I hope all the fangirls and bullybois are happy that Peter Beale has been recast. Yet another YOOF to add to the largest demographic on what is rapidly becoming the UK's newest niche teen soap.
My first thought is that he's basically a poor man's Leonardo di Caprio, probably without any of di Caprio's talent and little or no acting experience. Nothing new, then. My second thought is that, hopefully, one of the two resident beefcakes will be on the way out the door - either Joey the mouth-breather or Tyler, but I'm doubtful, since one is a Branning currently fucking his Branning cousin, who happens to be the go-to girl, and the other is supposedly her escort to red carpet events in real life.
My third thought is that I hope Walford Web's Mute Banana has a lot of tissues on hand to clean his briefs from his fondest wish being fulfilled.
This show is on a hiding to nothing.
My first thought is that he's basically a poor man's Leonardo di Caprio, probably without any of di Caprio's talent and little or no acting experience. Nothing new, then. My second thought is that, hopefully, one of the two resident beefcakes will be on the way out the door - either Joey the mouth-breather or Tyler, but I'm doubtful, since one is a Branning currently fucking his Branning cousin, who happens to be the go-to girl, and the other is supposedly her escort to red carpet events in real life.
My third thought is that I hope Walford Web's Mute Banana has a lot of tissues on hand to clean his briefs from his fondest wish being fulfilled.
This show is on a hiding to nothing.
While it seems as if the Beales are getting some focus, it irritates me how they have given Peter what appears to be the generic teenage boy personality- cheeky, confident, ladies man. Everything Peter wasn't. It will be like Sharon- just another person to add to the demographic with the added bonus of having some history (which will no doubt be forgotten anyway). Forget the past: every boy on EE must be a Tyler/Joey/Dexter. I just hope this one can speak clearly.
ReplyDeleteAt least they remembered Peter and Lucy fell out but why over Lucy's BFF Leanne- I'm sure Lucy actively encouraged Peter to date her then BFF Lauren.
And as you pointed out, he's a newcomer; inexperienced. But the teenage girl won't care about that 'cuz he's soooo fit'. I wonder if Lorraine's office is filled with underwear catalogues, it would explain a lot. I'll wait till he comes on screen, and I hope this is just the usual PR rubbish- but my first impressions are not favourable.
I think this guy is older than 19 - he's appearing in the West End play "The Judas Kiss" which features a lot of nude males, which is obviously how his physique came to Lorraine's attention. And he studied at the London School of SPEECH and Drama, so he's articulate. However, don't hold your breath that the BFF LEANNE won't be making an appearance. This show is becoming Neighbours Thameside.
DeleteYou'd have thought that Lorraine had better things to do than watch plays with nude men- like improving the show. I wonder if these cheeky ladies men that she keeps putting into the show are her reliving past teenage fantasies- and as for Leanne, I wonder if she will come into the show either pregnant or with a child. Most probably.
DeleteAt least he can speak and has had acting training, so that's a plus. Shame about the personality transplant
Great. Another steroid-monkey who'll undoubtedly be a 'charmer' and a 'hit with the ladies'. I wonder if Lorraine Newman is menopausal because her hormones seem to be all over the place, casting beefcakes and indulging in soppy incestuous teen romances. I bet she writes her own erotic fanfiction about Lauren and Joey too. Maybe she can publish it once she's been sacked and earn a pretty penny like E L James.
ReplyDeleteThe show's starting to look like Home and Away or Neighbours. I stopped watching those shows over a decade ago and when I occasionally catch a few minutes nowadays, I cringe. A show full of pretty young things; little familiarity, no respect for the past, no depth. Eastenders is going the same way. You've often talked about the 'brands' of Corrie and Emmerdale and how, even when they're not at their best, people can still wander in and out of them because they're familiar and identifiable. That's spot on. I haven't watched Emmerdale regularly for God-knows-how-long, but I can still tune in from time to time and recognise the same show I used to watch. Same goes for Corrie. That's not the case for Eastenders. If I hadn't been watching for a couple of years and decided to tune in one night, I wouldn't have a clue who most of the characters were; why the Square was now full of immaculately primped and preened young underwear models; or what the fuck the likes of Kim and Ajay were doing there. It's a completely different show to what it once was, and Lorraine Newman seems to be doing the exact opposite of what she SHOULD be doing if she wants to get it back on track.
Why are the BBC letting this utterly incompetent woman carry on? They need to give her and half the writing team the boot and give the production system a complete overhaul otherwise they're toast. They're still putting all their effort into appealing to their basest viewing demographic - the teenagers, the shallow idiots who haven't heard of porn and require something to get moist over in order to enjoy a show, etc. Basically the people who make up the large part of the 7 million people who are still watching the show. These are the people who will watch the show anyway - no matter what. Going out of your way to appeal to them is futile because you could show a piece of shit with flies swarming around it for half an hour and they'd still be pissing themselves talking about how much they "luv watchin my Eastiezzzz". Those viewers are a dead cert. Start making the show good again and you might appeal to some of the millions of viewers who have deserted the show in the past 10 years. Those are the people they need to be aiming at, not the numbnuts who'll watch it no matter what.