Here are a few things that simply need to be addressed. Please pay attention. These will aid in your understanding of Eastenders.
1. The Money Phil Stole from Roxy
For everyone on the Digital Spy and Walford Web forums who keep bringing this old chestnut up as evidence of Roxy's stupidity, please note: Phil returned the money he stole to Roxy. True, she never knew he did this, but she got her money back. If you'll just calm down a minute, I'll help you remember.
If you recall, Glenda sussed that Phil had stolen the money, and she and Roxy sneaked into the Mitchell house to raid the safe. Roxy had taken out the money she was owed, but Glenda got greedy and wanted to take more. Well, they were caught, innit? But Phil "proved" to Roxy that it wasn't he who'd stolen her money, but Mommie Dearest. Remember he paid Masood to plant the "missing" money in Glenda's bedroom. Roxy found it; ergo, she got her money back.
They didn't "forget" that storyline, they resolved it.
2. Cora's Missing Daughter/Sharon's Missing Mother
Now hear this: CORA IS NOT SHARON'S MOTHER. SHARON IS NOT NOT NOT CORA'S DAUGHTER.
After Angie had left Walford and after Den had died and Sharon had discovered that Vicky was her sister, she endeavoured to find her birth mother. She went about this perfectly correctly and the way it should have been done. You see, in those days, Eastenders did proper research, instead of making the rules up as they went along. Sharon got a copy of her birth certificate - not hard to do - and from that, found her birth mother's name. Then she went through the appropriate agency to make contact. If the agency hadn't found out that her mother was looking for her also, no contact would have been made.
Anyway, she found her mother. Her mother was named Carol Hanley and appeared to be in her late thirties when we met her. I would say the age difference between Sharon and Carol was roughly the same as between Bianca and Carol. When they met, Carol was pregnant. She told Sharon that her birth father was a boy she'd known as a teenager and his name was Gavin. Carol's husband was named Ron, who knew about Sharon, and she had two small boys. She and Sharon met several times. However, when Carol proved reluctant to introduce Sharon to her brothers as their sister, Carol confessed that she only thought of Sharon as a good friend and not a mother.
Carol Hanley is Sharon's mother. The woman she met was not an imposter fronting for Cora, and Cora is not Carol Hanley.
Someone on DS suggested that Eastenders could (and maybe should) totally scrap the storyline from 1990, as not that many people had witnessed it, and retcon Sharon so she could be Cora's daughter. If the current powers-that-be even think about retconning that, it would simply be the death of Eastenders, plus it would be cheap and would cheapen an iconic character, because it would simply be a craven attempt to link her to the current cancer-infestation that is the Brannings now.
It's bad enough that Kirkwood totally retconned the fact that Morgan Butcher had been the product of his mother's one night stand with a stranger into his being the result of a long-standing relationship between Ray and Bianca, but this would really be jumping the shark.
Sharon is not Cora's daughter, just like Lola was not Mandy's.
3. Tanya, Derek and Lauren
Derek is not Lauren's father. Tanya did not sleep with Derek whilst having an affair with Max, nor was she raped by him. Max fathered Lauren. And Tanya did not meet Derek until she married Max, at her wedding.
Jack is not Lauren's father either.
4. Kathy Is Dead
Get over it. Kathy is dead. Cindy is dead. Mark Fowler is dead. So are Den, Dennis Rickman, Pauline Fowler, Frank Butcher and Pat.
Some of them died off-screen. One died twice. They won't make that mistake again. Suck it up.
5. Jean STOLE
Sorry, Jean fans, but Jean stole Alfie's money. She took his money twice - once from his VAT account - and gave the money to Michael. Yes, Michael was scamming her, and he was committing a crime too; but Jean took money that wasn't hers without permission. She stole from Alfie the same way Billy stole from Janine. And Peggy.
And, please, shut up, about the money she stole from Alfie being stolen money as a result of Alfie scamming Derek. The Vic is a business and Alfie does make some sort of profit. Put your Alfie hate back in the trollbox under the bridge you inhabit.
6. Stacey Is a Murderer
Really, I promise you, she is. No matter how evil Archie Mitchell was, he didn't deserve to be judged, sentenced and executed by someone whose morals were only marginally better than his. Please get this straight: she didn't murder Archie because she was suffering from a bi-polar episode. Diederick Santer, himself, confirmed this. Stacey was lucid and knew exactly what she was doing, hence the gloves. She didn't murder Archie for having raped Ronnie. She knew nothing of that. She didn't murder Archie because of the way he treated Peggy. She couldn't give a rat's arse about Peggy.
She murdered Archie as some sort of convoluted revenge on Danielle, her five-minute best friend. She murdered him because he raped her (which is not a crime punishable by death, except in the Middle East, and then it would be the victim who's put to death) and because she thought Archie would suss that her baby was his. Well, it wasn't, so that really was a stupid murder to commit.
And, by the way, Stacey is far from a saint. Not only did she murder a man, she assaulted a woman in broad daylight (Janine), broke up two marriages and allowed the man she supposedly loved, to die branded a murderer.
7. Phil Mitchell Is Not Responsible for Dennis Rickman's Death.
Dennis is responsible for his own death. Dennis, like all human beings, possessed free will. He knew Jonnie Allen's amoral capability. He also knew he had a pregnant wife and the chance of a new start in a new country. (The fact that he would have been turned back by INS in Florida because of his prison record is totally irrelevant to Eastenders' lax research of late). Dennis made the decision to confront Jonnie Allen after Phil told him what he did to Sharon. Dennis was an adult. The buck stops with him.
8. And, NO, Phil Does Not Love Shirley
I'm sorry, but he doesn't. She's a warm body, friends with benefits, chief cook and bottle-washer. She is not the love of his life. If she were, he would have told her what happened to Heather. When it's revealed what Ben has done, Shirley and Phil will be toast. But they never were love's young dream. People should have realised that when he readily bedded Glenda and then was unable and unwilling to promise fidelity to Shirley, because "that was the way that he was." That's not love. That's convenience.
1. The Money Phil Stole from Roxy
For everyone on the Digital Spy and Walford Web forums who keep bringing this old chestnut up as evidence of Roxy's stupidity, please note: Phil returned the money he stole to Roxy. True, she never knew he did this, but she got her money back. If you'll just calm down a minute, I'll help you remember.
If you recall, Glenda sussed that Phil had stolen the money, and she and Roxy sneaked into the Mitchell house to raid the safe. Roxy had taken out the money she was owed, but Glenda got greedy and wanted to take more. Well, they were caught, innit? But Phil "proved" to Roxy that it wasn't he who'd stolen her money, but Mommie Dearest. Remember he paid Masood to plant the "missing" money in Glenda's bedroom. Roxy found it; ergo, she got her money back.
They didn't "forget" that storyline, they resolved it.
2. Cora's Missing Daughter/Sharon's Missing Mother
Now hear this: CORA IS NOT SHARON'S MOTHER. SHARON IS NOT NOT NOT CORA'S DAUGHTER.
After Angie had left Walford and after Den had died and Sharon had discovered that Vicky was her sister, she endeavoured to find her birth mother. She went about this perfectly correctly and the way it should have been done. You see, in those days, Eastenders did proper research, instead of making the rules up as they went along. Sharon got a copy of her birth certificate - not hard to do - and from that, found her birth mother's name. Then she went through the appropriate agency to make contact. If the agency hadn't found out that her mother was looking for her also, no contact would have been made.
Anyway, she found her mother. Her mother was named Carol Hanley and appeared to be in her late thirties when we met her. I would say the age difference between Sharon and Carol was roughly the same as between Bianca and Carol. When they met, Carol was pregnant. She told Sharon that her birth father was a boy she'd known as a teenager and his name was Gavin. Carol's husband was named Ron, who knew about Sharon, and she had two small boys. She and Sharon met several times. However, when Carol proved reluctant to introduce Sharon to her brothers as their sister, Carol confessed that she only thought of Sharon as a good friend and not a mother.
Carol Hanley is Sharon's mother. The woman she met was not an imposter fronting for Cora, and Cora is not Carol Hanley.
Someone on DS suggested that Eastenders could (and maybe should) totally scrap the storyline from 1990, as not that many people had witnessed it, and retcon Sharon so she could be Cora's daughter. If the current powers-that-be even think about retconning that, it would simply be the death of Eastenders, plus it would be cheap and would cheapen an iconic character, because it would simply be a craven attempt to link her to the current cancer-infestation that is the Brannings now.
It's bad enough that Kirkwood totally retconned the fact that Morgan Butcher had been the product of his mother's one night stand with a stranger into his being the result of a long-standing relationship between Ray and Bianca, but this would really be jumping the shark.
Sharon is not Cora's daughter, just like Lola was not Mandy's.
3. Tanya, Derek and Lauren
Derek is not Lauren's father. Tanya did not sleep with Derek whilst having an affair with Max, nor was she raped by him. Max fathered Lauren. And Tanya did not meet Derek until she married Max, at her wedding.
Jack is not Lauren's father either.
4. Kathy Is Dead
Get over it. Kathy is dead. Cindy is dead. Mark Fowler is dead. So are Den, Dennis Rickman, Pauline Fowler, Frank Butcher and Pat.
Some of them died off-screen. One died twice. They won't make that mistake again. Suck it up.
5. Jean STOLE
Sorry, Jean fans, but Jean stole Alfie's money. She took his money twice - once from his VAT account - and gave the money to Michael. Yes, Michael was scamming her, and he was committing a crime too; but Jean took money that wasn't hers without permission. She stole from Alfie the same way Billy stole from Janine. And Peggy.
And, please, shut up, about the money she stole from Alfie being stolen money as a result of Alfie scamming Derek. The Vic is a business and Alfie does make some sort of profit. Put your Alfie hate back in the trollbox under the bridge you inhabit.
6. Stacey Is a Murderer
Really, I promise you, she is. No matter how evil Archie Mitchell was, he didn't deserve to be judged, sentenced and executed by someone whose morals were only marginally better than his. Please get this straight: she didn't murder Archie because she was suffering from a bi-polar episode. Diederick Santer, himself, confirmed this. Stacey was lucid and knew exactly what she was doing, hence the gloves. She didn't murder Archie for having raped Ronnie. She knew nothing of that. She didn't murder Archie because of the way he treated Peggy. She couldn't give a rat's arse about Peggy.
She murdered Archie as some sort of convoluted revenge on Danielle, her five-minute best friend. She murdered him because he raped her (which is not a crime punishable by death, except in the Middle East, and then it would be the victim who's put to death) and because she thought Archie would suss that her baby was his. Well, it wasn't, so that really was a stupid murder to commit.
And, by the way, Stacey is far from a saint. Not only did she murder a man, she assaulted a woman in broad daylight (Janine), broke up two marriages and allowed the man she supposedly loved, to die branded a murderer.
7. Phil Mitchell Is Not Responsible for Dennis Rickman's Death.
Dennis is responsible for his own death. Dennis, like all human beings, possessed free will. He knew Jonnie Allen's amoral capability. He also knew he had a pregnant wife and the chance of a new start in a new country. (The fact that he would have been turned back by INS in Florida because of his prison record is totally irrelevant to Eastenders' lax research of late). Dennis made the decision to confront Jonnie Allen after Phil told him what he did to Sharon. Dennis was an adult. The buck stops with him.
8. And, NO, Phil Does Not Love Shirley
I'm sorry, but he doesn't. She's a warm body, friends with benefits, chief cook and bottle-washer. She is not the love of his life. If she were, he would have told her what happened to Heather. When it's revealed what Ben has done, Shirley and Phil will be toast. But they never were love's young dream. People should have realised that when he readily bedded Glenda and then was unable and unwilling to promise fidelity to Shirley, because "that was the way that he was." That's not love. That's convenience.
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