The absolute best part of this episode was Billy's actual run. To watch him run around the Square and see him being saluted by all the major characters in the Square, was really quite inspiring.
I'll be the first to admit that I like Billy Mitchell. I know he's not liked by a lot of fans and many question having him remain in the show, but as a choral character who can cope with background characterisations and the occasional major storyline, Perry Fenwick is in his element. Fenwick is actually a good actor, and it's more than screwing up his face. He was instrumental in dealing with Jay in the aftermath of Heather's death, and although Billy lives for being accepted as a real Mitchell, he knows exactly what Phil Mitchell is and of what he's capable of doing.
Like Ricky Butcher, whom we'll never see on our screens again (if you believe that), Billy is a good everyman figure. He has a good friendship with Alfie and also with Janine. And since tonight's episode was heavy on the foreshadowing element, I'd say he will have something stronger in the future with Jean. Jean was actually quite good tonight. I'm glad she left the Vic early in a rush and left that sour-faced Kat to stew in her own foul juices.
She was the downside of the episode. And once again, she took a moral high ground to which she wasn't entitled in subtly berating Alfie for allowing Roxy to help in the Torch extravaganza, when she wasn't around. Why? Because she rushed off to Shaggerman's flat. And how totally unbelieveable that all five of the presumed suspects would stand across the street and all stare at her. Who is attracted to a woman who dresses as a whore? A woman who dumps her child on anyone just to run off for a quick fuck. "Big Mistake" in lipstick, simply because some man isn't paying total and 100% attention to her sorry,botoxed, narcissistic ass. Everyone in possession of a dick has to pay homage to Saint Kat, patron saint of sluts.
The banter as well by the football team about Kat wearing the trousers in the Moon household is down to Bryan Kirkwood and him alone. Alfie was never like that, and all of them have room to talk - Max, who can't abide living apart from Tanya; Jack, who's a male slut; Michael, who's dependent upon a wealthy woman who doesn't trust him; Ray, whose best lover is his right hand. That leaves Derek, who was the first to leer across the street at Katshite. They deserve each other.
Make no mistake: Kat has to suffer in all of this. She has to be humiliated, thrown out and shunned. She has to lose everything and leave Walford - but whether this EP has the balls to do that remains to be seen.
More foreshadowing with Cora, who's now a midwife, of all things, coaxing Lola the Unlikeable through labour - still no sympathy for the little chav slapper with the bloody doll. Anyone could have screamed and shouted through that; but we had a foreshadowing of the fact that Cora gave up a baby for adoption ... and NO, THAT BABY WAS NOT SHARON.
Lucy and Tanya ... meh. Billy was the star.
I'll be the first to admit that I like Billy Mitchell. I know he's not liked by a lot of fans and many question having him remain in the show, but as a choral character who can cope with background characterisations and the occasional major storyline, Perry Fenwick is in his element. Fenwick is actually a good actor, and it's more than screwing up his face. He was instrumental in dealing with Jay in the aftermath of Heather's death, and although Billy lives for being accepted as a real Mitchell, he knows exactly what Phil Mitchell is and of what he's capable of doing.
Like Ricky Butcher, whom we'll never see on our screens again (if you believe that), Billy is a good everyman figure. He has a good friendship with Alfie and also with Janine. And since tonight's episode was heavy on the foreshadowing element, I'd say he will have something stronger in the future with Jean. Jean was actually quite good tonight. I'm glad she left the Vic early in a rush and left that sour-faced Kat to stew in her own foul juices.
She was the downside of the episode. And once again, she took a moral high ground to which she wasn't entitled in subtly berating Alfie for allowing Roxy to help in the Torch extravaganza, when she wasn't around. Why? Because she rushed off to Shaggerman's flat. And how totally unbelieveable that all five of the presumed suspects would stand across the street and all stare at her. Who is attracted to a woman who dresses as a whore? A woman who dumps her child on anyone just to run off for a quick fuck. "Big Mistake" in lipstick, simply because some man isn't paying total and 100% attention to her sorry,botoxed, narcissistic ass. Everyone in possession of a dick has to pay homage to Saint Kat, patron saint of sluts.
The banter as well by the football team about Kat wearing the trousers in the Moon household is down to Bryan Kirkwood and him alone. Alfie was never like that, and all of them have room to talk - Max, who can't abide living apart from Tanya; Jack, who's a male slut; Michael, who's dependent upon a wealthy woman who doesn't trust him; Ray, whose best lover is his right hand. That leaves Derek, who was the first to leer across the street at Katshite. They deserve each other.
Make no mistake: Kat has to suffer in all of this. She has to be humiliated, thrown out and shunned. She has to lose everything and leave Walford - but whether this EP has the balls to do that remains to be seen.
More foreshadowing with Cora, who's now a midwife, of all things, coaxing Lola the Unlikeable through labour - still no sympathy for the little chav slapper with the bloody doll. Anyone could have screamed and shouted through that; but we had a foreshadowing of the fact that Cora gave up a baby for adoption ... and NO, THAT BABY WAS NOT SHARON.
Lucy and Tanya ... meh. Billy was the star.
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