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Falling out of Love with a Soap
Due to what ive felt lately about Neighbours i felt that it is an applicable subject really for all soaps, Eastenders, Corrie, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Home & Away, Doctors etc...
The issue with Neighbours is that i have grown tired of the repetitive cycle of things. Love Triangles, Secrets always being exposed, Forgiveness seemingly so easy. Really it has been the case for years and all three are very good for writing a soap but it just becomes tiresome after a while. Why not allow a secret to remain a secret, why not have characters not able to forgive others. It is just so predictable and sickly sweet in areas that has made Neighbours slightly tiresome. Unpredictability would be nice and storylines that havent been done to death would be good as well. It is hard for soaps i know to come up with new ideas but could they just not make things so predictable. Maybe this is a Neighbours only issue? I dont watch any other soaps so wouldnt really know but it always seems to go round in circles. |
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I have recently stopped watching Eastenders due to not being happy with a storyline and the show in general. I accidently watched fridays episode and one other in the last 3/4 weeks.
I have felt like that with other soaps tho and sometimes switching off for a while helps |
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To be honest you've just described EE. I think all the soaps are in a mess.
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I have recently stopped watching Eastenders due to not being happy with a storyline and the show in general. I accidently watched fridays episode and one other in the last 3/4 weeks.
I have felt like that with other soaps tho and sometimes switching off for a while helps
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I stopped watching EE soon after the Lucy reveal episode. I thought the outcome of that was silly and I hated the Carter family and the way they got all of the storylines. I had watched it from the very beginning but Mick and Linda finally drove me away lol! It's surprising how quickly you get used to not watching something. I do still look on here from time to time to see what is going on though.
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I stopped watching Corrie in Autumn 2014 because I had just fallen out of love with the show and didn't recognise it any more. Depending on what KO does I could be drawn back in again.
Stopped watching HO when the GHK storyline was the final nail in the coffin for me. I would never go back to it now as its like a parody of itself To be honest if DTC was still in charge of EE and showed no sign of leaving anytime soon. I'd probably have stopped watching. But although it's far from perfect it's enjoyable if a bit contrived. ED is the best atm but is starting to show just a couple of small signs of a drop in quality. |
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With the soap destroyer at Corrie if Eastenders gets its act together with the new producer it could be in trouble.
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Coronation Street to an extent, but I haven't given up on it. I've faithfully stuck by it by rarely feel satisfied with an episode. I think the last time I thought it was worth half an hour of my life was when Hayley died. That was nearly three years ago!
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The main proplem I have with the soaps is the number of episodes each week. I'm out quite a lot so there's too many of them for me keep a proper track of what's going on.
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At one point I used to watch Doctors religiously but over the past few years it's only been the odd bank of episodes I've invested in.
The same goes for Coronation Street. Doesn't really bother me if I go for a couple of days now if I don't watch the episodes on the ITV Hub. I agree with the PP that the amount of episodes mean it's easy to lose track of things; I also think it harms the general quality overall. I think it's a massive mistake that Coronation Street is going to six episodes a week from next year. |
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EastEnders is in a right old mess. It's the most uncertain I have ever been about the show (Bar 2013 maybe).
I fell out of love with the show back in 2011 though, after it was butchered by Kirkwood. Classic EastEnders ended around 2005, but Santer created a new and exciting EastEnders 2007-2010, where he mixed the old with the new, and dragged EastEnders back to the top by telling great stories with great characters. It's never quite done that since. |
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The main proplem I have with the soaps is the number of episodes each week. I'm out quite a lot so there's too many of them for me keep a proper track of what's going on.
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I watch EE, Corrie and ED sporadically, I'm not enjoying them atm so can't be bothered to watch unless I make the effort to catch up.
I have been watching HO as I have actually been enjoying that for the last few months. I've started watching a welsh soap called Pobol Y Cwm that I've been enjoying and think its been much better then any of the bigger soaps presently! |
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The main proplem I have with the soaps is the number of episodes each week. I'm out quite a lot so there's too many of them for me keep a proper track of what's going on.
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I am an EE fan. I stuck with the show through all of the rough patches and always try and support the show
But at the moment I'm just so tired of it. Fantastic actors are going to waste, characters are being re-written to suit storylines (and the storylines that are going on are weak and not capturing my attention). The show needs some new blood. Once great characters like Masood, Ronnie and Roxy have become so useless so i am glad they are taking a rest. When I think back to how the show used to be in the late 90s, the scripts just don't compare. It is absolutely down to the writing. Samantha Womack, Nitin, June Brown, Adam Woodyatt, Diane Parish, Laurie Brett, Linda Henry and Steve McFadden are some of the best actors in soap, but they aren't being given the material. Some episodes are really well written but they are so few and far between that I t puts me off watching. Fingers crossed we have a transitional Autumn leading to a really strong winter and Christmas. |
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I have a love hate relationship with the 3 big soaps. I dip in I dip out I dip in and out. Sometimes I can go years without watching. However I cannot see me going back to Emmerdale. Turned off after Val's death last year. It wasn't so much her death, but I realised she was just one less reason to watch and I hadn't been enjoying it for a while. The whole plane crash was ridiculously executed as a story, although well done in acting and special affects. I thought I might start watching when Nicola came back - but I didn't. She returned before I realised she was back and then I though to myself, "I dislike most of the characters so why bother?"
Corrie I have watched for the last 18 months after several years away. It was Jenny Bradley's return and my husband had been watching it for several months before that. Kylie is a huge loss to us though. We are about 4 weeks behind, and this year has varied in enjoyment drastically. We first stuck it out for Carla's exit and then Kylie's. How we find the last four weeks (when we get chance to watch) will be make or break for us. EastEnders - when it is good it is very very good and when it is bad it is horrid. On average my least favourite and I haven't really watched in the grand scheme of things. I tuned back in for Kathy last year and have been watching with my finger on the FF button ever since. I am just hanging in there to see some upcoming exits and then I will be done with it for certain. I thought I already was but have decided to see the exits through. My husband was always a big EE fan but he hates it so much now that he couldn't care if it got axed. So it is possible to fall out of love with your favourite soap. It's quantity affecting the quality that ruins soaps. Also if you watch them continuously for years, it becomes inevitable that stories will get repeated. It takes a skillful storyliner to present the same story differently. The thing that really bugs me is when they repeat the same story with the same character. |
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EastEnders - when it is good it is very very good and when it is bad it is horrid.
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I am an EE fan. I stuck with the show through all of the rough patches and always try and support the show
But at the moment I'm just so tired of it. Fantastic actors are going to waste, characters are being re-written to suit storylines (and the storylines that are going on are weak and not capturing my attention). The show needs some new blood. Once great characters like Masood, Ronnie and Roxy have become so useless so i am glad they are taking a rest. When I think back to how the show used to be in the late 90s, the scripts just don't compare. It is absolutely down to the writing. Samantha Womack, Nitin, June Brown, Adam Woodyatt, Diane Parish, Laurie Brett, Linda Henry and Steve McFadden are some of the best actors in soap, but they aren't being given the material. Some episodes are really well written but they are so few and far between that I t puts me off watching. Fingers crossed we have a transitional Autumn leading to a really strong winter and Christmas. The soap I've most fallen out of love with though, is Coronation Street ![]() When I catch it now, I usually find it tedious. What I loved about it before were the brilliant and believable characters. But I feel there are so few great characters left now, and the storylines are less than gripping. |
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I don't watch EE that much these days.
And I stopped posting in the episode threads quite some time ago. |
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It's funny, its the same kind of "tiredness" that people have with sitcoms and game shows. I think sometimes SOME of us may need a break from things we used to like.
Some soaps may try to change things and some people do not like it and refuse to watch, some soaps stick to the same formula and some people think its repeating itself....its hard to win around some of us viewers/fans. ![]() There is people i know who got back into Neighbours after over 9 years of not watching it....sometimes it's good to have a break. |
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I don't watch EE that much these days.
And I stopped posting in the episode threads quite some time ago. |
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I gave up on Corrie a few years ago after watching nearly all my life. It became stale, unrealistic, tired, unfunny, stupid and the characters became unlikable - even faves like Rita, Norris etc
I don't think I'd ever start watching full time again, it just seems depressing - almost like EastEnders is. I think when you stop looking forward to an episode of your favorite soap and it becomes a chore, that is the time to question whether you follow it or not. I always look forward to ED episodes to this day going as far back as 2013 - once Blackburn had left. I genuinely enjoy watching it. |
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