I thought it might be Janine as well and they were planning something together :lol: It will be interesting to see where they're going with this though...

 

Someone on DS said it might be James Willmott-Brown, who is apparently a character from the 80s who raped Kathy. Maybe I'll have a quick glance at his wiki page later.

That was crap.

 

And the ONLY one who died (when Whitney and Martin should bith be goners) was the bus driver.

Perhaps Emerald will die later from the injuries she sustained in the minute mart...

It was a disaster where the only casualties were someone we'd never seen before and who the show ignored, even though he was the only casualty there, and a few stalls and a wheelchair. Amazingly bad.

Some could die later on in the episodes tbf

From Monday and Tuesday's episodes,there are two things I am confused about.

 

1. If the bus driver was barely conscious,how was he able to drive the bus around the tight corners of Albert Square. If he was able to steer it around the square,why couldn't he apply the brake?

 

2. There were other people downstairs other than Denise. How did they get out? Was there an emergency exit at the back? Why did they leave Denise on the floor by the front door. One of them could have pressed the emergency button to open the front door and get her out.

 

From Monday and Tuesday's episodes,there are two things I am confused about.

 

1. If the bus driver was barely conscious,how was he able to drive the bus around the tight corners of Albert Square. If he was able to steer it around the square,why couldn't he apply the brake?

 

2. There were other people downstairs other than Denise. How did they get out? Was there an emergency exit at the back? Why did they leave Denise on the floor by the front door. One of them could have pressed the emergency button to open the front door and get her out.

1) He fell unconscious just as the bus was at the Vic, with his foot falling on the accelerator and his body falling on the steering wheel. It's a typical soap coincidence but it did make sense nonetheless.

 

2) I didn't pick up on that actually; I guess we're meant to assume Albert Square was the last stop so it was only Denise and a handful of school kids left.

Walford is supposedly set somewhere between West Ham and Bow Road and the bus said it was going to Barking, so it was quite funny that only Walford residents were left on the bus when it had another four and a half miles or so left of its journey :lol:

Yup I wondered what happened to the others at the back!

 

Poor disaster episodes.

 

They also didn't understand basic physics with the lifting of the bus, making it angle near the top where Whitney was, surely killing her, then dropping it down, killing her and anyone else under it twice over. Also they didn't understand Albert Square is waaay too tight for a bus to get round, especially for someone unconscious. They also didn't understand medical FACT in how they got Martin out/ how he and Whitney escaped unscathed.

Yeah, there's probably no way Whitney should have been able to survive a bus being dropped on her. And her spine is also fine.

Well I Thought Monday was a good lead up, Tuesday was good and that end 'duff duff' was brilliant and Thursday I thought was just poor with no real suspense it just seems to of served as a catalyst to start off a lot of stories which will probably run the course of the year.

 

I thought Whitney kissing Mick was poor, we'd just literally seen her unable to talk in and out of conciousness and the doctor inform Mick that they need to do a scan as very concerned about a possible brain injury but next thing you know she's awake and fine talking like normal and then reacihng up and snogging Micks face off which you saw coming as soon as showed Denise walking to see Whitney. I kind of wish she'd just died or least been in coma for a bit now.

 

I was expecting some face from the past to appear with Max at the end although it was nice to see the shard being used and not just some seedy back street cafe, took me a while to remember where I had see the bloke before then remembered he placed the prince in dinnerladies. Not quite sure where this storyline going apart from fact Max hell bent on destroying Albert Square I think the other bloke wants to develop the area possibly he bought launderette, paying council to move market maybe needs the vic and minute mart as well.

 

You've got Martin and Staceys story set up for the year trying to conceive a baby and juggling her medication, Stacey is a fab character and Lacey a brilliant actress but I do wish they would stop putting her as the new Pauline just because she is now a Fowler. All we seen of her lately is in the house washing pots cooking meals.

 

You got Louise being a bitch to shak even though helped and saved her so she's obviously going to be falling for him and end up going behind Bex back or something similar.

 

I still cannot work out how Babe and Lee are leaving or even when, although I wish Babe was staying she is more evil then most characters brought in and classed as villains, the line to Sylvie making her think it was her fault was pure evil but just Babe all over.

 

Overall what was billed as disaster week was a mixed bag, it was obvious no-one major would die so close after Ronnie & Roxy but it certainly started a few storylines

I agree, I always felt like it was would be likely for anyone for die. I think it was to show the community spirit, as well as that they COULD do a stunt. And it will kick off lots of stories that last a while, rather than a death than nobody mentions a week later. I mean if they've got over Ronnie and Roxy, I doubt it would have much impact if Donna or Shakil for example had died!

James Wilmot-Brown was played by William Boyd, not sure if he was in the credits last night unless the character has been re-casted. He must have aged quite a bit, if its him.

the return everyone's been wanting*.*

wait have i misunderstood martins post?

James Wilmot-Brown was played by William Boyd, not sure if he was in the credits last night unless the character has been re-casted. He must have aged quite a bit, if its him.

 

It's a different actor for sure, so either recast or someone completely different.

No way is it Wilmot-Brown. I think the build up to Max meeting this mystery person and the scene itself just caused people to throw out every possible name it could be but, the truth is, it's probably not someone we've ever met before. He's probably not even a villain as such, just a ruthless, nasty piece of work.

 

I think the line that went something like "some people always have a foot in the past" was also a suggestion that SOC is going to push the show forward instead of relying on past glories. Obviously there was the Michelle recast which would say otherwise, but she's a character that has such huge relevance to the show and was necessary to come back. Someone like James Wilmot-Brown had his story arc, so it would be pointless to bring him back and it would also mean we know everything about the person Max was meeting. You wouldn't have this sense of mystery about the character because you'd know he was all-out-bad because he's a rapist.

And if it was Wilmot Brown, the first target would have been the Dagmar, which is now Sharon and Vincent's Bar, plus apart from the Beales and the Fowlers, Sharon and Dot, no one else knows him. I think its someone we just haven't met yet, and I don't think anyone else is going to get killed off, it just someone using scare tactics to get what he wants, that's the way I'm reading into it, at the moment. I can't see how Max instigated that bus crash to be honest, a driver with a dodgy ticker.

 

Obviously Aunt Babe and Lee are due to bout out, but its taking ages to happen, I'm thinking they both depart together as they have had enough, because they look as if they just don't want to be there.

Piper is so shit she's amazing

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