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A thread for those moments in soaps that stretch the boundaries of reality

- EE: Stacy getting a flight on Christmas day
- Corrie: Tracy being released
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Corrie tram carriage rearing up like a dinosaur (& sounding like Godzilla) before crashing down on t'Kabin...
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- E Cain being let of for murder, kidnap and extortion due to him giving the police a tiny bit o info about the Mafia xD
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Xmas TV was absolutely dire this year and Eastenders was awful. So many inconsistencies and borign moments.

* Ronnie and Roxy moping around about Archie again seemed very repetative and built up to nothing. Why weren't they concerned about the fact their mother had recently been pushed down the stairs? Where was Glenda anyway?

* Ryan handing over Lily so easily within the last 10 minutes was rushed and unbelievable. Stacey just admitted she didn't really love him so didn't want him going with her or their baby? Bitch!

* Max wanting to jet off and flee with Stacey? Ok, he was gonna do that a few years ago amidst the height of their affair but then Tanya had Oscar and Bradley died - would he really leave them all now? Also rushed and out of character. Plus it made the Max/Vanessa 'romance' seem even more pointless/unnecessary.

* Why were Ian and Jane hardly featured and shown drinking merrilly in the pub? It's their first Xmas without Lucy or Peter! Peter only left the day before but he seemed compeltely forgotten about!

* Where was Denise? Similarly her first Xmas without any of her kids and her first Xmas since the Lucas reveal. No reflection on it at all - instead we had Kim and Pattrick drinking away withotu a care in the world.

I'm not impressed with Bryan Kirkwood's hold on EE at all. I thought I'd wait for the Xmas ep and try to focus on the positives but was completely underwhelmed. Ofcourse Stacey had to flee right away so her rushed exit was plausible but in the long run so many characters are having weak spur of the moment exits. Peggy upped and left the day after the fire, Adam when Libby found out he was propositioning Lucy, Peter when he didn't even push Glenda, and now Jean!
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Bryan Kirkwood isn't very good at this. above post says it all. Peter Beale? surely Ian and Jane noticed on christmas day when he didn't come down to open presents.

He introduced Vanessa and now seems to have made her relationship with max irrelevant and where was jodie thoughout all this?

He's exits have been rubbish. Staceys was ok i thought although it wasnt feasible it was fitting. Peggy's was the worst exit ever. Pub blew up, ok im off. Libby and Chelsea, Libby tells her mum she is never leaving her again, then in the next episode she's off to spain with Chelsea!

What is going on!?
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You know I'd actually forgotten how awful Libby and Chelsea's was thus I only mentioned Adam's. I don't hold much hope for the new family based on how he's already handled the Golds. The sooner Kirkwood leaves, the better IMO
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Fire starting in Il Gnosh, and the camera zooms upstairs showing Amy Barnes asleep on the couch while the room fills with smoke.

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That was so funny, kinda made the crash for me though
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Xmas TV was absolutely dire this year and Eastenders was awful. So many inconsistencies and borign moments.

* Ronnie and Roxy moping around about Archie again seemed very repetative and built up to nothing. Why weren't they concerned about the fact their mother had recently been pushed down the stairs? Where was Glenda anyway?

* Ryan handing over Lily so easily within the last 10 minutes was rushed and unbelievable. Stacey just admitted she didn't really love him so didn't want him going with her or their baby? Bitch!

* Max wanting to jet off and flee with Stacey? Ok, he was gonna do that a few years ago amidst the height of their affair but then Tanya had Oscar and Bradley died - would he really leave them all now? Also rushed and out of character. Plus it made the Max/Vanessa 'romance' seem even more pointless/unnecessary.

* Why were Ian and Jane hardly featured and shown drinking merrilly in the pub? It's their first Xmas without Lucy or Peter! Peter only left the day before but he seemed compeltely forgotten about!

* Where was Denise? Similarly her first Xmas without any of her kids and her first Xmas since the Lucas reveal. No reflection on it at all - instead we had Kim and Pattrick drinking away withotu a care in the world.

I'm not impressed with Bryan Kirkwood's hold on EE at all. I thought I'd wait for the Xmas ep and try to focus on the positives but was completely underwhelmed. Ofcourse Stacey had to flee right away so her rushed exit was plausible but in the long run so many characters are having weak spur of the moment exits. Peggy upped and left the day after the fire, Adam when Libby found out he was propositioning Lucy, Peter when he didn't even push Glenda, and now Jean!
*Breathes* Rant over
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Bryan Kirkwood isn't very good at this. above post says it all. Peter Beale? surely Ian and Jane noticed on christmas day when he didn't come down to open presents.
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He's exits have been rubbish. Staceys was ok i thought although it wasnt feasible it was fitting. Peggy's was the worst exit ever. Pub blew up, ok im off. Libby and Chelsea, Libby tells her mum she is never leaving her again, then in the next episode she's off to spain with Chelsea!

What is going on!?
Yes Yes!

Don't forget Peggy watched her son on heroin and thought it best she left him on his own. When only a few hours before she was adamant he was going with her.

Peggy spent most of her predictable life talking about how important family is and when her family needed her the most, she just walks away all because she lost 'her' pub!!
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They made it look really easy to come off heroin.
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A thread for those moments in soaps that stretch the boundaries of reality

- EE: Stacy getting a flight on Christmas day
that seems quite reasonable to me...but then I don't fly.
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that seems quite reasonable to me...but then I don't fly.
Yeah but she got the flight on Christmas day, it wasnt prebooked xD Not to mention she took Lily..who most likely doesnt have a passport xD

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