Television soaps

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What do you find is the most annoying thing about T.V soaps?For me it is that whenever two people have had some kind of argument one of the people involved ALWAYS happens to see the other one as they are coming out of their house or walking down the street.

[glammapus]

For me it's when someone is about to tell someone someting really important then the other person always jumps in and interupts then the other person loses their bottle and it never gets said at all.

[dot.hawkes]

I hate it when a stranger arrives in a soap, upsets someone, (usually a main character) then turns out to be a long lost relative of the said main character, and the episode ends with the newbie saying, 'hello mum/dad/sis/, contrived, predictable and done to death.

[rugeleyboy]

i hate two things,

firstly, when people take others away to have a quiet chat and they only move 2 foot away!!!!!!!!!!!!

secondly, sickofmorons will pop up in a bit and tell us how sad we are!!

[goldenboy]

people always die on a friday night and or new years eve in walford

[sheffwed39]

noone swears in a bad situation.noone owns a washing machine,noone seems to talk about things thats happening in the media,and everyone works in the same area.basically soaps are total shyte.does anyone in eastenders actually go through the day without owt bad happening to them.

[marwel7]

In Family Affairs Eileen was always having conversations about how she was responsible for the death of Roy,having arranged for his cafe to be set on fire and then framing her husband,Pete,for it so that he was in jail until the trial fell apart.Pete was usually just a few feet away and he never heard a thing.

[andy-hughes]

To be fair to soap writers and producers, all these 'annoyances' are part of soap structure, and are common to all soaps because they have to be to make the format work.

OK, objective head off - I hate the fact that when characters disappear, no-on ever mentins them again, except maybe once a year.

And if Phil Mitchell owns the Arches, The Cafe, The Vic, and the never-seen billiard hall, why doesn;t he buy a big house out in Essex and stop grubbing around in the East End?

And when, as they do, people keep 'going away', what the hell do they use for money?

I can probably think of some more, but the red mist is starting to descend, so I'll stop now ....

[Dollie]

Beats the hell out of me how so many people on a low income (e.g. corrie's factory girls) manage to nearly live in the pub. I wish I could afford a pub lunch everyday and umpteen drinks during the evening after work !

[smurfchops]

I stopped watching East Enders about a year ago, it is so morbid, my husband put it on today for the first time and it was as if I had never stopped watching. Still miserable faces, arguing, at least Corrie makes fun of iteself sometimes. However what I can't stand, in soaps and sometimes dramas is when they say "We have to talk". No one says that in real life !!!

[surfer mike]

Oh god where do you start and where do you end.

How characters can commit all sorts of heinous acts including adultery, rape, murder even, get found out, they spend a few weeks in jail where a few scenes are filmed, then hey presto they are released back in soapland and within weeks its as if it never happened.

How soap charactors can go from being unpleasant seedy toe-rags without a shred of decency to lovable bloke within a few months..[billy from eastenders to name just one]

How 90% of all plots are taken up by tedious short term affairs, and the other 10 involve just talking b****** in a pub.

[BergmanMan]

The fact that they exist

[Peri]

How about the fact that no holiday in Corrie is ever really planned. They always decide to go a few days before and theres never any problems with finding the money.

[joko]

when a charcter decides they want to leave the area - for good - they always leave that evening or first thing in the morning!

in reality a decision to leave your home, family, friends, life etc would take many weeks to sort out and wouldn't be a decision you make overnight nor would it be because you had a row with a neighbour

[soozmac]

oh, oh, oh, I have one. I hate hate hate the way that the writers in Eastenders seem to see Scotland as some far-off mythical land with no decent roads (did you see the Christmas episode when the younger cast members got stranded on some moors on the way up to Edinburgh?! The last time I looked there was a straight motorway the whole way up, and not a moor in sight) and also no specific cities. Whenever anyone needs to get away (Nigel, I'm talking about you), it's always "I'm going up to Scotland." At least up here we all have kettles and washing machines!

Also, when 2 characters are having a heated discussion about something, they tend to talk almost in riddles to each other. It's like the scriptwriters build these kind of conversations using drop-down lists of the most common clich�d phrases, until the whole thing makes absolutely no sense.

[Joe Shmoe]

How about when a character is ill . They walk straight in to the doctors Are rushed into hospital where they have major surgery or are told they may never walk again . Then the very next episode they are in full health and back at work, fit to run a marathon.