It's Saturday night, and I guess things are a bit quiet at the kindergarten, so here's a song to stop Nurse Ratchit from stirring the cack:-
It seems that criticism of the current state of affairs in writing, production and performance quality on EastEnders. I mean, let's face it, when dan2008, the biggest shipper in Digital Spy's history, pans the show in a post of significant length, then you know the show is suffering.
Has there been a lot of criticism of the programme? Yes, and it's justified, especially coming from people who have watched the show prior to 2000.
But hop on over to Walford Web kindergarten, and something stinky is being cooked up. Again. On a Saturday night. By the usual suspect ... Nurse Ratchit.
The fun starts here.
To say this is passive-aggressive bullying in its best and most subtle form is an understatement. I always found it unusual that Walford Web sought to punish people with valid ideas and lucid contributions, whilst allowing the bullyboys and passive-aggressives with some sort of sad axe to grind, like Ratchit, to flourish.
What's absolutely hilarious is her suden defence of a poster whom others have long derided, and her sudden conversion to the belief that EastEnders is at its best form for ages ... when this viewpoint is only held by her in an effort to bully, denigrate and subtly harass other forum members in a way to make them look bad and her look good.
The last similar outburst of shit-stirring occurred on another Saturday night a few weeks ago. I detect a pattern. It's Saturday, she's bored, maybe she swigs a few drinks for Dutch courage and takes revenge on her perceived enemies in that forum.
Personally, I think it's time the forum's owner opened his eyes and stopped this childish behaviour in a fortysomething who really should know better.
Once again ... take this, courtesy of your hero Don-bloody-Draper.
"Drape" that about your shoulders, Ratchit. And to use some Cockney rhyming slang, do stop being the Berkhamsted Hunt.
EastEnders has really gone down the pan- and what pains me isn't just the Branning overload (though that plays a major role; I really wanted to kick Joey around the face yesterday)- its Zainab's exit. Nina's given so much and they are giving her a terrible exit; Lorraine should have just killed her off like she wanted (I thought actors had a say on whether they wanted the door closed or not. I know the actress who played Debbie Bates wanted Debbie dead.) A death would have been far more believable than this
ReplyDeleteI don't read the Walford Web (barely have time for Digital Spy most of the time!) so I don't know this poster who uses the moniker 'Nurse Rachit', but I do know they don't know their film characters (assuming they've named themselves after the character in 'One flew under the cuckoos nest' - an odd coincidence if not!) because if they'd bothered to check they'd find she's called 'Nurse Rached' with an 'ed' ending, not an 'it' one! Maybe they've never seen the film and just heard the name and assumed - maybe they should spend a little less time being a pain with comments about EE and double-check their username instead!
ReplyDeleteI'm so cross about Nina's exit - she's clearly been shafted by TPTB in retaliation for 'daring' to quit, and they refused point-blank to kill off Zainab (which Nina could see was the only sensible exit for the character within the current family dynamic which would make any sense) but instead they've used that old excuse of 'left the door open', which Nina never wanted or asked for (whereas plenty who have asked for the door to be left ajar have been killed off with indecent haste just to make sure they can never return - rightly so in some cases, erroneously in others; whether they get the choice or not depends on so many things, not least of which is whether the actor is still 'liked' by those at the top).
So we're left with this mess of Ayesha and Mas and a story line which is pure pants - and you can see that Nina is doing exactly what Jamie Foreman did once his departure was public! She's hamming up every scene as much as she can because it's her only way of sticking two fingers up at the TPTB and telling them she thinks their decision-making (both in the immediate present, near past and the last few years) stinks worse than the Thames at low-tide. Good on them both, I say - I mean, they must have thought "what are they going to do - sack me?" and just played the thing with the contempt it deserved!
But a sad end, and even more sad that EE should have come to this. I've watched since episode 1. I was 16 and had never seen anything like it. That first year alone there were so many quality story lines - story lines many still talk about because they were so memorable, not just in their hard-hitting impact, but in the way they were played and written by cast and crew.
I better shut up now otherwise I'll start using phrases like "I remember when..." and "It's not like the old days...", which will make me feel like a grumpy old (well, middle-aged!) woman on this lovely Sunday morning when it's not raining for a change!
I left Walford Web a while back and now looked at it. She comes across as really bitter and nasty. Has she always been like this or is a recent development.
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