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What was the most unrealistic soap story line ever?

  • 22-09-2013 12:34am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,976 ✭✭✭✭


    There's being a good few. Hollyoaks can be one of the worst for have really unbelievable stories.

    So, what was the most unrealistic soap story line ever?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭TommiesTank


    The question should probably be the other way around. Most stories are entirely unrealistic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,721 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Bobby in the shower?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭tippspur


    miley and that young wan in Glenroe having an affair,have a look at miley and then have a good look at her,no way would it happen in real life.I stopped watching it after that.long time ago now though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Radio5


    The Eastenders Baby Tommy/James death swop storyline.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    The one where someone said, lets create a soap opera called Fair City..that was mad!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭whitewave


    Ailsa seeing Bobby's ghost in the fridge in Home and Away...quality tv



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,209 ✭✭✭jos28


    Michelle in Coronation St taking the wrong baby home from hospital :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭Scaramanga 4


    The way Farrah Phelan hasn't come home in about 15 years for her parents divorce, Grandmothers death, brothers illness/death, fathers wedding, just to visit her father.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Radio5


    The way Farrah Phelan hasn't come home in about 15 years for her parents divorce, Grandmothers death, brothers illness/death, fathers wedding, just to visit her father.


    Yes, they could have easily recast if the original actress wasn't available . Its daft that she never re-appeared for any of those occasions.


  • Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭Yangedd


    Dallas Season nine turning out to be a dream.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,958 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Every storyline that involved a new person arriving in town, mentioning they are adopted, later looking for their parents and discovering them to be a main character in the soap.
    Home and Away is probably the worst offender on that one. That has happened countless times.


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭bellinter


    Dirty Den... Alive!


  • Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭Yangedd


    Every storyline that involved a new person arriving in town, mentioning they are adopted, later looking for their parents and discovering them to be a main character in the soap.
    Home and Away is probably the worst offender on that one. That has happened countless times.

    And everyone starts out a bad ass till they are "saved" ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,958 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Yangedd wrote: »
    And everyone starts out a bad ass till they are "saved" ;)

    Oh yeah, that is so annoying,knowing that every obnoxious toe rag will eventually come full circle and end up a cuddly family favourite. They more awful they are the sweeter they'll be in the end.
    And they pretty much never deviate from that formula :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    The 'twins' in Home and and Away that were telepathic Kirsty and Jade and they could tell when the other was in trouble but then it turned out they werent even related.
    Actually how everyone in Summer Bay can get a job as a teacher even without any qualifications


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭Scaramanga 4


    Zak Dillon being from Kilkenny


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭Scaramanga 4


    And that big fella that raped Katy and Roisa in Ros Na Run being a transition year student.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Radio5


    No adult can ever afford to buy a house in Home and Away. Even if they have a decent job enough like a teacher or whatever they must live with either Irene or Leah or in the Caravan Park.

    2 or 3 generations of entire families still live together, even if they're supposed to be wealthy and could move out and buy somewhere, the Kings and now the Sharmas and Maceys in Emmerdale, the Mitchells in Eastenders, the McDonalds and any other family that lives in the pub in Corrie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭prettygurrly


    A really recent one in Hollyoaks...Ste is going on a big trip with Doug...but hang on doesn't a suspended sentence mean you can't leave the country? Correct me if I'm wrong please...

    Years ago when Jim McDonald in Corrie could suddenly walk again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Radio5


    Yeah, the miracle of walking again one is done on all soaps, Tommy Dillon in Fair City being the most recent one. I'm sure Nick in Corrie will be back working full time in the Bistro by Christmas.

    Almost every guy that Carla Conner has gone out with or married in Corrie is now dead. Peter better watch himself.

    The phone never rings in any supposedly busy office or business, unless its a personal call which the character will insist on taking.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Billy Mitchell getting married.

    Twice.


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The turkey baster storyline in Sunset Beach


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Fallon Colby abducted by aliens



    Cannot be beaten for stupidity or budget wasting.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    Remember that time in Fair City when Sarah accidentally tripped on an uneven bit of carpet (something like that) and was bleeding from it, and then Barry trying to talk to her accidentally knocked her to the ground and killed her? :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭Steven81


    No money and recession but everyone can go to the pub at midday and that night. Also the amount of staff employed at each is unreal


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Harry Molloy's departure in Fair City...in fairness, I forgey what the storyline was, but he just seemed to disappear, and we heard nothing much about him again until Lucy turned up claiming to have his child. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭Paddy Fields


    How many fires have been in Emmerdale (let's forget the plane crash)? It must have the worst fire safety record in Europe. Those meetings to kiil off a few characters mustn't take long.
    "Right we need to get rid of Viv, Bob, Frank, Eileen and Able Dingle."
    "Let's have a fire..."
    "Good idea!... Any other business?"


  • Registered Users Posts: 218 ✭✭Randomiser


    Definitely Fallon going off in the flying saucer at the end of The Colbys.

    Although pretty much everything in Hollyoaks strikes me as completely ridiculous these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Eastenders - unbelievable that that crap is still on.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    The turkey baster storyline in Sunset Beach

    Was that before or after Brookside


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    Radio5 wrote: »
    Yes, they could have easily recast if the original actress wasn't available . Its daft that she never re-appeared for any of those occasions.

    They've had three different actresses play Farrah. You'd think one of them would be available.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    The lifeguards on the Los Angeles beaches are nothing like those in BayWatch, I was there expecting to find silicone bronzed beach blondes everywhere, barely the odd one. Most of the lifeguards seemed to be hispanic men.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Radio5


    The Romeo cancer storyline in Home and Away.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    vitani wrote: »
    They've had three different actresses play Farrah. You'd think one of them would be available.

    One of them plays Bronagh in "London Irish" now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Ian Beales success with the ladies


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭deelite


    Brookside - when the Close was sealed off due to an outbreak of some illness


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    The way there always seems to be work for people either in Summer Bay High or in the Diner.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭duridian


    Not a storyline exactly, but something I find very unrealistic in the soaps is the massive difference in people's ability to hear what others are talking about, while in very close proximity, depending on whether it suits the story or not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,347 ✭✭✭No Pants


    deelite wrote: »
    Brookside - when the Close was sealed off due to an outbreak of some illness
    That was the one that sprung to my mind. It did have a comedy moment when Jimmy Corkhill gave a urine sample from Cracker (his dog) instead of his own and the medical people came looking for him because they then thought that he was the first human to contract some doggy Condition.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Currently Tina and Peter storyline!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Joey and lauren in eastenders was more believable than tina and peter in corrie.Not sure about alicia and david/priya and david, paddy and chas....in emmerdale.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭Pharaoh1


    That the chocolate factory in Emmerdale - everybody just fiddles around with boxes although it needs at least four people in the office to run things.

    Sam Dingle's facial expressions are a bit unrealistic too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 799 ✭✭✭dixiedan


    Surely the most unrealistic soap storyline of modern times must be the shenigans with Paul/Jane/Callum in Fair City ?? :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    duridian wrote: »
    Not a storyline exactly, but something I find very unrealistic in the soaps is the massive difference in people's ability to hear what others are talking about, while in very close proximity, depending on whether it suits the story or not.

    So true! I used to watch Home and Away, years ago, and people always discussed the most private things in the most open plan areas. Mostly nobody heard...
    Same in the Rovers, where there appears to be only a tiny counter space. People can stand there and discuss almost anything while others, often standing at the counter also, are oblivious to the fact that they are being discussed, (or not), depending on the storyline.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Pharaoh1 wrote: »
    That the chocolate factory in Emmerdale - everybody just fiddles around with boxes although it needs at least four people in the office to run things.

    True. As for the knicker factory in Corrie, it must be the greatest success story ever. How has it keep going since the dim and distant days when it kept Mike Baldwin in the luxury to which he was accustomed...the flash car, the apartment, the scotch, the cigars :D (God, I loved Mike Baldwin!)
    And do the staff not sew some very crooked seams, at times, considering the amount of time they spend in the pub every day!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Eastenders - nobody has a washing machine. They're all skint, but spend every waking hour "down the Vic"
    Fair City - 4 or 5 shadows off someone when they're standing in their living room. Nearly everyone has their breakfast, then goes to Vinos for a coffee. Zumo Bishop, the local hardman, lives with his Ma. Barry O Hanlon was in Batman Begins.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    MJ23 wrote: »
    Eastenders - nobody has a washing machine. They're all skint, but spend every waking hour "down the Vic"
    Fair City - 4 or 5 shadows off someone when they're standing in their living room. Nearly everyone has their breakfast, then goes to Vinos for a coffee. Zumo Bishop, the local hardman, lives with his Ma. Barry O Hanlon was in Batman Begins.

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Radio5


    David's harem in Emmerdale. All his recent ex's living in one village. All we need is Delilah Dingle now and he'll have a complete set within walking distance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,721 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Martin Platt ? Where the f^%k has he been?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,958 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    The way thatl they're all clearly psychic and have no need to ever verbalise times or venues to make plans.
    Soap characters will meet each other in a bar or somewhere for the first time, clearly not having exchanged numbers or anything, but will then ask each other out with "do you want to do something sometime?" the other person will agree and like magic they'll both turn up in the diner/the woolpack/the rovers ready for a date on the same day at the same time! .


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