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- @H@5Why Do People Hate Prisoner Cell Block H ???...
- @A@4By Smiley
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- 1It has come to my attention that the general concensus of people seem to
- {1dislike Prisoner Cell Block H, @2why@1?
- 1
- 1I also seem to have noticed that if you ask somebody who dislikes it if they
- 1have actually watched it they will say something like "No, I dont need to coz
- 1its so bad!, or if they have (well at least they say they have) they will
- 1always and I mean always, say "It`s so bad even the walls shake".
- 1Now I have to clear this point up. I have watched Prisoner for years and to
- 1my knowledge I will admit that walls have shook about twice that I have seen.
- 1However I have also watched Neighbours and the walls in that place shake so
- 1often that I am sure there is some sort of constant seizmic activity centered
- 1around Erinsbourgh (if you dont believe me watch the Coffee Shop walls around
- 1the front door!!).
- 1But it really is the people who dont even watch it that annoy me the most. At
- 1college if we try and talk about it there will be guarenteed somebody come
- 1over and say "Prisoner, thats shit. Fuck off you sad Bastards", to which I
- 1connot even be bothered to reply to.
- 1
- 1Back to my point, if people would only stick with Prisoner for more that 10
- 1minutes they would realise that it definately has one of the best story lines
- 1around of any soap opera, no question about it.
- 1Another point is that how many soaps about 2/3 years ago had 3 shows a week,
- 1well to my knowledge only Neighbours and Home and Away did (not counting
- 1the omnibus edition of Eastenders on a Sunday). This shows that Granada (my
- 1area - I cant comment on other TV regions) had quite a lot of faith in the
- 1program as did the advertisers who paid for their adverts in the breaks.
- 1BBC can show their old shit (ie Eastenders) as much as they want because they
- 1have already paid for it.
- 1
- 1Whatever style of TV you like you can be guarenteed that Prisoner has some of
- 1it, here are some examples :-
- 1
- 1Violence: Innumerous fights between the inmates,
- 1 The great Wentworth riot where people were hung, poisoned, shot,etc
- 1 The more recent burning of Blackmore and shooting of Mr ?
- 1
- 1Lurve: Chuckie falling in love with ... and her bid to get out and live with
- 1 him (it almost brought a tear to my eye)
- 1 Mr Pringle and Mrs ... weading
- 1
- 1Action: The Blackmore riots
- 1 The fight between The Freak and Rita Conners
- 1 The Freak setting the bikers gang on fire
- 1
- 1Comedy: The constant exploits of Merle thinking she is Captain Marvoulous
- 1 Somebody trying to escape Wentworth in a model of a robot!
- 1
- 1These are just some of the reasons for watching, the most exciting being the
- 1riot at Wentworth where somebody killed themselves, Chucky was beaten up, the
- 1riot police called in etc. This and I am not joking is probably the best
- 1piece of television I have ever watched and I was quite literaly on the edge
- 1of my seat (well my bed actually).
- 1
- 1Talking about my bed (shadey link here), many people complain about the time
- 1that it is on at. Well come on, if you cant stay up until around 11:30 you
- 1really dont deserve to watch it, and in this day and age just how many people
- 1dont have a video recorder??
- 1
- 1The only complain I do have about it is that Granada do have a tendency to
- 1not show Prisoner if something shitty like the football is on (they only have
- 1the Endsliegh League for gods sake - bit of a fantasy football joke there).
- 1Some people (whose who dislike it) say that this shows how bad it is that
- 1they are always canceling it, well it is not cancelled just delayed (thats my
- 1excuse anyway).
- 1My other complaint (well not complaint really) is that the women in it are a
- 1tad on the ugly side infact one of my friends (pah! friend!) who does not
- 1like it calls it "Ugly Women Block H" and I can see his point but you must
- 1remember that firstly they are Australian (ooh!, I can see complaints about
- 1that one already) and secondly it is supposed to be set in prison and they
- 1are not noted for their supply of super-models are they?? But saying that I
- 1did like Chucky who has unfortunately left now (boo, hoo, goodbye Chucky!)
- 1
- 1So to those of you who (may) have read this and still think that Prisoner is
- 1shit and wont even give it a try then I say this - In the words of Jack Dee
- {1@7"You`re very sad"
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