[Shaun]

Okay, I loathe it:

The storylines are all depressing in two senses of the word; dreary and sadly reflective of a broken society. All of the dialogue, characters and scenarios are emotionally stunted, and stupid families continue to watch it religiously. Why? Because it's guaranteed to be on, or because they can relate to it? This reasoning is poor; people should watch thought-provoking and intelligent programming, and as for relation...well that says a lot about the viewers, really.

Who actually finds the repetitive, melodramatic, over-cooked lives of fictional 2D characters entertaining? Is there anything more to the show than being able to say to your friends "did you see that explosion last night?" I don't think there is.

And the horrible irony of the whole fiasco is that storylines are regularly spoiled and planned weeks ahead of them actually happening on-screen, in silly magazines like "What's On TV". So the element of surprise is also taken away.

Watch something else, please. [/rant]