Everybody’s talking about the big Eastenders shocker tonight. I don’t get why they keep calling it an “incest” storyline though. *Spoiler alert for UK fans!* It’s about a family of five sisters, where the youngest one is actually the eldest one’s daughter. She was too young to raise a child, so the family covered it up and the parents raised her as their own. But unless the father is somehow related to them, I really don’t see how it qualifies as “incest.” It’s not a friggin’ V.C. Andrews story.
Update: It is a V.C. Andrews story. Read the comments at your own risk. (Bigtime spoilers.)
Jann
October 2, 2001 — 5:22 pm
The father is their bloody uncle you ninny! I believe that qualifies…
Kris
October 2, 2001 — 5:23 pm
NUH-UH!
Jann
October 2, 2001 — 5:23 pm
Eh? I thought you said you didn’t get it?
Kris
October 2, 2001 — 5:25 pm
Uncle Harry is the father? NO WAY! I didn’t hear that. How do you know that? I haven’t read that anywhere.
Ewww. And Uncle Harry’s been dating Peggy, right? So if he marries her… that means Zoe would be Phil Mitchell’s sister.
CRAZINESS! I GOTTA WATCH THIS TONIGHT!
Jann
October 2, 2001 — 5:28 pm
I prefer to think of him as “Fat Boon”.
Kris
October 2, 2001 — 5:31 pm
I’m reading some crazy shit in the Eastenders newsgroup…
Angie
October 3, 2001 — 12:25 am
Harry marrying Peggy…… and then Zoe would be related to that skinny minnie with the floppy fringe.. that boy she lusts after… Jamie.
I have to say that Uncle Harry has given me the creeps for ages, so I can’t wait to see him ‘get it’ when the rest of the family find out. Gripping plot for once, better than the gun ones. Nothing better than seeing a woman scorned get revenge.
Jann
October 3, 2001 — 10:28 am
Call me a snob, but all those dropped ‘H’s and use of the word ‘Fing’ for ‘Thing’ had me more grief stricken than the plot line…And that acting?
Puh-lease, more ham than a pig factory.
Sinful.
Kris
October 3, 2001 — 10:56 am
You should be a TV reviewer. Seriously, that was as scathing as anything I’ve read in a while. đŸ™‚
Unfortunately I missed the episode, as Condie was busy watching some 3-hour Peter Greenaway transexual film. I read the update on the BBC site this morning though. I thought it looked fantastic… in a soap-opera kinda way.