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And to also think she was bludgeoned by a nearly 70 year old Gillian Taylforth

It's a far cry from ye old Eastenders, who treated everybody out of school as a pensioner. Wendy Richard was playing DECREPIT from day one, at the advanced age of 42.
 
It is kinda fab to think Michelle Collins is the same age as Wendy Richards when Pauline died. However the contrast is night and day :disco: One was shuffling around in a cardigan watching TV waiting to die and the other is tottering around in high heel boots stealing guns, fucking her ex-husband's son and throwing people in front of cars :disco:

That is actually MINDBLOWING. Wendy Richard would only be 82 now yet she looked older than that 20 years ago.
 
Even when she wasn’t playing Pauline she always dressed nice but looked so much older than her years. HARD PAPER ROUND.
 
She didn't say thank you when I held a door open for her once so I called her a grumpy bitch, which she ignored too, so FUCK WENDY RICHARD.
 
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The choice to show Angie SHUFFLING AWAY (back to heaven? The green room?) rather than, I don't know, cutting to an emotional close-up of Sharon, was quite camp.
 
OK, Angie was definitely an OH MY FUCKING GOD moment like the Kathy return for the 30th Anniversary. Well done Eastenders.
 
Do we think Reiss is the only death? I can’t see Ruby pegging it now as she was very absent in tonight’s episode and it would be strange to put her at the forefront in tomorrow’s live episode.
 
I do hate when they kill off iconic characters offscreen though. Nice to see Angie with the same hairstyle she left with in the back of a taxi heading to Marbella in the late 80’s though.
 
I would be sorry to see him go if this happens, but I also kind of love the idea of Stacey essentially killing Martin

"I ain't leavin' here till we've sorted this out ahhhttt"

Darwin Awards INCOMING
 
It would be a miracle if Stacey ever drinks in the Vic again after it's claimed two of her husbands (Bradley in the first live episode).
 
Also it REALLY did feel throughout that episode like Martin is a goner. I can’t quite believe they would do that…

But it did have the feel of them wrapping up the Martin and Stacey saga much more than beginning a new chapter of it.
 
It’s not the resounding success I was hoping for.
If you look at the highest individual episode last week, it had under 2.5m in the overnights. So I'd say it's a healthy bump in terms of %. And I wouldn't be surprised if a number of old fans look it up on iPlayer to see Angie.

I think realistically for any of the soaps though, they probably aren't going to pick up many 'new' viewers at all. Their audiences are largely already there. This week will perhaps just consolidate those who waver more.
 
If you look at the highest individual episode last week, it had under 2.5m in the overnights. So I'd say it's a healthy bump in terms of %. And I wouldn't be surprised if a number of old fans look it up on iPlayer to see Angie.

I think realistically for any of the soaps though, they probably aren't going to pick up many 'new' viewers at all. Their audiences are largely already there. This week will perhaps just consolidate those who waver more.

I read somewhere else someone saying that Eastenders gets much more on catch-up than the other soaps. Someone posted the figures from the week before and Corrie and Emmerdale actually got more than Eastenders on catch-up. :D

I would have thought people who used to watch would be quite likely to tune in.
 

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