Well...what can I say? Soaps in a nutshell by Thingamie! 
Emmerdale does seem to lurch from the boringly mundane to the outlandishly unbelievable. How many murderers has that small community produced now?
Ditto Corrie, really. And am I the only one who remembers Steve MacDonald being sent to prison years and years ago, yet now no one ever mentions it? Same with Deirdre.
And in all the soaps, the children are attrociously behaved (not counting Max in Corrie as I agree with Thingie that his supposed ADHD is not being well portrayed). Most of the kids are downright rude, and allowed to get away with it. Makes me cross [grumpy old woman emoticon]!