Hollyoaks
Joe_Guerra
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It seems that a lot of people needs to complain about every single storyline hollyoaks does. Usually the storylines which are unrealistic. However hollyoaks is a teen soap opera and teens don't want to watch boring story lines such as 'the library closing down'. Obviously hollyoaks is very far fetched but it's unique and that's what makes hollyoaks hollyoaks
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Characters are changed to suit a storyline with no respect for their backgrounds or personalities, the producers concentrate on sensationalism for the sake of headlines and ratings and then they are forgotten about the week after for the next big thing.
And then the characters that are used for the less realistic storylines (ie Trevor, Grace, Sienna) just get pulled into the same type of storylines again and again kidnaps, guns, stabbings etc (which are forgotten about a week later) No matter how dramatic it is, it gets boring after a while.
Bad writing, bad build up, bad aftermath and bad acting from half of the cast is why people are complaining about Hollyoaks at the moment.
Hollyoaks has always been a 'teen soap' and has never been this bad. I'm 22, old enough to remember how good it used to be but young enough to be in their target audience.
Actually fair enough you have just changed my perception on hollyoaks. The best days we're 2008-11 unfortunately it's abit too unrealistic
Exactly. We don't all want cheap thrills, says the 'snapchat' generation.
Some of the storylines are okay but it is frustrating having to switch your brain off every episode because if you think too much about it then you find plotholes everywhere lol
I've watched Hollyoaks for almost ten years and It's always had it's ups and downs, hopefully this is just a down period and it should improve soon.
I've been looking at the forums here for years and all I've seen every day is how Hollyoaks is terrible and yet for me, in the last two years it's the only soap I have enjoyed consistently...I soon realised this isn't Hollyoaks specific 90% of topics on this forum are people saying what they don't like.
People have every right to complain if they hate something, that's why forums exist so I don't mind if they do. I just like the show.
I prefer to just check out twitter. Hollyoaks trends nearly every day on there and people say loads of positive things plus it won best soap and the viewing figures are pretty good so, it does have a lot of people who appreciate and like the show.
haha this must be the most civilised debate on this board we're however many posts in and no insults...yet lol
I watch Hollyoaks because its fast paced...things actually happen during the episode. There must be something about it because I find it entertaining, despite it's 'shocks' & the fact that Bryan Kirkwood is at the helm.
I'm well past my teenage years but up until a year or so ago I was a faithful viewer, my teenage niece used to laugh her backside off at me for watching it, her and her friends thought it was a joke.
hahaha crack up, I'm 27 and have watch since I can remember and my 17yr old niece does exactly the same.
Let's get this straight. No one wants stories about libraries closing down. Stories don't necessarily have to be realistic or even issue-based and educational.
Stories need to be believable. That is all.
It doesn't need to be mundane or slow paced or boring BUT the writing needs to make sense. Characters need to behave in logical and believable ways. That means reacting like a normal human, reacting in a consistent way to previous behaviour.
Hollyoaks isn't doing anything like the above at the moment and that is the pure and simple reason why fans who have loved the show for years are criticising it and in some cases ceasing to watch it after years of doing so.
We've all enjoyed a sensationalist plot or a stunt before, but they should be a rare and significant event - not a frequent, meaningless one.
BIB: Completely untrue. You must have missed out on periods of the show when there was a loyal fanbase eager to talk about the show and give praise where it was due. Where are those people now? Sick to the back teeth of how poor the show has become. It's a caricature of itself.
What I'm interpreting from your 'just watch and enjoy it' is the reason why there is next to no positive discussion on DS about it. The show is impossible to watch with any kind of brain engagement anymore. You cannot discuss it. You used to be able to discuss character's behaviour and motivation but now characters are an empty canvas thrown into whatever plot the show feels like. What's to discuss? Twitter is just full of empty brainless "OMG" and "I LUV FREDDIE HE'S SO FIT" comments.
Having watched Hollyoaks since episode one the current storylines don't compare to the older ones (Luke's rape, Lisa's self-harming), they don't seem to be well written or well researched and they get dropped almost as soon as they start.
Charlie Clapham is very good looking though. (my OH looks like him)
Well not everyone has the same taste. Dodger looks too boring for me.
True but I don't think Freddie's attractive enough to keep as eye candy when his acting's so bad. It'd be fine if he was a low level character but he's not.
Imagine living with that look aimed at you all the time.
But I do dislike how they deal with the aftermath after a s/l has reached it's climax.
For example, Maxine & Patrick. A really good, gritty s/l with incredible acting. However, when she announces in front of everyone at her wedding that Patrick beats her - no one does a single thing. No one confronts him or her, no one calls the police... they just sit there and accept his explanation that she was doing it to herself.
Next, she comes back from America and stays with Dodger even though she saw him beat the crap out of Patrick and just keeps finding ways to stay in the same village. She actually calls on Patrick to help when Sienna was holding Dodger hostage.
Patricks hangs onto his job with no investigation, and seems to just accept that Maxine is now with Dodger.
No authorities involved, no mention that Maxine should receive help dealing with the aftermath of living with someone who mentally, emotionally and physically abused her... the whole thing appears to have been swept under the carpet.
And it's so irritating.
I think it was a bad choice having her get together with Dodger, who hasn't really been sympathetic and mostly sided with Patrick until Sienna revealed that he'd hit her too.
Am I right in thinking that either Darren or Nancy believed Patrick was innocent?
I actually think they can so some good storylines, they just ruin themselves sometimes, and go off the plot. Also, the pacing of storyline is really bad, and I don't like how every single episode of hollyoaks is dramatic, there's no need for it. It's asif they're trying to keep up with themselves and top themselves, they're becoming their own worst enemy, it's a marathon, not a race.