cynicalI've just seen another episode and I can't say that the show has gotten any better since I lost interest. It's still a quality soap, and hugely entertaining, but it's so silly. Everyone's sneaking around, having it off with their sister, with their son's girlfriend, with their girlfriend's stepmother, or at the very least, fancies the pants off their brother-in-law; and the women all fall pregnant at the drop of a hat -- it's 2005, yet apparently none of these girls is even on the pill; and there's only 3 career choices for inhabitants of the Square: the pub, the market or the chippie. People get sacked, thrown out of house and home on Christmas Eve, and no one mentions tribunals, rights or thinks of taking themselves and their family to the DSS. The first fiver anyone earns is spent buying a round for all the wasters in the Square. No one owns a washing machine and the manicurist's nails don't do her any credit. And it's all so addictive. I think I might tune in again next week! ;-)
Another soap was played out in the pages of the morning papers. Such a hue and cry about Prince Harry. Of course, it wasn't very clever of him to be seen to wear a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party, and it certainly wasn't in very good taste, but...why be surprised? The boy might have had a chance to get to know something of the real world had he still had his mother, but he was doomed from the moment the Windsors took over. With a grandfather who refers to Chinese people as chinks, is it any wonder Diana's boys have turned into yobs? Methinks not.
