Yea I'm hating the ravi/okie/harry story right now, the only plot actually keeping me engaged is Joel's

Ans it doesn't even make sense!! Harry and Teddy would have sorted him out alone. He was terrified of them!! That's without even talking about Our Nicola!

Also where is Barney, odd that he's nowhere to be found during a teen centric storyline not to mention his brother going missing

Today's episode was my favourite performance from Ross' actor Alex Walkinshaw so far. What a talented fictional household!

The Joel storyline is very interesting and so far its been written and performed very well by all involved, its also a storyline i can see potentially winning best storyline at the soap awards.

18 hours ago, Lindsey. said:

Yea I'm hating the ravi/okie/harry story right now, the only plot actually keeping me engaged is Joel's

💯 💯 💯

Edited October 14Oct 14 by Big Fat Sue

I’m at the point where I’m skipping over the drugs shite and Callum/Johnny so todays episode was over in about 2 seconds lmfao

1 hour ago, Liаm said:

I’m at the point where I’m skipping over the drugs shite and Callum/Johnny so todays episode was over in about 2 seconds lmfao

Both terrible storylines, so Big Fat Sue will do the big fat same!!

2 hours ago, Liаm said:

I’m at the point where I’m skipping over the drugs shite and Callum/Johnny so todays episode was over in about 2 seconds lmfao

Literally me during today's episode. As soon as Okie appeared I just skipped on lmao

The ending of the ep was verrrry Adolescence 😄

Tony Caunter, who played Roy Evans, has passed away 💔 apparently this comes just 8 days after his wife of 60+ years died as well 😭

RIP to them both. What a fab actor he was.

RIP Tony Caunter aka Roy Evans.

His role in one of the great episode in an soap I've seen that 2000 Bonfire Night episode was brilliant.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000fj9l/classic-eastenders-pat-and-franks-affair UK Users Only

That episode last night was really bad. I sipped a lot of it.

Lexi is so so terribly written, look at Lily for example having the pregnancy storyline and then look at Lexi being written as if she’s about 7

I feel like Lexi is a believable 13 year old, especially some of her behaviours and attitude. She's got to have a strong head on her given what she's been through but you can see the teenager too. Her throwing a tantrum over Johnny coming into Callum's life is comical.

Oddly the most realistic teenage portrayal in the show is Avani, played by a 25 year old.

Go on Harry, give us your best gurn 😂

Fantastic work from Alex Walkinshaw this week, especially today. Harvey and eventually Ian helping Ross at the end was nice to see, especially when they've both been in similar positions with their kids.

The Ravi/ Oki and the poor follow up to Joel haa made this week very poor

2 hours ago, Big Fat Sue said:

The Ravi/ Oki and the poor follow up to Joel haa made this week very poor

Intrigued to hear what you think was poor about the Joel story?

On 16/10/2025 at 22:08, lewistgreen said:

Intrigued to hear what you think was poor about the Joel story?

It's boring. He beat Vicki up - and again, after recently showing how hard she is in fights... a little bit of unintentional sexism in the storytelling - and then ... he got carted off. That was it. It doesn't feel like he got his just desserts. The whole aftermath has focused on Ross, with him defending his ATROCIOUS parenting, and saying he did all that he could. Lies. He was one of the worst on the show, EVER. Total enabler. The good thing is it highlighted some of their hypocrisy, as the other parents have often covered up worse - such as murders - but other than that... But Eastenders is all about hypocrisy, or otherwise no character would react to another, as who hasn't murdered/ cheated on/ been cheated on/ slept with several generations of the same family, etc, on the Square.

I'm glad it didn't have Ross go down over his knuckles, and made a point of mentioning the swabs and dna, but now it is TOO realistic. No follow up, no remorse, just Vicki being dragged off to do a walking tour in the Lakes with broken ribs.