Okay so I never actually watch an episode of Eastenders if I can avoid it, and it seems that on this occasion, I was unable to. Media Studies lessons have control over what I watch at home now so it seems. So yeah this post's just going to be me having a rant about last night's diabolical episode of Eastenders. Yeah I really thought it was that terrible.
So the epsiode opened with a scene at the Mitchell household. Well if you can call it a household.. they live over a pub. But yeah, so it would seem that Sam Mitchell has returned from wherever she's been and she's on the run from the poliece from what I can gather. Apparently she covered for someone who killed a chap. Peggy just defends Sam whenever Roxy or anyone gets annoyed with her, and it looks like Sam's started to push Roxy out of the picture.
Then we go to the umm, Cafe i think it is, where Janine and this new guy ( I don't know what he's called.) have been plotting against Chelsea. In a previous episode, Chelsea had won a significant amout of money and was being quite vocal to everyone about it, Janine being Janine, decided to take advantage of this and sold her a bag.. ( yeah I don't get this part, I think it must have been a fake bag or something) but then in last nights episode, Janine's sidekick mugs Chelsea taking back the bag, with all the winnings inside. He then finds her in the Queen Vick later, accusing Janine of paying someone to mug her. He then helps her to find the bag, which he had thrown in the ally, minus her winnings. We then see Janine walking into her flat and finding all the stolen money on the bed.
Going back to the return of Sam, she's now engaged to Ricky, and because she is on the run from the poliece, they are both leaving for Brazil that evening. Ricky has to tell Bianca and the kids that he's leaving that evening, and well as to be expected, this doesn't exactly go down to well. This makes Bianca angry and then she's saying how she's going to call the poliece on Sam to get her back in prison so her kids will have a father figure in Ricky. Pat tells her not to call the poliece, but to turn up at the engagement party that's being held at the Mitchells and take Ricky on a guilt trip and convince him to stay in Watford.
We then go to Lucas, who has previously killed his ex wife or girlfriend or whatever she was. But basically the mother of his son. Well to be fair he didn't kill her, but it was done in true Eastenders style. This must have been the only episode I watched through choice recently, but what happened is, she wanted Lucas and her to be back together and she to him to the shed, where she was doing drugs. I think she then started coming onto him or something like that, but then he pushed her away and she conviently was stabbed in the neck by a rake. (sorry but LOL) so yeah, he just left her dying there, this man that's supposed to be a religious guy and stuff. Yeah right. So yeah back to the episode, Lucas' son is upset that his mum hasn't come to see him when she promised him that she would. Lucas just convinces him that she was a let down and that it's better not to trust her and just forget about her, when in realtiy he's only saying that to stop his son asking questions about her, because he knows that she's rotting in a shed in the allotments.
Next we see Minty. And from what I can gather, he has a very soft spot for Sam. He goes to see her, offering her any help if she should ever need it. She writes her mobile number and her name in a love heart on a list of things that Minty's girlfriend had written. Minty then gets a visit from his girlfriends disabled son, threatening him, and from what I can guess, this is because he has seen the list with Sam's number on.
We then go to the engagement party at the Mitchells, where Bianca and her family have burst in, uninvited. Bianca tries to single out Ricky and convince him to stay but in no time she is of course interrupted by the lovely Sam. And well really, it wouldn't have been a friday night Eastenders if there wasn't a fight. Which, well to be frank was appaling. Aren't ginger people supposed to be like full of rage or something like that? But oh well, there was a short lived 'fight' between Sam and Bianca, which Ricky breaks up and he immediatly jumps to Sam's defence. So Bianca and her kids are kicked out.
Then we see a scene of Lucas checking on the body in the shed which is presumably covered in flys from the amount that were seen on the window. (Well duh Rachel.) And then we just see Lucas gagging and well yeah that's all.
Then we go back to the whole Sam drama, and we see clips of various people who I guess have been hurt by Sam in some way, who are all holding a phone. this of course is to call the poliece on her. (Good.) The poliece are then seen bursting into the Vic' demanding to search the premises. And suprisingly when they do, (and Sam has run out the back way with Ricky) all of the Mitchells defend her, saying that she has never been there. Even the ones who don't like her. But then Sam and Ricky start arguing because he doesn't want to leave, and no one thinks she should keep running away, he thinks that she should just go to prison and they can get married and be together when she gets out. Sam being Sam, drammatically jumps in some random car, which convienently is a converable, and conviently has a key in and is just convienently in the middle of the square. Well Minty tries to stop her taking the car, and she doesn't listen to him and is seen zooming away. It turns out the car has no petrol, and we then see the car slowing to a stop and then Sam running to the train station. When she thinks she has gotten away we see her being grabbed by police. Yes children, there are happy endings in Eastenders after all.
Sooo I generally think the episode just sucked. I now remember why I rarely watch soaps through choice, and haven't done for about a year. But Hollyoaks is an acceptance to this (: I think that the acting was appaling, who ever used to play Sam Mitchell after she was taken out because of her problem with snorting cocaine, was a much better actor. And well to be frank, the one who plays Sam now, has blantently had more work done on her face, than that what's obvious (septummm). The story line was rather weak and I think they tried to cram too many events into one episode. Just.. No. LOL.
Roo.
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