Are you just gossips?
candyfloss2000
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People who watch soaps are mixed......people watch them for various reasons.....as much as I like Eastenders, or Coronation street for example, I can't help notice that on this forum, the whole gamut of viewers show up. Some just browse and never comment. And some get stuck in as if the characters were real people. And of those, some really show their ugly side in how they judge each character in these shows.
My question is....what divides those who watch soaps for distraction, and those who watch it and then choose to make judgemental comments about both the characters and also the actors.
I'd guess they are the same people who make judgements on celebrities they've never met........and oh how fat, stupid, selfish, terrible this or that person is.
What a life...to judge....how ordinary. In a really, really bad sort of way.
My question is....what divides those who watch soaps for distraction, and those who watch it and then choose to make judgemental comments about both the characters and also the actors.
I'd guess they are the same people who make judgements on celebrities they've never met........and oh how fat, stupid, selfish, terrible this or that person is.
What a life...to judge....how ordinary. In a really, really bad sort of way.
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Yes, soaps are generally TV filler and simple entertainment but it doesn't make them empty of any topic of discussion.
Do you also tell people who review books/movies etc to stop being judgemental? Do you tell academics who read and dissect Shakespeare that "it's not real"?
But you're really calling people out for being judgemental about fictional characters?
I comment, debate and discuss a fictional show, I know it isn't real, I'm watching a written and plotted show play out planned and implemented by writers etc, it's entertainment and escapism for most, I've watched most of theses characters for years so yes maybe it does feel like you know them as if they was real so that allows you to discuss and debate about them and lay in judgement of them because they not going to answer back!
As for actors well I admit I'm guilty of judging talent and acting but as far I'm concern that is how far it goes, personal lives are of no interests to me, I judge on merits and as a viewer we are allowed that opinion as long as it doesn't get nasty and personal.
Wherever it's right or wrong again it's all a matter of opinion.
I actually stuck up for Kym Marsh earlier as people were slating her bad acting tonight, because I know she has lost a baby personally, she still has feelings and the scene must of been difficult to film.
The majority of DS members talk about soaps as if they're real, I honestly see no issue. It's fun
It's just human nature to have a bit of a gossip and a chinwag
Most people on here are friendly .
It's the Hollyoaks fans who you have to watch out for :eek:
Hit and run. :eek:
I will say one thing, you're on a soap forum. We're judging, commenting, analysing, rejoining, raging, passionate. For many I think this the one place we can do that.
I don't like to gloat but I had a post-sex chat with Phelan about this a couple of hours ago.
He told me you were a lightweight who couldn't hold your J2O Apple and Mango.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1899065
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1873962
Make sure your own house is in order before trying to clean others OP. Case closed. ;-)
Ohhhh BOOM! Owned!
Oh dear
What a life...to judge....to judge a loose woman. In a really, really bad sort of way.
A 5 letter word is springing to mind.
Had to be you didn't it?
This ban was a long time coming. I hope you never darken this forum ever again. Good riddance.
That's hangman...
I judge s/ls
I judge characters
I judge the actors and
I judge the writers
.....and not just the Soaps. Pretty much everything I watch, from films to sit coms.
Shocking isn't it. ;-):kitty:
Still can't work it out though...
No wonder my old Nan used to whip my arse at Hangman...