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Soap Operas. What on Earth is that all about? If i've got this right, Soaps are meant to be serialized dramas, reflecting day to day domestic themes portrayed to be as near to true life as possible. Well will someone give me a break? A piece of advice to everyone. Don't move to any part of the country that has a pub called The Queen Vic, The Woolpack or The Rovers Return. Don't visit any East End area of London where the Cockney accents all sound Australian or anywhere in the Yorkshire Dales where the only sheep are tourists. Believe me, if a disaster can strike, this is where it will happen. Stay at home.
Take for instance Corronation Street. Here you get murders, rapes, armed robbery, cross dressing, adultery, internet nutters, child mothers, alcoholics and people dying of cancer....and then the day after!! I ask you, how can so much devestation happen to one area in such a short space of time? Maybe Weatherfield was Hitler's back garden in a former life.
Eastenders is even worse. There was a rumour the other day that someone actually smiled in the show. These are of course unconfirmed reports.
Emmerdale at least has a welcome touch of humour' although this could subside a bit now that Zak Dingle has almost lost his....well, you've probably seen it.
The best though, has to be those classic Australian soaps, Neighbours and Home and Away. Now there's realism. Every day it seems that some five year old Sheila comes home from school broken hearted blurting 'but i've never loved anyone the way I loved Bruce'. Meanwhile in another part of the street eighteen year old Bruce says to nineteen year old Bruce ' Hey Bruce, how 'bout we go call for Bruce and go down to the coffee shop for a milkshake?' ' Great idea, Bruce, a top spot to meet some Sheila's!'
You don't get more true to life than that.
Take for instance Corronation Street. Here you get murders, rapes, armed robbery, cross dressing, adultery, internet nutters, child mothers, alcoholics and people dying of cancer....and then the day after!! I ask you, how can so much devestation happen to one area in such a short space of time? Maybe Weatherfield was Hitler's back garden in a former life.
Eastenders is even worse. There was a rumour the other day that someone actually smiled in the show. These are of course unconfirmed reports.
Emmerdale at least has a welcome touch of humour' although this could subside a bit now that Zak Dingle has almost lost his....well, you've probably seen it.
The best though, has to be those classic Australian soaps, Neighbours and Home and Away. Now there's realism. Every day it seems that some five year old Sheila comes home from school broken hearted blurting 'but i've never loved anyone the way I loved Bruce'. Meanwhile in another part of the street eighteen year old Bruce says to nineteen year old Bruce ' Hey Bruce, how 'bout we go call for Bruce and go down to the coffee shop for a milkshake?' ' Great idea, Bruce, a top spot to meet some Sheila's!'
You don't get more true to life than that.
Yeah - soaps would be much better if people in them sat at home on the internet. Or maybe cooking some dinner and generally never talking to their neighbours, but watching copious amounts of television.
They're not realistic because watching the actions of a real life neighbourhood for half an hour a night would be beyond tedium.
They're not realistic because watching the actions of a real life neighbourhood for half an hour a night would be beyond tedium.
Soap Operas. What on Earth is that all about? If i've got this right, Soaps are meant to be serialized dramas, reflecting day to day domestic themes portrayed to be as near to true life as possible. Well will someone give me a break? A piece of advice to everyone. Don't move to any part of the country that has a pub called The Queen Vic, The Woolpack or The Rovers Return. Don't visit any East End area of London where the Cockney accents all sound Australian or anywhere in the Yorkshire Dales where the only sheep are tourists. Believe me, if a disaster can strike, this is where it will happen. Stay at home.
Take for instance Corronation Street. Here you get murders, rapes, armed robbery, cross dressing, adultery, internet nutters, child mothers, alcoholics and people dying of cancer....and then the day after!! I ask you, how can so much devestation happen to one area in such a short space of time? Maybe Weatherfield was Hitler's back garden in a former life.
Eastenders is even worse. There was a rumour the other day that someone actually smiled in the show. These are of course unconfirmed reports.
Emmerdale at least has a welcome touch of humour' although this could subside a bit now that Zak Dingle has almost lost his....well, you've probably seen it.
The best though, has to be those classic Australian soaps, Neighbours and Home and Away. Now there's realism. Every day it seems that some five year old Sheila comes home from school broken hearted blurting 'but i've never loved anyone the way I loved Bruce'. Meanwhile in another part of the street eighteen year old Bruce says to nineteen year old Bruce ' Hey Bruce, how 'bout we go call for Bruce and go down to the coffee shop for a milkshake?' ' Great idea, Bruce, a top spot to meet some Sheila's!'
You don't get more true to life than that.
Take for instance Corronation Street. Here you get murders, rapes, armed robbery, cross dressing, adultery, internet nutters, child mothers, alcoholics and people dying of cancer....and then the day after!! I ask you, how can so much devestation happen to one area in such a short space of time? Maybe Weatherfield was Hitler's back garden in a former life.
Eastenders is even worse. There was a rumour the other day that someone actually smiled in the show. These are of course unconfirmed reports.
Emmerdale at least has a welcome touch of humour' although this could subside a bit now that Zak Dingle has almost lost his....well, you've probably seen it.
The best though, has to be those classic Australian soaps, Neighbours and Home and Away. Now there's realism. Every day it seems that some five year old Sheila comes home from school broken hearted blurting 'but i've never loved anyone the way I loved Bruce'. Meanwhile in another part of the street eighteen year old Bruce says to nineteen year old Bruce ' Hey Bruce, how 'bout we go call for Bruce and go down to the coffee shop for a milkshake?' ' Great idea, Bruce, a top spot to meet some Sheila's!'
You don't get more true to life than that.