Do people actually talk like Fair City actors?

Zhane · 02-11-2003 10:42PM #1

i watched it today, i dont know if its the crappy writers or the crappy actors but Fair City is crap!

seamus · 02-11-2003 11:58PM

Knowing a couple of the actors and having seen them act otherwise, I'm reasonably happy that its crapness is due to RTE. For most scenes, they only get one take, regardless of how much the actors protest that it was ****.

Probably some cost-cutting measure the execs thought was a good idea.

sunbeam · 03-11-2003 12:08AM

One take? Madness.

The mother likes it so I get to unintentionally watch it now and then.

Can't get over them having a special 'school' week on the one week that nearly all schools are closed for halfterm-and the less said about those 'hospital' specials the better.....

sceptre · 03-11-2003 12:16AM

Originally posted by seamus
For most scenes, they only get one take, regardless of how much the actors protest that it was ****.

Ah, Ed Wood style directing. Alive and well it seems.

spooiirt!! · 03-11-2003 10:21AM

why would anbody in their right mind watch Fair City. give me one productive thing that results from watching fair city! Its not entertaining, interesting, educational, or humourous!

davil · 03-11-2003 11:40AM

Actors???

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

Jim · 03-11-2003 02:07PM

ya wa?

yeah, hated them all until i saw a couple of them in plays and they were actually very good stage actors.

and loved yar man leo in space truckers

Dustaz · 03-11-2003 02:07PM

In fairness, ive seen a lot of the fair city actors in a lot of other things on stage and screen and for the most part they are accomplished actors.

Elmo · 03-11-2003 02:12PM

In fairness, ive seen a lot of the fair city actors in a lot of other things on stage and screen and for the most part they are accomplished actors.

Yeah Indeed it is weird how they are good in other things.

I have seen two on the stage and two in The Clinic (Small parts but very good).

I thought the school episodes were good this week, the Teachers were terrible.

Do people talk like Coronation Street Or EastEnders?

I think it could be a better show if they got different directors.

I think its the directors fault with Fair City. But then its a soap and I think they are all crap.

Tha Gopher · 03-11-2003 07:44PM

The acting in fair city is pretty brutal but the ratings seem to be climbing. Its seldom now that the sunday world wont dedicate a page to next weeks storyline,and whereas only a few years ago I knew maybe two admitted viewers I know about 10 now. And thats only the ones who admit to watching it.
Mind you at least it is slightly more realistic than British soaps language wise. I watched a bit of the omnibus on sunday as the gran was over and shes now an avid fan all of a sudden. They tell each other to piss off and someone called somebody a bastard. One scene showed a group of lads smoking a joint in school,whereas in UK soaps the only people who ever use drugs either collapse and die/nearly die from a single ecstasy tablet(not one person seems to have taken a pill in these and survived-youd wonder how anyone buys off these lethal local dealers)or become a hopeless coke addict. Nobody has ever been seen to smoke a relaxing joint ffs.
At least fair city is a bit more realistic than the non drug using cleanest mouthed working class northerners and east londoners ever seen in Britain.

And how come in soap pubs people only get drunk if theyre alcoholics or its a special occasion?

Elmo · 04-11-2003 01:31AM

Ever watch it on UTV during the day. They blank out most of the bad lanuage.

I don't Consider the bad lanuage used in fair City bad. Do you?

They have more rules in the UK with the use of bad lanuage before prime time.

Mossy Monk · 04-11-2003 11:33AM

Originally posted by Tha Gopher
And how come in soap pubs people only get drunk if theyre alcoholics or its a special occasion?

livers made of cast iron. they all drink for most of the day it seems in soap land

Sarky · 04-11-2003 04:45PM

Soaps are painfully inaccurate takes on reality. They are, without exception, unrealistic and dull. I've seen more life in a corpse than I've seen in most soap actors. And don't get me started on the dialogue. For one thing, I utterly refuse to believe that Dublin is devoid of swearing. And the mechanics in the garage never have even a damn spot of grease on them! I'm amazed the garage in Fair City has stayed open for so long when no-one who works there actually seems to get their hands dirty with anything.

I had better stop before I get into full swing. There's another dozen pieces of rubbish I'd happily torture painfully.

nlgbbbblth · 04-11-2003 07:51PM

most irritating thing about Fair City is the changing of actors/actresses - it has happened to at least ten characters - this just is not acceptable and does not happen to the same extent in English soapland.

also - the cutting down on episodes during the summer? - although did not happen in 2003 - but should never happened.

the lack of a website is disturbing - RTE's effort does not count and it would be good to see footage photos and episode guides from the beginning

joseph brand · 05-11-2003 02:46AM

@nlgbbbblth

Read a book, and not one about Eastenders or some tripe like that, eh??

@davil

Actors???

Well said, just what I was thinking.

There is a young girl(bout 13), with glasses, makes my blood boil with her 'acting'.

I'm from Dublin and I don't Bleeding talk like them saps, ye here me???;)

Oswald Osbourne · 08-11-2003 04:19PM

Originally posted by sceptre
Ah, Ed Wood style directing.

Fair City is more Dead Wood than Ed Wood.

Do people actually talk like Fair City actors?

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