It’s been an emotional week in Albert Square, and going into tonight’s live edition there was a sense that EastEnders would struggle to top Wednesday’s vision of an afterlife Angie Watts as daughter Sharon teetered on the brink of death for nostalgic shock value.
Martin and Stacey declared their love to one another in his final moments (Photo: BBC)
EastEnders’ first episode back in 1985 centred on Pauline Fowler discovering her late-in-life pregnancy, arguably the square’s first scandal. Martin was the first baby born in the soap, so his death four decades on was a poignant full-circle moment.
You could feel Martin’s love for ex-wife and soul mate Stacey, who dutifully stayed at his side as he faded away beneath a polystyrene beam that landed on him in the elaborate Queen Vic fire earlier this week.
Viewers voted for Denise to end up with Jack (Photo: BBC)Back in February 2010, trouper Turner had laryngitis and was famously forced to whisper Stacey’s confession she murdered Archie in the inaugural live episode. This only added to the emotional weight of a moment that has gone down in soap history.
Sonia gave birth to a baby girl, Julia (Photo: BBC)
Away from Martin’s final doof-doof, which also assures another raft of awards for the peerless Turner, the live also revealed the result of EastEnders’ first ever viewer vote to decide the outcome of a storyline. The great British public consigned Denise Fox (Diane Parish) to a lifetime with dodgy cop Jack Branning (the aforementioned Maslen, who was word-perfect, along with the rest of the impressive cast). If you don’t agree with the decision and thought Dee deserved a bit of bad boy action with Ravi, you’ve only got yourself to blame.
Dubbed “the Godmother of EastEnders“, it’s heartening that her name lives on. Smith was a notoriously hard taskmaster, but if she was watching over her baby 40 years on last night, she would’ve been proud of what they achieved. And rightly so.
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