The Daddy's Day episode, featuring all sorts and all sorts of foreshadowing, including the Return of Mick Carter.
Creepy Pervy Dirty Daddy. I can't say enough bad about Ian Beale. Shit, I can't say enough bad about the Beales, in general. Who'd have thought, a year ago, that the only person in that house with a moral fibre would be Cindy, and what a turn-up for the books that is, considering the shenanigans Cindy Snr got up to.
From the ueber creepy Father's Day Gift PsychoBobby gave Ian - the homemade frame with all of Ian's "children", curiously minus Steven but including Cindy, who's no blood relation to him either, as well as the Suarezed-mouth imp who busted the family dynamic all to smithereens. I wonder why there was no picture of Steven. He is, after all, as much Cindy's half-brother as he is the twins', and even though he ended any hope Jane the Queen had of providing yet another child in the Beale ménage, we did hear Peter whine to Ian that Steven was sending his love all the way from New Zealand.
Bobby's gift was the perfect foil for a psychopath. On the surface, it's a nice gesture to a man of a picture of (almost) all of his children, including the one who died at the hands of another; but strip a layer back, and it's a terrible reminder of the havoc Bobby's wreaked on the family unit. The twins, together, have both gone - one Bobby killed and the other who left the home rather than harbour a murderer, Bobby, himself, beaming in the centre, and stuck off to the side, is Cindy, on the outside looking in, but packed with some powerful knowledge.
Carol brought back - as she described it - "something which belonged" to Ian and Jane.Their unusual behaviour can't have been lost on Carol. Jane actually bought that story from Liam about Cindy staying with friends in Devon, when the child has no friends there. Things got even stranger when Cindy refused to return to live with the Beales. Jane wants her back, basically because she's scared shitless about what Lucy might do and what she might say away from the fold. Ian underestimates that Cindy doesn't have the verve or the will to confess what went on in the house that night and is still blaming her for Beth's departure.
Clock, however, his barely contained penchant for violence when Cindy almost blurted out the reason she didn't want to stay with the Beales. He couldn't get his fat arse across the kitchen quick enough to confront her.
Jane really is a piece of work, however, paying Carol to house Cindy "inderinitely", plying her with money and with the rationale being thus:-
I can't lose another daughter. Ian can't.
Here's a news flash for Jane the Queen: Cindy is not your daughter. Beth is not your daughter. And Lucy may have been Ian's daughter, but Bobby killed her, you dumpedher body on the Common, and you and Ian, collectively, are covering the whole, sordid mess up and hoping that the investigation will just shrivel up and go away.
Jane uttering that line tonight was as creepy as Ian whining about Beth being "our little girl."
Jane hasn't lost any daughterts. Jane needs a slap, and Kathy needs to come home.
Big Daddy vs Criminal Daddy. Kim has to have the cutest kid on the programme, and although I do like Vincent with his daughter - the dalliance with Roswell Ronnie didn't last long,did it? - I'm glad that Patrick, the best male character in the programme, has his arse pegged. Good continuity reference to Paul Trueman and how his dodgy habits almost destroyed his family, but I hated reference to the fact that Patrick had lost "both" his sons. Sure, Paul died, but Anthony is still alive. He was the scrote who callously wrote out a cheque for a grand because he couldn't look after Patrick after he had his stroke. He couldn't and he wouldn't.
Patrick isn't being snowed by any of Vincent's efforts.
Highlight of that piece was Denise's face as Kim told Vincent of the day's plans of lunch at The Albert, and a follow-up session of Afternoon Delight, specially tailored for Kim and Vincent.
Denise: Can anybody join in?
Vincent: The more the merrier.
Diane Parish deserves better than playing the straight man to Tameka Empson.
Sperm Donor Daddy. Rapist Daddy and Sainted Daddy All in the Family. We knew it eventually had to happen. It couldn't last. Mick Carter returned to the Square tonight and walked right into what was a stupid confrontation on Dean the Rapist's part.
I never thought I'd ever say I liked Buster Briggs, but I do. He's a man conflicted. He's got Dean's paternity results, but he's not sure Dean needs to follow through with his intention on staking a claim on paternity rights on the child Jade. Shirley's encouraging him, and Dean the Rapist has his mind made up. It worries me that TPTB seem to be spoon-feeding the audience the subtle idea that we should sympathise with Dean, but maybe they aren't, after tonight's episode.
Buster had a point to prove when he suggested a kickaround with Dean. He'd hardly known his own father, who'd been arrested for armed robbery when Buster was nine and then never appeared again. Buster had followed suit with his life, but Dean doesn't think this applies to him, and he has Shirley in his corner. It worries me to hear Dean speak of his legal father, the only one he's ever known, as "Kevin." But that seems to be the order of things. Buster and the soon-to-be-seen Gavin are sperm donors, but for Dean and Sharon they are the real deal, and that's pretty sad, especially since Dean waxed lyrical about the way Kevin cared for Jimbo, and the fact that Kevin was the only person who taught Dean what it meant to be a dad.
However, what seals Dean's intent for Buster was how determined he was to face a confrontation with Mick and Linda, newly returned home with their son - named appropriately Oliver Michael Stanley Carter. The fact that Dean was determined to sweep aside what happened between him and Linda as bygones now that he's got a daughter. Dean wasn't welcome in that family, Buster knows that and now he's certain why. Dean wasn't even worried about receiving his paternity tests early on, so determined was he to barge in and claim his daughter. As was pointed out, Social Services would certainly want to know about what happened with Linda. It was Buster who determined that the reason Dean really wants custody of Jade wasn't for Jade's benefit, but in order to make Dean feel better about himself. Shirley's still determined, however, because Jade is her opportunity to make up for abandoning Jimbo.
Of course, Shirley stands no chance in obtaining custody of Jade. She's a drunk, she's violent and she's homeless; and even though Buster's been in Dean's life all of five minutes, he knows his temper and doesn't think that's a good thing to have around a child. Maybe he should say the same thing to Shirley as well.
Divorced Dad, Hypocrite Dad and the Big Dick. Stacey is stitching Martin up like a kipper. He recognised early on that he was moving too fast when he suggested introducing her to Rebecca, but later on, after having experienced one of those yawningly inexplicable moments of restrained lust with Kush and mindful of the fact that Kush had asked Stacey to fanagle Shabnam into returning to Masood's house for a Ramadan reconciliation, she decided to play Martin some more. Result? He now thinks they are an item, and the wheels are set in motion for the cheating to commence.
Just as well Shabnam suddenly reconciled with Masood over a Father's Day card, because she's really going to need the support of her family when she finds out just what a Class A Dick with whom she's gotten involved.
Creepy Pervy Dirty Daddy. I can't say enough bad about Ian Beale. Shit, I can't say enough bad about the Beales, in general. Who'd have thought, a year ago, that the only person in that house with a moral fibre would be Cindy, and what a turn-up for the books that is, considering the shenanigans Cindy Snr got up to.
From the ueber creepy Father's Day Gift PsychoBobby gave Ian - the homemade frame with all of Ian's "children", curiously minus Steven but including Cindy, who's no blood relation to him either, as well as the Suarezed-mouth imp who busted the family dynamic all to smithereens. I wonder why there was no picture of Steven. He is, after all, as much Cindy's half-brother as he is the twins', and even though he ended any hope Jane the Queen had of providing yet another child in the Beale ménage, we did hear Peter whine to Ian that Steven was sending his love all the way from New Zealand.
Bobby's gift was the perfect foil for a psychopath. On the surface, it's a nice gesture to a man of a picture of (almost) all of his children, including the one who died at the hands of another; but strip a layer back, and it's a terrible reminder of the havoc Bobby's wreaked on the family unit. The twins, together, have both gone - one Bobby killed and the other who left the home rather than harbour a murderer, Bobby, himself, beaming in the centre, and stuck off to the side, is Cindy, on the outside looking in, but packed with some powerful knowledge.
Carol brought back - as she described it - "something which belonged" to Ian and Jane.Their unusual behaviour can't have been lost on Carol. Jane actually bought that story from Liam about Cindy staying with friends in Devon, when the child has no friends there. Things got even stranger when Cindy refused to return to live with the Beales. Jane wants her back, basically because she's scared shitless about what Lucy might do and what she might say away from the fold. Ian underestimates that Cindy doesn't have the verve or the will to confess what went on in the house that night and is still blaming her for Beth's departure.
Clock, however, his barely contained penchant for violence when Cindy almost blurted out the reason she didn't want to stay with the Beales. He couldn't get his fat arse across the kitchen quick enough to confront her.
Jane really is a piece of work, however, paying Carol to house Cindy "inderinitely", plying her with money and with the rationale being thus:-
I can't lose another daughter. Ian can't.
Here's a news flash for Jane the Queen: Cindy is not your daughter. Beth is not your daughter. And Lucy may have been Ian's daughter, but Bobby killed her, you dumpedher body on the Common, and you and Ian, collectively, are covering the whole, sordid mess up and hoping that the investigation will just shrivel up and go away.
Jane uttering that line tonight was as creepy as Ian whining about Beth being "our little girl."
Jane hasn't lost any daughterts. Jane needs a slap, and Kathy needs to come home.
Big Daddy vs Criminal Daddy. Kim has to have the cutest kid on the programme, and although I do like Vincent with his daughter - the dalliance with Roswell Ronnie didn't last long,did it? - I'm glad that Patrick, the best male character in the programme, has his arse pegged. Good continuity reference to Paul Trueman and how his dodgy habits almost destroyed his family, but I hated reference to the fact that Patrick had lost "both" his sons. Sure, Paul died, but Anthony is still alive. He was the scrote who callously wrote out a cheque for a grand because he couldn't look after Patrick after he had his stroke. He couldn't and he wouldn't.
Patrick isn't being snowed by any of Vincent's efforts.
Highlight of that piece was Denise's face as Kim told Vincent of the day's plans of lunch at The Albert, and a follow-up session of Afternoon Delight, specially tailored for Kim and Vincent.
Denise: Can anybody join in?
Vincent: The more the merrier.
Diane Parish deserves better than playing the straight man to Tameka Empson.
Sperm Donor Daddy. Rapist Daddy and Sainted Daddy All in the Family. We knew it eventually had to happen. It couldn't last. Mick Carter returned to the Square tonight and walked right into what was a stupid confrontation on Dean the Rapist's part.
I never thought I'd ever say I liked Buster Briggs, but I do. He's a man conflicted. He's got Dean's paternity results, but he's not sure Dean needs to follow through with his intention on staking a claim on paternity rights on the child Jade. Shirley's encouraging him, and Dean the Rapist has his mind made up. It worries me that TPTB seem to be spoon-feeding the audience the subtle idea that we should sympathise with Dean, but maybe they aren't, after tonight's episode.
Buster had a point to prove when he suggested a kickaround with Dean. He'd hardly known his own father, who'd been arrested for armed robbery when Buster was nine and then never appeared again. Buster had followed suit with his life, but Dean doesn't think this applies to him, and he has Shirley in his corner. It worries me to hear Dean speak of his legal father, the only one he's ever known, as "Kevin." But that seems to be the order of things. Buster and the soon-to-be-seen Gavin are sperm donors, but for Dean and Sharon they are the real deal, and that's pretty sad, especially since Dean waxed lyrical about the way Kevin cared for Jimbo, and the fact that Kevin was the only person who taught Dean what it meant to be a dad.
However, what seals Dean's intent for Buster was how determined he was to face a confrontation with Mick and Linda, newly returned home with their son - named appropriately Oliver Michael Stanley Carter. The fact that Dean was determined to sweep aside what happened between him and Linda as bygones now that he's got a daughter. Dean wasn't welcome in that family, Buster knows that and now he's certain why. Dean wasn't even worried about receiving his paternity tests early on, so determined was he to barge in and claim his daughter. As was pointed out, Social Services would certainly want to know about what happened with Linda. It was Buster who determined that the reason Dean really wants custody of Jade wasn't for Jade's benefit, but in order to make Dean feel better about himself. Shirley's still determined, however, because Jade is her opportunity to make up for abandoning Jimbo.
Of course, Shirley stands no chance in obtaining custody of Jade. She's a drunk, she's violent and she's homeless; and even though Buster's been in Dean's life all of five minutes, he knows his temper and doesn't think that's a good thing to have around a child. Maybe he should say the same thing to Shirley as well.
Divorced Dad, Hypocrite Dad and the Big Dick. Stacey is stitching Martin up like a kipper. He recognised early on that he was moving too fast when he suggested introducing her to Rebecca, but later on, after having experienced one of those yawningly inexplicable moments of restrained lust with Kush and mindful of the fact that Kush had asked Stacey to fanagle Shabnam into returning to Masood's house for a Ramadan reconciliation, she decided to play Martin some more. Result? He now thinks they are an item, and the wheels are set in motion for the cheating to commence.
Just as well Shabnam suddenly reconciled with Masood over a Father's Day card, because she's really going to need the support of her family when she finds out just what a Class A Dick with whom she's gotten involved.
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