corrie at the moment

Other storylines...

Les and Chesney = sweet
Candice and marriedbloke, nick and Maria = who cares?
Gail's mutation into Ivy = classic.
Ashley and Claire = was sweet, now just dull.
Maya and the mysterious disappearance of Tyrone's dog = WTF?!!??

Gail is a psycho. I swear some of the scenes with her and her son have a considerable amount of sexual tension.

nick vs todd = taking it a bit too far. i think we had had enough fisticuffs for one night.

les and chesney = getting on my nerves.

todd's mum putting homophobic battersby in his place = inspiring.

gail = surprisingly homophobic.

fred and orchid = ok. she is actually going to take a shine to him, and they are going to hook up. this is, perhaps, straying too far into romcom area. reminds me of the film green card, or some other film where a pair of opposites who annoy each other and meet in awkward circumstances eventually fall in love.

classic - i have never liked it as much as i do right now.

ashley's claire scarliy dull tho, i reckon she will go psycho pretty soon.

Bless it, Corrie is brilliant at the moment. Much better than the tear stick carry on over in Albert Square. I just don't care anymore.

its almost as if they've thought 'here's our chance! a GAYIST! let's dump every sort of crap that a poofter could possibly experience upon this fellow! hurray for us and our inclusive and diverse representation!'. you know, corrie, you could always have another gay character a few years down the line - they might be more widespread than you think. and that person might have one or two of the problems todd's come across, rather than all of them.

on this basis, next episode i confidently expect todd to be horrifically injured in a sordid fisting incident, and to be unable to make it to casuatly because he trips over the kerb in his matching gold-lame hotpant and pointy stilleto ensemble.

good episode. good to see they're playing down the ridiculous caricature sally had become in recent weeks - went from v.tactful and considerate to COMPLETELY tactless - they seem to be settling down to a happy medium.

The introduction of Honor Blackman has upset me somewhat. Wife-swapping wrinklies is scary and wrong.

barlows vs baldwins = it's like old times again.

i'm also looking forward to shelley's outburst at gail tomorrow night.

mike and deirdre = any chance of them rekindling their romance at some point in the near-ish future? penny's out of the way, and there's still something between them fo sho.

Also, how cute are all the puppies!

it's funny ronan should say this - i never picked up on it fwiw - but i get this vibe off jamie and his recovering alcoholic biological mother carol. her affection for him doesn't seem very...motherly...

does anyone think corrie are moving towards their first incestuous storyline? not a full-blown relationship of course, but perhaps she will make a pass at her son, or somesuch.

perhaps not.

didn't eastenders have a plotline like this before, or something?

So, em, am I the only one who was expecting Kevin Webster to tell Rosie to put some clothes on before she went to work? It's like BAM! suddenly she has breasts all over the front of her chest.

Oh, I missed last night's episode. She was much better as a creepy miserabilist goth.

Steve and Eileen are the only people worth watching in Corrie just now (oh, and Lloyd, sometimes, for rofflez, and I quite like Kelly too (is it Kelly? The one that works in the cafe - isn't the one from the factory with the ludicrously bright clothes called Kelly as well? Have I got this wrong? My brain hurts today)), but this holiday thing is making them ridiculous too. I cannot believe what they have done to lovely Violet, making her all broody and desperate at her age, also Ashley/Casey = ridiculous. Yet, somehow, I still keep watching.

The one in the cafe is Becky

That's the one! Anyway, I like her, she is classic Corrie character material, I think.

What is annoying me right now about Corrie and the whole Ashley/Casey thing is how it all started because Ashley could talk to her about Claire and Casey was all positive and upbeat and they had a chat about how Casey was also so positive and helpful and cheerful and could turn anything round and she was so different from Claire etc etc and they TOTALLY FORGOT that the only reason Casey was around was that she was a client from when Claire worked for the samaritans/similar helpline and she was all desperate and sad and Claire was the helpful positive one, gah, inconsistencies.

Also, given what a mentaller Claire's original boyfriend turned out to be, the one who plastered the street with posters saying "Claire loves Ashley" or something just after Claire went to work for him, well, you'd think she'd be a little less gullible.

I guess that soap operas do rely on the gullibility of their characters, and you only really realise as a viewer that the writing isn't up to par when you find yourself taking stock in this way.

I also love Becky. She's one of the great strengths of Corrie, in that she used to be bad and now she's loveable.

I missed a bit a while back. Did they explain Les's disappearance at all? I know why the actor is gone, but where has Les gone?

He's gone to be a roadie, I think.

He was only supposed to be off doing that for a few weeks, but the actor has left for good now. Apparently there's going to be a storyline about that in a few months that explains what's happened to him.

Right, I have a new Corrie question. I know that Vera is leaving. Does anyone know what's supposed to happen?

Also lolz at the two residents in the home where Cilla is working:

"Gobby mare. But she's got a nice arse."
"Yeah, I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crisps."
"You wouldn't kick anyone out of bed, you've no feeling left in your legs."

Don't think they've announced it yet, but she isn't being killed off. I can't see how they can write her out and not Jack though, they couldn't possibly split them up.