Do the soaps drive you mad at xmas!

ulinbac

Every xmas we go to the relations and every year the soaps, eastenders, coronation street and emmerdale are on.

I'm in the other room atm and eastenders has just finished. The amount of screaming and crap that went on, followed about my cousins complaining about it was really annoying, yet they watch it religiously every week .

I have no time for soaps (just don't get them), but what do ye boardsies think of this type of tv at xmas?

Jess16

I think they drive me mad all year round which is why I can't watch, don't watch

The Jammy dodger

Dont start me on soaps. I HATEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THEMMMMMMMMMMMM.

People with problems watching fictional characters with similar problems on the tele. Ridiculos.

Soaps perpetuate gossip and problems amongst the everyday household. They portray a narrow minded picture of people when we are so much more than that and capable of so much more.

Captain_Generic

ulinbac wrote: »

Every xmas we go to the relations and every year the soaps, eastenders, coronation street and emmerdale are on.

It must be some pretty awesome soap

dinorebel

The only thing I hate more than soaps is that bigamist ****er who just set me on fire.

mfceiling

Every Cnut this side of Australia drives me mad at Xmas...

robk24

Soaps are so depressing, why does anyone want to watch a load of people die?
It seems to me there are never any positive stories just people hating each other, there is enough to be depressed about in the real world with these crappy soaps....

Pherekydes

Didn't get any soap this year, just after shave.

Biggins

Jess16 wrote: »

I think they drive me mad all year round which is why I can't watch, don't watch

You speak for me too.

DepecheHead101

The soaps are class. I watch them for the same reason I watch so much wrestling. An always running mini universe of poorly written caricatures. Great entertainment altogether.

Bring back Brookside.

Scruffles

soaps are fake,torturous,whiny piles of crap.
they must have named them soaps as a p- take at the fact theyre full of shi...faecal matter and need washing away.

everyone at mine loves them; including the support staff,they will sit together in the lounge watching them and talk about it all as if theyre real,ugh.

am not a tv owner so dont have to otherwise hear or view such atrocities, best thing for it-not having a tv or at least not having a connection to tv channels.

Niles

Ah come on now the plots are always very original, I believe Fair City had a Christmassy story where such and such a character finds out about an affair... Very riveting stuff indeed. :rolleyes: Never afraid to push the boundaries of storytelling are they?

Muckie

Height of rubbish, every body rides every body, some body else

gets killed(run over or pushed down stairs). Oh throw in a few gay/ maybe

incest story lines, pure tv gold.

Niles

Muckie wrote: »

Height of rubbish, every body rides every body, some body else

gets killed(run over or pushed down stairs). Oh throw in a few gay/ maybe

incest story lines, pure tv gold.

The local pub/factory/shop/prominent establishment goes on fire every few years or so as well... Of course the amount mishaps is completely proportional to what you would expect in the one street in real life... :rolleyes:

Annoying really, sometimes you hear people criticize programs like Prison Break or Lost for having convoluted storylines, but at least their writers were making an attempt to do something different, even if it is a little convoluted.

DepecheHead101

Scruffles wrote: »

and talk about it all as if theyre real

What do you want them to do, add a "in the context of the scripted television show, of course" soundbyte disclaimer to the end of every soap related sentence?

Everyone talks about TV shows and movies as if they were real. It's tough not to. You're only taking issue with it in this case because it's about shows you don't like.

And the other classic about soaps being all about affairs and murder etc is such a woeful argument too. Of course that's what they're about. That's the fun of them. Nobody would tune in if they read a TV guide synopsis that described a relatively benign day in the lives of the characters. Ian Beale ponders Cameron's approval rating! Phil Mitchell sits about for a bit because sometimes it's important to just relax and appreciate life!

emeraldstar

Fookin can't stand them. Rubbish tripe.

galwayrush

So easy to avoid them.

Paparazzo

Your life improves when you stop watching soaps. Even if you use the time masturbating, it's time better spend.

Niles

galwayrush wrote: »

So easy to avoid them.

Depends. Christmas Day, half the family is watching them, nothing to do outside the house, no where else to go bar your room/the toilet...

My name is URL

The Corrie lesbians are worth a look, and Christmas time in Walford can't be beaten!

I only ever watch any of them around Christmas and still know the bloody storylines

Kevin Duffy

ulinbac wrote: »

Every xmas we go to the relations and every year the soaps, eastenders, coronation street and emmerdale are on.

Would you not take the hint and stop going around?

woodoo

I won't hear a bad word against eastenders.

ulinbac

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Would you not take the hint and stop going around?

Can't we fly to London for the holidays, i'm stuck and wasn't going down to the sales!

Cee-Jay-Cee

Dont watch them, take that thing with all the buttons on it and switch over to another channel and watch something else instead.

I think theyre crap too but like to watch them so i can bitch about how ridiculous story lines are point out stupid flaws in the story line....its wile craic!!