Vent - Eastenders and Kidneys

pimento

You can also buy a house or a business in a day in soapland ("I'll have my lawyer draw up the papers").

My mum gave my dad one of her kidneys and one of the reasons it was all so protracted was that they both had to have conselling to make sure it wasn't being done for the wrong reasons or my mum wasn't under duress. They even had to prove who they were by sending a wedding photo in. They had been married 46 years by then and the transplant was done on their 47th wedding anniversary.

Azari

peachyprice wrote: »

People are watching Eastenders expecting it to be realistic?

The place where no-one owns a washing machine, the place where the local pub hasn't closed down, the place where people come back from the dead, the place where every family is constantly in crisis?

The place where, even though there is an underground station, no one ever uses it to get to work.

etc.

etc.

Really people, get a grip.

Yet another poster who doesn't understand the difference between necessary dramatic licence and lazy writing.

Would you be happy if one of the characters flew across the square?

You have to draw a line somewhere and suggesting that expecting any sort of realism is stupid is just as daft as expecting complete realism all the time.

peachyprice

Azari wrote: »

Yet another poster who doesn't understand the difference between necessary dramatic licence and lazy writing.

I do understand perfectly, what I don't understand is people getting upset because a fictional TV programme isn't just like real life.

Would you be happy if one of the characters flew across the square?

Give it time.

Azari

peachyprice wrote: »

I do understand perfectly, what I don't understand is people getting upset because a fictional TV programme isn't just like real life.

People get upset when the departure from reality (or the plot hole) is big enough to distract from the flow of the programme.

Not unreasonably they moan about it when that happens because it spoils their enjoyment.

What I don't understand are the people who get all butthurt when someone complains. (And it happens a lot, and they can get very annoyed and dismissive.)

Why?

What harm is it doing them if someone has found something in a programme to complain about?

It's as if they have been personally attacked. I sometimes wonder if thay are getting annoyed because they feel inferior for not having spotted the error/plot hole themselves.

goonarmy

So fictional characters are doing fictional things? Shocker.
Hope you never watch dr who.

peachyprice

Azari wrote: »

It's as if they have been personally attacked. I sometimes wonder if thay are getting annoyed because they feel inferior for not having spotted the error/plot hole themselves.

I wouldn't know, haven't watched the programme for years.

Pollycat

The OP is having a vent on the 'Praise, Vent & Warnings' board.

She has even included the word 'vent' in the title of her thread.

She's perfectly entitled to do so.
You don't have to agree with her opinion. :cool:

geri1965_2

Pollycat wrote: »

The OP is having a vent on the 'Praise, Vent & Warnings' board.

She has even included the word 'vent' in the title of her thread.

She's perfectly entitled to do so.
You don't have to agree with her opinion. :cool:

No, but equally you have the right to put forward reasons you disagree. Otherwise discussion boards wouldn't have much discussion on them.

PLog86

geri1965 wrote: »

No, but equally you have the right to put forward reasons you disagree. Otherwise discussion boards wouldn't have much discussion on them.

It's fine to disagree. If someone says it's stupid to have a kidney transplant arranged in a week anyone can say they don't think it is. The trouble comes when people don't just tell us they don't care about inaccuracies but also insist that no one else should either.

There are things people like about things and things people don't. By all means tell us which camp you fall into but don't tell people they should not like or dislike what they do. And don't complain about people venting on a vent board.

goonarmy

PLog86 wrote: »

It's fine to disagree. If someone says it's stupid to have a kidney transplant arranged in a week anyone can say they don't think it is. The trouble comes when people don't just tell us they don't care about inaccuracies but also insist that no one else should either.

There are things people like about things and things people don't. By all means tell us which camp you fall into but don't tell people they should not like or dislike what they do. And don't complain about people venting on a vent board.

And dont complain about others countering the oringinal vent......