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Post by RitaLittlewood on Dec 25, 2006 13:05:31 GMT
Well today's the day she finally pegs it. Should be good!
Patsy
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Dec 26, 2006 14:39:30 GMT
Today's Shelleyvision from the Mirror:
ENDER PAULINE'S THE PERFECT GIFT 26 December 2006 IN the end, the demise of Appalling Pauline Fowler was something of an anti-climax.
As her taxi waited to take her to the airport, Pauline clutched her head, wandered out to the Square and - spurning the more obvious choice of Arthur's sacred bench - died under the Christmas tree.
There she lay like a rather macabre Christmas present. ("It's just what I've always wanted! The still-warm corpse of Pauline Fowler!")
Personally, if I'd been killing off Auntie Pauline, I'd have gone for something more dramatic, with Betty - her Spit The Dog-lookalike - tearing her throat out for example.
Martin could have finally snapped and pelted her to death with potatoes from the stall. Or Dot could have wedged her into a machine for an extra-hot boil wash.
Still, we mustn't complain. The main thing is, we will never have to see her mean, walnutcoloured, walnutwrinkled face on our screens again, or hear the sour old crow droning on about Arthur's bench or Lou's chair.
Amen, hallelujah and roll out the barrel! Michelle and Florida were thus spared. Mind you, it's not as if she could have got any browner.
Surprisingly, for a Suspicious Death in a soap, there are really only two suspects - me and Sonia... and I was at home watching EastEnders at the time. Sonia, on the other hand, had just sent Pauline crashing into a fruit bowl with a right hand that Audley Harrison could only dream of. Pauline had just called Sonia a tart, a liar and a lousy trumpet player, and branded her "a scrubber, lesbian, under-age muvver who gave her own baby away".
But apart from that she's OK?
Worst of all, she said, she had "high-falutin' ideas", such as wanting a career and going out. The shame! Sonia smacked her and who wouldn't? (It reminded me of that scene in Airplane - form an orderly queue.)
Sonia had treated Appauline to what she called "a few 'ome trooffs". "Why d' you think Arthur flipped?!" she railed. "Why did Mark go off the rails? Why'd you think Michelle got pregnant at 16? Why? 'Cos they were all living in this arse under your fumm."
She begged Pauline to make it up with Martin, imploring: "Go over there, give 'im an 'ug." This missed the obvious point that, even in the old days, before she turned into one of witches from Macbeth, Pauline never did 'ug anyone.
When Dot asked Ian if Pauline was in a good mood, you realised she hasn't been in a good mood for 20 years.
As usual, the Christmas special had started with a bombardment of "ironic" good wishes. "Here's to Christmas. Let's hope it's a blinder," cheered Mo.
Wings were singing Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time. For once, with Pauline's demise, we were.
In other news, Phil played Farver Christmas, seemingly regarding him as a distant relation of David Bellamy.
Bradley (Earl Spencer) humiliated Stacey Slater (Ray Quinn in drag), thus forcing her to sleep with her dad, Max, who, without his clothes, looked even more like a baby orang-utan than usual.
Stacey made the traditional "you're all losers" speech, bequeathed to her by Kat Slater, observing (correctly): "Come on! I'm the fittest bird in this dump, someone must be interested!"
God knows why Martin chooses to go out with Sonia. Still, like the rest of us, he was celebrating the demise of his muvver. "You're right," he told Sonia.
"We don't need her." And they don't.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Dec 26, 2006 14:48:56 GMT
Last night's ratings:
1. The Vicar of Dibley (11.4m) 2. EastEnders part two (10.7m) 3. Coronation Street (9.6m) 4. EastEnders part one (9.2m) 5. Doctor Who (8.7m) 6. Little Britain Abroad (8.4m) 7. The Queen's Christmas Message (7.6m*) 8. Strictly Come Dancing Special (7.3m) 9. Emmerdale (7.2m) 10. Strictly Come Dancing Preview (6.8m)
* BBC One and ITV1 combined Source: BARB
Patsy
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Dec 28, 2006 21:10:05 GMT
I think Joe really does care she's dead but he's acting like Martin did at the moment. According to Teletext it's a murder. I hope Joe did it.
Patsy
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Madge
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Post by Madge on Dec 29, 2006 18:38:16 GMT
I have read comments from people saying about the snow disappearing the next day. Don't they realise that's what the British winter does? LOL! I enjoyed this episode. The row with Sonia was good.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Dec 29, 2006 21:20:54 GMT
It was. What Sonia said was all true as well.
Patsy
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