Thursday's episode was written by Daran Little, my absolute favourite writer on the show.
I guess he must have been having a bad day because this episode had more bad points than good. It's obvious that this is "Billy Week," amongst other things, the week that saw the end of BGT and the preface to the big bazooka, the World Cup. This was also the episode which went head-to-head against Emmerdale and proved one thing:- that Emmerdale still wins out, which leads me to believe that there are still scores of problems which the show has to rectify. Yes, viewers are coming back, but viewers are still turning off.
A Few Minor Niggles about Billy Week:-
- Does Billy still squat at that flat? Originally, he and Julie moved in as squatters, and he blagged his way around the Social whilst the estate agent was banging on the door with prospective tenants. Billy's working at the chippy, for minimum wage, Lola's unemployed, and it's never been established whether or not Peter pays anything towards the upkeep. Even for - what? - a two-bedroomed basement flat in London, the rent would be exhorbitant. It was also established that Billy sees his kids twice a month at most and pays next-to-nothing for their maintenance, only giving Honey money on her birthday or Christmas. Billy had a pretty decent job with Janine, and he didn't contribute toward his children's financial maintenance?
- This move is all about Honey. Yeah, it is. It's more about her seeing the world and having "adventures" than what's best for her children, and what's worse is that she'll be having these "adventures" financed by her very young son, in the transient and self-obsessed modelling world. She also waxed lyrical about how good this would be "for William," yet little was said about Janet. I'm glad Billy reminded her of what a mare she was at the time of Janet's birth, hoping to abandon the child, then wanting her to be put into care because she was less than perfect.
- What is this "career" that Honey "gave up" for her children? Modelling? She was, at best, a wannabe. Her portfolio consisted of simpering shots taken by Billy atop the washing machines in the launderette. IIRC, she wasn't with Billy long before she fell pregnant. She went into labour with Janet on what was to have been their wedding day. Thereafter, she was mainly a mum, and she fell pregnant again, the year after Janet's birth. Maybe she pulled the odd pint in the Vic, but I want to know what her "career" was.
MAJOR FORESHADOWING ALERT!!!!!!!!
Yet again with the great Linda Carter - "a marriage is nothing if you don't have trust." True. This is the second time Linda's waxed lyrical about the perfect marriage she had with Mick - the first time being in the same cafe in January when she told Sharon succinctly that she'd only ever been with Mick and couldn't imagine being with anyone else. Sounds like the trust element is going to bottom out of the Carter marriage and someone will cheat. This is EastEnders, after all.
In the Wake of Daddy Warbucks's Departure ...
- Carol is still selfish and Bianca is still stupid. Line of the night goes to Carol re Sonia:- Did you ever think how we're going to manage if she can't cover my shifts? I don't get it, Carol. You're younger daughter has been burning the candle at both ends, literally putting her professional career on the line, a career she fought against all odds to attain (in a time when the youngsters on EastEnders actually wanted to make something of themselves), and all you can do is bellow about what happens if she has to give up doing your shifts. Then she moans at Sonia, actually more than implying that Sonia should use the pity card and tell her supervisor that Carol has cancer. I'm sure the supervisor will be very sorry to hear that, but it doesn't belie the fact that Sonia has been late for her shift several times because of attending to Carol's shift - punctuality is important in a nurse's career, because the beginning of their shift is given over to taking a full report by the charge nurse of the status of every patient on the ward; and she's fallen asleep whilst on duty, which doesn't help her duty of care remit. Besides, her ward sister probably clocked her hiding her face the day she fobbed off to go to Carol's non-wedding.
If this is the beginning of Bianca's leaving line - selling dodgy knock-off gear and going to prison again because of it, please kill me now. Not only would I love for Bianca to swan off into the sunset with Ricky for a happy ending in Australia, I want her to take the kids.
It's actually just dawned on me that Bianca is a selfish, grown-up Lil'Orphan Annie, with David as her Daddy Warbucks.
Something about the Beales.
-Peter isn't allowed to see Jake on remand because he's a close relative of the murder victim, yet Janine was allowed to visit Alice when Alice was on remand for Michael's murder, and not only was Janine the wife of the murder victim, she was also, at the time, the prime witness. Go figure that one.
- Ian is a little too close-minded about Jake being the murderer. And that's suspicious. Phil spoke the truth tonight. He's been around the block enough times to know when someone is telling the truth and when he isn't. Ian took Jake into his own home and gave him a job when Jake was in a very dark place. It's never been said that Lucy was a victim of any sort of sexual violence, and the police would have taken a DNA sample from Jake. As I've said, in the real world, the first two suspects the police would try to eliminate would be Ian and Peter, because most murder victims know their killer. It seems as if Ian's taken one thing to heart that Phil and Sharon told him: If Jake is released, the police will be around Ian's house asking more and more questions, and soon that flimsy alibi Ian's got about Good Friday will be blown apart. Just when the murder mystery is losing a bit of momentum, that little element of creepiness pops up again.
A Lot of Old Tosh.
Or should I say, "a lot of old, rank Tina?"
I know this is supposed to be a story leading up to domestic abuse, but why is the so-called "abuser," Tosh, coming off the more sympathetic of the two? More importantly, why is she attracted to a woman who is forty and dresses like a five year-old on the way to fancy dress? Why does Tina act like a retarded 8 year-old on the verge of a hissy fit?
Tosh asks Tina not to bring what is effectively non-essential junk into the boxroom they share, Tina gets stroppy, Shirley Queen of Scrotes steps in, and Tosh relents. Tosh asks her partner to buy a nice frock for her firm's do and Tina spends the day moaning about having to do this, getting in a frazzle, getting drunk and puking on Tosh.
Listen, Honker is attracted to this loser. I guess she'd rather be puked upon than burped at.
Then we find out that Tosh really wants a family and children. Does she know how Tina treated her daughter?
I really hate Tina. Really. Seriously.
I guess he must have been having a bad day because this episode had more bad points than good. It's obvious that this is "Billy Week," amongst other things, the week that saw the end of BGT and the preface to the big bazooka, the World Cup. This was also the episode which went head-to-head against Emmerdale and proved one thing:- that Emmerdale still wins out, which leads me to believe that there are still scores of problems which the show has to rectify. Yes, viewers are coming back, but viewers are still turning off.
A Few Minor Niggles about Billy Week:-
- Does Billy still squat at that flat? Originally, he and Julie moved in as squatters, and he blagged his way around the Social whilst the estate agent was banging on the door with prospective tenants. Billy's working at the chippy, for minimum wage, Lola's unemployed, and it's never been established whether or not Peter pays anything towards the upkeep. Even for - what? - a two-bedroomed basement flat in London, the rent would be exhorbitant. It was also established that Billy sees his kids twice a month at most and pays next-to-nothing for their maintenance, only giving Honey money on her birthday or Christmas. Billy had a pretty decent job with Janine, and he didn't contribute toward his children's financial maintenance?
- This move is all about Honey. Yeah, it is. It's more about her seeing the world and having "adventures" than what's best for her children, and what's worse is that she'll be having these "adventures" financed by her very young son, in the transient and self-obsessed modelling world. She also waxed lyrical about how good this would be "for William," yet little was said about Janet. I'm glad Billy reminded her of what a mare she was at the time of Janet's birth, hoping to abandon the child, then wanting her to be put into care because she was less than perfect.
- What is this "career" that Honey "gave up" for her children? Modelling? She was, at best, a wannabe. Her portfolio consisted of simpering shots taken by Billy atop the washing machines in the launderette. IIRC, she wasn't with Billy long before she fell pregnant. She went into labour with Janet on what was to have been their wedding day. Thereafter, she was mainly a mum, and she fell pregnant again, the year after Janet's birth. Maybe she pulled the odd pint in the Vic, but I want to know what her "career" was.
MAJOR FORESHADOWING ALERT!!!!!!!!
Yet again with the great Linda Carter - "a marriage is nothing if you don't have trust." True. This is the second time Linda's waxed lyrical about the perfect marriage she had with Mick - the first time being in the same cafe in January when she told Sharon succinctly that she'd only ever been with Mick and couldn't imagine being with anyone else. Sounds like the trust element is going to bottom out of the Carter marriage and someone will cheat. This is EastEnders, after all.
In the Wake of Daddy Warbucks's Departure ...
- Carol is still selfish and Bianca is still stupid. Line of the night goes to Carol re Sonia:- Did you ever think how we're going to manage if she can't cover my shifts? I don't get it, Carol. You're younger daughter has been burning the candle at both ends, literally putting her professional career on the line, a career she fought against all odds to attain (in a time when the youngsters on EastEnders actually wanted to make something of themselves), and all you can do is bellow about what happens if she has to give up doing your shifts. Then she moans at Sonia, actually more than implying that Sonia should use the pity card and tell her supervisor that Carol has cancer. I'm sure the supervisor will be very sorry to hear that, but it doesn't belie the fact that Sonia has been late for her shift several times because of attending to Carol's shift - punctuality is important in a nurse's career, because the beginning of their shift is given over to taking a full report by the charge nurse of the status of every patient on the ward; and she's fallen asleep whilst on duty, which doesn't help her duty of care remit. Besides, her ward sister probably clocked her hiding her face the day she fobbed off to go to Carol's non-wedding.
If this is the beginning of Bianca's leaving line - selling dodgy knock-off gear and going to prison again because of it, please kill me now. Not only would I love for Bianca to swan off into the sunset with Ricky for a happy ending in Australia, I want her to take the kids.
It's actually just dawned on me that Bianca is a selfish, grown-up Lil'Orphan Annie, with David as her Daddy Warbucks.
Something about the Beales.
-Peter isn't allowed to see Jake on remand because he's a close relative of the murder victim, yet Janine was allowed to visit Alice when Alice was on remand for Michael's murder, and not only was Janine the wife of the murder victim, she was also, at the time, the prime witness. Go figure that one.
- Ian is a little too close-minded about Jake being the murderer. And that's suspicious. Phil spoke the truth tonight. He's been around the block enough times to know when someone is telling the truth and when he isn't. Ian took Jake into his own home and gave him a job when Jake was in a very dark place. It's never been said that Lucy was a victim of any sort of sexual violence, and the police would have taken a DNA sample from Jake. As I've said, in the real world, the first two suspects the police would try to eliminate would be Ian and Peter, because most murder victims know their killer. It seems as if Ian's taken one thing to heart that Phil and Sharon told him: If Jake is released, the police will be around Ian's house asking more and more questions, and soon that flimsy alibi Ian's got about Good Friday will be blown apart. Just when the murder mystery is losing a bit of momentum, that little element of creepiness pops up again.
A Lot of Old Tosh.
Or should I say, "a lot of old, rank Tina?"
I know this is supposed to be a story leading up to domestic abuse, but why is the so-called "abuser," Tosh, coming off the more sympathetic of the two? More importantly, why is she attracted to a woman who is forty and dresses like a five year-old on the way to fancy dress? Why does Tina act like a retarded 8 year-old on the verge of a hissy fit?
Tosh asks Tina not to bring what is effectively non-essential junk into the boxroom they share, Tina gets stroppy, Shirley Queen of Scrotes steps in, and Tosh relents. Tosh asks her partner to buy a nice frock for her firm's do and Tina spends the day moaning about having to do this, getting in a frazzle, getting drunk and puking on Tosh.
Listen, Honker is attracted to this loser. I guess she'd rather be puked upon than burped at.
Then we find out that Tosh really wants a family and children. Does she know how Tina treated her daughter?
I really hate Tina. Really. Seriously.
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