Re: Phiw and Ben

On 2008-02-26 06:16:45 -0800, FiederEls in NL <Els@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

And for the first time in my 23yrs of watching EE i am considering to
stop watching..

Brava! Cut the cord, I say. EE is in the mire. Really, is there any character worth their salt aside from Dot? June Brown provides the only pleasure left, as far as I'm concerned. Everyone else is a bundle of tics and cliches. To enumerate a few:

Phil: reduced to scowls and grimaces - a single monotonous note now.

Ian: I'm surprised Adam Whotsit doesn't just walk - panto would be more dignified than the tripe he has to put up with.

Ronnie/Roxie: yawn inducing - little here we haven't seen before. The usual sense/sensibility cliches repeated ad infinitum.

Pat: worth watching, but utterly marginalized.

The Masoods: any good stuff is overwhelmed by the presence of the astonishingly irritating mother - I turn down the sound whenever she's onscreen.

Bradley/Stacey: James Bond? Doctor Who? I don't believe it for a second and this provides an object lesson in what's wrong with the F47. In place of character, they write attributes. Was there ever a more witless scene than the Doctor Who convention at St Pauls?

Tanya, et al: unpleasant and unwatchable.

Jane and her gay brother: what tosh! After not speaking to each other for years, after she declares her undying hatred for him, Jane and bro are now best pals, sharing smug glances on every possible occasion. All this in a month. WTF? Where was the reconciliation? Why *did* she hate him so? Hello...anyone home?

Clare: another bitch. I know, in 6 months we'll learn about her various psychic wounds (sexually abused by Nigel at 15, whatever), but it won't matter. Janine light. Yawn.

And while I'm here, I have to say that the recent single-hander with June, while beautifully performed and reasonably well constructed, was utterly phony. Not for a second would Dot refuse to take care of her ailing hubby at home - it goes against everything we've ever known about her character over the last 23 years. This was a "plot device" pure and simple, and it sacrificed Dot's integrity to deal with the real life stroke. Because our Dot would have brought him home if it killed her.

Rant over.

So why am I watching still? Good question. But I've taken to moving through entire predictable scenes at high speed. It may be the first step towards walking away completely.

Jean

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