EE: Archie Peggy Wedding / Danielle's death

[Skylace]

From what I have been reading it look like Danielle is going to die I haven't found it seen those words exactly but the writing is on the wall.

The pictures were fun to look at. Especially the behind the scenes.

[eefanincan]

Great post Sky, thanks

More and more I'm thinking that killing off Danielle will just be too obvious, as would killing off Archie.... but who else is there????

BTW, what is it with Barbara Windsor and fake hair? Everytime you look at her she's got some fake thing crawling all over her head.

[Aja]

I normally know whats gonna happen .....But this time I have not got a clue .....Last night I thought he was (archie) gonna kill her and leave her hanging or something .....And that Stacy would let out what had happened on the wedding day ..... as I said I am clueless .......

[Skylace]

There are times I hate when I am right. Tears shed tonight over this. Ronnie gave a smashing performance.

[TheCaptain]

[pirtybirdy]

That was quite excellent. Now that Archie has thoroughly screwed with Ronnie's mental stability, I think Ronnie should find herself a good therapist and have a natter. Also, she should move away from that nutbag of a father.

[Skylace]

I thought Danielle did a great job as well Captain. I didn't know she was going to be on The Bill. Will have to try and catch that.

You're right Pirty, Ronnie needs some *Serious* therapy.

On a total side note, I loved the little dress/top Danielle was wearing and would love to get it

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how does she know the girl's dead? Is she a doctor?

Never trust the medical opinion of the half-owner of a night-club. That's my philsophy and I stick by it!

[Skylace]

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EastEnders
Tim Teeman
timesonline.co.uk

After the truly bizarre preceding episode featuring Peggy Mitchell leading the women of Albert Square in a rapturous booty shake with pom-poms (shudder, never again), obviously something terrible was about to happen on her wedding day to the loathsome Archie Mitchell. The trailers had Peggy being assembled in her wedding outfit by a robot, symbolising his controlling nature. This story collided with the most drawn-out “reveal” in soapland.

It’s a rare treat that a single EastEnders episode features Peggy’s hair, Pat’s eyeshadow, Max and Stacey stalking each other like horny polecats and Janine spitting excessive venom, and added to that a bellowed revelation (“You’re my muvvvver”) with a tragic death cherry on top — but that’s what they gave us, the floozies.

For seven, long months, viewers have been wishin’ and a hopin’ that Danielle would tell Ronnie, Archie’s daughter, that Ronnie was her mother. The evil Archie had found out Danielle’s true identity and had lied to her that Ronnie knew the truth and wanted nothing to do with Danielle. To bring this to a climax the writer Simon Ashdown opted for mad crescendo after mad crescendo. You may well have spent the hour shouting loudly and gripping nearby cushions.

Danielle (Lauren Crace) has spent most of her sentence in Albert Square, and nearly all of last night, on a permanent crying jag, at the whim of an implausible storyline. Quite why Archie is so evil and intent on making Peggy and his daughters so unhappy isn’t clear. Quite why he stole his daughter’s baby and gave it away, and claimed it was dead, isn’t clear. Control, maybe. Larry Lamb is brilliantly creepy and whatever twisted logic lies inside Archie is conveyed through his cadaverous face and swirling-black pupils.

The pom-pom madness had supposedly liberated the “real Peggy”. But “the real Peggy” is a hazy concept: there’s Peggy the big-hearted East End landlady and Peggy the crone famous for rasping “Get ahht my pub” to anyone who crosses her path. For someone into evil mind control, Archie has brilliant taste. The wedding outfit he had chosen for Peggy was much nicer than the tatty net curtains that even Miss Havisham would have rejected that the “real Peggy” chose to marry in.

Archie pursed his lips at this act of insurrection, but the “real Peggy” hissed that he had to take her as she was. He said he did, but he didn’t. They married, with Archie creepily instructing his wife to pour him some wine at the reception. Danielle, channelling Cordelia from King Lear, finally confronted Ronnie, revealed all Archie’s lies and schemes and begged Ronnie: “You’ve got to believe me. I’m your daughter”. (Britain screamed back in return: Believe her! We’ve had ENOUGH.)

But Archie claimed that Danielle was disturbed and Ronnie — despite all his past abuse of her — believed him. In front of a packed pub, Danielle screamed: “I am the only one telling the truth”. The Vic regulars, well-schooled in dramatic revelations of affairs, secret parentages, sudden reincarnations and the identity of murderers, merely looked on, restless for their wedding cake. Ronnie threw Danielle into the street and shouted: “Who’d want a daughter like you?” (Britain cries: NOOOO!)

It came down, Shakespearean-ly enough, to Danielle’s locket that contained a picture of Ronnie. When Ronnie found it, she realised the truth and went after Danielle. Peggy tried to turf Archie out, realising what a monster he was. He’ll no doubt be grateful to his would-be partner in crime Janine, who, speeding from the Square after yet another set of botched misdeeds, knocked Danielle over. She died in Ronnie’s arms: her final word which should have been her first, “Mum”.

Just as Ronnie had begun the episode cradling baby Amy (progeny of her sister Roxy), so she ended the episode cradling her dead daughter, who she had originally called Amy. Ronnie let forth a guttural howl. You may have been similarly hysterical at home. EastEnders had hit the misery mother lode.

[SpursFan1902]

I have to agree with everone. It was an amazing episode. I was stunned that they killed of Danielle. I will miss her. She was one of the nice people on the square. It wasn't until she got mixed up with those mangy Mitchells that she became a tear shedding zombie. Now what is going to happen to Janine? Back to jail or on the run, either way, it doesn't seem she will be on the show for much longer.

[Skylace]

[SpursFan1902]

She didn't do it on purpose, but she did kill someone with her car, so there may still be some legalities, but we shall see. I think you are right, Sky, this will show if there is any human left to Janine at all. She seemed upset, but who knows if that will last. And from the writers point of view, this strings out the whole Ricky/Tiffany story line for a little longer. I don't really know that the truth coming out there will really effect Whitney as much as they think it will. I think it would just be one more step toward them all playing happy familiy, but we shall see I guess.

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can I ask everyone again, not to multi quote stuff when you're replying?

you can quote up to 100 words, any more than that and it messes up the front page, and I have to edit the posts every time.

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