Eastenders Complaints - A Bit Silly ?

[joggerjayne]

Seen on the News tonight ... 1,000's of complaints about the Eastenders "cot death baby swap" story.

Isn't this all a bit over the top?

It's just a story.

[welshlibranr]

I think it is over the top really!.........it's fictional!..............

[4getmenot]

i think complaining over it is over the top. Id say there is more than a 1000 that have thought how well it has been acted out. And i bet the people that complained still watch it.

[joggerjayne]

4get ...

"One viewer" said she was never going to watch it again.

I can hear the panic at the BBC, LOL

[4getmenot]

loads complained bout shilpa being bullied on bb but they wouldnt complain about bullying in a soap because it brings awareness to it. Just like this should bring more awareness to cot death.

[dotty.]

I'm on the fence

[joggerjayne]

Okay, dotty ...

I got a load of these dodgy necklaces. Can you shift them for me?

[tiggerblue10]

I don't like the storyline as I find it quite upsetting but that wouldn't make me pick up the phone and call Ofcom or whatever the complaints dept. is.

[dotty.]

cash for gold is the way to go JJ-or not

[welshlibranr]

excactly tigger, it's an upsetting story line, but it is fictional, and if we don't want to watch, we all have a remote control, and can change the channel!.......

[joggerjayne]

Dotty ...

Dodgy goods need someone to "fence" them ... !

[dotty.]

if you say so JJ, I do my own deals oop ere in the safer less challenging Northern bit of the UK

[bednobs]

I don't think the complaints are over the top, although this is probably owing to my own experience. I don't like the fact that mother's whose children go bonkers in this manner.
Since my daughter died, i've had enough trouble relating to other people, let alone them now thinking from a soap i might go banannas and steal their children. I don't actually watch eastenders, and with the current storyline I'm pretty glad i dont. A lot of the parents on the SANDS forum have been talking about the storyline, at first hopeful they might portray the death of your child in a sensitive way that tried to help other people understand what it feels like, and now just annoyed that a good opportunity to make people realise that 17 families go through this a day has been wasted by making the storyline so unrealistic and sensational

[bednobs]

whoops, accidentally erased some of the line " mothers whose children HAVE DIED"

[jackthehat]

Personally, I have no experience of anything approaching the issues in this particular storyline.
It doesn't mean that I don't understand the distress of those who have and for whom this storyline is painful............

[4getmenot]

well said bednobs. Agree on your last bit but i still wouldnt complain.

[bednobs]

but if only the writers would "understand" that stealing someone elses baby is not the way that people cope with the death of their own

[joggerjayne]

Well, I haven't seen it (but you can hardly miss all the trailers), so I don't know if it's sensational ... although it is supposed to pull in viewers. It's not a documentary. It's a fictional story.

But, when I was little, had a brother who died that way, and it was me who found him in his cot ... so I can relate to both points of view.

[welshlibranr]

So sad bednobs, but this is a soap! not reality, I know it must be distressing, but it is pure fiction, you really need to seperate this from reality!............

[Mamyalynne]

I think they could have dealt with the cot death side of things very well, but they have overstretched it with the babyswap/theft story on top, and I think that is where they have gone wrong.

Soaps have in the past dealt with sensitive issues very well.

[welshlibranr]

Oh jj, so very hard for you to cope with!..............