Soap Operas are utter crap. Discuss

mfin
mfin Posts: 6,729
edited September 2009 in The bottom bracket
Can't see for the life of me why anyone would want to watch a never-ending, terribly acted load of brain-dead, unstimulating, formularised rubbish, week in, week out. Christ they're popular though, very odd. Is it like cigarettes, are they addictive or something? (I know some of the side effects seem to consist of consuming lots of oven chips and mysteriously becoming 18 stone or more by the time you're in your early 40s).
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    mfin wrote:
    Can't see for the life of me why anyone would want to watch a never-ending, terribly acted load of brain-dead, unstimulating, formularised rubbish, week in, week out. Christ they're popular though, very odd. Is it like cigarettes, are they addictive or something? (I know some of the side effects seem to consist of consuming lots of oven chips and mysteriously becoming 18 stone or more by the time your in your early 40s).

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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    I agree. As will everyone else.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    NapoleonD wrote:
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    Ahhh... you like them do you then?? What's your favourite?
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    what is there to discuss?
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Someone must like them... there are so many of the things, the viewing figures are mad. I was hoping we'd get a Stender's fan or two in here going on about how well respected an actor Bouncer is in shakespearian circles and all that.
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    I think you're preaching to the choir.
  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    mfin wrote:
    Can't see for the life of me why anyone would want to watch a never-ending, terribly acted load of brain-dead, unstimulating, formularised rubbish, week in, week out. Christ they're popular though, very odd. Is it like cigarettes, are they addictive or something? (I know some of the side effects seem to consist of consuming lots of oven chips and mysteriously becoming 18 stone or more by the time you're in your early 40s).

    some of them have fit women in them http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/arch ... 45141a.jpg

    *drools*
    'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    People on here seem to have some(even if small) degree of intelligence, people who watch those things are the type of people who appear on Jeremy Kyle and watch big brother :wink:
    P.s Eastenders is the worst, it's just derpessing, dunno what posseses people to want to watch it :roll:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Can't abide the soaps, but did fancy Kat Slater when she first appeared on Chavenders.
  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    my mum used to watch eastenders (yeah yeah...)

    and it used to disgust me how much she cared about the characters.

    I think people watch it for escapism :roll:
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    jimycooper wrote:

    I think people watch it for escapism :roll:

    Got it in one. Question is...how bad does life have to be for watching them to seem like a good use of your time.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    STEFANOS4784 wrote:
    People on here seem to have some(even if small) degree of intelligence, people who watch those things are the type of people who appear on Jeremy Kyle and watch big brother :wink:
    P.s Eastenders is the worst, it's just derpessing, dunno what posseses people to want to watch it :roll:

    Ahhh, how do you know? How do you know?....

    Caught you out there eh?
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    dmclite wrote:
    Can't abide the soaps, but did fancy Kat Slater when she first appeared on Chavenders.

    Un.For.Giv.A.Ble :P
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    edited September 2009
    My friend's (same one as who spewed on a girls back-from another thread) girlfriend watches it so if i'm round there i've gotta sit through it, often irritate the hell out of her by making snidey comments though :wink:
    How do you watch any anyway, your always at work at that time aint ya :wink:

    P.s usually the type of people who enjoy doing things like this on a Friday night just because they're so upset that Ricky and Bianca split up:

    th_DSC00034.jpg

    No chance of the police finding who did it :(

    P.s this is my brother :cry:
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  • Chicane-UK
    Chicane-UK Posts: 105
    I can't stand it. My missus is a clever lass (doctor of psychology no less!) but watches all of this stuff religiously - Neighbours, Home and Away, Hollyoaks.. what I don't understand is, it's the same freaking stories on every show, every damn week. Someone is sleeping with someone elses partner.. someone hates someone else.. someone is stalking someone! Rinse, wash, repeat.

    Ugh. It's the same BS stories week in week out - I can't watch them without wanting to stab my own eyes out!

    And don't get me started on Peter Andre and Jordan in the weekly womens gossip mags, or (my own personal number one peeve in the world) Kerry Katona's "latest struggle" with drugs/her husband/eating/drinking. How can you be famous for, basically, being sh!t at life? And then repeatedly sell the same damn story over and over to the press? Oh damn - I've got a problem with putting 8 stone on - quick, get Hello magazine on the phone!!

    ARRGHHH....
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    STEFANOS4784 wrote:
    My friend's (same one as who spewed on a girls back-from another thread) girlfriend watches it so if i'm round there i've gotta sit through it, often irritate the hell out of her by making snidey comments though :wink:
    How do you watch any anyway, your always at work at that time aint ya :wink:

    I Series link on Sky+ Eastenders, Corrie, The Young Doctors, Take the High Road, The Sullivans, Eldorado (in HD), Albion Market, Brookside, Emmerdale, Neighbours, Hollyoaks and Falcon Crest.

    I don't watch Home and Away as I find the characters shallow and the storylines thin.
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    Oh no :shock:
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  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    STEFANOS4784 wrote:
    People on here seem to have some(even if small) degree of intelligence, people who watch those things are the type of people who appear on Jeremy Kyle and watch big brother :wink:
    P.s Eastenders is the worst, it's just derpessing, dunno what posseses people to want to watch it :roll:

    I thought the premise of eastenders was to make sure their lives were always worse than the lives those watching it.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    teagar wrote:
    I thought the premise of eastenders was to make sure their lives were always worse than the lives those watching it.

    I thought the premise of it was to give crap cockney actors a job.
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    Simple solutions here .
    http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/components/switch.htm
    bagpuss
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    Women are excused.......They love the 'gossip factor' :lol:
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    The ironic thing about "soaps" is people watch them week in,week out so they don't miss anything,but, if you didn't watch them for two month you would have missed nothing. :lol:

    At the side of "reality TV" they're possitively highbrow. That's another thread altogether though.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Go read some Charlie Brooker if you want to vent about poor telly. He does it better than anyone.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    teagar wrote:
    Go read some Charlie Brooker if you want to vent about poor telly. He does it better than anyone.

    +1.

    One of the very few genuinely funny critics.

    Was his TV show any good? Never got to watch it.
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    johnfinch wrote:
    teagar wrote:
    Go read some Charlie Brooker if you want to vent about poor telly. He does it better than anyone.

    +1.

    One of the very few genuinely funny critics.

    Was his TV show any good? Never got to watch it.

    Screenwipe and Newswipe were great.

    That thing on channel 4? Too full of awkward pauses and forced cynicism for my liking. He should stick to fast cut, low budget, rehearsed rants.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Eastenders;

    Wots appenin' ?

    Nuffink,

    Shut it,

    Lets ave a family party at the Vic ?

    Aww, Phil,

    OHH, Pat.

    There you go, no need to watch you have just had the past, present and future episodes of eastenders, now hum theme tune, dooby dooby doo, do do, dooby dooby do dah doooby doo doodoh.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    dmclite wrote:
    Eastenders;

    Wots appenin' ?

    Nuffink,

    Shut it,

    I believe the correct London phonetic spelling is:

    sha' iiiii'
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    dmclite wrote:
    Eastenders;

    Wots appenin' ?

    Nuffink,

    Shut it,

    Lets ave a family party at the Vic ?

    Aww, Phil,

    OHH, Pat.

    There you go, no need to watch you have just had the past, present and future episodes of eastenders, now hum theme tune, dooby dooby doo, do do, dooby dooby do dah doooby doo doodoh.

    It's family.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • Matt the Tester
    Matt the Tester Posts: 1,261
    I Series link on Sky+ Eastenders, Corrie, The Young Doctors, Take the High Road, The Sullivans, Eldorado (in HD), Albion Market, Brookside, Emmerdale, Neighbours, Hollyoaks and Falcon Crest.

    christ your worse then i thought lol.
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    north west of england.
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    We have a rule whereby the MRS is only alowed to watch thisshite if she does something usefull at the same time, like ironing or sewing buttons back on my shirts etc.

    Personally I won't be in the same room as a TV playing an oZ soap. Its the plinky plonky muzac in the background that really grates.

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