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Originally Posted by Daniel-X
There’s been a noticeable change since Santer’s era came to an end (funnily enough the first era of the show I watched as a child). Kirkwood made the show into a glorified version of Hollyoaks with mainly decent actors but terrible storylines/horrible new characters introduced (see: Antony, Joey, Alice, Derek, Tyler, Vanessa and Jodie). Newman wasn’t actually too bad, she didn’t do any damage to the show but it was just incredibly boring and not EastEnders.
I’d argue DTC has been the most detrimental to the show, it was more watchable under him than Kirkwood and Newman but the lengths he took the show to to create a ‘fanfic’ version of EastEnders for himself were ridiculous. The whole Who Killed Lucy? storyline is one the show will never recover from now.
Less said about SOC and Yorke 2.0 the better.
It’s finally back on track under Sen & Oates but even then it’s not without it flaws, but it’s definitely the best the show has been since Santer. They need to get a grasp of the actual history of the show more but it’s decent.
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Yeah, this really didn’t age well. But we weren’t to know at the time, were we? SenFX took many of us by surprise.
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