•-BLaCKouT-• Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Anyone watching / just watched Coronation Street on ITV1 in the UK? Mike Baldwin just said "I've got a bad feeling about this", as him and Joe Carter went to a linen factory. Is this the Street's second ever Star Wars reference? B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacky_Baccy Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 ROFL. You have no idea how sad that is And of course it's been pinched from SW - but Lucas probably nicked it form somewhere before that I'm so, so glad I gave up watching soaps ages ago... Such sad pathetic things they are, and such sad pathetic things they can turn you into I don't even know who Joe Carter is... o_o It all went downhill once the originals started being killed off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Originally posted by BLaCKouT_1138 Anyone watching / just watched Coronation Street on ITV1 in the UK? Mike Baldwin just said "I've got a bad feeling about this", as him and Joe Carter went to a linen factory. Is this the Street's second ever Star Wars reference? B Please do not bring that dreaded soap on here, my mum and sister go on about it enough. Let alone on the forums, please stop the pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leXX Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 The only soap I watch is Eastenders. I've watched it from day one and I love it. I don't care what anyone says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklighter Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Originally posted by Wacky_Baccy I'm so, so glad I gave up watching soaps ages ago... Such sad pathetic things they are, and such sad pathetic things they can turn you into You couldn't be more right, Wacky my friend ^_^ Soap operas IMHO have got to be the lowest of the low in terms of acting standard - whenever I switch onto a soap on TV now, I either hear arguing, arguing...or maybe (for a change), more arguing:pHollyoaks was the only one I watched, as it seemed most real...that was until they started introducing pointless/overdramatic and unrealistic young actors... *shudders* The only soap I'll ever watch is the one sitting in my sink between the taps... *goes to carefully observe pink bathroom soap* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 The only soap I watch is Eastenders. I've watched it from day one and I love it. I don't care what anyone says So do i Lexx it's great,who's your favourite characther??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Originally posted by Darklighter *shudders* The only soap I'll ever watch is the one sitting in my sink between the taps... *goes to carefully observe pink bathroom soap* Gah, when you meant soap between your taps, I thought you meant between your..package(as Rhett so kindly put it in EB IRC.). Sadly, the only soaps I've ever seen(unwillingly) were spanish soaps that my grandma used to watch. And they, my friends, are the WORST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leXX Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Originally posted by Tesla Trooper So do i Lexx it's great,who's your favourite characther??? I haven't really got a favourite character, but Dot Cotton is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I haven't really got a favourite character, but Dot Cotton is great. Mine at the moment would have to be Alfie Moon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 The thing that really disturbs me is that I wanted to watch some soaps as a kid... Eastenders has always, in my view, been chronically depressing. I've gradually stopped watching most TV programmes anyway. AS they've gradually added more and more channels, it seems to me the quality of programmes has been going further and further down the toilet. I hate reality TV and soaps that try to emulate reality. If I wanted reality when watching TV I'd walk out the door and go and experience it first-hand. Every new series that comes out is another detective fighting crime, or another soap churning out competing storylines, or another tired period drama... Bring back the innovation, I say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Die Another Day Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 'Eastenders' is brilliant, especially Alfie Moon... he's breathed life back into that programme, although it's a bit dreary having him mope around, staring at Kat Slater from day to day. I hope he starts being his old self again. Did anyone catch Tuesday's episode, where the cliffhanger was that new neighbour answering the door dressed as Elvis, spouting "Welcome to Graceland, thank you very much..."? Oh my God! I hope that family isn't as psychotic / crazy / inbred / dirty / underhanded / cheating / crime-ridden as the others. And what about bringing back Dirty Den Watts? I haven't heard much on the subject, but it could be... how are they going to manage that, he was shot by a bunch of daffodills! (By the way, I realise how sad I sound, but I can assure you that 'Eastenders' is the only soap opera I watch, since all the others are terrible. Because it's on four nights per week, I tend to soak up all the information about the characters and therefore can write things like above. But I'm not obsessed, crazy or living in Albert Square.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy_dog no.3 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Ur typical soap scenario: *puts on British accent* "You were sleeping with my husband!" "Prove it!" "Got it all on camera" "bitch!" "slut!" "whore! Eastenders, Coronation Street, they're all the same to me. Soaps are so BORING. I don't see how anyone could like them, but so many do. What is the world coming to?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
•-BLaCKouT-• Posted June 5, 2003 Author Share Posted June 5, 2003 Blimey charlie. Quite a hornet's nest in here isn't it? As it happens, yeah I watch Corrie and 'Stenders most nights. If only because I'm usually eating at the time and it's kinda neutral-mode television y'know? I could quite happily live without them, and for the most part I agree with what's been said. Having said that, I spend too much time online too and I'm not about to change that Anyways, the reason for this post, you'll recall I called it Corrie's second ever SW reference. (Although I take it no-one noticed last night's one ) The first was a few years ago now. It was the scene where Fred 'Booming Voice' Elliot tells Ashley 'Whimpering voice' Peacock that "he is his father". The ensuing denial and reluctant acceptance was such an Empire moment that I was on the floor wiht tears in my eyes. I know it's kinda hard to explain in words, three-or-so years later. I believe that John Savident should play any shots of Anakin 'suited up' in EpIII. He rocks. = = I swear to god you never get SW references on Emmerdale. Mind you, the milkman on 'Stenders is the stormtrooper who banged his head in ANH apprently. Honest. B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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