EastEnders run (2000-2001), Part 3/4
Warnings if you’re not keen on big shouty men, Beppe flips out in this and I took a lot of screencaps.
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Ok I did read the character summary so I know roughly what's coming now, but here goes! Last three episodes of those he's in for a few months - expect some drama! What's Sandra going to decide??
9 October 2000
Noooo, that youtube video is just the October 5 episode again :(
10 October 2000
Breakfast time at Sandra and Beppe's. Beppe wants to take her up to Leicester to see his family - the source of the original breakup (apparently they didn't like her for not being Italian) - but Sandra is cagey and heads out to work.
Guess who's on her doorstep, as usual?
He claims it's the only way he can get in touch with her and makes the usual ultimatum! He's leaving Thursday - she says she'll call him later...
The background music continues to deal me psychic damage. Tom Jones' Sex Bomb playing in the pub while Peggy acts heartbroken over Frank's spinning bow tie 🙃
Laura joking about kidnapping Ian's kids in (apparently) very poor taste but it's emphasising the subliminal messaging acting on Sandra, innit? She's worried that if she runs off with Joe though it'll be held against her in terms of custody. This is why ultimatums aren't helpful, young Mr Robbins!
Also once more, pleasantly surprised by the way Frank and Pat's affair gets into the effects of that on the friendship between Peggy and Pat - she's already lonely because of Frank, and now her best friend isn't in a position to support her because she's also hiding things.
Anyway, Beppe's being a dear about this trip to Leicester and talking about taking Joe horse riding. Do they have horse riding in Bristol, hm?
I should probably warn anyone tempted to watch these that Barry is on a strictly enforced diet and his wife is an asshole about making him stick to it. Could be triggering for anyone with issues around food.
Ian unhelpfully gives Sandra Thursday and Friday off for a trip to Leicester when Beppe asks him for her.
LMAOOO Tivik (the guy with the bust arm who Cassian shoots in Rogue One, played by Daniel Mays) has chained himself to the Slaters' gate because he loves Kat, and swallowed the key to his padlock. Among the audience he's drawn, Sandra asks what his problem is, and Beppe says "Some guys don't know what it's over." Oh ho ho ho...
Sandra's still trying to get out of going to Leicester on Thursday - she offers to bring Joe on the train on Friday pm and Beppe agrees. She asks Ian not to mention that she still wants Thursday off...
Today we have shouty Jack >:(
He goes on and on in the usual bloody way until he makes Sandra cry. You can see why the Met Police hired him 🙄
Then after all the shouting he goes all quiet and soft of course, and when Sandra says he can come to the house on Thursday because Beppe will be away he has the cheek to ask gently "Are you sure this is what you want?"
16 October 2000
DRAMA TIME
Sandra tells Beppe she's leaving. She says she can't keep pretending that she loves him (which is a contradiction of what she told Jack in the first episode)
Uh oh, Beppe heads outside "You're not taking my son!"
Jack pops out of the car 😬😬😬
"You call me mate when you sleep wiv my wife??" Classic EastEnders
Ok, I did my best with the screenshots, but apologies still
Intricate rituals....
Bless him, Jack gets a punch in but it's a 'restrain the arrestee' kind of punch not the brawling Beppe's good at. Beppe isn't taking this well at all. "I thought you were my friend?!"
That’s right, protect your face love!!!
There's an audience of course.
Sonya: "Should I call the police?"
Mo: "From what I heard, they are the police!"
Robbie's not confident he can break up this uh. Street fight on his own.
Mark gets Beppe to break it up because Sandra and Joe are watching.
Beppe grabs Joe and takes him inside.
Joe doesn't seem all that happy, and Beppe won't pick up the phone to Sandra (with grumpy Jack in the background). He is feeling guilty af though. And Laura's helping. Donkey Kong therapy :')
Laura's too good for this world - truly, she suggests Beppe talk things through! As if anyone has ever done that on EastEnders dkskjssjsjfff omg he does try it! Genuinely, Beppe is the better person at the point.
Oh goooodddd the locals are all on open-season bitch-fest about Sandra and Jack now D:
Jack thinks Sandra's letting Beppe call all the shots. He's so awful :')
"I don't remember inviting you."
"You didn't."
My god if the big dick swinging ego of these two idiots was spread evenly through the population we'd have no impostor syndrome left in the world.
Beppe finally gets the truth about how Sandra and Jack lived together for years.
(ah teen romance soundtracked by 5ive - Until the Time is Through *stares into the camera with a weak laugh*)
Now it's Beppe's turn to be a little bitch too
Ugh god I have such mixed emotions about Jack looking so protective while Sandra recounts her miscarriage woes again
Jack says a month or so later she up and left :(
Beppe: "She's good at that." But he does seem to understand...
Beppe: "It's all been about Joe, ain't it?"
Sandra: "No..."
Jack: "Uh, yeah!"
Beppe, who raised Joe alone after Sandra left him, is understandably dubious about Joe having a better family life with them.
Jack is wearing the ultimate 'no fucks given, no regrets' expression
"I'm so glad you can't have any more kids coz you don't deserve the one you've got!" Stay classy Beppe.
Sandra's had enough and Jack invokes the courts.
"And when we come back, we're taking Joe with us!"
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End of Part 3. Wow, Jack is really not boyfriend material! :’) But then again, the narrative of EastEnders doesn’t really take a moral standpoint and everyone’s behaved pretty stupidly badly. Read on to find out how things can be resolved in a(n ir)rational world!
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