When did Waterloo Road start to go down hill?
enudzio
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hear these words all the time now a days saying the show is really bad and the show is not the same as it used to be but when did it start to become like this , when were the proper glory days of the show and can it ever be a force again?
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The last episode that really hooked me in was when Earl murdered Maxine.
There have been the occasional really good episodes since, such as Sambuca's death. But they are few and far between.
Just after the opening segment of the first ever epeisode .
Yes! I started to watch at the beginning but didn't care for it at all.
Agreed. My favourite series is the first series - it had strong writing, strong storylines and well developed characters. The second series was good too, but once the third series got under way and the show went to 20 episodes the show's quality started to become really inconsistent (there were the odd phases of great quality, but then there were some really bad episodes too).
I think it was maybe series 3 but they started to each weeks episode had to have a theme. Like the kid you had never seen before featured in the whole episode and had an issue they had to deal with.
well pretty about 50% of the comments I see about Waterloo Road say something among those lines.
It's always been total garbage. Mouthy teenagers talking to teachers as if they think they're their equals.
It's one of those programmes that just winds you up as soon as you start watching it.
So your telling me that 8 series on and 160 episodes later your still watching it? Even though you say it winds you up as soon as you start watching it??
If yes your are everything that is wrong with the average DS poster these days. Slating a show you hate but still watch, or a show you don't watch but love to hate = moronic. Fact :rolleyes:
I now only dip in and out of the show - whilst I think the move to Scotland wasn't a total disaster, the departures of Grantly and Tom I think mean the 'end is nigh' - something Shed productions all seem to have in common - key characters departing always means the decline in quality and ultimately the end of their shows (Footballers Wives - when Tanya left, Bad Girls - once Jim Fenner had left) - for some reason the characters they create afterwards always lack the originality and charisma of the originals.
I hope no-one is hating Scotland; it's maybe more that moving the series there when it had been previously set somewhere else (Rochdale, wasn't it?) felt so unreal. It was especially unreal because Scotland has an entirely different education system and the type of school this was supposed to be after Lorraine's takeover couldn't exist in Scotland.
I thought it was equally absurd to move Grange Hill to Liverpool after 25 years of it being in London, and the series never recovered from it.
Agreed, but it was never far for the show to fall, it was never particularly good.