EastEnders has been dire for years. There are no characters that you can empathise with, so any rambling seemingly endless storyline falters away because nobody really gives two hoots about the character involved. I mean, take the Stella/Ben scenario (I haven�t watched it for some time but can well imagine this is dragging out for a Christmas special) we all know that this is child abuse and it is of course immoral, but do we give an ess-haitch-one-tee about the little sheister? No. Ditto that whiney pregnant one and the mad professor, sorry doc.