to give up Eastenders?

[MsFox]

Anyone else watch tonight?

I mean come on.

Too far...surely?

Have just seen another thread... apologies. (I did have a quick nose before I posted but I didn't see it then!)

I gave up a year or two ago...cold turkey?

I'm done with it now.

Ive not watched for ages - what happened?

2 babies born.

One baby - SID.

Babies get swapped.

Is the basic gist. I feel bad typing it out.

One of these days they make it like real life and have good things happening too, thing is they never do, it's just constant shit so I gave up watching over a year or so ago.

It's not real you know! It's NOT REAL!!!

Thats what I've just come to realise! Each recent episode has just got worse and worse.

Trouble is, DH gets to do the 'told you so' if I give up on it.

What's Estenders?

Haven't watched it for about 5yrs.

Oh really?! I'll stick with it then as it's only fiction...

It's turning into a bit of a misery memoir for the tele, isn't it?!

No, I watched it wish I hadn't tbh, the whole pph crap seriously bad memories for me, I mean NYE eugh why???

Then the baby swap just too far yuck.

Gave it up yeaarrsss ago.
And have not looked back once :o

Yes PPH a supposed serious one, I have 4 children but very nearly died at the hands of a PPH after my first, kind of really
put a shitter on my night tbh.....

Sorry about your loss x

I know how you feel I felt utterly shit and kind of still do tbh. How depressing for NYE.

YANBU..

It really touched a nerve with me tonight.

I have never been through losing a born child, i really pray i dont have to go through it. How can they possibly think they can capture the true reaction of a mother?

IMO they have made it look like a mother turns crazy because of the loss.

I dont think they have done the right thing in showing that to be honest. I dont think they can say its to raise awareness because there is plenty awareness of SIDs from the moment you are pregnant etc.

I think i will complain aswell to be honest.

LunaticFringe I am very sorry for your loss

Eastenders writers and producers should be totally ashamed of themselves - the baby swop element of it is just ridiculous and I just hope hope they lose loads of viewers because of it. It us insulting to all mothers who have experienced this loss to suggest that is what they could do. This storyline is so wrong

Stupid programme

Watched it, I dont think she get away with taking the baby.

It is pretty sick though.

Gave it up (along with all soaps) 13 years ago. Almost got sucked back i a couple of years ago, but I resisted!

Yes. YABU. It's fiction, FFS. In Corrie, I imagine people whose loved-ones have died in train /tram accidents had memories stirred up, but if soaps did nothing dramatic, who would watch them? And the baby-swap thing is not exactly making a generalisation of 'that's what women whose babies die do'. It's showing Ronnie (who is a little unhinged anyway, if we're being honest) doing something. No more, no less. And they aren't real.

It's fiction.

It's not real.

All Muslim boys called Sayid aren't gay.

All men called Ian Beale aren't nasty little rodents.

It's fiction.

But that's the thing classydiva, she does get away with it, this pathetic story is going to run for a while! I feel stupid staying this but it had really made me madddd!

I gave up soaps in 2006... Used to HATE EE but couldn't help watching it...

Actively avoid it now. Thank God, sounds more ridiculous and depressing than it was then!

actively avoided it tonoght, though dd was champing at the bit and has demanded to see it tomorrow. the trailer tells her she has to apparently

You are right giveme it is fiction which is why I am so bloomin' annoyed with myself for being annoyed about it!

I don't give a flying fuck if it's fiction, it's sensationalist misery memoir bullshit rolled out over the festive period to boost ratings.

Raising awareness my hat. Show me a mother who hasn't sat over a newborn prodding them to make sure they're still breathing. Very few people are going to suddenly go: "oh, cot death? That's something that can happen?" and if they did, it wouldn't stop this tragedy from happening. It's not drink driving. You could take all the precautions in the world and have read every single academic article going on cot death and still lose your child to this monster.

Nasty, trite storyline that dehumanises the bereaved.