Fair City - 2000 episodes!

hot fuss · 30-11-2006 12:56PM #1

Can you believe it? I know people are very critical of it, but it's some achievement in fairness.. I say well done!

Mossy Monk · 30-11-2006 03:01PM

because something is on a long time does not make it good

Kojak · 30-11-2006 04:57PM

Mossy Monk wrote:

because something is on a long time does not make it good

Agreed - look at the Simpsons. They have been on for years, yet everything after season 8 (approximatly) is pure rubbish.

Ruu_Old · 30-11-2006 05:05PM

hot fuss wrote:

Can you believe it? I know people are very critical of it, but it's some achievement in fairness.. I say well done!

Not really.

Acting is woeful.*cringe* Simpsons is a good example of something that has kept going despite losing it a while ago.

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Milktrolley · 30-11-2006 06:03PM

hot fuss wrote:

Can you believe it? I know people are very critical of it, but it's some achievement in fairness.. I say well done!

It's some achievement, but there's no way I'm going to congratulate them! There's a guy out there, he was on Beat Talk a few years ago, who has watched every single Fair City episode. When he's away, his neighbour tapes them. How anyone, let alone 500,000 people watch it is absolutely beyond me.

Jerichoholic · 30-11-2006 09:04PM

2,000 episodes and not one person has learnt how to act or how to light a studio properly yet.

For shame.

hot fuss · 04-12-2006 06:35PM

I disagree. There are SOME very good actors in the show, and when it gets things right, it gets things very right.

It's not good all the time by any means, and wouldn't be one of my favourite programmes. However, I do think that most of the people who give it a hard time have rarely seen it, and are just commenting on something they don't really know about.

simu · 04-12-2006 06:39PM

Ya wah? I guess people just can't get enough of that hard-hitting social realism... :eek:

Mossy Monk · 04-12-2006 07:09PM

hot fuss wrote:

I do think that most of the people who give it a hard time have rarely seen it, and are just commenting on something they don't really know about.

i think you are wrong

all people need to see is 5 minutes of it every few weeks to see that it is the same wooden acting. or maybe people are missing out on the brilliant bits. i live with someone who watches it and when i am at home i can hear it in the background and it is woeful. they must only do 1 take and no more because any director who is worth a **** wouldnt leave that crap broadcast

Elmo · 05-12-2006 07:50PM

5,000,000 episodes of Coronation Street, I wonder if I can get them all on DVD.

Imagine a TV station where they showed nothing but non-stop corry street, I mean lets face it 7 episodes a week just isn't enough.

As for Fair City well! Tis a Soap. I hate soap. grrrr. :mad:

phit_demon · 06-12-2006 08:20AM

hot fuss wrote:

I disagree. There are SOME very good actors in the show, and when it gets things right, it gets things very right.

It's not good all the time by any means, and wouldn't be one of my favourite programmes. However, I do think that most of the people who give it a hard time have rarely seen it, and are just commenting on something they don't really know about.

You drool involuntarily on occasion, don't you?

Elmo · 06-12-2006 09:44PM

In honesty Fair City and Coro St are the only two soaps that I can watch. (For 5 mins at a time, the rest are pure ****e).

Eastenders is just so dull, boring and depressing and Emmerdales is just plain stupid.

Like most soaps Fair City suffers from wooden acting and like most soaps does get it right some of the time and has some good actors.

But lets face these shows go out for 4 to 7 episodes each week they are bound to end up being stupid and dull at times.

Unlike Ros Na Run which airs only two night a week and general makes a show of most other soaps. Time for the soaps to go to 2 nights a week for a while.

Jerichoholic · 07-12-2006 01:13AM

Hell yeah, I have a secret love of Ros na Run (not so secret). Although I do forget to watch it most of the time

. Still it's all in Irish and has 1,000,000 times more appeal than Fair City.

Riona (drools)

dSTAR · 11-12-2006 09:12PM

I watched some episodes when I lived in Ireland (ex-girlfriend was a fan!) and have to say that it was utterly cringeworthy. The acting was absolutely embarrassing and made Dubliners look like complete urban culchies (no offence to country people!).

I am not really one for soaps. Neighbours suffers from the same lack of storylines and appalling acting but Fair City is in league of its own.

Someone please blow up Carrigstown!

Elmo · 11-12-2006 10:29PM

I watched some episodes when I lived in Ireland (ex-girlfriend was a fan!) and have to say that it was utterly cringeworthy. The acting was absolutely embarrassing and made Dubliners look like complete urban culchies (no offence to country people!).

I am not really one for soaps. Neighbours suffers from the same lack of storylines and appalling acting but Fair City is in league of its own.

Someone please blow up Carrigstown!

It is bad when an aussie start slaggying our TV

All I can say is bring back A Country Practice or better still Sons and Daughters.

dSTAR · 11-12-2006 10:40PM

Elmo wrote:

It is bad when an aussie start slaggying our TV

I am Irish who happens to be living in Australia.

Does that exclude me from discussion on Irish TV?

Catari Jaguar · 11-12-2006 10:55PM

I see Fair City characters around a lot. I'm trying to collect the whole set. Become a little hobby of mine.

1. Saw Harry Molloy on a bus. Way back when... Thus beginning my quest.
2. Carol sat beside me on the DART. Got on at Killiney. Didn't expect that.
3. Saw Nicola and that geeky goth girl (for 2nd time) in town today.
4. Saw Darren in Trinity, I walked into a bollard then. He's just like so fine and stuff.

5. Mags came into Sea Life. As did Rita. Happy days.
6. I went to school with Louise Doyle. She hangs out with my lil bro.
7. Saw Mondo a few times strutting around Bray and at Keith Barry show with Samantha Mumba getting people to move outta their seats. The nerve. :mad:

I'm a celeb magnet. Up tha Fair City. We went to the set as a school tour in primary school. It's not even a real town you know, Carrickstown... *cries in a corner*

I really want to add Jimmy and Paul to my collection. If anyone can alert me of the whereabouts of these fine specimens please do. It would be most appreciated.

Elmo · 11-12-2006 11:11PM

I am Irish who happens to be living in Australia.

Does that exclude me from discussion on Irish TV?

I was slagging both Irish and Australian TV, you would think I like soap opera. God get over yourself.

Why isn't this in the soap opera forum :mad:

3. Saw Nicola and that geeky goth girl (for 2nd time) in town today.

Yeah I saw nicola outside the AIB on Grafton Street today, I was going to say something. But stopped myself.

claire h · 12-12-2006 09:21AM

hot fuss wrote:

but it's some achievement in fairness..

Well, it is and it isn't. As others have pointed out, it's on so often (what is it, 100 episodes per week or does it just feel like that?) that the quality necessarily isn't particularly great - it'd be much more impressive for a show that put out one episode per week and devoted a lot more energy (and, um, talent) to each episode to have reached the 2000 figure.

(Although I will be keeping an eye out for Darren in Trinity... *shame*)

dSTAR · 12-12-2006 12:33PM

Elmo wrote:

I was slagging both Irish and Australian TV, you would think I like soap opera. God get over yourself...

Why isn't this in the soap opera forum :mad:

Deep breaths...

Catari Jaguar · 12-12-2006 07:40PM

Well I saw Darren a year or so ago. So he might be finished. Sorry. He used to hang around the Players Theatre. You know, considering he's an ac-tor and such...

Elmo · 12-12-2006 11:44PM

Deep breaths...

Let it go.... It's only soap opera

Fair City - 2000 episodes!

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