One of my biggest and ongoing laments is the inability of people today, especially the vast majority of people under thirty to think critically. People are getting progressively more stupid, unable to understand any sort of complexity in life and only seeing things in black and white.
It's frightening.
For example, on Walford Web Bullyboi Fanboi Emporium, there's a little Scottish tosser who's advocating for Ava the Magic Negro to get violent with Dennis as and when he misbehaves. I'm no fan of the obnoxious child, but neither do I agree with corporal punishment by educators on children and even less with parents on children. The commentator in question, mr sunshine, is only approaching twenty, so it's patently obvious he never received a clip around the ears from any of his educators, and hardly from his parents. But in a soap, he and many others like him, would advocate an adult beating a child they disliked.
What promise the future holds for this country with assholes like mr sunshine maturing. Let's hope that he and the many permutations of Biffo vote for Scottish independence and then remain beyond Hadrian's wall, where they can beat children and cheer on psychopaths to their hearts' content.
Another frightening situation is the worship many of these insipid viewers give to functioning psychopaths. On Digital Spy, there seems to be a gaggle of female viewers - priscilla springs to mind - who cream their knickers at the thought of being fucked by Michael Moon. In fact, the poster in question actually longed to have a boyfriend like Michael.
I can only surmise that she's either stupid or a masochist or both, because most people who end up with a psychopath for a boyfriend or husband usually die young.
Yet it seem that EastEnders, the current incarnation of EastEnders 2.0, seek such intellectually dense viewers as these, and - in doing so - they are promoting a myth that's become a reality: that British people - specifically the 16-24 demographic - are amongst the lowest 10 per cent in intellectual capability in the world.
And that would include mr sunshine and priscilla.
Och aye.
Psycho Killer Redux.
(Sigh) ... There are those intrepid and intellectually dense souls who see Michael Moon as some sort of hero and the victim of evil Janine are willfully forgetting how he played her after the birth of Scarlett - trying to run out of Walford but being caught by Whitney, never showing for appointments, later undermining Janine when she was hormonal, suffering from PND and exhausted from nursing a sick child.
Everything Michael has said to Janine recently he said to her at her lowest point, and he was hoping to undermine her self-esteem even more. But Janine came back stronger, mentally and psychologically - which puts paid to the lie she told about Brazilian toy boys and sexual hijinks.She went away to get help.
(Sigh again) ... I'll explain once more, shall I? For the benefit of the Michael-shippers, including the latest fangirl on the bullboi emporium, let me reiterate that Michael is a psychopath. That's not my interpretation; the actor, himself, described his character as psychopathic. That wasn't recently, that was actually shortly after Moon appeared on the show that Steve John Shepherd identified him as a psychopath.
Psychopaths are arch manipulators, they don't empathise with anyone, they love themselves above all others, have delusions of grandeur, obsess about certain people - not our of love or devotion, but out of how useful those people can be to their aims. They are prone to violent outbursts and get off on sadistic actions. They use sex as a means of manipulation and control.
For all of you but-but-butting about Michael being such a good father. He's not. And he had you snookered also. Scarlett is useful to him at the moment. He can use her as a tool to get what he wants from other people. When he was first left with Scarlett, the scene that sticks most in my mind was when the baby was crying and he increased the volume of the television so he wouldn't hear her. He was desperate for a nanny, or anyone to look after the child (remember, it's only recently he's started calling her by her name), and came across as so weird that even the bona fide nanny sent by the agency wouldn't work for him.
It was only when he convinced Roxy to move into Janine's house to look after Scarlett that she got proper care. Then there was dippy Alice, who'd never been around a baby in her life. Michael was free to loll about the Square all day and never had to worry about parenting.
Another thing about this psychopath - psychopaths are charmers as well. Michael is still treated decently by the cousin, whose wife he impregnated. He's still treated decently by her. And Roxy. And Jean, all of whom he treated abysmally. That Kat thinks he needs a friend is pure ignorance. Moon disdains Kat. That foolish Alice thinks she can change him is delusional.
Moon hates them all. They're a means to an end, and he will use them at will.
And another thing ... Michael punches down. He's even afraid of someone like Max Branning.
His victims are women who are in a particularly vulnerable state:-
The Beale boys are back and bickering.
Ian finally runs into David. Ian must have been on holiday with Denise because Kim mentioned she'd just returned.
I loved the dialogue between the two of them, with the past brought up, although whoever wrote this missed a point not having the discussion in the main part of the restaurant and having David notice Pete's picture there.
There were references to Cindy and I'd forgotten Ian had found and read one of David's letters to Carol, piling on the smarm. Ian knows his brother doesn't do commitment. And where does Cindy the Greek get off in that superfluous scene where she offered him, out of hand (a fourteen year-old,mind you) some sirloin steaks from Ian's restaurant at a family discount.
Yes, David is Ian's family, but Cindy the Greek isn't. And before the numpties on Digital Spy start screaming, David is not Cindy the Greek's father.
Let me get this straight. Cindy the Greek wants to talk to someone about her mother, what was wrong with her Aunt Gina who supposedly got custody of her or her Nana Bev, with whom she was allegedly living until recently?
Am I wrong, but I don't think Ian would like to wax lyrical about a woman who hired a hitman to kill him? Ian is many things, but he's not Max Branning, and he's right when he said to David that, after every relationship implosion, Ian's picked himself up, dusted himself off and got on with life, however hypocritcal he is. His big mistake was bragging to David about his latest girlfriend, because David can't resist a bit of 'owsyerfavah' when it comes to either of his brothers' wives or girlfriends.
One thing for certain, if David sleeps with Denise, you can bet your bippy that Diane Parish will be leaving for Oxford or Marbella in a black cab.
One tiny incongruity here ... the scene in the Butcher-Jackson kitchen with the steaks and David remembers Carol likes her steaks cremated? How? When they were kids, I hardly think they barbecued steaks behind the bike shelter. In the 90s, they kept a low profile in David's flat for the weekend they were together, and there was no mention of steak meals when David and the folks were grieving Pat.
More retconning.
Give a Kidney.
Now for the Newman Negroes and their white Nana Cora.
Before I lay into the storyline that wasn't, I need to express concern about Ann Mitchell. Although I hate, loathe, detest and despise Cora, Mitchell is an adequate actress, but she seriously doesn't look well at all, and not since her return.
Her complexion is pasty and she's lost weight. She looks ill and wasted in the face.
I hope she's all right.
The Hartmans and Sam haven't worked, have they? I know that Sam and Ava are leaving, but really, Dexter should also. Dexter and Cindy the Greek are two of the youth factor who are surplus to requirements.
Anyway, this segment of the show reeked. Bad acting all around. I call these people "the Newman Negroes" because in every way, they are stereotypical Negroes. From Ava's seriously awful hysteria when "SuperDex" passed out (and needed a blood transfusion) to Sam's measured noble savage delivery to Dexter's Musical Youth audition, it sucks.
Once again, I ask why Ava didn't call her parents in this situation? They are still alive. She's referenced that, and she's referenced that they loved her and supported her in all sorts of trauma. Instead, that blowsy old trout Cora sticks her stinky oar in and imposes herself on a dynamic of people who are still strangers to her.
Is Dexter seriously so desperate for a white family that he hankers after being Cora's number one grandchild and can't stay away from the Brannings? Is he so filled with self-hatred about his skin colour that he has to bait Lola and Peter for their attraction to each other? Will his first superfluous storyline post-Ava and Sam be about skin lightener?
One other observation ... When Tanya had her cancer cold, as much comfort as she got from Cora was an admonition to buck herself up and get her act together. Instead, with Cora, she's all hearts and flowers and comfort. An element of this might be guilt in having given Ava up for adoption, but her reaction is hardly fair to her other two daughters whose up-bringing she fucked up royally.
Oh yes, another ubiquitous scene where we're treated to Jay, Lola, Abi and Peter, who seems to have attached himself to the junior brigade. He deserves better. With Lola.
It's frightening.
For example, on Walford Web Bullyboi Fanboi Emporium, there's a little Scottish tosser who's advocating for Ava the Magic Negro to get violent with Dennis as and when he misbehaves. I'm no fan of the obnoxious child, but neither do I agree with corporal punishment by educators on children and even less with parents on children. The commentator in question, mr sunshine, is only approaching twenty, so it's patently obvious he never received a clip around the ears from any of his educators, and hardly from his parents. But in a soap, he and many others like him, would advocate an adult beating a child they disliked.
What promise the future holds for this country with assholes like mr sunshine maturing. Let's hope that he and the many permutations of Biffo vote for Scottish independence and then remain beyond Hadrian's wall, where they can beat children and cheer on psychopaths to their hearts' content.
Another frightening situation is the worship many of these insipid viewers give to functioning psychopaths. On Digital Spy, there seems to be a gaggle of female viewers - priscilla springs to mind - who cream their knickers at the thought of being fucked by Michael Moon. In fact, the poster in question actually longed to have a boyfriend like Michael.
I can only surmise that she's either stupid or a masochist or both, because most people who end up with a psychopath for a boyfriend or husband usually die young.
Yet it seem that EastEnders, the current incarnation of EastEnders 2.0, seek such intellectually dense viewers as these, and - in doing so - they are promoting a myth that's become a reality: that British people - specifically the 16-24 demographic - are amongst the lowest 10 per cent in intellectual capability in the world.
And that would include mr sunshine and priscilla.
Och aye.
Psycho Killer Redux.
(Sigh) ... There are those intrepid and intellectually dense souls who see Michael Moon as some sort of hero and the victim of evil Janine are willfully forgetting how he played her after the birth of Scarlett - trying to run out of Walford but being caught by Whitney, never showing for appointments, later undermining Janine when she was hormonal, suffering from PND and exhausted from nursing a sick child.
Everything Michael has said to Janine recently he said to her at her lowest point, and he was hoping to undermine her self-esteem even more. But Janine came back stronger, mentally and psychologically - which puts paid to the lie she told about Brazilian toy boys and sexual hijinks.She went away to get help.
(Sigh again) ... I'll explain once more, shall I? For the benefit of the Michael-shippers, including the latest fangirl on the bullboi emporium, let me reiterate that Michael is a psychopath. That's not my interpretation; the actor, himself, described his character as psychopathic. That wasn't recently, that was actually shortly after Moon appeared on the show that Steve John Shepherd identified him as a psychopath.
Psychopaths are arch manipulators, they don't empathise with anyone, they love themselves above all others, have delusions of grandeur, obsess about certain people - not our of love or devotion, but out of how useful those people can be to their aims. They are prone to violent outbursts and get off on sadistic actions. They use sex as a means of manipulation and control.
For all of you but-but-butting about Michael being such a good father. He's not. And he had you snookered also. Scarlett is useful to him at the moment. He can use her as a tool to get what he wants from other people. When he was first left with Scarlett, the scene that sticks most in my mind was when the baby was crying and he increased the volume of the television so he wouldn't hear her. He was desperate for a nanny, or anyone to look after the child (remember, it's only recently he's started calling her by her name), and came across as so weird that even the bona fide nanny sent by the agency wouldn't work for him.
It was only when he convinced Roxy to move into Janine's house to look after Scarlett that she got proper care. Then there was dippy Alice, who'd never been around a baby in her life. Michael was free to loll about the Square all day and never had to worry about parenting.
Another thing about this psychopath - psychopaths are charmers as well. Michael is still treated decently by the cousin, whose wife he impregnated. He's still treated decently by her. And Roxy. And Jean, all of whom he treated abysmally. That Kat thinks he needs a friend is pure ignorance. Moon disdains Kat. That foolish Alice thinks she can change him is delusional.
Moon hates them all. They're a means to an end, and he will use them at will.
And another thing ... Michael punches down. He's even afraid of someone like Max Branning.
His victims are women who are in a particularly vulnerable state:-
- Kat, who was on her own and frightened after Alfie's arrest in Spain
- Roxy, who was lonely
- Jean, who was missing her children, suffering from bi-polar syndrome and thick as pig shit.
- Janine, who'd just endured a traumatic birth, a premature baby, was hormonal and suffering from PND
- Alice, who's stupid and innocent and who was grieving her dad.
The only woman with whom he hasn't been able to connect manipulatively has been Ronnie, and that's because she is exactly what he is - in his words a functioning psychopath.
I guess there's room for only one psychopath in Walford, so one will have to leave.
For anyone saying Janine deserved what she got or that she orchestrated the situation, that simply isn't true. She was cowering in her house with Scarlett, afraid to go outside. When have you ever known Janine Butcher with no front? She's not afraid of anyone or anything, but Michael's sexually sadistic attack in Friday's episode has shaken her. The relief on her face was palpable when David arrived at the door, and I'm glad he sussed that something was wrong with her.
Janine needs family around her right now.
The psychopathy continues to exert itself as Michael reveals himself in his true colours. Janine was right to invoke a court injunction on Moon for what he did. As for her striking a chord about Mummy Moon, I seem to recall Michael's big taunting line last year was always about Janine's daddy issues. Michael went for Janine's throat. He did the same to Jean. I would posit that this sexually arouses him. And he'd have thought nothing of killing them both.
His manipulation of the insipid Alice is tantamount to paedophilic grooming. Although Alice was frightened at his outburst in the morning, this was totally in character with a psychopath who is losing control of the situation he dominated. Since Janine had mentioned that she decided to change Scarlett's surname to Butcher, and remarked that something Alice said had influenced her, Michael had a natural blame bait in Alice.
Alice: All I said was that you would always be Scarlett's father.
Michael: Scarlett Butcher. Sounds like some sort of serial killer.
Now that's an ironic line, because I'm betting Michael's plan is for him to encourage Alice that they have a future together, kill Janine and then scarper with Scarlett, leaving Alice to take the blame for the murder.
Alice's initial reaction should have stuck with her. She ran from Michael and accepted Tamwar's offer of a place to stay for a few days. Smart move.
In the meantime, Michael totally loses it and begins a terror campaign outside Janine's front door.
Even later, when she's forced to go to the Minute Mart for nappies and encounters Michael, he's still undermining and manipulating. I'm glad she had her outburst and informed everyone within earshot what he tried to do and what she did in response. People in the community need to know who and what Michael is.
Line of the night:-
Kim: Remind me never to get on the wrong side of Janice.
In the end, who's stupid? Alice, once again. She knows Michael tried to strangle Janine. She heard him admit it and say, further more, that he could have gone all the way and killed her and that he enjoyed it. And yet she's persuaded to stay with him? With a kiss and a promise of kinky sex?
Is she so stupid not to realise that what he did to Janine, he could quite easily and without compunction, to to her? And besides, what has Janine ever done to Alice to inspire hatred? Janine has treated her with nothing but kindness, even treating her to stuff to the point that Alice felt so guilty at deceiving Janine, she confessed to working in collusion with Michael.
I'm glad both are leaving.
He Ain't Heavy ... He's My Brother.
The Beale boys are back and bickering.
Ian finally runs into David. Ian must have been on holiday with Denise because Kim mentioned she'd just returned.
I loved the dialogue between the two of them, with the past brought up, although whoever wrote this missed a point not having the discussion in the main part of the restaurant and having David notice Pete's picture there.
There were references to Cindy and I'd forgotten Ian had found and read one of David's letters to Carol, piling on the smarm. Ian knows his brother doesn't do commitment. And where does Cindy the Greek get off in that superfluous scene where she offered him, out of hand (a fourteen year-old,mind you) some sirloin steaks from Ian's restaurant at a family discount.
Yes, David is Ian's family, but Cindy the Greek isn't. And before the numpties on Digital Spy start screaming, David is not Cindy the Greek's father.
Let me get this straight. Cindy the Greek wants to talk to someone about her mother, what was wrong with her Aunt Gina who supposedly got custody of her or her Nana Bev, with whom she was allegedly living until recently?
Am I wrong, but I don't think Ian would like to wax lyrical about a woman who hired a hitman to kill him? Ian is many things, but he's not Max Branning, and he's right when he said to David that, after every relationship implosion, Ian's picked himself up, dusted himself off and got on with life, however hypocritcal he is. His big mistake was bragging to David about his latest girlfriend, because David can't resist a bit of 'owsyerfavah' when it comes to either of his brothers' wives or girlfriends.
One thing for certain, if David sleeps with Denise, you can bet your bippy that Diane Parish will be leaving for Oxford or Marbella in a black cab.
One tiny incongruity here ... the scene in the Butcher-Jackson kitchen with the steaks and David remembers Carol likes her steaks cremated? How? When they were kids, I hardly think they barbecued steaks behind the bike shelter. In the 90s, they kept a low profile in David's flat for the weekend they were together, and there was no mention of steak meals when David and the folks were grieving Pat.
More retconning.
Give a Kidney.
Now for the Newman Negroes and their white Nana Cora.
Before I lay into the storyline that wasn't, I need to express concern about Ann Mitchell. Although I hate, loathe, detest and despise Cora, Mitchell is an adequate actress, but she seriously doesn't look well at all, and not since her return.
Her complexion is pasty and she's lost weight. She looks ill and wasted in the face.
I hope she's all right.
The Hartmans and Sam haven't worked, have they? I know that Sam and Ava are leaving, but really, Dexter should also. Dexter and Cindy the Greek are two of the youth factor who are surplus to requirements.
Anyway, this segment of the show reeked. Bad acting all around. I call these people "the Newman Negroes" because in every way, they are stereotypical Negroes. From Ava's seriously awful hysteria when "SuperDex" passed out (and needed a blood transfusion) to Sam's measured noble savage delivery to Dexter's Musical Youth audition, it sucks.
Once again, I ask why Ava didn't call her parents in this situation? They are still alive. She's referenced that, and she's referenced that they loved her and supported her in all sorts of trauma. Instead, that blowsy old trout Cora sticks her stinky oar in and imposes herself on a dynamic of people who are still strangers to her.
Is Dexter seriously so desperate for a white family that he hankers after being Cora's number one grandchild and can't stay away from the Brannings? Is he so filled with self-hatred about his skin colour that he has to bait Lola and Peter for their attraction to each other? Will his first superfluous storyline post-Ava and Sam be about skin lightener?
One other observation ... When Tanya had her cancer cold, as much comfort as she got from Cora was an admonition to buck herself up and get her act together. Instead, with Cora, she's all hearts and flowers and comfort. An element of this might be guilt in having given Ava up for adoption, but her reaction is hardly fair to her other two daughters whose up-bringing she fucked up royally.
Oh yes, another ubiquitous scene where we're treated to Jay, Lola, Abi and Peter, who seems to have attached himself to the junior brigade. He deserves better. With Lola.
Walford Web should be taken off the net. I recall Shamelessness wishing Maddie McCann being found dead all because EE had to rewrite the Dawn/May storyline out of respect.
ReplyDeleteIts a hell hole.
It's a haven of fanboi bullybois who give the gay community a bad name.
DeleteGood God - those screams from Ava (TMN) were piercing & went right through me. I just wanted one of the nurses to smak her over the head with a metal kidney dish. I only hope that she doesn't scream at her real life daughter like that (her daughter was on a reality/documentary program called "The Undatables" for adults with disabilities).
ReplyDeleteI find it more unbelievable by the day that Cindy has not yet heard or figured out yet who David is.
& yes I couldn't agree more about the complete turnaround from Lola regarding Ronnie. But then I found her concern for "Grandad" Phil contrived also. He put her through hell for months. Very fickle.
Lucy does look healthier in the face which is good.
Re Janine, I took her comment to Michael about his Mummy issues as an intended jibe. She said 'sorry' because she had to. It was great to see her ruthless side again - this time it wasn't about the oneupmanship games they have been playing but out of genuine fear & concern for her and Scarlet.
Narcissistic benefit scrounging evil little trolls would be the real danger to society. You can hardly call yourself an asset.
ReplyDeleteEven if you had claimed benefit, it wouldn't make you a ''scrounger'' - just someone out of work for whatever reason. I'm not on benefits myself, but was in the past for about a year while job hunting, and it was horribly degrading. Whoever left that comment is a clueless moron with his or her head planted firmly up his or her arse. What a ****.
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