Hell is empty and all the continuity devils are here
Trace a finger from your nose downward. Past the chin, along your neck, between the pectorals. Then, before this gets too fifty shades, stop where your skin erupts or indents in a circular knot – the navel.
As we all lay nascent a connection runs betwixt us and our mothers’ placenta. That umbilical cord is nutritional fibre optic, sustaining your flaccid, puny body with mummy’s milk. Or, more specifically, mummy’s blood.
So imagine the horror, the abject horror, of the Enders everyman last night. Watching Georgi go into labour in the Queen Vic only, when Tina delivered the baby boy, to see an infant sans cordon ombilical.
Soap Twitter went nuclear.
Ahh, another miracle baby born without an umbilical cord #Eastenders
— Portia (@Pikachu6393) February 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/Mrsplumbum/status/966770099783913472
https://twitter.com/omgitskiara_/status/966769578196992000
WHERE WAS THE UMBILICAL CORD?? #Eastenders
— Jayne (@jayniecakes) February 22, 2018
Other social media users were concerned at the size of baby actor used in the scene, Georgi’s child being born premature.
https://twitter.com/S__Morgan13/status/966770946005782529
Presumably all the prematurely born baby actors were otherwise engaged.
