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Post by Intoxicated In Cockermouth on Jun 25, 2008 8:50:42 GMT
My biggest Hmmm is how can the factory girls (especially lamented Wicki) afforf to go the Rovers for their lunch and after work. Surely they're close to minimum wage?
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jun 25, 2008 18:12:37 GMT
The Rovers' ability to warp space has got worse now they've added the smoking shack. The entrance to it is through a hitherto-unseen alcove on the back wall between the entrance to the cellar and the bar (you could see it clearly when Steve chucked Dan down the stairs). Alledgedly, this will then take you into the yard down the side of the shack, then you can walk through the trellis and into the shelter. BUT the distance between the bar entrance and the back door is about four feet; in that four feet you're meant to fit in the entire bar area AND the staircase. Basically, the Rovers is the Tardis, and Liz is the Doctor, which makes Vernon Donna, which actually sort of works.
Amy is K-9.
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Post by emma on Jun 25, 2008 19:09:44 GMT
My favourite is how everyone gives birth in about ten seconds without ripping their uterine arteries open, unless the plot requires a long convoluted who's-the-daddy routine at the hospital. With no amniotic fluid everywhere, no placentas and none of the general gunk you get with actual real babies. And the only person in soap who has ever taken her knickers off prior to SpeedBirthing is Amy Barnes, and that was only so she could be embarrassed because her dad was there.
Violet SpeedBirthing in the Rovers was the finest example of this, though Tanya Branning deserves an honourable mention
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Post by dieamandaholdendie on Jun 30, 2008 12:57:20 GMT
I beg to differ - best SpeedBirthing EVER (bar none) has to be Daphne from Neighbours - she didn't even undo her dungarees!
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Post by lisasmiiith on Jul 19, 2008 20:47:04 GMT
okay... now this is the biggest hmm in soap history and reaaaallly annoyed me for weeks.
Now Alfie and Spencer Moon where brothers and the children of Nana Moon's only son to her only Husband.
Thus how the hell did Alfie and Spencer have two cousins who were also Nana Moons grandchildren.
Fucking Helll a birra continuity guys come oooon
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Post by cathybradford on Jul 20, 2008 1:59:17 GMT
Thus how the hell did Alfie and Spencer have two cousins who were also Nana Moons grandchildren. I thought she was their aunt or great aunt or something, they just called her Nana. Though on the subject of Eastenders the ages of the Slaters never seemed to add up. People go on about the eldest Morton girl in Corrie looking way older than her supposed screen-age but she was nowhere near as bad as Little Mo who was supposed to be something like 22 when she first showed up.
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Post by Mike on Jul 20, 2008 22:54:59 GMT
An obvious one, but the fact that a character's wealth has absolutely no bearing on their living arrangements has always cracked me up. Phil in EastEnders owns or has owned several businesses, yet lives in a flat above a pub with his mum. In Brookside, the Murrays (a school janitor and a hairdresser) lived next door to Max and Jacqui (who between them owned a club, a leisure centre and a restaurant).
Speaking of clubs - almost every one that has ever featured in a soap seems to open at about three in the afternoon, close at roughly the same time as the pubs do, attract a clientele that spans several generations and play music at a volume that allows people to conduct conversations without ever raising their voices.
On the subject of ages - weren't Brett and Danni Stark in Neighbours in the same year at school, despite not being twins? Didn't Cody Willis go to America for two years and go back into the same year she left?
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Post by Steven on Jul 21, 2008 9:25:17 GMT
An obvious one, but the fact that a character's wealth has absolutely no bearing on their living arrangements has always cracked me up. Phil in EastEnders owns or has owned several businesses, yet lives in a flat above a pub with his mum. In Brookside, the Murrays (a school janitor and a hairdresser) lived next door to Max and Jacqui (who between them owned a club, a leisure centre and a restaurant). As an extension of this, I've always found it curious that soap operas tend to contain a disproportionately high number of people who own their own businesses.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jul 21, 2008 9:47:15 GMT
EastEnders also features a lot of low income workers owning their own four bedroom Victorian terraced houses, located around a garden square with plenty of local amenities and a District Line station down the road. They should be worth several hundred thousand pounds. How are Charlie (taxi driver) and Mo and Stacey (market traders) paying the mortgage on the Slater tardis? Albert Square should be full of City traders and Sarah Beeny wannabees (wannaBeenys?) driving the Cockernees out.
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Post by Feral on Jul 21, 2008 10:06:07 GMT
The Mandy Richardson University of Chester is surely the biggest hmmmm in all of Soap.
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