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Originally Posted by Bender
how can I be on my high horse when I'm the one trying to tell people it is exactly what you just said.... entertainment. a LOT of programmes these days focus on the drinking culture, drug abuse, rape, violence, etc, etc, but I don't see a thread for each of them. people get WAY too intense on this sort of stuff. unfortunately, you simply cannot hide from it. someone is always going to be in some harrowing position, no matter what soap you watch.
yeah, it happens. it's sick. it's wrong. God have mercy on me if anyone ever touched my daughter because I know I'd be the one going to jail as the person who did something would be 6 foot under. but Eastender's portrail of it is just not real and it's just not worth the effort of arguing over. it's only a TV programme...
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Intense? I think you are the one who came into the thread rather strongly..if you don't care as you much as you profess to why bother posting?
Anyway I also have the same attitude towards rape,murder,kidnapping etc being trivialised for entertainment and it matters not how bad the writing,performances or how real or unreal the soap is.IN fact the less real the production the more trite it becomes because it's just used for shock value..not to educate at all.