Quote Originally Posted by sarah c View Post
but that is a bit like saying lets not show what happened in Paris? because its unnecessary? so we just get the fluffy bit of the news where a kitten falls into a waste basket but is ok??!!
the world isn't fluffy, and where I agree it doesn't need to be hard-core, gore, blood and guts, the shows we watch, and soaps in particular are about 'life', so we would be pretty condemning if they were all about Ashley cuddling a kitten and lambs being bottle fed on the farm and everyone loves everyone?
I didn't write about not showing violence on TV. There's maybe a right time and place for everything when it's shown properly and in context. Showing the Paris attacks on TV is good TV because it informs about the situation and it also shows how the good guys are responding (as a lesson) and how the bad guys are ending (another lesson). We get to see fall out, comeuppance, problems solved, everything sorted, when things are done properly. For the terrorists they get dealt with, that's real life and believable. When this doesn't happen in soapworld then we are really being conned with some cheap bangs and flashes, no sensible storyline and no character development. This is what has been happening with Ross Barton for the past 3 months or so, him just being in wacky pointless scenes of crimes and violence with no real reason for starting them and no satisfying end for Ross Barton or for us TV viewers. Ross Barton comes across as an almost complete outsider and misfit in Emmerdale. The only character who gets anything sensible out of him or seems to like him is Debbie, but he's even managed to involve her in mad scenes before now. The criminal storylines have come across as being unbelievable and wacky. I really wouldn't have written these but done something more along the lines of what was done with the character before August 2015 when the image was much more positive then.