Blokes On Soaps

Ooooh Archie Mitchell, you devil. Despite having taking his last breath over a month ago, Archie is still managing to bring havoc and divide the Mitchell family from beyond the grave.

Having left the Queen Vic to Roxy, he has managed to leave his wife Peggy out in the cold. Now, Roxy wants a younger clientele for her new business, and that means goodbye Peggy, and heaven forebid, goodbye Trace!

The tensions in the famous old pub continues to rise, with Peggy not approving of her nieces new business plan, despite the fact that it was her failing business plan that ultimately started the ball rolling to Archie gaining ownership.

If Roxy continues in her new role as Queen of the Vic, then its only going to become more heated behind the scenes in the pub. Not to mention the new business plan of a younger crowd potentially going head-to-head with Jack Branning and R&R – an interesting prospect given Jacks role is a man who wants to get into Ronnie’s trousers and a man who has already got into Roxy’s and resulted in a kid.

Peggy is set to leave Walford in the not-to-distant future, and if you had to guess now, I’d imagine her lack of control over the Vic is going to have something to do with it. Heated times ahead at the famous old pub then, and despite being dead, Archie is still managing to get what he wants – tearing Walford’s first family apart

Is Shadrach Dingle having fun in the fields with a variety of animals?

Friday’s edition of Home and Away finished with Angelo punching Hugo Austin at the surf club, this blow left him with a split lip. At first, I was aghast, how could Angleo lose his temper like that?  All Hugo did was called him an ‘Idiot’ for continually tracking him with regards to the people trafficing and the murder of Lou Debono. But then it struck me, there could have been a good reason for Angelo assaulting Hugo.

Earlier in the day at the police station, Charlie and Angelo were discussing the progress of finding Lou’s murderer since his estranged wife Donna had been cleared of the charge. Angelo is keen to get Hugo’s DNA to match it to that of the DNA found on Lou’s boat.  Charlie pointed out that Hugo isn’t likely to willfully submit a sample and that they needed to concentrate on tracking down Lou’s gardener.

If I’m right, then it will turn out that Angelo couldn’t be bothered to chase after missing people and went straight to Hugo to collect his DNA. By splitting Hugo’s lip, there is a chance that Angelo will have Hugo’s blood on his hand.

Assaulting someone whilst  in uniform is clearly a very serious offense, Angelo should have the book thrown at him for it.
If he has indeed managed to obtain Hugo’s DNA, will they legally be allowed to use it?
What do you think?

Zainab Masood – what a bitch. Not content with comparing Christian and his gayness with having cancer, telling her son to get married despite the fact he prefers bum fun, telling Jane she was a failure due to the fact she was shot by a deranged psycho and as such cannot have kids, now she has decided to tear the Beale family apart by revealing about Ian’s little indiscretion with Janine.

She’s an interesting one, old Zainab. Sometimes, her antics cause great amusement at Blokes On Soaps HQ – her spying, controlling ways and the perfect family life she tries to maintain in the views of the residents of the square can often raise great laughs though. This week, however, showed just what a cold-hearted bitch she can be.

With Mrs Masood, everything she does revolves around her religion – and it was again her Muslim faith that she used as a tool to excuse her behaviour on Tuesday. Justifying her attempts to break up a family that has only just got back together by saying that “adultery was a sin” was merely a massive cop out for the fact that she was extremely bitter about the fact that her perfect Muslim son had somehow fallen in love with Jane’s brother.

Greater strife is set to arrive in the coming weeks for the Masood family, as EastEnders will yet again delve into the somewhat unchartered waters of the Muslim family life. With a baby on the way and a Gaylord in the family, complications are almost certainly set to arise – and hopefully with it, some more cold-heartedness from Zainab!

Normally, an episode of EastEnders that is dominated by teenagers would be one that I would find quite exciting. No, this is not because I am a pedophile (and if I was, then Home and Away is the place to go for that anyway), but because British soaps don’t really explore teenage issues in an indepth why. Tonight showed why – it was shit.

Yes, I know that EastEnders needs to highlight this E20 spin off thing, but to go into teen overload in the middle of three gripping and dramatic storylines seemed a bit odd. Of the newcomers, Fatboy appearing from under the bed has instantly made me dislike him and Leon I found about as interesting as alphabetically sorting M&M’s. Zsa-Zsa was bearable as she was given enough screen time to impress, and she has the added bonus of also being quite fit for somebody sporting blue hair.

Sam deciding to then blame her own Mother for the murder of her own Uncle and step-Father at the end was a moment that deserved far more drama than following the car-crash that was the teenagers party – it was almost as if the script writers had thought, “Oh bollocks, we’ve produced a cack episode focussed on kids, lets drop a bombshell at the end to make up for that and thank those who haven’t turned over out of sheer boredom.”

The prospect of the E20 spin off was one I had been looking forward to, but after tonights performance I cannot help but feel it might come under the category of rubbish. Here’s hoping the teenagers prove me wrong!