Bawling at Eastenders.

[ThighsWideShut]

Anyone else?

Every mothers nightmare if you ask me, when you have children of the age to drink you will understand what goes through your head when they come home.

1. There home safe "thank god"
2. There in their bed
3. What if they choke in their sleep?

NIGHTMARE ... believe me
From a mum who has thought all these things

I thought it was very well acted, I think making Billie really look as if he had been dead for 12 hours would have been a bit much for a 7.30 soap!!!

My God I used to have a heart of reinforced concrete before I was pg with DS and scoff at anyone who cried at anything as silly as the bloody telly, but I turn into a gibbering wreck at everything and anything now. Show me a picture of a sad kitten and I'll be signed off work for days.

Bawled my eyes out .

fin54 I totally understand now, when my mum used to wait up when we went out as teens/youngsters.

I get palpitations when I send DS to go put the rubbish out!!

Phew not just me then! Remember mocking xh for crying at Mark Fowler's funeral years ago but seriously upset by this and the fire episode. Must be a Mum thing!

Well I for one am comforted by the fact that there are no longer two Billys in Albert Square.

It was far too confusing.

I bawled. That sense of unreality, the dithering, the shock....very well done :(

I thought it was excellent and the use of sound (or rather lack of it in key bits) really heightened the emotion.

surely he wasn't dead 12 hours if whatsit had heard him snoring at 2am and Carol was not long in work at 9am when she came home...? or wasn't that bit til the afternoon?

I thought it was done well; Bianca's reaction got me the most

Mark Fowler dying was the saddest thing EVER! And we didn't even get to see him die, just the funeral.

I blubbed for two consecutive evenings, and DH started to despair saying "It's not real you' know...they're actors"

Anyway, I digress. Did anyone else notice how easily they got Billy's body out through Pats hallway? I mean, it's quite a small terraced house, and I would have thought they would have had a bit of difficulty getting billy out, but no, the hall seemed to expand width ways.

Well it came a surprise to me & I thought all the major storylines were leaked. I had no idea - total shock. I thought it was quite well done - they used the silences really well. Poor Carol - can something good happen to her now? Maybe tasty Alan will come back into her life???

oh & then ending when Carol just sat there with the photo of her baby - little boy Billy with all that curly hair - made me a little teary.

I thought it was really well done, I've been in a similar(ish) situation and the sense of unreality and confusion was done really well. That walk from the bookies to her house was spot on.

I was holding it together until dh mentioned that it was lucky the hallway was wide enough to pivot the body out, like Lynette said, and that they'd struggle to get someone out of here. Then I started to really well up.

Findingmymojo when that bit was on dh was commenting on how dirty the chair that she was sat on was and the statue's bum behind her. :o

I've heard Alan is coming back.

be honest though, was I alone in thinking that when they shut the lounge door, the actor jumped up onto the trolley?

2shoes I'm sure Eastenders is all about the method acting and the actor stayed still for the whole shoot

I was surprised at the length of the scene in the living room. Was quite harrowing. I assume that level of detail was justified by the BBC because the storyline is considered educational about the dangers of binge drinking.

i thought Laurens reaction was good, cos most teens don't know how to react

Why did he have a photo of himself as a youngster in his own wallet??

Well I've just watched this and I bawled, esp when she was saying "Not my little one" and kissing him. So well acted

Lpsmum Carol had given him the wallet for his birthday and she'd put the photo inside and had written something sentimental to him on the back. Brill acting from Patsy, being pregnant herself at the moment she'd have got emotional really easily.

no i didnt cry at billys death last night

but

i did cry when wellard died :( that really got to me

did his liver pack up or did he die from being sick etc

from what i rem, he was drinking beer, then downed half a bottle of neat vodka (hard for an average person to do - neat is rank) and then seen dancing with a whiskey bottle

SF, sorry for your loss :(

Alan is back at the end of the week. Same actor!

fab, i always thought alan was a saint to put up with carol

I hardly ever watch it because its so miserable, give me Corrie anyday. I stumbled over it on my skyplus just now and bawled all the way through it. I thought the acting and the timing was spot on. Bianca especially.

Talking of Bianca are they going to get her to 9 months do you think? shes massive already, I wonder how she is going to go out of it? They couldve used it in the storyline, for a change. I cant bear it when the actress is pregnant in rl, I cant stop looking at their bumps!!

I wasn't bawling - quite glad to see the back of him really! I hated all the 'my crew' nonesense he brought with him.

Bianca and Carol were fab though.

Kittya - I didn't notice her bump last night, I couldn't take my eyes of the orange leggings she was wearing.