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Bryan
19-09-2006, 20:28
I thought we could start an A-Z of everything you might see in a soap: i.e types of storylines, things that can happen to characters and stock characters/locations (not specirfic names more like villain/pub)

I'll start us off:

A - Affairs
Lindy
19-09-2006, 20:55
B - Babies
.:SpIcYsPy:.
19-09-2006, 22:05
C - Crisis :)

How come Lindy's message is short and allowd?! :eek: Lol :) x
pinkles14
19-09-2006, 22:30
D= Death and there Has been a few
Debs
19-09-2006, 22:33
exciting plots ( well sometimes LOL)
Bryan
19-09-2006, 22:36
F - Fraud Cases (Especially Deidre's "I Didn't Do Anything" One :rotfl: )
*-Rooney-*
19-09-2006, 22:45
G - gangsters

such as johnny allen, the mitchell bros,

H - holidays

trips away from the original sets to blackpool, paris, england
Bryan
19-09-2006, 22:50
Incest

(Shannis, Cain & Charity, Nat & Georgia)
pinkles14
19-09-2006, 23:00
J Jail for.. martin, pat janine johnny and a lot lot more :) :)
*-Rooney-*
19-09-2006, 23:02
J - Junkies

janine butcher, jimmy corkhill, ashley saunders (flynn's sis in home and away)
Lindy
20-09-2006, 00:10
K = Killings, there's been plenty of them!
Katy
20-09-2006, 18:02
L is for Love - What charcters do an awful lot of these days. Falling in and out of it.
x Amby x
20-09-2006, 19:31
M is for Murders!! there have been quite a few!
*-Rooney-*
20-09-2006, 22:42
N - Nigel harmen

lets face it whilst he was on the show most of the females (and some of the males) where under his spell at one point

O - One night stands

michelle/dirty den, vicky/spencer, stingray/sky, sky/jp, lucas/lee, there has been a few. etc etc
di marco
21-09-2006, 10:08
P - pointless characters (every soap has some!)
*-Rooney-*
21-09-2006, 13:25
Q - Quiet lives

these are when soaps are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for stories
Jojo
21-09-2006, 13:33
R - ratings

The war between all soaps
.:SpIcYsPy:.
21-09-2006, 17:17
Sex - happens in every soap!! Obviously...
Siobhan
21-09-2006, 17:19
T - is for Tea.. had a big shock "i will put the kettle on". husband had an affair "i will put the kettle on", you leg got sawing off.. you know a good cup of tea solves all problems
Chloe O'brien
21-09-2006, 21:53
U= Unbelieveable for the amount of telly time wasted showing soaps when they could be showing more quality dramas like spooks.
di marco
22-09-2006, 22:05
V - is for violence, something every soap has a lot of
Rach33
24-09-2006, 14:23
Weddings.......................................... ...........:)
*-Rooney-*
24-09-2006, 17:33
x-rated (sometimes) such as the late night episodes of hollyoaks i.e the toby and ellie storyline or samm/andy/nicole

xciting
xtravagant
Cornishbabe
24-09-2006, 19:37
yule tide.

when everyone dies
Chris_2k11
24-09-2006, 23:30
Z is for Z-list soapstars (not naming any names). :cool:
di marco
25-09-2006, 10:26
A - is for arrests, most soapstars are arrested at some point
Chris_2k11
25-09-2006, 16:25
B is for BORES.

Every soap has one. :thumbsdow
Siobhan
25-09-2006, 17:15
c - is for Criminal pasts.. just when they thought it would never find them
Katy
25-09-2006, 17:19
D Is for DAring Characters
Jessie Wallace
25-09-2006, 19:37
Emotions - or lack of in some characters!
*-Rooney-*
25-09-2006, 22:07
factories

such as underworld and pollards factory,
crazygirl
25-09-2006, 22:19
grumpy old men........like the the ones in eastenders
*-Rooney-*
26-09-2006, 01:24
HANDSOME MEN

Dennis rickmen, jamie mitchell, jack holden, dan baker, justin burton, jake dean, dylan timmins, boyd hoyland, jamie baldwin,
di marco
26-09-2006, 10:42
I - is for illnesses, such as cancer storylines etc
CrazyLea
26-09-2006, 12:21
J is for Jack...There's always a Jack in soaps :p Jack Scully, Jack Duckworth, Jack Holden....etc...etc..
*-Rooney-*
26-09-2006, 13:34
kathy's

the name of the long standing cafe that ian owns in ee

Laughter

sometimes in the middle of a slump the supposide storylines and actually laughable
Siobhan
26-09-2006, 14:44
M - is for mothers, they keep their kids in check and scare anyone who messes with the family
CrazyLea
26-09-2006, 18:01
N - Neighbours... well it's a soap isn't it :D
*-Rooney-*
04-10-2006, 19:52
ORANGES

look around the houses in most soaps you will notice fruit bowls almost definately containing ORANGES
di marco
07-10-2006, 15:19
P - is for prisons, most characters are in there at some point
LUSHLOOKE69
08-10-2006, 03:10
Q is for Quarrels-two many to mention but usuaslly occur during births, deaths, weddings, xmas and all other special or sad occasions.:angry:
crazygirl
08-10-2006, 13:13
railway children? was that a series has well has a film