Eastenders

[bobbie22]

What on Earth is happening? I hardly ever miss it, but I have literally lost the plot.

[ummmm]

Which bit are you struggling with?

[bobbie22]

I understand about Stuart and micks sister, but it's just going on and on, what's happening?

[Samuraisan]

Yep, used to be you couldn't miss an epsiode, but now that ridiculous storyline is ggoing on and on and every episode seems the same. Did he do it ? Is Mick going to seek vengence with Stuart, or vice versa.

[andy-hughes]

Soap writers often engage in long-running lots that have an eventual 'pay off' - the seriously big pay offs are saved for Christmas Day.


The risk with long-running stories is that they can fail to engage the viewers' attention in volumes commensurate with the length of time they take to spin out.

That's the risk of soap writing, and they don;t always get it right - the problem is, because eveyrhing is shot about two months in advance, by the time they realise that a story is failing to gather interest, it's too late because it's off and running, and will bore/ annoy viewers for another seven or eight weeks, and if your soap goes out three nights a week, that's a long time to be annoying your faithful audience!

But if things are seriously off the rails, they usually make adjustments to bring forward the pay-off, or change the direction, of the story line, so hang on in there, it will get better, or change, maybe both.

[tonyav]

Spoiler alert
Don't look if you don't want to know about things in next weeks Eastenders.
Slide 20 looks interesting ( Stuart story line ).
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/soaps/eastenders-38-new-pics-as-hayleys-secret-is-revealed/ss-AAAkv70#image=20

[bobbie22]

Thanks for your replies. I checked that site tonyav, but it wouldn't move on, so I couldn't see the pictures, but thanks anyway everyone

[puzzled54]

I think it’s the writers who have lost the plot. It is just rubbish now