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Eek, think I'm going to be unpopular by saying this....

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twogorgeousboys · 10/08/2004 22:13

..........it's to do with TV dramas like "Waking the Dead", "Messiah", "Silent Witness" et al.

I find them really depressing and quite traumatic and I can't watch them. Bodies on slabs, post mortems, horrible violent deaths.

Is it just me? Am I a pathetic wimp?

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gingernut · 10/08/2004 22:16

Can I join the pathetic wimp club then please? Last time I watched Waking the Dead I couldn't sleep afterwards. But then I couldn't sleep after watching `Carry on Screaming' for the first time (but was only a child then!).

CountessDracula · 10/08/2004 22:17

Not seen waking the dead but I love Ken stott so will be watching messiah

I like these things, they don't give me nightmares. The news does though when it's starving kids covered in flies

MummyToSteven · 10/08/2004 22:19

What I don't like is hospital programs ever since I was with my gran in A & E after having a stroke and she never got better . Though up till then I was quite into Casualty.

expatkat · 10/08/2004 22:21

I think your view is probably the morally correct one, twogorgeousboys, but I'm so hardened to this sort of thing that I'm with the countess on this one: the news bothers me much more. (Have only seen Silent Witness, by the way; have never seen the others. But I've a feeling I wouldn't be bothered by them.)

bran · 10/08/2004 22:22

I think I'm quite hardened to stuff that you see on TV, although I can't watch Silent Witness because I find the lead character really irritating. I find some books terribly hard to read though, especially Minette Walters, one of hers gave me so many sleepless nights that I haven't read one since.

Perhaps I just don't have as much empathy with characters on TV, I can't imagine their pain as my own, whereas books are more internalised so it's easier to identify with the characters.

glitterfairy · 10/08/2004 22:27

Bran did you see the Dawn French and Jennifer Suanders take off of the lead (Amanda) in silent witness? Cannot watch it now without laughing.

lavender1 · 10/08/2004 22:29

absolutely agree with you twogorgeousboys, I feel physically sick if I even read about this in the paper ...I prefer comedy for an evenings entertainment, Blackadder, Only Fools and Horses, Rising Damp, Harry Enfield, Carry On films and Are you being Served etc (life is real enough during the day...entertainment is paramount)...oh and Jo Brand and Hi De Hi and stuff....(if you want to feel suicidal then just watch Eastenders)....bring on the comedy hour every night and bin these stupid murder stories (sorry ott but feel strongly about this)

MeanBean · 10/08/2004 22:34

Can't be bothered to watch these things, as I find that life is too short and I should be doing other things like the ironing. So instead of doing the ironing or watching these, I watch reality TV shows instead, which I find just so much more fascinating. I'm ashamed of it, but only in the same way that a man who visits prostitutes is ashamed - I still have to carry on doing it...

bran · 10/08/2004 22:34

Yes, I did Glitter, I love French and Saunders take offs, especially when they do Hollywood films. The programme on BBC2 that I can never remember the name of does a very funny take off of Silent Witness too.

gingernut · 10/08/2004 22:42

bran, do you mean Dead Ringers?

glitterfairy · 10/08/2004 22:42

Meanbean think you are being a little harsh on equating watching reality tv and man visiting prostitutes! If you are doing ironing surely anything goes.

Bran hope all is well and now wondering about the thing on BBC 2 fast show? Crisp and lager thing? Who knows. It is always good though to see up themselves actors getting laughed at.

bran · 10/08/2004 22:43

That's the one Gingernut.

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twogorgeousboys · 10/08/2004 22:43

Oh heck, don't remind me of the news.....children starving and you can see they are going to die. I lie awake haunted.

There was some news coverage from the Iraq war last year and a little boy was being treated (very bad shrapnel wounds) and I just ended up crying hysterically. I was seeing this child in agony and I couldn't do anything meaningful about it.

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glitterfairy · 10/08/2004 22:44

Xpost gingernut and am now kicking myself.

bran · 10/08/2004 22:47

MeanBean I can't watch reality TV at all. I last about two minutes and tut and say 'For goodness sake' at the tv and leave the room/turn over. They are almost always the kind of people that I would leave a party rather than spend an evening with, I just can't see what the attraction is of watching them.

That only applies to the trashy stuff like Big Brother, there are other reality programmes like Little Angels that I quite enjoy. Perhaps that's not reality though, is there another name for that kind of programme?

MeanBean · 10/08/2004 23:00

That's the sort of thing Bran. Little Angels, Supernanny, Wifeswap (I'm a late convert to that show), How Clean is Your House, Honey I ruined the House and tonight there was something on about a repulsive young man made up to look like a seventy year old - I know I shouldn't soil myself by watching them, but I can't stop. Need some kind of twelve step programme I think...

bran · 10/08/2004 23:07

But some of those are very educational MeanBean, I learnt a lot from Little Angels, admittedly there isn't all that much to learn from Wife Swap except that I could have been very unlucky in my choice of husband. I'm not a big fan of Wife Swap or How Clean is Your House but at least they have some direction and purpose. And that thing about the young guy dressing up as old was positively noble in its intentions, though I didn't watch that either.

Anyway, I don't think you should feel quilty, it's not as though you've been watching that one about EasyJet (Airline I think).

charliecat · 10/08/2004 23:10

I close my eyes at the bodies on slabs, vicious murders etc bits, what I like is the whodidit part, I am a wimp myself, I find the der ner der ner bits of movies horrifying and jump into dps arms at any loud noise when watching horror things but my interest in the clues and working it out overrides my dislike of the bloody gruesome bits.

windypops · 11/08/2004 07:35

U must admit that I love waking to the dead, but afterwards I wont let DH go to bed without me, I even make him wait just outsite the bathroom and escort me round the house till I get into bed as it gives me the sh*ts, but I do enjoy watching it.

I also remmeber when I lives on my own before meeting DH I couldn't even watch something like murder she wrote as the music would freak me out and I'd have to sleep on the settee with the tv on all night.
Perhaps I should have changed my name for this post.

tex111 · 11/08/2004 08:03

TGB, I don't like these shows either. I think they just normalise all the violence and gruesomeness. I do like a good whodunnit though but I like my murders reasonably clean and polite like Midsomer Murders. Could someone pass me my shawl and a sweet sherry please?

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