No doubt by now people have seen this tripe on Digital Spy. The Moons, Kat and Alfie, are allegedly going to be headed for divorce.
Now, that's reasonable. Kat's been a serially unfaithful wife, who, since their 2010 return, has treated her loving husband, Alfie, like a piece of shit.
Surprising as it might seem to Lorraine Newman, whom I respect less and less as each day passes, there are those of us who remember Kat and Alfie leaving Walford happy, a couple who'd been through the wars and survived with their love intact; and we were happy for them. When I heard they were returning in 2010, I was pleased, because - for once - we'd have a real couple genuinely in love who would stay together.
That does still happen in real life, you know.
But, as we all know, that which EastEnders created iconically, it now wantonly shreds. Three iconic women characters have been turned into bitches (Kat), bimbos (Sharon) and bores (Bianca).
I have to say, in all my years of watching the soap genre, never have I known a character to go from hero to zero in such a rapid time as Kat Moon has (although Sharon Rickman is rivalling that). Where once she was loved, she's now reviled, to the point that the character isn't even enjoyable to watch. But Newman is determined to keep a character she had a hand in creating (and which she also had a hand in dismantling).
So whilst most people have been clamouring for Kat to clear off Walford once Alfie had found out the true extent of her infidelity and kicked her skanky arse out of the Vic, Newman is determined to repair Kat, to renew her and Alfie and ensconce them safely in the pub.
Newman promised us that Kat would learn from her mistakes, that she would grow as a person and that we would learn why she fucked Derek.
All a load of old codswallop.
She's gone from blaming Derek for the affair to blaming Roxy and, lately, to blaming Alfie.
Alfie is reasonable in wanting a divorce. He obviously feels he can no longer trust her, so he wants to move on. Divorce is never pleasant, but this foul excuse for a woman is enraged to have this possibility presented before her - implying that she's still unable to accept responsibility for the break-up of her marriage (she never has).
That's it; she reacts with anger and rage.
Considering the fact that she's about to move in with her babydaddy, Michael Moon, this means we'll see an entire year of two aspects of Kat's personality:-
- She'll spend most of the time tormenting, baiting and humiliating and plotting against Alfie and Roxy.
- And when she's not doing that, she'll be bragging and baiting Janine about her having Scarlett and making life difficult for a woman whose self-esteem and confidence Michael Moon wantonly destroyed.
All of that until something happens and Alfie and Kat, somehow are reunited just in time for their tenth wedding anniversary.
There you go ... two doors shut and another one opens.
The resident yo-yo couple, Max and Tanya, are kaput; but there's always Alfie and Kat to take over. Time was, I was afraid Mas and Zainab would inherit that crown.
There used to be a time when a couple split on a soap, one of them left the show so the other would and could move on. In this instance, I think Alfie has been given a new lease on life with Roxy, whilst Kat has proven now to be one of the most unpopular characters on the show at the moment, and the way Newman is going, she's not improving.
Everything now points in the direction of Alfie feeling guilty for Kat and Janine's character development all being thrown by the wayside, leaving us with the caricatured Evil Janine.
The more shit I read about happening on this show, the more I am sorely tempted to turn the stuff off, but then I remember I pay a stealth tax which funds this rot.
Here's a challenge for Ms Newman: Kill off Kat. Or else give us a storyline showing the entire square infected by an STD, which she started.
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