Guess she was finally ready for her MOT :cry:

Ted Reilly only has to stand there for me to be interested tbh x

 

Not surprised that it's Abi who's dying, I feel like they've never truly known what to do with her for a while now and although Lauren has become exceptionally boring recently, there's probably more scope for her to return in the future.

 

Whilst I've not been a fan of Fi (or any of that clan), if that's her exit then it was a pretty great ending and I'm glad she finally stood up to Wilmott-Brown!

Abi :(

Lauren constantly RUINING Abi's life is amazing. She literally caused her death after years of screwing her over

This is ridiculous.

 

Why are the writers so scared of killing off MAIN male characters and why do the gush iver men so much??

 

'Oh Max, you look gross but you are IRRESISTIBLE', 'Oh Jack you are INVINCIBLE, just like Phil' :wub: 'Oh Mick, you are right, Linda is wrong AGAIN' :wub:

 

And of course. Lauren had an abortion with Steven's babby, and ao must be punished for it and be given Abi's baby to Steven instead. Catholic Soap League at it again.

Finally slaggy Abi has gone.

 

Best moment of the year in EastEnders for me was Kathy twisting Willott-Brown's bollocks finally she got revenge.

 

Worst moment of me this Christmas was Max and his walking willy syndrome striking with Stacey yet again.

Just so unrealistic and UNBELIEVABLE, especially after she just had a baby and will be too tired with three kids to even THINK about sleeping around, and especially with a baked bean. The writers love men. They refuse to kill them off. Max should have died. It made ZERO SENSE AGAIN for ABI and Lauren to clamber up after their brother um DIED that way and after they found out Max killed Steven!!!

 

SEXIST writers turning it into a mind-control sci-fi instead of drama to protect their shitty main male.

Just so unrealistic and UNBELIEVABLE, especially after she just had a baby and will be too tired with three kids to even THINK about sleeping around, and especially with a baked bean. The writers love men. They refuse to kill them off. Max should have died. It made ZERO SENSE AGAIN for ABI and Lauren to clamber up after their brother um DIED that way and after they found out Max killed Steven!!!

 

SEXIST writers turning it into a mind-control sci-fi instead of drama to protect their shitty main male.

 

Please stop, you’re pretty much talking bollocks. I don’t like that Abi will die but she hasn’t been killed off due to some sexist agenda from the writers.

Then why do storylines favour males, with women, Lauren next, punished for abortions or wanting to be rich like Phil, and with NO - ZERO- major male killed off? Even DEAN DID NOT DIE AFTER BEING DROWNED

And their characterisation of FOUR women was downright BIZARRE and sci-fi - Lauren and ABI climbing up, Tanya standing there, not even pointing, even after they fell off, and a new mum with three kids missing her child's nativity and not turning up as Angel, to the utter SCORN of all the other playground mums, which would be a fookin HUUUUGE deal for any parent, and somehow having energy/ will to sleep with a very unattractive man. When they cannot even get female characters or motivation right just to protect one male...

The last character that was killed off was male though....

 

Lots of huge male characters have been killed off: Mark Fowler, Arthur Fowler, Pete Beale, Dennis Rickman, Roy Evans, Barry Evans, Bradley Branning, etc

 

Steven Beale, Paul Coker and Fatboy were killed off within the last two years. There have been more female deaths in the past 2 years but actually not many more.

The last character that was killed off was male though....

 

Lots of huge male characters have been killed off: Mark Fowler, Arthur Fowler, Pete Beale, Dennis Rickman, Roy Evans, Barry Evans, Bradley Branning, etc

 

Steven Beale, Paul Coker and Fatboy were killed off within the last two years. There have been more female deaths in the past 2 years but actually not many more.

 

So recently no major male has died in the last what twelve years? That actually backs up my point.

So recently no major male has died in the last what twelve years? That actually backs up my point.

 

Hmmmm, major females that have been killed off in the past 12 years?

 

Peggy (actress request)

Pauline (actress was never coming back)

Pat

Ronnie and Roxy

 

So only about 3 against the will of the actors. I love Abi but she isn’t major, certainly not more than someone like Fatboy was. Characters like Heather, Sylvie and Lucy Beale also weren’t major. And if you think they were then we could easily add the likes of Charlie Slater and Jim Branning to the male list.

 

Please, I love EE for some escapism and I adore this thread, can you please not taint this thread with your OTT Social Justice Warrior Bullshit?

You cannot compare Lucy, a legend in the making, to Jim or Charlie!! Abi was a huge, iconic character, far more relevant than Fat Boy and with bigger storylines.

 

Sorry, but when they have to really force awful female characterisation and plot to move the plot in favour of a male, there is a problem.

Exactly. Lucy was ‘in the making’. Not a legend. Abi has a following her but to the average viewer, I doubt many of them care for her.

 

Seriously, if you have such an issue, perhaps you should stop watching.

How can you not see a problem? Rewatch Christmas Eve and Christmas and the awful female characterisation, development, to push a male character agenda and to save him. Even him getting her phone and deleting the message showed favouritism, as did him walking free after Ian told them he tried to murder him!!

 

I wonder if there is a problem with producers/ writers fancying the unattractivrpe Max Beanning and so favour keeping him in the show at the expense of the female characters and realism. When he said, I'm irresistible, he was just putting into words the producer's feelings for him. It is the only explanation - either that or a wave of sexism falling over the soap.

 

How can you not see a problem? Rewatch Christmas Eve and Christmas and the awful female characterisation, development, to push a male character agenda and to save him. Even him getting her phone and deleting the message showed favouritism, as did him walking free after Ian told them he tried to murder him!!

 

I wonder if there is a problem with producers/ writers fancying the unattractivrpe Max Beanning and so favour keeping him in the show at the expense of the female characters and realism. When he said, I'm irresistible, he was just putting into words the producer's feelings for him. It is the only explanation - either that or a wave of sexism falling over the soap.

 

I don’t see a problem because there likely isn’t one. All the writing decisions were probably made because that’s what the writers thought would make good drama and it was. They were not thinking ‘how can we make all the women suffer?’ That just isn’t how it works.

No, but if there is a toxic environment where male characters are preferred and some at the top find Max irresistible, as unlikely as that might be, then outcomes favouring male characters will just naturally arise. They honestly believed earlier this year that Jack had a claim over Charlie's son - Charie's!! They then bring him back to appease Jack for NO REASON.

Max has signed a new contract.

They love him. He will somehow come back from all this. It is ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. Their female characterisation is woeful, as we saw over Christmas. TANYA STOOD THERE GAPING. STACEY A NEW MUM JUMPED INTO BED WITH HIM INSTEAD OF GOING TO HER SCHOOL NATIVITY PLAY IN WHICH SHE HAD A PART AND SO DID HER CHILD! STACEY LET MAX HAVE HER PHONE AND FOUND IT SEXY.

Plenty of males die in it :lol: From half your posts you don't even watch the show properly yet have a hell of a lot to say about it.