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They do have a team of people on each episode. The script writer gets told what has to happen in the episode, they go away and write it, and then someone edits it, they do redrafts etc. The storylines don't change from episode to episode, it just that some script writers are better than others -- not necessarily in terms of plotting and storylines, but in writing dialogue and getting the characters right etc.
O.k, so it's really just about the scriptwriters and how good they are?! It does seem though that writers forget what has been said in previous episodes, and get it wrong a lot of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackKat
Anyway I thought a lot of Friday's episode was brilliant! But I didn't like the rest of the episodes for last week.
I do think it's unfair to put blame solely on the script writers. For example, I think James Payne wrote Thursday's episode. I thought it was ridiculous with the car chases and skips crashing onto the car etc. But that isn't James Payne's fault. If he gets told to write a script in which a skip falls on a car, then he has to do it. And the quality of the script will depend on whether or not he can make it a good scene. Nothing will change the fact that there's a skip falling on a car though.
Thanks for the support people!
There are some things I still like about Eastenders - not many, but some! I like the interaction of the old timers like Dot, Pauline, Jim, Pat etc. I am also warming to Kevin and Jack. But mainly the storylines are a load of old tosh and, for me, last week took the biscuit. How much better would that have been done say ten years ago before everyone had to have an obligatory character change every six months or so?
OK, I'm staying, but be warned...I shall still be fighting for Winston to be recognsied as the great star he is...
am i the only one who really enjoyed last weeks episodes???
I think Kevin O'Sullivan summed it up very well in yesterdays Mirror
GRANT'S TURN FOR THE WUSS
2 April 2006
RIP Grant Mitchell. It was nice to have known you. At least it was when you were Albert Square's resident hard man.
But now that you've suddenly turned into a touchy-feely-softy desperately trying to confront the demons of your tortured psyche, frankly baldy - you can take a hike!
This new unimproved family-friendly "come on give me a hug" Grant gives me the creeps.
In just one crazed week the demented EastEnders scriptwriters undermined TV's top tough guy to such a profound extent that I can't see how he'll ever recover.
With Phil and Grant reunited for the first time in six months, we were all looking forward to some classic Mitchell mayhem. In fact we had a right to expect carnage from the terrible twins.
But what did we get?
Grant's nauseating revelation that he underwent therapy to stop being so violent and antisocial.
Therapy? Grant? Do me a favour. "I was drinking too much," whined the simpering slaphead, "Ended up in a couple of fights. I was going to lose Courtney or end up in prison or a body bag. I found an American doctor. I had therapy.
"Apparently the first stop is to confront your demons - and then learn to let them go."
What a prat!
And with that character assassination the Grant Mitchell we knew and loved to hate was effectively laid to rest.
After this atrocity the entire absurd proceedings descended into pure farce.
While fat Phil enjoyed a spot of schoolboy scuffling with ridiculous daughter-obsessed gangster Johhny Allen, his born-again, peace-loving brother was spouting a stupefying series of advice pamphlet clunkers.
Johnny's awful kid Ruby had to sit and suffer as new-man Grant spewed such agony-aunt garbage as: "Addicts make good liars. I should know - Phil was in the same boat once."
Sympathising with Johnny, who was in the vault busy trying to kill Phil, Grant added: "It's not easy being a dad. Especially to girls. He lost his wife and his kid.
"Everybody reacts differently - but when I lost my wife all I could do was cling to my little girl." No matter how hard she tried to escape!
On and on it went. By Friday's explosively silly episode Grant was sounding like a self-help tape.
Worse still, Phil was beginning to lose his entirely justifiable healthy contempt for the God-like conversion Grant had undergone in Brazil.
Still, full marks to the EastEnders researchers for their thorough investigation of the prodigal son's new South American home. How else could this tip-top TV team have come up with this stunningly well-informed dialogue?
Phil: "What's your local beach called where you go jogging?"
Grant: "The Copa Cabana."
Phil: "Is that where you met your wife - the Copa Cabana?"
Grant: "Actually we met on the Ipanema."
Give me a break! Weren't there any more popular songs you could raid for such marvellously educational information?
I half expected Grant to turn to his bruvver and say: "I don't know if you're aware of this Phil w ...but there's an awful lot I of coffee in Brazil."
Instead Phil was starting to glow under the warm light of Grant's halo.
And he cried. Ahh! "I thought I'd lost you," he wept, "After everything I've done why are you forgiving me?"
"Because I'm your brother and I love you," replied Grant, his arms open ready for a hug, "Now come 'ere!"
Pass the sick bag.
That was the dreadful EastEnders week that was.
While Grant and Phil were discovering their feminine side, the unfrightening weed Johnny was persuaded by Ruby to confess to 40 years worth of murders.
And Danny was shot dead by Jake. Not a moment too soon.
Now can we please get back to Walford - and forget about the mincing Mitchell boys for another six months.
At the very least.
Ermm ok. I actually liked some of last weeks, I liked Fridays episode, the rest were kinda boring. I thought that it was good when Jake shot Danny. I feel sorry for him though. Didn't like Phill, but I liked Grant.. it was better than a lot of the crap over the last couple of months (in my opinion)
i thought tonights episode was quite good as it was the aftermath of all of last weeks events, aww poor Jake! lol Stacey was great tonight in my opinion (as always! lol) She really stuck by Ruby after the way Ruby treated her the last time they met! I liked the Grant and Courtney bit too, they've got a typical father/daughter relationship!
I hate Ruby. She is a terrible character played by a terrible actress. She knew Johnny had killed people before Dennis and she forgave him for it. She knew exactly what he was like. And I don’t give a toss about her whiny reaction to finding out what her dad’s really like, because I’ve seen it before. When she found out before and she forgave him.
Stacey and Bradley annoyed me as well. For god sake, just say that one of your mates is upset and you’ve got to sort it out. You don’t have to say who it is. And just punch Deano in the mouth.
I was disappointed with Dot’s reaction to the news about Johnny. I mean – Johnny Allen was a friend of hers. Dennis was like a son to her. And her reaction to finding out one killed the other is to gossip about it. Badly written.
The Ian and Phil scenes were good. I liked Grant’s interaction with Courtney, and I thought the Jake scenes were great as well, although more of Jake's reaction to shooting Danny would have been nice seeing as it hasn't happened before unlike someone who's name starts with R and ends with 'uby' and just shut the hell up you whiny twit.
Ah Bradley was nice and so was Stacey. Don't you just love em?