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Stuart · 14-04-2010, 22:40

I think all the UK soaps are suffering from increasingly unrealistic storylines atm.
They are increasingly about characters either shagging or killing one another.

Take Emmerdale. In the last couple of years, we've seen Maxwell Caulfield move in, made love to Kim Thomson and get killed. His son and daughter also almost committed incest (although a Channel 4 doc I saw a while back said this happens more often than people think when long lost siblings meet a sibling they didn't know they had as they can mistake the family link for a sexual love). We've also had the vicar's ex move in and try to kill his current wife, not to mention the local shopkeeper done for a fraud she didn't commit and serve prison time. We've also had lesbians, and gay men meet and fall in love. We also have an Asbo wielding Chav son of one of the characters, and Charity and Cain appear to have a thriving business conning the obviously inexhaustible supply of rich old men the village has out of their cars. All without the rest of the population noticing. I haven't even mentioned the Immigration raid on the local B&B..

This is all in a small village. In my (admittedly limited) experience of small villages, if anyone done anything more than a fart in the village, word'll get round most of the villagers almost at the speed of light. I also think most small villages wouldn't see that much action in 100 years..

14-04-2010, 22:40	#97
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: Emmerdale I think all the UK soaps are suffering from increasingly unrealistic storylines atm. They are increasingly about characters either shagging or killing one another. Take Emmerdale. In the last couple of years, we've seen Maxwell Caulfield move in, made love to Kim Thomson and get killed. His son and daughter also almost committed incest (although a Channel 4 doc I saw a while back said this happens more often than people think when long lost siblings meet a sibling they didn't know they had as they can mistake the family link for a sexual love). We've also had the vicar's ex move in and try to kill his current wife, not to mention the local shopkeeper done for a fraud she didn't commit and serve prison time. We've also had lesbians, and gay men meet and fall in love. We also have an Asbo wielding Chav son of one of the characters, and Charity and Cain appear to have a thriving business conning the obviously inexhaustible supply of rich old men the village has out of their cars. All without the rest of the population noticing. I haven't even mentioned the Immigration raid on the local B&B.. This is all in a small village. In my (admittedly limited) experience of small villages, if anyone done anything more than a fart in the village, word'll get round most of the villagers almost at the speed of light. I also think most small villages wouldn't see that much action in 100 years..