...to find tonights Eastenders

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... Heartwarming? :d

Yet Max seems to have had half the square! Mind boggling.

The relay torch was part of the official relay. He was on the one show last week talking about it.

see!

That just says the flame will pass through the set. I live there and it was not the official relay. It did not go through Borehamwood and will not.

Just look up the official route and you will see it was not there

It just went through Walford because they share the same postcode as olympic village or something. E20.

Look up the route to see your description of the route isn't correct. EE set was part of the Olympic torch.

I know someone else has already posted about it being part of the real torch relay, but it's been on the news, and in various newspapers that it was part of the relay, so whether it appeared in the itinerary or not, it was the real relay!

www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/jul/23/eastenders-olympic-torch-live-episode?newsfeed=true

I thought it was a great episode!

But it won't say it passed through Walford, because Walford doesn't exist. It was officially part of the relay. It was the actual flame, otherwise it kind of defeats the purpose of yesterday live 7 minutes of eastenders really, why go to all the bother to just have a pretendy flame?

Have any of the Eastenders scriptwriters given birth/had children? Because it's amazing how many precipitous births the female inhabitants have!

No one in saop has ever had some contractions, gone into the maternity hospital, been examined, and then given birth a few hours later. No-one.

It was the real relay! The chap who lit the torch and ran with Billy is the same one who did the honours for my friend when he carried the torch a couple of weeks ago. As previous posters have said, why would EE go to the bother of a live episode if it wasn't real?!

I watched it and really enjoyed it despite it being the usual EE pap! It tickled me how every single actor went out of character as he did his lap of the square!

Agreed LineRunner.

In Soapworld, your waters break, your first contraction takes place simultaneously, followed by a healthy crying baby within 30 minutes. You are usually somewhere inconvenient like a corner shop or in the middle of an argument.

If only RL was as simple!

There'd be no inductions, no 2 day labours, no being sent back home from the hospital because you're not dilated enough etc..

I don't believe any soap baby has ever been attached by an umbilical cord, either.

Bugger I missed it

I've thought overly very deeply, and I think Bianca had some Braxtons Hicks contractions once. She called the doctor, who told her they were BH. Then Ricky saw her grimacing later, and they had an argument about it all, IIRC. There was Rickay -ing.

That's the EE concession to realism. What more could we ask?

LOLA came home from hospital with what she was wearing all clean and dry I kept thinking yuck she had a wet bum yesterday

the official torch did a lot of strange things in the relay - here cyclist mark beaumont cycled it across the forth bridge for a photocall when it was actually being run through dunfermline at the same time

Anyone else wonder how Derek managed to just barge right into Ian's flat tonight? Surely with all that's happened and it being London, Lucy would've locked the door?

they always leave doors open Ians house especially I would have thought seeing as she is trying to keep the baliffs out she would have locked it again , maybe she was all swoony when joey came in and forgot

I loved last night's torch relay episode, for once EE left me all warm and fuzzy.

As for Ian's door not being locked, that goes against the law and Pauline Fowler would haunt them forever, or something.