fans who have been watching the show from early days like myself (even if it was from a tape) no longer recognise the show then how must the actors feel about what the show has become. If i was Adam id leave as soon as i can becuase lastnight should have centered around Ian and the people who were close to Kathy and the rest of the crap shuld have been either left out and saved for another day or just show little bits of it when the time is right instead it centered around Carly Kevin Nico and crew and Ian was the cut off when they felt he needed to make an appearence.