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The General EastEnders Chatter Thread
Topic Started: May 21 2018, 08:38 PM (2,853 Views)
The Other Slater Cousin
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I'd argue Danny's portrayal of the paternal worry for Halfway is some of his best work on the show. It feels real, despite the Highway brothers being plucked from thin air. I believe in his care for the boy.
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The heist, somehow became about Mick and his war with Aidan. Shakil's stabbing, became about Mick and his guilt. This hunting storyline, has also become about Mick. Even Kat's return heavily involved Mick. It just feels like he has a foot in every story. One or two wouldn't be bad but it is constant overuse. It doesn't help matters that Danny Dyer only has one facial expression.
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Sue Osman

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Jun 28 2018, 08:07 AM
The heist, somehow became about Mick and his war with Aidan. Shakil's stabbing, became about Mick and his guilt. This hunting storyline, has also become about Mick. Even Kat's return heavily involved Mick. It just feels like he has a foot in every story. One or two wouldn't be bad but it is constant overuse. It doesn't help matters that Danny Dyer only has one facial expression.
On paper the idea of Mick going from the stabbing story to the Stuart story makes sense - he is vulnerable psychologically and could be more easily pulled into Stuart's own twisted games. The male cast is also so decimated that Mick is now the closest they have to an "everyman" character, and that's what these stories are using him for - what would you do if a boy was bleeding to death in front of you and you ignored him? What would you do if someone asked you to help them hunt down those who prey on children?

The problems for me are:

- I don't believe Mick suits the everyman role, and I never have. (I thought he was more interesting when the focus was on how broken and stunted he was with his children)
- Danny Dyer, while not a bad actor, is not suited to this type of material (this is the type of stuff that someone like Mike Reid would have been at home in)
- If the idea is Mick wants to protect young people the way he could not save Shakil, then there has been too much focus on Stuart being the one manipulating him.
- Stuart is such an OTT, one-note psycho, and has been from the start. This means that I simply don't believe that he could successfully manipulate Mick. It also means that we never got to see someone we thought we could trust then unravel into mania and darkness. It's just been someone making a lot of crazy faces all the time as everyone around him (aside from his long-suffering, living saint brother, of course) has to tolerate him to keep the plot going.

If they were going to do this story, it would have made more sense to me if they had never had a Stuart, and instead had Jack nearly lose Amy to some kind of sicko, and this would make him snap after losing Ronnie and the whole busted relationship with Mel (maybe they could have also had Sam take Ricky back too), dragging Mick into his plans to help kids that would go awry.
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2017 me tiring of Danny Dyer's presence on my screens as an often-horrific Mick.
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2018 me stanning Danny Dyer's general slayage as an infinitely more likeable Mick and his iconic Brexit rant on live television.
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Edited by PurpleRain, Jun 29 2018, 11:08 AM.
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It's taken me four years to discover this. Almost as iconic as the other remix that did the rounds.
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Jul 1 2018, 12:19 AM


It's taken me four years to discover this. Almost as iconic as the other remix that did the rounds.
I love it.

Highlights include “I am a... scrubber” and “I am a...kitchen”. I’ve always thought Sharon’s fake tan reminded me of a mahogany worktop.
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I saw this on Instagram and I loved it!

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Fun fact: This song is about Shane Richie's son Jake Roache, which makes the "mother who only smiled on her TV show" in the beggining of the song Coleen Nolan on Loose Women :D
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Jul 1 2018, 11:06 AM
I saw this on Instagram and I loved it!

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Charlie Winter really was perfect casting
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Just here to say, they are missing a trick by not reintroducing Kelly Taylor as a sister for Karen.

What is really just based on a shared surname almost two decades apart could be a beautiful story of Karen (And Kandice) being reunited with the sister that ran away from home 20 years ago as a teen that they haven't seen since. A runaway seeing her family again after so long would make for a wonderful story. And as well as that, Kat's involvement could be quite poignant, treating Kelly as something of a surrogate for Zoe.

It'd be nice for Brooke Kinsella to get a fair crack at the whip.
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