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Chinafoot

hello everyone. my name is peachypants and i am a soap-aholic. there i've said it!
i watch emerdale, coronation street and eastenders and i love it! however, i have to wonder why is it that england can produce three good soaps (many may not agree but....) we here in ireland cant produce one decent soap! why is that????
i mean there have been plenty of good actors in this country and yet on that piece of rubbish 'fair city' they're all planks of wood! i mean seriously where the hell did they get Leo and Shay and Lorcan god he's terrible!! and the story lines are atrocious!

i know i should just stop watching it but its like a car crash....you dont want to look but you cant help it!

anybody else watch it?

RobertFoster

you've taken the first step - realising that it is crap. all you have to do now is get the remote and change the channel when it comes on...try and find something else that's on at the same time. even try turning off the TV, going online, or listening to music. trust me, it can be done, and you'll feel better for it

Washout

Isnt it also mad the way there used to be only one telly in pubs for sports.


Now there is like multi TVs and you have one constantly showing soaps.

Chinafoot

yea i think you need to be drunk to appreciate fair city! its so head wrecking because theres plenty of decent actors and actressess in ireland and yet the get the worst most brutal planks of wood ever. why dear god why!!!!!

ok i'll stop now. *deep breaths*b

embee

Originally posted by peachypants
i have to wonder why is it that england can produce three good soaps (many may not agree but....) we here in ireland cant produce one decent soap! why is that????

Ros na Rún on TG4 is very good indeed actually.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by peachypants
hello everyone. my name is peachypants and i am a soap-aholic. there i've said it!
i watch emerdale, coronation street and eastenders and i love it!

hello peachypants, the people you live with must love you very much if they allow you to watch all those soap operas or do you have a tv just for soaps too

The Real B-man

Ros na Rún on TG4 is very good indeed actually

its crap most of the time they say english like blalalalalalala ahh how are yeah mary in the middle of an irish conversation weird

I live in Kilcoole co.wicklow the place where Glenroe was set "well holy god" i hate all the tourists coming to visit the farm with there phrases like "blacky conors" and all that crap i live 5 mins from the farm on foot and am glad it ended because there not that many tourists coming anymore thank god:rolleyes:

Kobie

I think it because we Irish live such rich, vibrant, exciting and varied lives that any attempt to condense our sprits down to half an hour on the small screen is doomed to failure.

Still though, the Royal Shakespeare society never had anyone as class as Leo!!!

Chinafoot

yes you're right....i mean how does leo manage to keep his words and hand gestures out of sync like that? its amazing!

Elmo

I just HATE soaps (sorry not very PC of me POPULAR DRAMAS)

How can anyone sit down for an evening and just watch

Home And Away
Emmerdale
Eastenders
Coronation Street
Fair City

They are all **** not just FAIR CITY.

Emmerdale is ****ing based on an Irish Soap you morans.

TCamen

Fair City used to be so much more fun back in the pizza parlour days with Huey and Nat-lee (Natalie in English).
None of this 'bistro' crap :rolleyes:

From the glimpses of 'Fair City' in recent times I had have the misfortune to see, I think Lorcan, Darren & the stoopid Goth Girl are seriously atrocious. Hate the way Yvonne used to say 'MIKE!' every two seconds!!

Watched Emmerdale tonight for the arrival of Patsy Kensit AKA Sadie King. I love her already, treating Charity like the scrubber she really is

monkeymagic

Does Fair City even resemble any part of Dublin? I've always wondered where the monkeys that write it live because they're obviously a million miles away from the city it's supposed to be set in. Then again why has no one in EastEnders ever been seen walking down Oxford St or meeting friends outisde of Walford?

Nuttzz

fair city..... loved the story line about the mechanic who worked in some back street garage and a formula 1 team comes looking for her, who writes this sh1te?

IgnatiusJRiley

Originally posted by Elmo

Emmerdale is ****ing based on an Irish Soap you morans.

MorAns, I love it.... it is meant as a joke, right?

Nobody's mentioned hairy Harry who acts like he's being spoonfed each line

leeroybrown

All soaps are crap and ultimately they are the reason that there is no good TV on before 20:30 in the evening.

aidan_walsh

Originally posted by IgnatiusJRiley
MorAns, I love it.... it is meant as a joke, right?

Nobody's mentioned hairy Harry who acts like he's being spoonfed each line

Ye wa?

Sorry...

Jim

Originally posted by doodle_sketch
Ye wa?

Sorry...

Quality.

I've seen some of the actors from Fair City on stage, and they're actually not bad stage actors. I esp like the guy who plays the dude who works in the shop (don't know his name).

Floyd is a legend.

nlgbbbblth

Fair City must have the most actor-changes I have ever seen

I see Bernie [Charlie and Mags' daughter] is back - different actor

how many times has this happened?

must be at least a dozen over the years

the show has no credibility

Chinafoot

Originally posted by IgnatiusJRiley
Nobody's mentioned hairy Harry who acts like he's being spoonfed each line

haha yea he looks like he was born with stubble!! it is fairly brutal alright.
and the guy who plays damien must have pissed off teh writers to be stuck with that old ming!!! it is however great when ur stoned or drunk. very amusing!

Elmo

Fair City must have the most actor-changes I have ever seen

Yeah! did ye see colin murphy's review of Soaps on the blizzard of odd

he mentioned The Young Phelan Girl

1. The girl from the xtra chewgum add.
2. The girl from The Cassidies (Imagine your career can go even more down hill after fair city, it is a pity because she was the best Farrah and prob the best thing on The Cassidy after that stand up comdian)
3. the blonde wan (alllllreet)

In the space of 3months

MorAns, I love it.... it is meant as a joke, right?

I guess this is a reference to Dick Moran from gelroe which was a spin off to bracken which was a spin off to The Riordans which Emmerdale is based on.

Or maybe i am spelling moran wrong?????? whatever?