Current Episode Discussion VI

[parkerman]

The Mo and the ghost baby storyline is the absolute pits. It takes Eastenders to an ever lower low, which I wouldn't have believed possible.

[no1abbafan]

I know it's soap, but a load of immigration officers turning up in the middle of the night for one person, a little OTT

[Chris_2k11]

Bit boring this week I thought! although I missed yesterdays

[Kim]

I know it's soap, but a load of immigration officers turning up in the middle of the night for one person, a little OTT

Yeah, I can't figure out why, if they were so worried about an immigrant being free, that they sent 2 people, but still didn't bother to show for ages. Jim phoned them when it was still light.

[Pinkbanana]

I have enjoyed EE this week....

I really thought the Dot and baby storyline would be pants, but I got a pleasant surprise...with some excellent acting as well.

The Stella storyline is also going strong as well at the mo, and I never thought Id feel sorry for the milkyway kid, but I really do! lol

[Chris_2k11]

Can't believe the Wicks are back

[parkerman]

And the 2007 award for overacting and hammiest performance of the year goes to Dave Hill as Bert Atkinson.

And what was all that red make up round his eyes all about? And why the sudden deterioration in his eyesight? Have the scriptwriters bothered to research glaucoma at all?

[alan45]

The Mo and the ghost baby storyline is the absolute pits. It takes Eastenders to an ever lower low, which I wouldn't have believed possible.

I would.

What a waste of the undoubted talent of the great June Brown to have her involved is a rubbishly thought out and written storyline like this. She is capable of so much more than this dross they have given her. Still being the consummate actress that she is she manages to struggle through.
Well done June Brown
Shame on the writers, producers and storyliners of this absolute NONSENSE

[Siobhan]

And the 2007 award for overacting and hammiest performance of the year goes to Dave Hill as Bert Atkinson.

And what was all that red make up round his eyes all about? And why the sudden deterioration in his eyesight? Have the scriptwriters bothered to research glaucoma at all?

It wasn't sudden.. he was told he had glaucoma weeks and weeks ago and he did nothing about it

[Jojo]

And the 2007 award for overacting and hammiest performance of the year goes to Dave Hill as Bert Atkinson.

And what was all that red make up round his eyes all about? And why the sudden deterioration in his eyesight? Have the scriptwriters bothered to research glaucoma at all?

Having not seen the episode I can't comment on Bert, but...what I will say is that a good friend of mine had no real eyesight problems apart from her short sightedness. Suddenly within a very short while, she had excruciating pains shooting through her eye, was rushed to hospital where the pressure was checked. She was found to have glaucoma and the pressure level in one of the eyes was found to be at a very dangerous level, enough where she could have lost her sight in that eye. She had to undergo pressure relieving treatment, then the laser surgery afterwards which managed to save it, although the other eye was also treated to ensure the same didn't happen then. And this happened within a month or so. Her optician has seen that problems were afoot a month prior, had prescribed her eye drops, which she failed to use, not realising the importance of it and this was the result. I think I remember seeing Bert walking out of an opticians appointment when something similar was being explained to him.

Like I say, I didn't see EE (I don't bother anymore tbh after watching since the first episodes) but glaucoma can come on very quickly in that sense, if you ignore opticians/specialist advice.